Forthcoming

March 16 Tahrir 7-8 pm  From our archives-- memorial to Iraqi artist Laila Al-Attar. New author interviews. Host B Aziz with Sally Sharif.

podcast forthcoming March 9, Abdellah Adhami: commentary Pt 2. From Occupied Palestine-- cultural aspects of genocide by Israel. Media production by Bara'a Khadra, Damascus.

podcast forthcoming March 2 Tahrir reviews "Inside Islam" a recent film by Michael Wolfe. Abdellah Adhami commentary Pt 1: Islamic ways of living (recorded in Syria). Sam Anderson on Malcolm X

Tahrir and WBAI thanks all our supporters for their matching grants and pledges.Special thanks to ICLI, American Muslims for Palestine, and friends in Elizabeth, NJ.

podcast Jan 26 Sudan Music Special. Visiting Sudanese musicians in- studio. Producers BN Aziz and Dawn Elder.

podcast Jan 19 Activist and former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad on solitary with Palestine. IMAN, InnerCity Muslim Action Network. Sally Sharif book review.

podcast Jan 5, 2010 Sociologist Marnia Lazreg talks  about her book "Questioning the Veil". Egyptian filmmaker Khaled El-Hagar at NYC African Diaspora Film Festival. Host BN Aziz.

Podcast Dec 29 Prof. Walid Khalidi on "The Status of Jerusalem"; Rhonda Sharif, basketball star, with Sally Sharif

Podcast Dec 22 Amir Parsa, Iranian American author of "Drive-by Cannibalism" in the Baroque  Tradition" with S Malaika. "Facing the Veil"-- produced by Reem Nasr.

Podcast Dec 15: HipHop artist Shadia Mansour (II). Lea Khayata reviews Raja Shehadeh's "Palestinian Walks". deTocqueville in Algeria with Simone Fattal.
Podcast Dec. 1 Paul Nassar, Forensic psychiatrist on  PTSD dangers for health professionals. Mai Helwa of Syrian Radio (in Arabic). Children's author Elsa Marston Harik

Nov 10 podcast. Host Sarah Malaika talks with Iranian musician Hafez Nazeri. Hassen Abdellah and Steven Salaita on the Fort Hood shootings. 

Oct 13 podcast Part II of Hanan AlShaykh interview; our final segment on journalism in Algeria with Abdellah Guettaf (Arabic with English voiceover)

Sept 29 podcast  Author Hanan AlShaykh interview part I. Syrian student productions from Damascus. Sept 22: Dr. Amal Dakak, broadcaster and sociologist; Reem Nasr interviews Zeba Iqbal on American Muslims professionals.

See Tahrir's series on Arabic language and literature-- podcasts March 6, 13, 20 and 27, 2007.

 

"Swimming up The Tigris: Real Life Encounters from Iraq." To host a speaking engagement by B N Aziz:    info@radiotahrir.org.

Sami Al-Arian. See updates and actions you can take. See reviews of award-winning film "USA vs Al-Arian".

Noteworthy podcasts: March 07 series on Arabic language and literature. April 3 and April 17, 2007 broadcasts with Hafez Modir, Kayhan Kalhor and more.
  2/26/06 Conversations with artist and poet Etel Adnan, and author Leila Abu Saba. Listen to "Thawra des odalisques at the Matisse Retrospective" read by author Mohja Kahf.  Feminism-- creative, funny and Muslim.



Swimming Up the Tigris

Contents
pdf document Reviews
pdf document Field Notes




Real Life Encounters with Iraq by B. Nimri Aziz

Longstanding war diseases--recylced by media

March 13, 2010
There is little good news from Iraq. Especially so for anyone who has observed and recorded the decay of the nation’s civil society for 20 years. This week, an enthusiastic and ‘appropriately’ disturbed BBC reporter visiting Fallujah, Iraq told us about the alarming increase in abnormal births recorded among its people, at least those who remain after the American assault there in 2004. News?

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Voices of Iraq

Suad Al-Radi
Iraqi resident, Baghdad, days before the invasion
sound Sample My country, my family 7:45

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Features

Naomi Shihab Nye reads "Half and Half "
and talks about her latest books. With BN Aziz sound Sample 4:31

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Tahrir Diwan

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poem "Malfunctioning Flowtron" by Marian Haddad

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poems
poem "Angels"
Abdal Hayy Moore reads from 'Ramadan Sonnets'

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Book review
editor Bob Spillman's
Gods and Soldiers
reviewed by B Nimri Aziz.

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Tahrir Team

Hanan alShaykh and Tahrir members
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