Forthcoming

July 7, 7-9 pm WBAI Rostam Pourzal, recently returned from Iran comments on world response to Iran's election results. And we review the NYC Council vote re Muslim holidays for city schools. Host BN Aziz

June 30: Lena Rizkallah, attorney and financial consultant, joins us to interpret number of new government initiatives, particularly tax and health issues. And Reem Nasr produces an excerpt from Ginan Rauf's review of emerging trends in Arabic literature.

June 23 podcast Miriam Said speaks about her mother's Lebanon memoir, and filmmaker Jawad Metni.

***Thanks to supporters for helping sustain WBAI through our recent crisis. Your help is essential. ***

June 2 and June 9 on Obama's Cairo speech. Apr 28-- FBI and American-Muslim organizations with Tarif Warren civil rights attorney  assessing the history, the mistakes, the future. Reen Nasr interviews MSA student activist Yasmin Husain.

April 21 podcast: Algerian journalism, a special documentary produced by BN Aziz and Reem Nasr. Then, we speak with publishers writing for the American Muslim market: April 21  Tayyibah Taylor of Azizah, and Moniza Khokhar of Elan Magazine.  April 7 Hassen Abdellah opens a discussion on Muslim burial rites and rights: guests Khadija AbdulLatif, Imam alMutazzam, Rev J. Adair and D.Sabatini.
April 14 Johnny Farraj introduces Arab Jazz fusion of Zaid Ribani and Ferouz; Deema Shehabi; Jalal Ghazi on Arab newsmedia outlets. Poet Mohja Khaf; comment on FBI intrusion of US-Muslim groups; report on NJ Muslim/ secular schooling by Reem Nasr. Women in the struggle for Sahrawi statehood, with two guests from the Western Sahara.   Poems by Dima Hilal.   An update on the Syria-US student exchange program with Rami Nuseir.

podcasts:  Filmmaker Marjan Tehrani, director of "Arusi Iranian Wedding" bridging two cultures with a wedding film..Iran and sanctions on the 30th anniversary of the revolution; Rostam Pourzal;  (Feb 3/09). Laila Hijab, strategies for Palestinian rights; Poets4Palestine with Remi Kanazi and Tahani Salah (Jan 27).  Imani Abdella and Laila Halaby reflect on Obama's Inauguration (Jan 20). Johnny Farraj's Arab music review (Jan 13). Watching Gaza with playwright Bina Sharif (Jan 06,09); "A Jihad for Love" director Parevz Sharma. (June 3, 08) "Does The Land Remember Me? by Aziz Shihab, with poet Naomi Shihab Nye. FreeGaza Movement with Ramzi Kysia.
Rolla Selbak, San Francisco-based filmmaker; director of "Making Maya" and the forthcoming "Three Veils". Interview with Iraqi journalist Nermin Al-Mufti on Kerkuk city and Iraq's sovereignty. (Dec 02 podcast)

Hear podcast of Nov 25th's  Syrian college students visiting NY and NJ live in-studio with Tahrir.

November 11, 2008 Podcast. Tahrir; A round table of young Muslims talk about President-elect Barak Obama and how they view their future under his leadership.

October 21: African Americans and the Palestinian struggle: with Mauri' Saalakhan, editor of Palestinians' Holocaust.  Part II--Dalia Mogahed co-editor of "Who Speaks for Islam?"  

October 14 Tahrir features two Iraqi women, archaeologist Selma Al-Radi and poet Lamea Abbas Amara. See podcast

Sami Al Arian is free on bail. NJ court rules in favor of Imam Qatanani in September, but the government is appealing the ruling. The fight is not over; continue your support with letters and contributions.

Also podcast: **Ramadan Discourses by Salah Al-Askari. **Tahrir Election coverage with Ray Hanania, Chicago-based journalist and NH State Rep. Saghir Tahir,  Tenor Francisco Chahin Casanova.
Playwright Jennifer Jajeh, performs  "I Heart Hamas ...", 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 212-209-2950 to pledge support for Tahrir and Peace and Justice Radio, 99.5 fm-NY.

Nov. 6, 2007  podcast: Mahmoud Darwish. "The Butterfly's Burden", with translator Fady Joudah.

Dec. 18, 2007 podcast: excerpt from poet Naomi S Nye's interview, and comments from Layla Hijab, Palestinian activist.
March 4, 2007 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." 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.
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

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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Dr. Qatanani, Imam, ICPC, NJ
Dr.Qatanani following broadcast with friends and attorney at WBAI. See WBAI.org archive March 25, 2008 7pm
Francisco Chahin Casanova

sound Sample world famous tenor shares memories from Palestine; watch for our upcoming broadcast 7:57
GAZA Bus Ad, Seattle WA

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

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
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
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
2008 co-producers
Sarah Malaika, Saadia Aslam, BNimri Aziz, AydinBaltaci
Burhan Al-Mufti, artwork1
embargo-- Flowers still grow from my bare Iraq pockets
Omar Mullick
NY-based documentary photographer, interviewed by S. Malaika and S. Aslam
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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
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
Burhan Al-Mufti, artwork2

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
Nihad Dukhan
contemporary Arabic calligrapher/artist Nihad Dukhan talks about his training and his unique imagery.
sound Sample Interview 6:51
Lena Khan, film director
"A Land Called Paradise" 2007 LinkTV/onenation prize-winning film. with host Saadia Aslam
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"I think I've been given a position and place in this world which is quite unique; … I was given the opportunity of reading the actual source, the Quran itself, without anybody forcing me or looking over my shoulder and saying, ‘What do you think?’ It was just me in my space. "The more I read the Quran, the more I realized that it was like an incredible matrix of connection with Christianity and Judaism. I mean Jesus, Moses, the religion of Abraham in this book! And I said, ‘Wow, how come I didn't know this before?’ It was kind of like a secret."
Yusuf Islam, at the time of his recent concert in the USA, May 2009

Tahrir Podcast

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Tahrir Diwan

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poem "Every Fourth Drop"
written and read by Andrea Assaf

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poems
poem "Angels"
Abdal Hayy Moore reads from 'Ramadan Sonnets'

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Book review
Parvez Sharma's
Jihad for Love
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