On this week’s program, we’ll be speaking with three Leading analysts of Egypt, Professor Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Professor Samer Shahate of George Town University about their contribution to the brand new book, the Journey to Tahrir : Revolution, protest and Social Change in Egypt, 1999-2011 [...]
The Voices of the Middle East and North Africa show aired on Wednesday, April 25th 2012. Produced by Malihe Razazan. Guests Hossam El-Hamalawy – Egyptian journalist Caveh zahedi – movie director “The sheik and I”
This week, we look at the youth uprising in the Middle East. As we witness the revolutionary tide sweeping the Middle East and North Africa, and as we follow the heroic struggles of people against authoritarian regimes and client states of Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Iran, Iraq and other countries in the region, a major social group, which has garnered a lot of attention is the youth
Special Voices of the Middle East broadcast about the historic uprising in Egypt and its implications for the region at large and the world beyond. We’ll be joined by a stellar team of middle East and north African experts, who will analyze and decode for us the meaning and significance of this epic moment in world history.
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This week we give you a first-hand account of the Egyptian Revolution, in Tahrir Square. Tahrir, meaning peace.
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This week we continue our coverage about the revolution in Tunisa. We also speak with a young Egyptian rapper.
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This week, we’ll get an update on the last Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Egypt for our regular contributor in Cairo, activist and journalist, Hossam El Hamalawy. Later in the program, on the occasion of World AIDS Day, we’ll bring you an in depth discussion about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Middle East and north Africa region with professors Kaveh Khosnood of Yale University and Laith Abu Raddad of Cornell University in Qatar
This week, we’ll have a conversation with Egyptian journalist and blogger Hossam El Hamalwy about this month’s upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in Egypt. Later in the program, we’ll bring you the second part of a conversation with ethnomusicologist Dr Tim Abdellah Fuson on the genealogy of Gnawa music OF Northwestern Africa.
