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Last week’s Radio show

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”

Mohsen Namjoo in concert at UC berkeley this saturday

Iranian musician singer and song writer Mohsen Namjoo and Ensemble will be performing at the Wheeler Hall at UC Berkeley (location details here) on Saturday April 28th at 7:30pm.     Vomena Team

Fared Shafinury in concert tonight and friday

Iranian American award winning musician Fared Shafinury will be on stage tonight at 8pm at Yoshi’s in Oakland and on Friday at 8pm at Red Poppy Arthouse. Vomena team

Interview with Hamid Naficy

Hamid Naficy, a leading authority on Iranian cinema is Professor of Radio-Television-Film at Northwestern University. He is the author of An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking, The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles, and (in Persian) Film-e Mostanad, a two-volume history of nonfiction cinema around the world. Naficy helped to launch [...]

This Week: Anti-Worker Laws in Iran

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa we speak with Sohrab Behdad professor of economics at Denison University about the state of labor in Iran and current anti-worker laws in that country.

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This Week: A Modern History of Jerusalem; Searching for Iraq’s Artistic Life

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, A Modern History of Jerusalem; Searching for Iraq’s Artistic Life.

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Weekly Cartoon: Unbreakable Bond

For more of Khalil Bendib’s cartoons, visit The Pen is Funnier than the Sword.

This Week: Iran Political Crisis; Berber New Year

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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Khalil Bendib’s Weekly Cartoon

For more of Khalil Bendib’s cartoons, visit The Pen is Funnier than the Sword.

This Week on VOMENA: LGTB in Lebanon & Climate Change in N. Africa

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North we go to Copenhagen to speak with experts about the impact of global warming in North Africa and what . We also speak with the general coordinator of a LGTB movement in Lebanon about the book, Bareed Mista3jil: True Stories, a collection of 41 stories from “lesbians, bisexuals, queer and questioning women, and trans-gender persons from all over Lebanon.”

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