On Sept 26th 2003, Palestinian Intellectual Edward Said passed away after a long battle with leukemia. We remember Professor Said by featuring an interview he did about his seminal work, Orientalism.
Later in the program, we speak with Golden Thread Productions’ Founding Artistic Director Torange Yeghiazarian and International artist Hafiz Karmali about the play, NIGHT OVER ERZINGA.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we talk about democracy in the MENA region; from Tunisia to Egypt, Syria to Iran, to Yemen and Bahrain and Libya. Does this concept extend to Israel and Palestine? Can democracy be reconciled with colonialism or is that a contradiction in terms? We speak with prominent Israeli scholar Dr. Ilan Pappe who in his latest book “Out of The Frame” examines this question in depth. He recounts his political evolution from staunch Zionist as a youngster to liberated humanist as an adult. Ilan Pappe is a long time activist and is a professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is the Co-Director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies and director of the European Center for Palestine Studies Center. He is the author of the best selling “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”, “A History of Modern Palestine”, and “The Israel Palestine Question.”
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This week UC Berkeley history professor Beshara Doumani will have a discussion with Professor Issam Nassar of Illinois State University and co-editor of the book, I Would Have Smiled: Photographing the Palestinian Refugee Experience. A collection of essays from a variety of individuals discussing how images taken by Myrtle Winter-Chaumeny, a staff writer for UNHCR.
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This week we remember Juliano Mer Khamis, leading Palestinian rights activist, actor, filmmaker and Artistic Director of Freedom Theater in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West bank. He was shot by unknown assailants in Jenin on Monday, April 4, as he was leaving the theatre. ater in the program, Khalil Bendib speaks with Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri who are among more than 1,000 artists calling for a boycott of the $800 million Guggenheim Museum being built in Abu Dhabi over the rights of migrant workers at the constructions site.
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This week we bring back some of our favorite programming. We speak with Eyal Weizman about her his book, “Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation.” We also speak with a Iranian-American author Firoozeh Dumas, about her latest book, “Laughing Without An Accent: Adventures of Global Citizen.”
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 This week we hear a talk by an Israeli historian talks about his book “Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War Against Palestinians.” http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20101215-Wed1900.mp3
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On this week’s program, we’ll have a conversation with political scientist Gamze Yasar about the upcoming referendum on Turkey’s constitution on Sept 12th, the 30th anniversary of 1980’s military Coup d’etat in Turkey.
Then, later in the program, we’ll speak with filmmaker and co-founder of international solidarity movement Adam Shapiro abou the upcoming U.S. boat to Gaza that will take place some time this fall.
week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, we’ll have a conversation with a Palestinian author about the reason for Israel’s loss of legitamcy in world opinion. Also we pay tribute to thousands of political prisoners secretly executed in Iran in 1998, and the ongoing international campaign to help those currently detained.
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