On this week’s program, we will hear an interview with Maria Lahood, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she talks about the class action lawsuits against Avi Dichter and Moshe Ya’alon for violating human rights and committing war crimes against Palestinians. Avi Dichter is former Chief of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security … Continued
On this week’s program, UC Berkeley Histroy Professor Beshara Doumani will talk to George Bisharat, Professor of Law at University of California Hastings College of the Law about the latest development in the case of Palestinian Professor Sami Al-Arian of South Florida University. Later in the program we will hear a conversation with the Bay … Continued
On the last day of the month-long Egyptian parliamentary elections, History Professor Beshara Doumani will have a conversation with New York University Professor Khaled Fahmy, a leading historian of modern Egypt, and a close observer of the contemporary Egyptian political scene. The Egyptian government under long-time ruler Hosni Mobarak, a key ally of the United … Continued
On the occasion of World Aids Day on December 1st, we will have a discussion about the HIV/AIDS and drug epidemic in Iran with Professor Kaveh Khoshnood, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the School of Public Health at Yale University.
In this week’s program, we will have a discussion about the current political situation in Syria and Lebanon. Our guests are Political Science Professors Bassam Haddad of Saint Joseph’s University and As’ad AbuKhalil of California State University at Stanislaus. Later in the program, we will have a conversation about Palestinian hip hop with the Palestinian-American … Continued
