The SF film society will screen “This is not a film” from the prominent director Jafar Panahi. This coming friday (April 6th) to the 12th, you can watch the movie at the following adress 1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)>
This week’s Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we explore the escalation in violence in Yemen’s Capital Sanaa persists as military forces loyal to president Ali Abdullah Saleh have continued their assaults on protestors for the past four days. We’ll speak with Atiaf al Wazir, a Yemeni-American blogger and activist based in the nation’s capital Sana.
We’ll also speak with University of Richmond political scientist Sheila Carapico about how external powers are attempting to shape Yemen’s future.
Later in the program, we’ll feature a new graphic novel about an Iranian family’s search for their 19-year-old son after he disappears during a protest in the aftermath of the rigged 2009 presidential election in Iran. We’ll speak with Amir, who’s the author of the graphic novel Zahra’s Paradise.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa we bring up an update on the rapidly changing situation in Yemen. We speak with Yemen specialist and professor Sheila Carapico, who is a visiting scholar at American University in Cairo, about what’s in store for the future of Yemen and the role of the United States.
Later in the program we’ll talk about the upcoming Gaza Peace flotilla with four Bay Area peace activists that are apart of the Free Gaza Movement.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, we get an update on the unfolding situation in Egypt. On May 23rd Egyptian bloggers posted critiques and opinions about the transitional government and the grassroots movement for democracy.
Later in the program we hear from Aswat, the Bay Area music ensemble which performed live for us in studio last night.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we look at the historic 63rd anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. This year on May 15th, to mark the day, thousands of Palestinians held demonstrations at their respective borders. We hear a speech from renowned historian Ilan Pappé addressed the meeting in the Sheffield University in the U.K. and gave a talk titled, The Nakba Revisited: Past, Present and Future Course of the Israeli and Palestinian Conflict.
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This week we speak with a University of Richmond political scientist about the uprising in Yemen. We will also speak with two Palestinian activists about the Right for an Education in Palestine campaign and their U.S. tour.
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eek we look at the ongoing protests in Tunisia. Also we speak with Iranian-American author Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet of Penn State University about her debut novel, “Martyrdom Street.”
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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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This week we’ll hear a conversation with the Director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies about Jerusalem at the turn of the 20th century. We also talk about acclaimed Iranian filmmakers, Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasulov both who have been sentence to six years in prison by the Iranian government.
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