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 practiced by the Israeli state. Syria: 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 24 podcast Palestinian HipHop Artist Shadia Mansour (Part I); New higher education policies in Syria with Zuheir Jennan.
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.
September 15, 2009 Jordanian journalist Rana Husseini talks about her book on crimes against women.
New voices from Damascus, Syria.
Nov 6, 2007 Podcast Mahmoud Darwish: readings from "The Butterfly's Burden" with translator Fady Joudah.
See Tahrir's series on Arabic language and literature-- podcasts March 6, 13, 20 and 27, 2007.
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"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.
Swimming Up the Tigris

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"It's so human. I loved the poems, the images, the anecdotes. They're
heartbreaking. You want to hug these people. They will survive, and they
will rebuild. We have to believe in that."
Etel Adnan: poet, essayist, artist. -
"Barbara Nimri Aziz has written a must-read book which puts a human face on an Iraqi people dehumanized by simplistic, misleading and inaccurate media accounts before, during and after America's illegitimate invasion and occupation of their homeland."
Scott Ritter, chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq (1991-1998) - Purchase this book from Amazon.com
Contents
Field Notes— poems and stories
On a rainy day in San Diego, by Lamea Abbas Amara, 1991
Night Sky, by Lisa Suhair Majaj, 1998
First Letter Since, 2003
It’s Difficult for Me, by Hamdi, age 9, 1991
Abu Ghraib: A Popular Story
Some Children, by Rami, age 10, 1991
Shako-Mako? A Popular Story
Two Camels at the Border: A Popular Story
The Heaviest of Battles, unknown Iraqi soldier 1991
A Short Letter, 2001
Arguments, by Lisa Suhair Majaj, 1998
Daddy is Going to the Front, by Abdul Karim Salam, 1991
Asking Iraq to Comply, by Zaid Shlah, 2006
I’ll Tie My Mother’s Shawl, by unknown soldier 2, 1991
I’m from Palestine, by Sanaa, age 10, 1991
The Boxer Dog: A Popular Story
CHAPTERS
Part I
Introduction
Chapter 1 War Coming
Chapter 2 Just Imagine, International Women’s Day, 2003 Chapter 3 Adnan in America (Forget About Iraq)
Chapter 4 Mehdi
Chapter 5 I "Love My Country"
Part II
Chapter 6 There Goes the Medical System
Chapter 7 One Iraq Child and Her Father
Chapter 8 Books Break Sanctions
Chapter 9 Just Business
Chapter 10 Who Gets What
Chapter 11 Trade or Aid?
Chapter 12 A Little Loot
Chapter 13 Skies Over Baghdad
Chapter 14 One Farmer's Message
Part III
Chapter 15 Him!
Chapter 16 Sabaar and the Boys at the Office
Chapter 17 The Pharmacy
Chapter 18 Facing the Children
Chapter 19 Empty Playgrounds
Chapter 20 "Ah, the Border"
Chapter 21 Gravesites: Environmental Ruin in Iraq
Chapter 22 Targets, Not Victims
Chapter 23 Where is Amaar?
Chapter 24 "You Are My Guest"
Chapter 25 Birds of a Feather
Tahrir Podcast
"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..
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poem "Mish Kalem"
Poet Rania Khalil reads "Mish Kalem" 
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Qur'an Surat Mazzamil
Huzna Majid, NJ student, reading - Book review

- Ibtisam Barakat's
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
reviewed by . - Tahrir Team
Aisha AlAdawiya and Hassen Abdellah - Read about Aisha AlAdawiya and Hassen Abdellah in the team page.
Select Links
- Africa/World International News
- alIraq News from Occupied Iraq
- Arab American Journalists
- Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media
- Attorney Lynne Stewart--civil rights defender
- Baghdad 2003
- Busboys and Poets; DC Bookstore & Cafe
- Electronic Iraq
- IndyMedia
- Iraq-- Nineveh Digital Mapping
- Majid Ali, MD "Science, Health and Healing"
- Pacifica Radio Network
- Sami Al Arian
- AlBasrah Iraq News
- American Muslim News
- Arab Civilization and Art
- Arab Writers Conference, 2007
- AWAIR, Arab World & Islamic Resources
- Boycott IsraelCampaign
- Electronic Intifada
- FSRN Pacifica Radio News
- Iraq Virtual Museum
- Journalists MiddleEast
- Muslim Women Lawyers
- Palestine--ongoing Cultural Genocide
- WBAI Peace and Justice Radio
