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 13Tahrir 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 FelonBetty 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 ElaminIranian 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.



Authors

Ghada Karmi
Palestinian writer, author of "Married to Another Man", and the memoir "In Search of Fatima", 2008 interview by S Malaika.
sound Sample 4:58
Zaid Shlah poet

sound Sample "Comply" from Taqsim, read by Zaid Shlah 3:51
sound Sample speaking about Taqsim in music and poetry, with BN Aziz 6:15
Labeebah Sabree
"Get Your Lips off My Dress", a poem by Labeebah
Lisa Mohammed
New York based poet, Lisa Mohammed, author of two collections of poetry, also teches writing to young people in New York. The poem, "Is This A Test?", was performed in celebration of the release from prison of Brother Geronimo Ji JaJa.

sound Sample "Is This A Test?" 5:23
sound Sample Lisa Mohammed reads "I Am From" 4:57
Hanan al Shaykh author
Al-Shaykh speaks with BN Aziz about the release of the English translation of her mother's story. Hear our interview, now on our podcast in two parts, Sept 29/09 and Oct.13/09.
Nahid Rachlin
author of "Persian Girls" a memoir; host Saadia Aslam
sound Sample 4:48
Deema Shehabi

sound Sample 2006 interview and poems, with BN Aziz 5:37
Yvonne Wakin Dennis
Arab/Native American author Dennis writes books for children on American Indian history. This is from her Dec 8/09 conversation with Reem Nasr.
sound Sample 5:00
Dr. Salma Khadra Jayyusi

Dr. Jayyusi, director of PROTA, is editor of eight published anthologies of translations and collections of Arabic literature. Her most recent compilation Modern Arabic Fiction, was released in 2005.

In three 30 minute interviews with Tahrir, Jayyusi speaks about a range of issues in Arabic culture, history and literature.


sound Sample from Dr. Jayyusi 's interview about Arabic fiction 6:27
Ahdaf Soueif
Novelist, author of ""Map of Love" (a Booker Prize finalist), and more recently a collection of essays "Mezzaterra:Fragments from the Common Ground" 2004.
A highly regarded literary figure based in London and Egypt, Soueif also frequently writes reviews and commentaries for The Guardian, London. Her other books include "Aisha, The Sandpiper", and "In the Eye of the Sun."

In the accompanying 1999 interview, Soueif talks with Barbara Nimri Aziz about writing "Map of Love."


sound Sample Soueif talks about her novel "Map of Love" with BN Aziz 6:08
Poet Rachida Mohammedi
Algerian based poet and translator Mohammedi, has published two collections of her poetry in Arabic. She also complied and translated into French, a collection of the work of Iraqi poets, written under embargo.

"Maraya" audio commentaries by R Mohammedi: In 2005, in New York, Mohammedi produced several Arabic language commentaries for WBAI Radio.
"Maraya 4: English summary"
sound Sample "Maraya" commentary by Rachida Mohammedi, Arabic 3:12
sound Sample Rachida Mohammedi reads from "Tears"; Arabic 2:25
sound Sample Maraya "Land Day" commentary. Arabic 3:35
sound Sample commentary on Martin Luther King Jr. by Rachida Mohammedi, Arabic 5:20
Etel Adnan
Artist and writer Etel Adnan is a poet, essayist and novelist, the author of numerous books. Her latest book "In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country" is published by City Lights.
sound Sample 'Arab Apocalypse', excerpt by the author 1:26
sound Sample Etel Adnan reading from 'The Indian Never Had A Horse' 00:42
sound Sample 2003 Interview; talking about Arab American literature 4:47
sound Sample "In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country"; a passage, recorded in 2006 2:32
sound Sample 2004 interview excerpt; Adnan and BN Aziz 5:34
Mahmoud Darwish
5 poems, in Arabic; read by Darwish at various venues. Also hear Fady Joudah reading Darwish under our 'a poem, a song' section.
sound Sample "In Jerusalem" (Arabic) 3:23
sound Sample "The PineTree Has Broken" 2:26
sound Sample "The Beauties are the Beauties" 1:52
sound Sample "A Man and A Deer in the Garden" 3:02
sound Sample "She/He" 2:39

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