Radio Tahrir

Forthcoming

Feb 3-Feb 20 WBAI Winter fundraiser. Contact to 212-209-2880 to volunteer, 212-209-2950 to pledge.

Jan 26 Sudan music Special. With visiting Sudanese musicians in studio. Producers BN Aziz and Dawn Elder. Podcast forthcoming.

Jan. 19. Activist and former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad on solitary with Palesitnains. IMAN, InnerCity Muslim Action Network, joins us in the studio to discuss their projects. Sally Sarif book review. Hosted by Sarah Malaika and Sally Sharif.

podcast Jan 12, 2010. Host Hassen Abdellah reviews 'incidents' said to threaten US security and alter Americans' view of US Muslims.

Podcast:Jan. 5, 2010 Sociologist Marnia Lazreg talks about her book "Questioning the Veil". Egyptian filmmaker Khaled El-Hagar, featured at last month's African Diaspora Film Festival. Host BN Aziz.

Podcast Dec 29 Walid Khalidi, professor, author, and director of Palestine Institute speaks on "The Status of Jerusalem"; Rhonda Sharif, basketball star, with Sally Sharif.

Dec 18: the first of day of Hijra Year 1431 of the Islamic Calendar. New Year Holiday wishes to all our listeners. "Kul aum wa untum behkhir".

Podcast Dec 22 Amir Parsa, Iranian American writer, discusses his underground classic novel "Drive-by Cannibalism" in the Baroque Tradition" with S Malaika. In "Facing the Veil"-- Reem Nasr records US reactions to Al-Azhar's face-veil ban iin Egypt.

Podcast Dec 15: HipHop artist Shadia Mansour with Phil Kai (II). Lea Khayata reviews Raja Shehadeh's "Palestinian Walks"; notes on deTocqueville in Algeria with Simone Fattal.

Podcast Dec 8: Yvonne Wakin Dennis, Arab/Native American children's literature author, interviewed by Reem Nasr. Sudanese activist Nisrin Elamin in our studio; Azza Shabaan's filmic journey to Gaza, and a preview of our talk with Khaled El-Hagar.

Podcast Dec. 1 Paul Nassar, Forensic psychiatrist on war trauma and difficulties PTSD poses for health professionals. Mai Helwa of Syrian Radio (in Arabic); and children's author Elsa Marston Harik.

Nov 24 podcast Palestinian HipHop Artist Shadia Mansour; we consider new higher education policies in Syria with Zuheir Jennan; Dawn Elder announces the LA "Sahra" Concert headlined by Khaled

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

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. Reem Nasr talks with Amina Esseghir of Rutgers' MSA.

Nov 6, 2007 Podcast Mahmoud Darwish: reading and discussion 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.

"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.

Features

BN Aziz and N Habatfa

Audio documentary; testimonies from Palestinian lads working in the Old Jerusalem market
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Sample "Damascus Gate 2002", Jerusalem 7:00

Houda Ghenim

after Vermeer's 'Girl with the Pearl' by Houda Ghenim, student artist; Algeria, 2008

Nazik al-Mala'ika (1923-2007)

Sample commentary by Salma K Jayyusi 5:43
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Sample (Pt 1) by Salih Altoma, Professor of Arabic Lit., U. Indiana 6:28
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Sample (Pt 2) Prof. Salih Altoma speaking with Sarah Malaika 5:31

Shahram Shiva

Rumi interpreter and translator Shahram Shiva talks about the Sufi poet and performs Rumi with music.
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Sample Shahram Shiva in conversation with BN Aziz 6:42
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Sample by translator and interpreter Shahram Shiva 2:37

Rana Husseini

Journalist and author of the newly released "Murder in the Name of Honor: When a Woman's Life is Worth Less than Honor," interviewed by BN Aziz in Amman in Sept. 2009. Complete interview, broadcast Sept 15 is now available free on our podcast (radiotahrir.org)

Sample 4:46

Francisco Chahin Casanova

Sample world famous tenor shares memories from Palestine; watch for our upcoming broadcast 7:57

Shadia Mansour

HipHop Palestinian vocalist visits our WBAI studio. Interviewed by Phil Kai, produced by Reem Nasr. Watch for our full interview broadcast in December on Tahrir.

