This week, we bring you a conversation on the latest political developments in Sudan with Elsadig Elsheikh, the Director of the Global Justice program at the Haas Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. Later in the program, award-winning multidisciplinary artist and author Niloufar Talebi joins us to talk about her new opera Abraham in Flames, inspired by the stunning imagery of the late iconic Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou.


On the first part of our series on the 1979 Iranian revolution and its aftermath, we posed these questions to Professor Ervand Abrahamian, a prominent Iranian historian and emeritus distinguished professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He is the author of Iran Between Two Revolutions, among many other titles. He spoke with Shahram Aghamir.


This week, we speak with New York-based visual artist Mariam Ghani about her new documentary “What We Left Unfinished”, which is part of a long-term research, film, exhibition and book project centered around five unfinished Afghan feature films shot, but never edited, between 1978 and 1992. Later in the program, we talk about the new play “Scenes from 71 Years” currently on stage at Potrero Stage in San Francisco. The play offers a snapshot of the life under the grip of the Israeli occupation from 1948 until the present.