Radio Tahrir

Forthcoming

Feb 1-March 1, WBAI Winter Fund-drive. Volunteer. Pledge your support toWBAI and Tahrir with a cash donation.

Jan 31. Turkish TV dramas across the world: the history of Turkish TV serials and social/political implications, with Aydin Baltaci and B Nimri Aziz; RNasr's preview interview with Ashraf Khalil, journalist and author of Liberation Square.

Jan 10: Sex education for Muslim youth--Mohamad Ahmad and Amir Mertaban, hosts of Irvine CA’s online radio’s "Boiling Point" debate the issue.

Jan 3, “Warrantless Profiling and Surveillance”: guest attorneys Omar Mohammedi and Faiza Petel. and we review the boycott of NY mayor's interfaith breakfast.

Dec 27, 2011 Adel Iskandar reviews an extraordinary year-- "2011 across the Arab World"; and "How Does It Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America", with editor Moustafa Bayoumi.

Dec 20. Educating our children in Islamic values: Principal Amanny Khattab of Noble Academy private Muslim school, and NJ public school teacher Suada Charaf..

Dec 13 Detection tools for special needs children-- with NJ educator Wafaa Elezaby; Zaid Saleh on Egypt’s election; Tamara Barsik updates us on protests against Russia’s Olympic venue, site of Circassian oppression

Nov 29, Fencing champion Ibtihaj Muhammad joins Reem Nasr in studio, and we review disabilities afflicting Arabs in the USA.

Nov 22, Siraj Wahhaj, Brooklyn's Al-Taqwa Mosque imam and Hassen Abdellah review NY's Muslim centers.

Nov 8, 2011 New Jersey community activist Aref Assaf.

Tahrir podcasts through Oct 4, 2011 on RadioTahrir.org

Oct 4 see podcast Afghan-Americans in a NY performance; Khalil Meek of Muslim Legal Fund.

^{Sept 27 see podcast. Mohammed Ghani Hikmat ,Iraqi sculptor (1929-2011); and BN Aziz' report on her 1993 visit to Gaza at the time of the Oslo Accord (archive)}

^{Sept 20 See po}^{dcast Playwright Ismail Khalidi; Producer Reem Nasr meets Egypt's youth at Tahrir Square; and Sabra and Shatila 29 years on.}

^{Sept 6, see podcast}^{US Muslims and the law: civil rights and entrapment of Muslims by security agencies. Attorneys Asaad Siddiqi and Lamis Deek.}

Aug 30, see podcast Prophet Mohammad: a third in our series on "the prophets", with Muhammad Jaaber.

Aug 23 see podcast Tahrir archive special Ramadan children's stories, poems and people: AbdHayyMoore, Ibr.Gonzalez, Sapphire Ahmed, Somayieh Uddin, Dasham Brookins, Sharam Shiva & more.

Aug 16, no podcast available. What is halal and how halal is your Ramadan iftar? "My Halal Kitchen", and spiritual melodies of our Syrian group "Noor".

"Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story" film review in our review section.

August 9, see podcast Tell us what Ramadan means to you. Hosts Nasr and Issak open phones to listeners.

June 28 see podcast Said Arikat, correspondent for Al-Qudus. Evelyn Alsultany, curator of “Reclaiming Identity”.

June 21 see podcast. Ibrahim Jaaber and his multi-layered life as a professional athlete. And Aisha Adawiyyah, on The Betty Shabazz Program.

April 19 see podcast Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and the growing need for relaible sources on Islam; Earth Day with farmer Zaid Kurdieh Norwich Meadows Farm

March 29 see podcast.Nutrition in the Islamic tradition: dietitian Sarah Amer; Contemporary Muslim marriage services: Kamal Shaarawi,Ali Ardekani, & Zeba Iqbal.

March 22, see podcast.A New McCarthyism: reporting on Congressman King's hearings. Niloufar Talebi's "Atash Sorushan".

March 1 see podcast. Mohamed Keita, Committee to Protect Journalists discusses North African uprisings. Poet Remi Kanazi’s “Poetic Injustice: Resistance and Palestine”.

see Jan 4 podcast. Muslim charities in post 9/11 recession, with Tamara Issak. Elia Suleiman Palestinian film director

see Dec 7 podcast Palestinians under occupation: narratives from NYU's Palestine Awareness Week. And, what Islam teaches us about protecting our planet: "Green Deen" author Ibrahim Abdul-Matin.

see Nov 23 podcast. Muzammal Hussain of Wisdom in Nature (UK) a UK-based environmental movement. Beauty and food blogger Shyema Azam. And a personal experience of Eid al-Adha and Hajj.

see Oct 5 podcast. Open phones with Shaykh Abdallah Adhami.

see Aug 31 podcast. Pakistan's flood victims: with Danish Iqbal and Kashif Akhtar. Poet Sarah Husain; Aisha Zia Khan organizer of "Remembering the Indus".

see July 27 podcast Author Mahmoud Ibrahim on The Dar-ul-Islam Movement: An American Odyssey Revisited, and an interview with Hip Hop Artist Shadia Mansour

podcast June 22 Poet Kazim Ali's latest book Bright Felon. Attorney Farhana Khera. Syrian radio broadcaster Nidaa Al-Islam Hussein.

podcast April 27. Celebrating national poetry month 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; Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi re"No One Knows About Persian Cats" and other work.

Features

Burhan Al-Mufti, artwork2

Houda Ghenim

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

Saadia Aslam

Portrait of Saadia by Myrna

Lena Khan, film director

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

Sample 5:02

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

Francisco Chahin Casanova

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

BN Aziz and N Habatfa

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

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

Omar Mullick

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

Sample 4:20

Naomi Shihab Nye reads "Half and Half "

and talks about her latest books. With BN Aziz

Sample 4:31

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

Walid Khalidi

Palestinian historian Professor Khalidi addresses the United Nations on the history of Jerusalem; Nov 2009.Part 1. See our Dec. 29, 2009 podcast for the full lecture.

Sample 5:00

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

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

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

Dr. Qatanani, Imam, ICPC, NJ

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

Malcolm X

Excerpt from Malcolm AlHajj Malik Shabazz' comments in the debate "Black Muslims vs Sit-ins" with James Baldwin and head of the NAACP.

Sample 6:07

Nidaa Al-Islam Hussein

Broadcaster Nidaa Hussein talks about her work at Syria Radio and her studies at the new Open University in Damascus. Produced by BN Aziz, S. Sharif, R. Nasr

Sample 5:40

2008 co-producers

Sarah Malaika, Saadia Aslam, BNimri Aziz, Aydin Baltaci

Nihad Dukhan

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

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

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

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

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.

Sample 6:17

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

Tahrir Podcast

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

Radio 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..: "A Woman Who Reads Poetry"

See poems and songs list
: "Angels"
Abdal Hayy Moore reads from 'Ramadan Sonnets'
See audio list
Book review: Yousry Nasrallah, Director, Egypt's
Scheherazade: Tell Me A Story
reviewed by BN Aziz.
See review list
Tahrir Team Maysoon Zayid: Read about Maysoon Zayid in the team page.
See Tahrir Team

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