Sample 4:30

Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor

Kalhor, Iranian musician, impresario of kamancheh, speaks with Tahrir about his work and life between Brooklyn, India and Iran.
With interludes from his CD Crossing The Silk Road.
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Sample Kamancheh virtuoso Kalhor in collaboration with Shujaat H. Khan; an excerpt from our 55 min. interview 7:30
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Sample Kamancheh virtuoso Kalhor interview excerpt 9:30

Dr. Qatanani, Imam, ICPC, NJ

Dr.Qatanani following broadcast with friends and attorney at WBAI. See WBAI.org archive March 25, 2008 7pm

Ahmed Ahmed, stand up comedian

Ahmed Ahmed: trained as an actor, now a standup comedian. Ahmed is featured in the 4th annual Arab American Comedy Festival, New York, November 2006.
He performs across the USA, and internationally.

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Sample from our WBAI studio interview 6:08

Burhan Al-Mufti, artwork2

Burhan Al-Mufti, artwork1

embargo-- Flowers still grow from my bare Iraq pockets

Gamal Ghitani

Gamal Ghitani, Egyptian writer, talks about Qur'an as a reference for Arabic language with Ginan Rauf, scholar in Arabic literature
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Sample author Gamal Ghitani with Ginan Rauf 5:41

Professor Huda Ammash

Leading Iraqi environmental biologist, PH D in molecular biology from University of Missouri, Columbia. Former Dean at Baghdad University and highly regarded scholar.

Recently released from a US military prison in Iraq after being detained by US authorities without charge for 31 months.*
During the period of the UN embargo, Ammash was engaged in important research on the effects of toxicity created by the 1991 war and embargo on the Iraqi population and environment.
See her article "Toxic Pollution, the Gulf War, and Sanctions" which she wrote for "Iraq Under Siege", South End Press, 2000, Boston.
(* Two days after Ammash's release, her husband, Dr. Ahmed Mekki, also a scholar, was taken into custody and remains in detention, held by US military authorities.)

Ammash speaks about war related pollution in Iraq in the accompanying talk with Barbara Nimri Aziz, Baghdad, 1998. (An excerpt from the first of two interviews.)
Environmental Ruin in Iraq by BN Aziz
sound Sample Professor Ammash, excerpt part 1, reporting research on public health effects of 1991 war and embargo 6:22

2008 co-producers

Sarah Malaika, Saadia Aslam, BNimri Aziz, Aydin Baltaci

Hanan al Shaykh

author of several highly praised novels, Al Shaykh's latest book is "The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story".

During a brief visit to New York in September, Hanan visited Tahrir at WBAI and we had a long talk with her about her mother's story.

This is a short clip from our interview which you can hear on our Sept 29/09 and Oct 13/09 podcasts on this web page.
Sample 3:18

Lena Khan, film director

"A Land Called Paradise" 2007 LinkTV/onenation prize-winning film. with host Saadia Aslam

Sample 5:02

Omar Mullick

NY-based documentary photographer, interviewed by S. Malaika and S. Aslam

Sample 4:20

Nisrin Elamin

Sudan activist Elamin, working with Sudanese women worldwide to support self-help work in Darfur, came into our studio to tell us about her country. Go to our Dec 8, 2009 podcast for the full interview.

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Naomi Shihab Nye reads "Half and Half "

and talks about her latest books. With BN Aziz

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Nihad Dukhan

contemporary Arabic calligrapher/artist Nihad Dukhan talks about his training and his unique imagery.
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Sample Interview 6:51

AzizFilmReviews

Remember the films our Iranian directors gave us?
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Sample The Color of Paradise by Majid Majidi 6:08
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Sample A Time for Drunken Horses, by Bahman Ghobadi 3:46

"Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over. So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will be are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land."

"Beyond Vietnam" Speech April4, 1967 Martin Luther King, Jr."

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a poem.. a song..: "I Knew"
Sapphire Ahmed's prose poem on Ramadan
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: Qur'an Surat Al-Qadr, 'Night of Destiny'
Quranic recitation by women is as much a gift to the divine
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Book review: Ibtisam Barakat's
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
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Tahrir Team 2004 co-producers: Read about 2004 co-producers in the team page.
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