Radio Tahrir

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.

Barbara Nimri Aziz publishes her latest book..

Swimming Up the Tigris
: "It's so human. I loved the poems, the images, the anecdotes. They're heartbreaking. You want to hug these people. They will survive, and they will rebuild. We have to believe in that."
Etel Adnan: poet, essayist, artist.; "Barbara Nimri Aziz has written a must-read book which puts a human face on an Iraqi people dehumanized by simplistic, misleading and inaccurate media accounts before, during and after America's illegitimate invasion and occupation of their homeland."
Scott Ritter, chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq (1991-1998); Purchase this book from Amazon.com

Distancing Himself from Muslims; No Leader

: July 20, 2008
Barak Obama has leadership qualities no doubt, at least he possesses political qualities—the qualities that propel men into leadership positions. He is unarguably charismatic. Still, doubts arise about whether we can trust this man.
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Voices of Iraq

: AbdulAmeer Alwan, Iraq2; Kerbala street in my hometown, 2000 (charcoal) and Palm Grove, south Iraq (watercolor)

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Features

: Shahram Shiva; Rumi interpreter and translator Shahram Shiva talks about the Sufi poet and performs Rumi with music. Sample Shahram Shiva in conversation with BN Aziz 6:42
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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
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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..: "I Wash My Body in Beirut"
Summer, 2006 from Lebanon, by performance artist Andrea Assaf
See poems and songs list
: Qur'an Surat Al-Laila
from 'Approaching the Qur'an' CD, male reciter
See audio list
Book review: Diane Rehm's
Finding My Voice
reviewed by BN Aziz.
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Tahrir Team Maysoon Zayid: Read about Maysoon Zayid in the team page.
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