Radio Tahrir

Forthcoming

Sept 2, 7-8 pm Ramadan Kareem!! Election campaign coverage with members of Tahrir's broadcasting staff and special guests.

latest podcast: playwright Jennifer Jajeh, performs "I Heart Hamas and ..". Mohamed EliBiary of faith-based Texas Freedom and Justice Foundation for public policy, on needs and choices of Muslim voters.

"The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations" DVD lecture by Edward Said. Phone 212-209-2800 to pledge your support for Tahrir and Peace and Justice Radio, 99.5 fm-NY.

Latest Podcast: August 12, 2008.

Nov. 6, 2007 podcast: Mahmoud Darwish. "The Butterfly's Burden", with translator Fady Joudah.

Our Dec. 18 podcast includes an excerpt from Naomi S Nye's interview, and comments from Layla Hijab, Palestinian activist.
March 4 podcast: 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.

"Swimming up The Tigris: Real Life Encounters from Iraq." For engagements by BN Aziz, swimming@radiotahrir.org and watch for details here and over WBAI Radio .

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

Podcasts: March series on Arabic language and literature. April 3 and April 17 broadcasts with Hafez Modir, Kayhan Kalhor, DH Melhem and more.
Listen to our special with, musicians Shahram Shiva, Kayhan Kalhor, Ilham al-Madfaii, Simon Shaheen, and Fareed Makhloufi (from our archive).

12/26/06 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

I am currently at Rutgers University. I just discovered Tahrir Radio and I'm extremely interested in knowing more. I'm currently a Journalism and Media Studies as well as a Middle Eastern Studies major so this is all definitely right up my alley. Tell me more about internship opportunities, possibly for this upcoming spring or the summer. I would love to help and contribute to the station. AN

Identity Card
...Write down!
I am an Arab
I have a name without a title
Patient in a country
Where people are enraged

My roots
Were entrenched before the birth of time
And before the opening of the eras
Before the pines, and the olive trees
And before the grass grew...

Therefore!
Write down on the top of the first page:
I do not hate people
Nor do I encroach
But if I become hungry
The usurper’s flesh will be my food
Beware..
Beware..
Of my hunger
And my anger!
Mahmoud Darwish
more from Mahmoud Darwish

There is none amongst the believers who plants a tree, or sows a seed, and then a bird, or a person, or an animal eats thereof, but it is regarded as having given a charitable gift [for which there is great recompense].

[Al-Bukhari, III:513]

Ramadan
Sept 2nd 2008

Tahrir Podcast

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

Radio Tahrir Podcast

Tahrir Diwan

a poem.. a song..: "Don't Turn From Me"
Poet and novelist Mohja Khaf
See poems and songs list
: Qur'an Surat Al-Shams
from 'Approaching The Qur'an', CD.
See audio list
Book review: Monica Ali's
Brick Lane
reviewed by .
See review list
Tahrir Team Lynne Stewart with our interns: Read about Lynne Stewart with our interns in the team page.
See Tahrir Team