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.



Voices of Iraq

Environmental Ruin in Iraq by BN Aziz
Dr. Aliya Sousa
Dr. Aliya Sousa was the daughter and biographer of the remarkable and prolific Iraqi author, researcher, engineer and hydrologist, Dr. Ahmed Sousa (1900-1983).
In this 1999 interview in Baghdad, she recalls his early life. Aliya Sousa perished in the bombing of the UN office in Baghdad, August 19, 2003.
sound Sample Aliya Sousa speaks about her father Dr. Ahmed Sousa 7:29
sound Sample Pt 2, reviewing Sousa's research in irrigation 5:43
Doni George
Director of Documentation, Iraq National Museum.
Iraqi archeologist resigns, August 2006
sound Sample Iraq's intellectual and artistic heritage 4:41
BN Aziz
audio documentary-- "Iraq:How Can I Forget?"
sound Sample 'Iraq in the Embargo War 1990-2003'-- a Tahrir audio documentary 17:30
Suad Al-Radi
Iraqi resident, Baghdad, days before the invasion
sound Sample My country, my family 7:45
Ilham AlMadfaii
Iraqi musician
sound Sample from Al-Madfaii's 1997 interview with BN Aziz, prepared by Manaslu Gurung 4:01
AbdulAmeer Alwan, Iraq2
Kerbala street in my hometown, 2000 (charcoal) and Palm Grove, south Iraq (watercolor)
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 Darwish: "On A Day Like Today" read by Fady Joudah
from The Butterfly's Burden (2006) translated by Joudah

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poems
poem Azan
Call to Prayer: reciter, Mor Dior Bamba, Senegal

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Book review
Monica Ali's
Brick Lane
reviewed by .

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Barbara Nimri Aziz
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