This week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, we have a conversation with Professor Sinan Antoon of New York University about the current political situation in Iraq as the stalemate in forming a government continues.
Later in the program, we’ll bring you the second part of our conversation with Iraqi film maker Mohamed Al-Daradji, about his award winning feature film Ibne Babel, or Son of Babylon, a story about a grandmother and grandson in occupied Iraq.
This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we begin a series of programs on the politics of water in the Middle East.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Professor Sinan Antoon on elections in Iraq and Omid Arabian on Hurt Locker. Broadcasts 94.1. FM in San Francisco at 7PM PST.
The Divine Sponge The Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus was a rare bird: a formal innovator immersed in tradition, a politically engaged artist who resisted political classification. Sinan Antoon looks back on his life and work. “What words can do / these days / Is almost nothing” wrote the Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus in The [...]
