Radio Tahrir

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.

About Us

Barbara Nimri Aziz is Executive Producer; info@RadioTahrir.org. “Swimming up the Tigris: Real Life Encounters with Iraq” is her latest publication (U. Press Florida). Aziz is presently on a Fulbright professorship overseas, but will resume her book tour in August 2008. To arrange an author's talk at your college or community center contact us— swimming@radiotahrir.org

Regular producers with Tahrir since 2007 are Sarah Malaika (smalaika@radiotahrir.org) and Saadia Aslam (saslam@radiotahrir.org). They have been hosting Tahrir for the past year.

We also enjoy contributions from Fatima Ashraf who has brought many young Muslim professionals to our airwaves. Aisha Adawiya, director of Women in Islam, likes to interview dynamic women scholars especially in the field of civil rights. When attorney Hassen Abdellah covers social and legal issues on Tahrir, he always opens the phones to listeners. Aydin Baltaci designed and maintains our website: webmaster@radiotarir.org. RadioTahrir now has a Facebook entry. We invite you to sign up.

The Tahrir staff are all volunteers at WBAI; they welcome your questions and suggestions, also your support. During our quarterly on-air fund drives, listeners are invited to send their pledges. Go to www.wbai.org for more information on how to support Free Speech radio in New York and around the world.

In recent years we have welcomed more interns into the project, and a new training program will begin in July 2008. Our 2006-07 radio journalism internships were supported with a grant for the Islamic Center of Long Island.

Dean Obeidallah and Maysoon Zayid who hosted “Fen Meshnoon with Dean and Maysoon” on Tahrir are concentrating on their live, standup comedy productions, touring the USA and abroad. Contact them at www.maysoon.com and www.deanofcomedy.com

Our address Tahrir, WBAI Radio,
120 Wall St., 10th floor, New York, NY 10005
Phone 212-209-2800
Fax 212-747-1698

For community announcements: send press release, including contact telephone number, to CBB@wbai.org two weeks before the event. It will be announced on air.

Tahrir means liberation.

Iraqi drum ensemble, our theme music since our founding, was provided to us in 1988 by virtuoso and composer Munir Bachir.

Tahrir, Voices of the Arab/Muslim Community Here and Abroad, is a one hour weekly arts/public affairs program based on the principle that "everything is political."

Broadcasting over Pacifica-WBAI in New York, since 1980, Tahrir features educators, musicians, community leaders, intellectuals, writers and other Arab artists across the United States.

Tahrir has produced special series such as "Six Arab American Poets", "Ramadan Poetry Festival", and "Maqam: From Cordoba to Baghdad" with Simon Shaheen. Our documentaries include "Ghosts in The Iraq National Museum," "Iraq: How Can I Forget?" and "Damascus Gate 2002".

Based on our overseas assignments, we bring you in depth interviews with Arab personalities from London to Cairo, Algiers, Beirut and Baghdad.

Tahrir is dedicated to the principle of public broadcasting with the aim of bringing the voices, history, compassion and concerns of Arab/Muslim peoples every where to the general public.

We are volunteer-run and depend on listener support to WBAI Radio.

In coming months, we will make our extraordinary, rich archive of audio productions available for sale so that we can become self-sustaining and share our productions with listeners.

Intern Training

Dedicated to strengthening our community voice, Tahrir accepts interns for training in journalism and hands-on radio production. Our interns have gone on to graduate from journalism school, or take up creative positions in the media across the USA.

Jad Abumrad, host of "Radio Lab" at WNYC New York was with Tahrir for before joining WNYC.

Mona Iskander, now a television producer, trained with Tahrir.

Ryme Kathouda, a Pacifica programmer and producer, began her radio work with Tahrir

Imran Ahmed, Anisa Bouziane, Saadia Aslam, Kareem Freeman, and many others interned with Tahrir in recent years.

What others say

Tahrir has given Arabs and Muslims a powerful voice in a variety of mediums. Radio Tahrir is just one iteration of its contribution to the world.
Many thanks, and look forward to decades more.
Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, Editor Living Islam Out Loud

Tahrir Podcast

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

Radio Tahrir Podcast

"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'll always be maneuvered into a situation where you are never fighting your actual enemies, where you will find yourself fighting your own self."

"Al Haj Malik Shabazz"

Tahrir Diwan

a poem.. a song..: "Unyieldingly"
Lawrence Joseph reading
See poems and songs list
: "Angels"
Abdal Hayy Moore reads from 'Ramadan Sonnets'
See audio list
Book review: Parvez Sharma's
Jihad for Love
reviewed by .
See review list
Tahrir Team Dean Obeidallah: Read about Dean Obeidallah in the team page.
See Tahrir Team