Radio Tahrir

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 po}^{dcast 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.

Authors

RAWI:
Radius of Arab-American
Writers Inc.

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.
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Sample "In Jerusalem" (Arabic) 3:23
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Sample "The PineTree Has Broken" 2:26
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Sample "The Beauties are the Beauties" 1:52
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Sample "A Man and A Deer in the Garden" 3:02
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Sample "She/He" 2:39

Labeebah Sabree

"Get Your Lips off My Dress", a poem by Labeebah

Zaid Shlah poet

Sample "Comply" from Taqsim, read by Zaid Shlah 3:51
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Sample speaking about Taqsim in music and poetry, with BN Aziz 6:15

Ghada Karmi

Palestinian writer, author of "Married to Another Man", and the memoir "In Search of Fatima", 2008 interview by S Malaika.

Sample 4:58

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.

Sample 5:00

Deema Shehabi

Sample 2006 interview and poems, with BN Aziz 5:37

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.

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.

Sample from Dr. Jayyusi 's interview about Arabic fiction 6:27

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"
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Sample "Maraya" commentary by Rachida Mohammedi, Arabic 3:12
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Sample Rachida Mohammedi reads from "Tears"; Arabic 2:25
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Sample Maraya "Land Day" commentary. Arabic 3:35
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Sample commentary on Martin Luther King Jr. by Rachida Mohammedi, Arabic 5:20

Nahid Rachlin

author of "Persian Girls" a memoir; host Saadia Aslam

Sample 4:48

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.
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Sample 'Arab Apocalypse', excerpt by the author 1:26
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Sample Etel Adnan reading from 'The Indian Never Had A Horse' 00:42
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Sample 2003 Interview; talking about Arab American literature 4:47
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Sample "In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country"; a passage, recorded in 2006 2:32
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Sample 2004 interview excerpt; Adnan and BN Aziz 5:34

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."

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Sample Soueif talks about her novel "Map of Love" with BN Aziz 6:08

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.

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Sample "Is This A Test?" 5:23
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Sample Lisa Mohammed reads "I Am From" 4:57

Tahrir Podcast

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

Radio Tahrir Podcast

"The extent to which you resist is the extent to which you are free. Allah says in the Qur'an that Allah does not change the condition of a nation unless they change what is in their own selves."

"Imam Jamil al-Amin"

Tahrir Diwan

a poem.. a song..: "13%", a poem by Amal Bishara
A young Palestinian woman comments on what's left of her homeland
See poems and songs list
: Qur'an Surat Al-Shams
from 'Approaching The Qur'an', CD.
See audio list
Book review: Remi Kanazi's
Poetic Injustice:Writings on Resistance and Palestine
reviewed by Sami Kishawi.
See review list
Tahrir Team Aisha AlAdawiya and Hassen Abdellah: Read about Aisha AlAdawiya and Hassen Abdellah in the team page.
See Tahrir Team

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