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The Green Wave Documentary; Protests in Syria

By on April 25th, 2011

In this week’s program, we discuss the wave of protests that has been
shaking Syria since the middle of March. Shahram Aghamir speaks with Bassam Haddad. Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program at George-Mason University and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University. Later in the program, Malihe Razazan will have a conversation with Ali Samad Ahadi about his powerful documentary, The Green Wave, that narratesIran’s 2009 post presidential election protests and the regime’s brutal crackdown.

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This Week: Israel Boycott; Tehran Art Exhibit in San Francisco

By on January 13th, 2010

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we’ll have a conversation with Ali Abu Nima, co-Founder of Electronic Intifada and activist and Middle East expert Jeff Blankfort, in which they each comment on an interview we first taped and aired last month with Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT on the subject of the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign. We also speak with Bay Area-based artist Taraneh Hemami about an exhibit she has curated, titled ‘One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran.’

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This Week: Iran Political Crisis; Berber New Year

By on January 8th, 2010

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Shahram Aghamir will speak with Ali Rezaei a social researcher at the University of Calgary in Canada about the political crisis within the Iranian regime.
Later in the program, leading Bay Area based Algerian Berber musician and song writer Moh Alileche will talk to us about the Berber New year of 2960.

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This Week: Update on Iran Protest & Speech by Filmmaker Tariq Ali

By on December 31st, 2009

This week, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa brings you an update about the protests in Iran, and on the governments continued wave of repression from Dr. Mansour Farhang, professor of politics at Benigton College. We also bring you the second part of a speech by noted writer, journalist, and filmmaker Tariq Ali. His lecture was titled “Obama’s War in Afghanistan and Pakistan”. Click here to listen to VOMENA’s update on Iran’s protest, and a speech by filmaker Tariq Ali.

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On KALW’s Your Call Radio: What is the state of the Iran protests?

By on July 24th, 2009

What is the state of the protest in Iran? On the next Your Call we will discuss this Saturday’s demonstration in support of the Iranian opposition at San Francisco City Hall – a demonstration that some groups on the left have decided to boycott.

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Iran: a green wave for life and liberty

By on July 13th, 2009

  Asef Bayat, 7 – 07 – 2009 Open Democracy The Tehran regime has used brute power to deter the insurgent tide of post-election protest. But the form of state it has created to defend itself from the people guarantees further convulsion, says Asef Bayat.

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Tehran, June 2009

By on July 1st, 2009

  Tehran, June 2009 Kaveh Ehsani, Arang Keshavarzian and Norma Claire Moruzzi June 28, 2009 (Kaveh Ehsani is assistant professor of international studies at DePaul University. Arang Keshavarzian is associate professor of Middle East and Islamic studies at New York University. Both are editors of Middle East Report. Norma Claire Moruzzi is associate professor of political [...]

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A Fledgling Movement: Women and the Iranian election

By on June 6th, 2009

Photo From Feminist School Website Banner:” we vote for women’s demands”         The Mark News and Perspectives Daily By Haideh Moghissi: Feminist theorist and author; Professor of sociology, York University. First published May 28, 2009 Iranian voters will soon cast their ballots for one of the four candidates who have passed the Guardianship [...]

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