Forthcoming

March 16 Tahrir 7-8 pm  From our archives-- memorial to Iraqi artist Laila Al-Attar. And new author interviews. Host B Aziz and Saly Sharif.

March 9, Abdellah Adhami's commentary on Islam, Pt 2. From Occupied Palestine-- cultural aspects of genocide practiced by the Israeli state, with attorney Dima Khalidi. Syrian communications project by Bara'a Khadra, Damascus. podcast forthcoming

podcast forthcoming March 2 Tahrir reviews "Inside Islam" a recent film by Michael Wolfe. Abdellah Adhami commentary Pt 1: Islamic ways of living (recorded in Syria). Sam Anderson on Malcolm X

Tahrir and WBAI thanks all our supporters for their matching grants and pledges.Special thanks to ICLI, American Muslims for Palestine, and friends in Elizabeth, NJ.

podcast Jan 26 Sudan Music Special. Visiting Sudanese musicians in- studio. Producers BN Aziz and Dawn Elder.

podcast Jan. 19. Activist and former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad on solitary with Palestine. IMAN, InnerCity Muslim Action Network  Sally Sarif book review. Host Sarah Malaika.

Podcast:Jan. 5, 2010 Sociologist Marnia Lazreg talks  about her book "Questioning the Veil". Egyptian filmmaker Khaled El-Hagar at NYC African Diaspora Film Festival. Host BN Aziz.

Podcast Dec 29 Prof. Walid Khalidi on "The Status of Jerusalem"; Rhonda Sharif, basketball star, with Sally Sharif. 

Podcast Dec 22 Amir Parsa, Iranian American author of "Drive-by Cannibalism" in the Baroque  Tradition" with S Malaika. "Facing the Veil"-- produced by Reem Nasr.

Podcast Dec 15: HipHop artist Shadia Mansour (II). Lea Khayata reviews Raja Shehadeh's "Palestinian Walks"; notes on deTocqueville in Algeria with Simone Fattal.
 Podcast Dec. 1 Paul Nassar, Forensic psychiatrist on  PTSD dangers for health professionals. Mai Helwa of Syrian Radio (in Arabic). Children's author Elsa Marston Harik. 

Nov 24 podcast Palestinian HipHop Artist Shadia Mansour (Part I); New higher education policies in Syria with Zuheir Jennan.

Nov 10 podcast. Host Sarah Malaika talks with Iranian musician Hafez Nazeri. Hassen Abdellah and Steven Salaita on the Fort Hood shootings. 

Oct 13 podcast Part II of Hanan AlShaykh interview; our final segment on journalism in Algeria with Abdellah Guettaf (Arabic with English voiceover)

Sept 29 podcast  Author Hanan AlShaykh interview part I. Syrian student productions from Damascus. Sept 22: Dr. Amal Dakak, broadcaster and sociologist; Reem Nasr interviews Zeba Iqbal on American Muslims professionals.

September 15, 2009 Jordanian journalist Rana Husseini talks about her book on crimes against women.
New voices from Damascus, Syria.

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

See Tahrir's series on Arabic language and literature-- podcasts March 6, 13, 20 and 27, 2007.

 

"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.
  2/26/06 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)

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Tahrir Diwan

a poem.. a song..
poem "Nations Against Nations"; Arabic
poem by Elias AbuSaba

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poems
poem Qur'an Surat Al-Qaria
from 'Approaching The Qur'an' CD, reciter: Seema B. Gazi

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Book review
editor Bob Spillman's
Gods and Soldiers
reviewed by B Nimri Aziz.

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