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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.




a Poem.. a Song..

Iraqi Drum Ensemble Tahrir theme music
"We Little Ones" Children's songs, Palestinian girls; Arabic
CheeryGirlsAndBoys by children in Lebanon; Arabic
"DiliyaDi" Childen's playsong; Arabic
Popular Palestinian Vocal traditional song of The Homelands, Arabic
Poem "Daddy's Been Gone" Theater artist Andrea Assaf performs from the "Robin Monologues"
"These Words", by Lisa S. Majaj poem from the chapbook These Words
"Land Holy" by Suheir Hammad written for young Mohammed Dura, killed by Israel troops, at his father's side
Lawrence Joseph reads "August Abstract"
Rumi's "I am You" by translator and interpreter Shahram Shiva
"Soft Facism" read by novelist/poet Mohja Kahf
"I Am From" Lisa Mohammed reads "I Am From"
poem "Mish Kalem" Poet Rania Khalil reads "Mish Kalem"
"Write This" by poet Kazim Ali
"Unyieldingly" Lawrence Joseph reading
"Comply" by Zaid Shlah "Comply" from Taqsim, read by Zaid Shlah
'The Indian Never Had a Horse" Etel Adnan reading from 'The Indian Never Had A Horse'
"I Wash My Body in Beirut" Summer, 2006 from Lebanon, by performance artist Andrea Assaf
"In The Heart of the Heart of Another Country"; Interview 2 "In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country"; a passage, recorded in 2006
"Nations Against Nations"; Arabic poem by Elias AbuSaba
Darwish: "Sonnet V" read by translator Fady Joudah (English/Arabic)
"Poem for Naomi" by Marian Haddad
Iranian poet Farrokhzad Iran's leading lady poet Farrokhzad is remembered by Fatemeh Keshavarz
Friends Poet Ali Anned; Soufi popular poetry from South Algeria
"Al-Najjar" the Carpenter; Children's playsong, Arabic
"Olives and bread" by children in Lebanon; Arabic
"NajwaTil Hasiba" Children's playsong; Arabic
"The Poem of Iraq", Arabic read by Bushra Bustani, poet and Professor of Arabic Literature, Mosel University
Ali Sayed, "Oh My Southland", Arabic traditional song of South Lebanon, Arabic
"Claims", by Lisa S. Majaj from the chapbook "These Words" by Lisa S. Majaj
"My Wish", poem for South Lebanon, Arabic Umm Kayed's praise poem for the liberation of South Lebanon, Arabic
Naomi Shihab Nye reads "Return" America's award-winning poet, Naomi Shihab Nye
"The Man Who Makes Brooms" Naomi Shihab Nye reading
"Name of God" AbdalHayy Moore reads a poem for Ramadan
"Tears" Rachida Mohammedi reads from "Tears"; Arabic
"I Knew" Sapphire Ahmed's prose poem on Ramadan
"Arab Apocalypse" 'Arab Apocalypse', excerpt by the author
Poems from "Outrage" Rafia Mazari reads from her collection "Outrage"; French
"A Woman Who Reads Poetry"
"Don't Turn From Me" Poet and novelist Mohja Khaf
"Every Fourth Drop" written and read by Andrea Assaf
"Grandfather's Farm" children's playsong; Arabic
"What She Said", by Lisa Majaj A poem from Palestinian experience
Darwish: "On A Day Like Today" read by Fady Joudah from The Butterfly's Burden (2006) translated by Joudah
"We are Born with Names" by Marian Haddad
"Malfunctioning Flowtron" by Marian Haddad
"Al-Quds" by Ameer el-Shu'ara, Palestinian poet, in Arabic
"Jerusalem" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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

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