Forthcoming

Feb 1-March 1, WBAI Winter Fund-drive. Volunteer. Pledge your support toWBAI and Tahrir with a cash donation.

 

Jan 31. Turkish TV dramas across the world: the history of Turkish TV serials and social/political implications, with Aydin Baltaci and B Nimri Aziz; RNasr's preview interview with Ashraf Khalil, journalist and author of Liberation Square.  

 

Jan 10: Sex education for Muslim youth--Mohamad Ahmad and Amir Mertaban, hosts of Irvine CA’s online radio’s "Boiling Point" debate the issue.   

 

Jan 3,  “Warrantless Profiling and Surveillance”: guest attorneys Omar Mohammedi and Faiza Petel. and we  review the boycott of NY mayor's interfaith breakfast.

 

Dec 27, 2011 Adel Iskandar reviews an extraordinary year-- "2011 across the Arab World"; and "How Does It Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America", with editor Moustafa Bayoumi.

 

Dec 20. Educating our children in Islamic values: Principal Amanny Khattab of Noble Academy private Muslim school, and NJ public school teacher Suada Charaf.. 

 

Dec 13 Detection tools for special needs children-- with NJ educator Wafaa Elezaby; Zaid Saleh on Egypt’s election; Tamara Barsik updates us on protests against Russia’s Olympic venue, site of Circassian oppression 

 

Nov 29, Fencing champion Ibtihaj Muhammad joins Reem Nasr in studio, and we review disabilities afflicting Arabs in the USA.

 

Nov 22, Siraj Wahhaj, Brooklyn's Al-Taqwa Mosque imam and Hassen Abdellah review NY's Muslim centers.

 

Nov 8, 2011 New Jersey community activist Aref Assaf. 

 

Tahrir podcasts through Oct 4, 2011 on RadioTahrir.org

 

Oct 4 see podcast Afghan-Americans in a NY performance; Khalil Meek of Muslim Legal Fund.

 

Sept 27 see podcast. Mohammed Ghani Hikmat ,Iraqi sculptor (1929-2011); and BN Aziz' report on her 1993 visit to Gaza at the time of the Oslo Accord (archive)

 

Sept 20 See podcast Playwright Ismail  Khalidi; Producer Reem Nasr meets Egypt's youth at Tahrir Square; and Sabra and Shatila 29 years on.

 

Sept 6, see podcast  US Muslims and the law: civil rights and entrapment of Muslims by security agencies. Attorneys Asaad Siddiqi and Lamis Deek.

 

Aug 30, see podcast Prophet Mohammad: a third in our series on "the prophets", with Muhammad Jaaber. 

 

Aug 23 see podcast Tahrir archive special Ramadan children's stories, poems and people: AbdHayyMoore, Ibr.Gonzalez, Sapphire Ahmed, Somayieh Uddin, Dasham Brookins, Sharam Shiva & more.

 

Aug 16, no podcast available. What is halal and how halal is your Ramadan iftar? "My Halal Kitchen", and spiritual melodies of our Syrian group "Noor".   

 

"Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story" film review in our review section. 

 

August 9, see podcast Tell us what Ramadan means to you. Hosts Nasr and Issak open phones to listeners.

June 28 see podcast Said Arikat, correspondent for Al-Qudus. Evelyn Alsultany, curator of  “Reclaiming Identity”. 

June 21 see podcast. Ibrahim Jaaber and his multi-layered life as a professional athlete. And Aisha Adawiyyah, on The Betty Shabazz Program.

 

April 19 see podcast Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and the growing need for relaible sources on Islam; Earth Day with farmer Zaid Kurdieh Norwich Meadows Farm  

 

March 29 see podcast.Nutrition in the Islamic tradition: dietitian Sarah Amer; Contemporary Muslim marriage services: Kamal Shaarawi,Ali Ardekani, & Zeba Iqbal.

March 22, see podcast.A New McCarthyism: reporting on Congressman King's hearings. Niloufar Talebi's "Atash Sorushan".

March 1 see podcast. Mohamed Keita, Committee to Protect Journalists discusses North African uprisings. Poet Remi Kanazi’s “Poetic Injustice: Resistance and Palestine”. 

see Jan 4 podcast. Muslim charities in post 9/11 recession, with Tamara Issak. Elia Suleiman Palestinian film director   

see Dec 7 podcast Palestinians under occupation: narratives from NYU's Palestine Awareness Week. And, what Islam teaches us about protecting our planet: "Green Deen" author Ibrahim Abdul-Matin.

see Nov 23 podcast. Muzammal Hussain of Wisdom in Nature (UK) a UK-based environmental movement. Beauty and food blogger Shyema Azam. And a personal experience of Eid al-Adha and Hajj.

 see Oct 5 podcast. Open phones with Shaykh Abdallah Adhami. 

see Aug 31 podcast. Pakistan's flood victims: with Danish Iqbal and Kashif Akhtar. Poet Sarah Husain; Aisha Zia Khan organizer of  "Remembering the Indus". 

see July 27 podcast Author Mahmoud Ibrahim on The Dar-ul-Islam Movement: An American Odyssey Revisited, and an interview with Hip Hop Artist Shadia Mansour 

podcast June 22 Poet Kazim Ali's latest book Bright Felon. Attorney Farhana Khera. Syrian radio broadcaster Nidaa Al-Islam Hussein.

podcast April 27. Celebrating national poetry month poet Gaith Adhami; readings by Dasham Brookins, Kazim Ali,  Lisa Mohammed, Mohja Kahf, Bro Suleiman, Suheir Hammad, Iranian HipHop.

