Forthcoming

September 7, 7-8 pm on 99.5 fm. Qur'anic scholar Shaykh Abdallah Adhami discusses interfaith dialogue and the meaning of dawa. Also CAIR's campaign featuring Muslim 911 first responders; and Saadia Aslam's report on the New York Sufi Music Festival. Hosts Tamara Issak and Sarah Malaika.
 

see Aug 31 podcast. Helping Pakistan's flood victims, with Danish Iqbal and Kashif Akhtar. Poet Sarah Husain; Aisha Zia Khan organizer of  "Remembering the Indus". Hosts Saadia Aslam and Reem Nasr.

see August 24 podcast for our review of community support for Pakistan's flood victims, and listeners' comments on plans for a downtown NYC mosque.

see July 27 podcast Author Mahmoud Ibrahim on The Dar-ul-Islam Movement: An American Odyssey Revisited, with host Sarah Malaika. Hip Hop Artist Shadia Mansour speaks with Sarah today too. 

see July 20 podcast Shaykh Abdallah Adhami, Quranic scholar. Performer Laila Buck, interviewed by Tamara Issak; "Obama" poem by 'Abbas Jijan (Arabic and English)

see podcast July 13, Tahrir is political anyway you look at it. Yes or no? See current blog. Host BN Aziz and listener calls. Tamara Issak talks with Naeem Muhammad of NativeDeen.

podcast July 6. Reem Nasr and the Eid holiday campaign for NYC schools. Sunnduss Mahmoud speaks with author of "Popular Proverbs" N. Isleem. Host BN Aziz updates the case of civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart. Look for Azzawi's  report on Iraqi children.

see June 29podcast  Poets Samuel Hazo, Laila Halaby and Nyomi Shihab Nye. Hassen Abdellah on US Supreme Court decision on "material support".  

podcast June 22 Poet Kazim Ali with his latest book Bright Felon. Betty Shabazz awardee,attorney Farhana Khera. Syrian radio broadcaster Nidaa Al-Islam Hussein.

podcast June 15, 'OK. Let's Talk about Helen Thomas', with BN Aziz and Reem Nasr 

podcast May 18 Tahrir's 2 hr fund-drive special.Saadia Aslam joins Sarah Malaika, Sally Sharif and BNimri Aziz. 

podcast May 11. Hassen Abdellah and Mohamed Ibn Bashir review security responses to immigration over the years, and images of those who "threaten US values", with listener call-ins.

podcast May 4. Damascus-based journalist and activist Nadia Khost interviewed by BN Aziz (Arabic/English);  Spoken-word artist Kamal Imani in-studio.

podcast April 27. Celebrating national poetry month  Tamara Issak with 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; Sudan's election with Nisrin Elamin. Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi re"No One Knows About Persian Cats" and other work. 

April 13 podcast. Trumpeter/composer Amir Elsaffar.  Kadir Natho on Circassian History.

 April 6 podcast literary ritic/author Steven Salaita. Leila Khalil of American Muslims for Palestine (pt 2). 

podcast March 30. host Hassen Abdellah, with Mohamed Ibn Bashir, discussing the government's indictments of the Michigan extremist militia group & listener call-ins.
podcast March 23. Ginan Rauf on Arab American literature since the early 20th C. More facts on Jerusalem. Mohja Kahf's poem for Brenda Moosey. American Muslims for Palestine's Leila Khalil, pt1.

podcast  March 16  From our archives-- memorial to Iraqi artist Laila Al-Attar. An introduction the Carcassians by Tamara Issak.
podcast March 9. Quranic scholar Shaykh Abdellah Adhami: commentary Pt 2. From Occupied Palestine: destruction-ancient-muslim-cemetery-jerusalem">-- cultural aspects of genocide by Israel. Bara'a Khadra, Damascus. 

podcast March 2 Film "Inside Islam" a by Michael Wolfe. Sahykh Abdellah Adhami commentary Pt 1: Islamic ways of living (recorded in Syria). Malcolm X comments.

podcast Jan 5, 2010 Sociologist Marnia Lazreg on "Questioning the Veil". Egyptian filmmaker Khaled El-Hagar at NYC African Diaspora Film Festival.
Podcast Dec 29 Prof. Walid Khalidi on "The Status of Jerusalem"; Rhonda Sharif, basketball star, with Sally Sharif. 
Podcast Dec 22 Amir Parsa, 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". Simone Fattal on deTocqueville in Algeria.

 

Swimiming 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.



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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