Radio Tahrir

Forthcoming

July 29 Tahrir fundraises for WBAI. We offer the DVD "The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations" lecture by Edward Said. Phone 212-209-2950 during our program to pledge your support with an order. Team Tahrir will be in studio for the Tuesday special.

Our latest Podcasts: up to June 24, 2008, newly posted

Watch for forthcoming podcasts of Tahrir's summer broadcasts.

Our Dec. 18 podcast includes an excerpt from Naomi S Nye's forthcoming interview, and our talk with Palestinian activist Layla Hijab. March 4, hear Sarah Malaika and Iraqi artists' association co-founder Weam Namou.

Fall/winter 2007 podcasts include authors Kathryn Abdul Baki and Diana AbuJaber, Professor Sherman Jackson, author of Islam and the Black American; artists Nsenga Knight, Nuha Al-Saidi and Haifa Bint-Kadi; performers Rajiv Joseph and Ramiz Moncef; art therapist Saadia Parvez; cartoonist Khalil Bendib; Dawn Elder, world music afficianado, and Ramadan poems.

See Tahrir's series on Arabic language and literature-- podcasts March 6, 13, 20 and 27.

Barbara Nimri Aziz publishes her latest book..

Swimming Up the Tigris
: "It's so human. I loved the poems, the images, the anecdotes. They're heartbreaking. You want to hug these people. They will survive, and they will rebuild. We have to believe in that."
Etel Adnan: poet, essayist, artist.; "Barbara Nimri Aziz has written a must-read book which puts a human face on an Iraqi people dehumanized by simplistic, misleading and inaccurate media accounts before, during and after America's illegitimate invasion and occupation of their homeland."
Scott Ritter, chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq (1991-1998); Purchase this book from Amazon.com

Distancing Himself from Mulsims; No Leader

: July 20, 2008
Barak Obama has leadership qualities no doubt, at least he possesses political qualities—the qualities that propel men into leadership positions. He is unarguably charismatic. Still, doubts arise about whether we can trust this man.
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Voices of Iraq

Ilham AlMadfaii

Iraqi musician
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Sample from Al-Madfaii's 1997 interview with BN Aziz, prepared by Manaslu Gurung 4:01

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Features

: Kayhan Kalhor; Kalhor, Iranian musician, impresario of kamancheh, speaks with Tahrir about his work and life between Brooklyn, India and Iran.
With interludes from his CD Crossing The Silk Road. Sample Kamancheh virtuoso Kalhor in collaboration with Shujaat H. Khan; an excerpt from our 55 min. interview 7:30
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“ If you form the habit of going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west...you'll always be maneuvered into a situation where you are never fighting your actual enemies, where you will find yourself fighting your own self. ”

Malcolm X

Tahrir Podcast

Now you can listen to our programs from our podcast pages.

Radio Tahrir Podcast

Tahrir Diwan

a poem.. a song..: Darwish: "Sonnet V" read by translator Fady Joudah (English/Arabic)

See poems and songs list
: Talaal Badru Alayna
praises to the Prophet, from Nazira CD, female voices
See audio list
Book review: Mohja Kahf's
The Girl in The Tangerine Scarf
reviewed by BN Aziz.
See review list
Tahrir Team Barbara Nimri Aziz: Read about Barbara Nimri Aziz in the team page.
See Tahrir Team