Forthcoming

Sept 2, 7-8 pm   Ramadan Kareem!! Election campaign coverage with members of Tahrir's broadcasting staff and special guests.

latest podcast: playwright Jennifer Jajeh, performs  "I Heart Hamas and ..". Mohamed EliBiary of faith-based Texas Freedom and Justice Foundation for public policy, on needs and choices of Muslim voters.

"The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations" DVD lecture by Edward Said. Phone 212-209-2800 to pledge your support for Tahrir and Peace and Justice Radio, 99.5 fm-NY.

Latest Podcast: August 12, 2008. 

Nov. 6, 2007  podcast: Mahmoud Darwish. "The Butterfly's Burden", with translator Fady Joudah.

Our Dec. 18 podcast includes an excerpt from Naomi S Nye's interview, and comments from Layla Hijab, Palestinian activist.
March 4 podcast: Sarah Malaika and Iraqi artists' association co-founder Weam Namou.

Fall/winter 2007 podcasts include authors Kathryn Abdul Baki and Diana AbuJaber,  Professor Sherman Jackson, author of Islam and the Black American; artists Nsenga Knight, Nuha Al-Saidi and Haifa Bint-Kadi; performers Rajiv Joseph and Ramiz Moncef; art therapist Saadia Parvez;  cartoonist Khalil Bendib; Dawn Elder, world music afficianado, and Ramadan poems.

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

 

"Swimming up The Tigris: Real Life Encounters from Iraq." For engagements by BN Aziz,  swimming@radiotahrir.org and watch for details here and over WBAI Radio .

Sami Al-Arian. See August updates and actions you can take. See reviews of award-winning film "USA vs Al-Arian".

Podcasts: March series on Arabic language and literature. April 3 and April 17 broadcasts with Hafez Modir, Kayhan Kalhor, DH Melhem and more.
Listen to our special with, musicians Shahram Shiva, Kayhan Kalhor, Ilham al-Madfaii,  Simon Shaheen, and Fareed Makhloufi (from our archive).  

 12/26/06 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

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
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
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
Nahid Rachlin
author of "Persian Girls" a memoir; host Saadia Aslam
sound Sample 4:48
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
Deema Shehabi

sound Sample 2006 interview and poems, with BN Aziz 5:37
Labeebah Sabree
"Get Your Lips off My Dress", a poem by Labeebah
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
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
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
Mahmoud Darwish
Identity Card
...Write down!
I am an Arab
I have a name without a title
Patient in a country
Where people are enraged

My roots
Were entrenched before the birth of time
And before the opening of the eras
Before the pines, and the olive trees
And before the grass grew...

Therefore!
Write down on the top of the first page:
I do not hate people
Nor do I encroach
But if I become hungry
The usurper’s flesh will be my food
Beware..
Beware..
Of my hunger
And my anger!
Mahmoud Darwish
more from Mahmoud Darwish
Allah
There is none amongst the believers who plants a tree, or sows a seed, and then a bird, or a person, or an animal eats thereof, but it is regarded as having given a charitable gift [for which there is great recompense].
[Al-Bukhari, III:513]

Ramadan
Sept 2nd 2008

Tahrir Podcast

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

Radio Tahrir Podcast

Tahrir Diwan

a poem.. a song..
poem "My Wish", poem for South Lebanon, Arabic
Umm Kayed's praise poem for the liberation of South Lebanon, Arabic

See poems and songs list

poems
poem "Angels"
Abdal Hayy Moore reads from 'Ramadan Sonnets'

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Book review
Abdel Bari Atwan's
The Secret History of Al-Qaeda
reviewed by BN Aziz.

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Tahrir Team

Robert E. Meyer
Read about Robert E. Meyer in the team page.

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