Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

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Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – Plaestinian Labor; The Arab Film Festival Benefit; The Dmestic Crusaders

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In Tonight's program, on the occasion of May 1st, International Workers Day, U.C. Berkeley History Professor Beshara Doumani will be in conversation with Leila Farsakh, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  She is the author of Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel. http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/polisci/faculty/farsakh.html Later in the program, Khalil Bendib talks with … Continued

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – The Armenian Genocide; also, the film “Son of a Lion”

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Tonight, we are commemorating the 94th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Khalil Bendib is in conversation with Matthew Jendian, Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fresno http://www.csufresno.edu/sociology/fac_staff/faculty/jendian.shtml , as well as Stephan Astourian, Executive Director of the Armenian Studies Program and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Armenian … Continued

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – The U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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In tonight’s program, Shahram Aghamir speaks with Imran Aslam, veteran Pakistani journalist and President of Geo TV, Pakistan’s premier television news channel, as well as Kamran Ali, Associate Professor Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Austin in Texas. Imran Aslam and Kamran Ali discuss the U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well … Continued

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – History Professor Sholmo Sand; An hommage to novelist Tayeb Salih

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In this week’s program, Khalil Bendib speaks with History Professor Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University about his new book “When and Why the Jewish People was invented.” a surprising best seller in Israel which challenges the conventional wisdom according to which today's Jews are a national group with a biological connection to the original … Continued

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – Occupation of Iraq, 6 years later; NoRouz, the new year

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In this week’s program, we mark the 6th anniversary of the full-scale invasion and occupation of Iraq.  Shahram Aghamir speaks to independent journalist Dahr Jamail and Nabil Al-Takriti, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mary Washington Later in the program, Shuka Kalantari and Sanaz Meshkinpour take us through the tradition of NoRouz that … Continued

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – March 4, 2009 at 7:00pm

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In this week’s program, Khalil Bendib in conversation with two labor activists who share with us progress made within the labor movements – internationally and domestically – around the issue of solidarity Palestine. Patrick Craven of COSATU (The Congress of South African Trade Unions http://www.cosatu.org.za/cosatuho.htm ) discusses the latest action taken by a South African … Continued