Radio Tahrir

Forthcoming

March 16 Tahrir 7-8 pm From our archives-- memorial to Iraqi artist Laila Al-Attar. New author interviews. Host B Aziz with Sally Sharif.

podcast forthcoming March 9, Abdellah Adhami: commentary Pt 2. From Occupied Palestine-- cultural aspects of genocide by Israel. Media production by Bara'a Khadra, Damascus.

podcast forthcoming March 2 Tahrir reviews "Inside Islam" a recent film by Michael Wolfe. Abdellah Adhami commentary Pt 1: Islamic ways of living (recorded in Syria). Sam Anderson on Malcolm X

Tahrir and WBAI thanks all our supporters for their matching grants and pledges.Special thanks to ICLI, American Muslims for Palestine, and friends in Elizabeth, NJ.

podcast Jan 26 Sudan Music Special. Visiting Sudanese musicians in- studio. Producers BN Aziz and Dawn Elder.

podcast Jan 19 Activist and former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad on solitary with Palestine. IMAN, InnerCity Muslim Action Network. Sally Sharif book review.

podcast Jan 5, 2010 Sociologist Marnia Lazreg talks about her book "Questioning the Veil". Egyptian filmmaker Khaled El-Hagar at NYC African Diaspora Film Festival. Host BN Aziz.

Podcast Dec 29 Prof. Walid Khalidi on "The Status of Jerusalem"; Rhonda Sharif, basketball star, with Sally Sharif.

Podcast Dec 22 Amir Parsa, Iranian American 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". deTocqueville in Algeria with Simone Fattal.
Podcast Dec. 1 Paul Nassar, Forensic psychiatrist on PTSD dangers for health professionals. Mai Helwa of Syrian Radio (in Arabic). Children's author Elsa Marston Harik.

Nov 10 podcast. Host Sarah Malaika talks with Iranian musician Hafez Nazeri. Hassen Abdellah and Steven Salaita on the Fort Hood shootings.

Oct 13 podcast Part II of Hanan AlShaykh interview; our final segment on journalism in Algeria with Abdellah Guettaf (Arabic with English voiceover)

Sept 29 podcast Author Hanan AlShaykh interview part I. Syrian student productions from Damascus. Sept 22: Dr. Amal Dakak, broadcaster and sociologist; Reem Nasr interviews Zeba Iqbal on American Muslims professionals.

See Tahrir's series on Arabic language and literature-- podcasts March 6, 13, 20 and 27, 2007.

"Swimming 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

RAWI:
Radius of Arab-American
Writers Inc.

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

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.

Deema Shehabi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Labeebah Sabree

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

Tahrir Podcast

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"If you form the habit of going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself...you'll always be maneuvered into a situation where you are never fighting your actual enemies, where you will find yourself fighting your own self."

"Al Haj Malik Shabazz"

Tahrir Diwan

a poem.. a song..: "Name of God"
AbdalHayy Moore reads a poem for Ramadan
See poems and songs list
: Qur'an Surat Al-Qadr
from 'Approaching The Qur'an' CD, male reciter
See audio list
Book review: editor Bob Spillman's
Gods and Soldiers
reviewed by B Nimri Aziz.
See review list
Tahrir Team Barbara Nimri Aziz: Read about Barbara Nimri Aziz in the team page.
See Tahrir Team

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