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.



Features

Nazik al-Mala'ika (1923-2007)

sound Sample commentary by Salma K Jayyusi 5:43
sound Sample (Pt 1) by Salih Altoma, Professor of Arabic Lit., U. Indiana 6:28
sound Sample (Pt 2) Prof. Salih Altoma speaking with Sarah Malaika 5:31
BN Aziz and N Habatfa
Audio documentary; testimonies from Palestinian lads working in the Old Jerusalem market
sound Sample "Damascus Gate 2002", Jerusalem 7:00
2008 co-producers
Sarah Malaika, Saadia Aslam, BNimri Aziz, AydinBaltaci
Burhan Al-Mufti, artwork2

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

Dr. Qatanani, Imam, ICPC, NJ
Dr.Qatanani following broadcast with friends and attorney at WBAI. See WBAI.org archive March 25, 2008 7pm
Lena Khan, film director
"A Land Called Paradise" 2007 LinkTV/onenation prize-winning film. with host Saadia Aslam
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Gamal Ghitani
Gamal Ghitani, Egyptian writer, talks about Qur'an as a reference for Arabic language with Ginan Rauf, scholar in Arabic literature
sound Sample author Gamal Ghitani with Ginan Rauf 5:41
Burhan Al-Mufti, artwork1
embargo-- Flowers still grow from my bare Iraq pockets
Francisco Chahin Casanova

sound Sample world famous tenor shares memories from Palestine; watch for our upcoming broadcast 7:57
Nihad Dukhan
contemporary Arabic calligrapher/artist Nihad Dukhan talks about his training and his unique imagery.
sound Sample Interview 6:51
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.

 sound Sample from our WBAI studio interview 6:08
AzizFilmReviews
Remember the films our Iranian directors gave us?
sound Sample The Color of Paradise by Majid Majidi 6:08
sound Sample A Time for Drunken Horses, by Bahman Ghobadi 3:46
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.
sound Sample Kamancheh virtuoso Kalhor in collaboration with Shujaat H. Khan; an excerpt from our 55 min. interview 7:30
sound Sample Kamancheh virtuoso Kalhor interview excerpt 9:30
Naomi Shihab Nye reads "Half and Half "
and talks about her latest books. With BN Aziz
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Shahram Shiva
Rumi interpreter and translator Shahram Shiva talks about the Sufi poet and performs Rumi with music.
sound Sample Shahram Shiva in conversation with BN Aziz 6:42
sound Sample by translator and interpreter Shahram Shiva 2:37
Omar Mullick
NY-based documentary photographer, interviewed by S. Malaika and S. Aslam
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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 "Land Holy" by Suheir Hammad
written for young Mohammed Dura, killed by Israel troops, at his father's side

See poems and songs list

poems
poem Ya Rabbi Mustafa
praises to the Prophet, from Nazira CD, female voices

See audio list

Book review
Diane Rehm's
Finding My Voice
reviewed by BN Aziz.

See review list

Tahrir Team

Saadia Aslam
Read about Saadia Aslam in the team page.

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