April 20 podcast Commentary on Islam (part 3) by Quranic scholar Shaykh Abdallah Adhami; Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi re"No One Knows About Persian Cats" and other work. 

 

 

Articles

Algerian Agricultural Experiments in the Sahara
April 01, 2006
Soufi from the River, Soufi from the Sand
by Barbara Nimri Aziz

Who else but we built our domes?
Who but we preened these poems?
To whom else do sand dunes yield
A land aglow with golden jewel?
Come,
See a rare pride.
Come,
See how this sand breathes sand;
How these brown arms
Render harsh earth so supple.
How these brown arms
Lift away trouble.
Come.
See, from sun’s hot rays of El-Souf
light enters any dark crevice.

--- Bubakar Murad
(Translation: Rachida Mohammedi)

At the entrance to a private experimental farm near the city of El-Oued in the Algerian sahara stands a modest statue of an early settler of this oasis: the ‘rammaal’. He is neither a camel trader nor a herdsman, although El-Oued is home to both. Rimal means sand in ‘arabic’, and rammaal is the humble farmer and sand porter whose muscle and plodding determination made El-Oued’s early date palms grow.

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Algeria Open For Business
October 28, 2005

It’s confirmed by the US government. Algeria is back on the map, according to the United States. Less than two weeks after the country’s national referendum on peace and reconciliation (Middle East International 7610), the American embassy in Algiers announced that it was to reopen its consular office after a ten-year gap.

It is no coincidence that the American announcement comes 12 days after President Bouteflika’s success in the referendum with little opposition or significant violence.

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Iraq, International Women's Day, 2003
March 08, 2003

March 8, 2003. International Women's Day!

So what? It's still war mode for Iraqi women as well as their sons and sisters, their fathers, their brothers and babies.

In Mosul, 400 km north of the Iraqi capital, it is a glorious spring day. How could a war be looming? How could thousands of tanks be lined up along three borders, ready to mow over us?

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Iraqi Scientists Outside History
September 01, 1996

Archeologist Walid al-Jadir was one of those scientists who somehow connect everything they see and hear to their work. His task was to reveal the ancient history of Iraq. “See those hillocks on the landscape?” he once asked me pointing to the dull, winter farmland we were passing on the way to Sippar, the site of his research. “Every one of those hills could be a tell,” he continued. “Probably under each one lays an ancient city. The entire country of Iraq is a treasure.”

Al-Jadir felt a sense of urgency about uncovering his country’s distant past. He was proud of the role his ancestors—the inhabitants of Mesopotamia—played in human civilization as long as 5,000 years ago.

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Gravesites: Environmental Ruin in Iraq
March 09, 2006
The chain of death created by the Gulf War is a scary thing.  I'm not talking about black skies over the blazing oil wells of Kuwait, or charred remains of soldiers on the sand or the incinerated families who had sought protection in a bomb shelter.  Those are familiar images of death, recognizable, and however painful, they are finite.  With the end of hostilities, they disappear.

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"Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab Women Writing" edited by Susan M. Darraj. Foreword by BN Aziz;
September 07, 2004
Inevitably, a time arrives in a people’s history when a shared awakening occurs. In varying degrees of awareness, driven by the feeling that “It is up to me to tell my people’s story,” we begin. Or, we are compelled simply to tell my own story. James Baldwin, when he emerged as a political voice, concluded, that he could not accept what he once believed --that he was an interloper, that he could have “no other heritage (than the white heritage) which I could possibly hope to use”, and he would simply have to accept his special attitude, his special place in the world scheme. At one time, he had believed that otherwise, “I would have no place in any scheme”. (Autobiographical Notes, p. 7, Notes of A Native Son, 1955.)

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Move Over
January 10, 2000

Move Over is the title of a poem by Mohja Kahf. And for me it is a statement that Western feminists need to hear. It is time for Western feminists to step aside and let women from other parts of the world speak. Why is it that feminists who serve as book editors and conference organizers urge me to talk about my victimization at the hands of my brother, husband, or another Arab man? Why won’t they hear me explain the injustices of Western actions, for example, in the Gulf War? These women, perhaps more than my Arab brother, are an obstacle to my true liberation.

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Demolishing Palestinian Homes--a daily occurance up to the present
April 05, 1996
It's quite a spectacle, a Palestinian home being blown apart. Furniture, dishes and clothes, hastily removed, are deposited helter-skelter in the path or road. Villagers stand by, silent and grim. Heavily armed soldiers are massed to prevent any disruption. And confused, awed children turn sullen.

Americans are not accustomed to seeing Israel's 'demolitions policy' at work. Most recently, this policy has been aimed at the families of suicide bombers. But all Palestinians, from toddlers to the elderly, are familiar with it.

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