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 13, Tahrir 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 Felon. Betty 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 Elamin. Iranian 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.
Select Books
Hope and Other Dangerous PursuitsLaila Lalami
- Reviewed by BN Aziz
Those of us in touch with conditions in the ‘belad’, or with the world economy, know about the risks our people take to escape poverty and despair at home. They flee in search of often meager economic gains. Most of our American ancestors came here a century ago, impelled by similar conditions. Let’s face it. It’s not about escaping political tyranny, although that is a fair reason.
Dangers of illegal migration are subjects of films—Algerian-French films, Africa Diaspora films, Latin American films.
Yet few Arab writers in English have addressed this theme in their fiction. Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits is the first novel in a long time to tell a bold, un-nostalgic migration story. And she does it well.
I read through this book in a few hours, gripped by the story itself and my identification with Murad, Aziz, Halima, and Faten, the four individuals whose tales she narrates. In the first pages of the novel, Lalami won my compassion for these women and men.
The first chapter in Hope… is a sea voyage of African Moroccan immigrants left a few hundred meters from the Spanish coast to swim ashore to an unknown fate. The following eight chapters are divided into two parts: a) flashbacks to the lives of four women and men before their voyage. b) seeing them after their failure, repatriated to Morocco and the misery they had tried to leave behind them, or at least to alleviate with hoped for remittance from overseas.
The ‘dangerous pursuits’ of these four Moroccans is the main story, and a compelling one. But Lalami is also using these lives to take us more deeply into this Arab culture, whether it’s a cynical view of the Paul Bowles’ mythology, family solidarity, or hypocrisy concerning women’s head cover. For more dynamism and scope from this promising, young author, see her web page, www.moorishgirl.com
Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005
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..
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"13%", a poem by Amal Bishara
A young Palestinian woman comments on what's left of her homeland 
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"Ramadan"
AbdalHayy Moore reads from 'Ramadan Sonnets' --www.danielmoorepoetry.com - Book review

- editor Bob Spillman's
Gods and Soldiers
reviewed by B Nimri Aziz. - Tahrir Team
Nadja Middleton - Read about Nadja Middleton 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
- Palestinian Initiative
- WBAI Peace and Justice Radio
- 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
- Sami Al Arian
