Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – May 10, 2019
The richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, co-hosted by Khalil and Malihe.
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – May 8, 2019
The richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, co-hosted by Khalil and Malihe.
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.
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – May 1, 2019: Replay
The richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, co-hosted by Mira and Malihe.
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.
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – April 24, 2019: Replay
The richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, co-hosted by Mira and Malihe.
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.
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – April 17, 2019: Replay
The richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, co-hosted by Mira and Malihe.
After months of street protests, people in Sudan finally got rid of the country’s longtime dictator Omar Al-Bashir. So what is next for Sudan? And what in store for the movement for democracy and social justice there? We will get the answers from Professor Khalid Medani. And with Israeli elections topping the headlines in the past few days, we’ll get a Palestinian perspective on the elections from the Jerusalem based writer Budour Hassan.
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – April 10, 2019: Replay
The richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, co-hosted by Mira and Malihe.