Radio Tahrir

Forthcoming

September 7, 7-8 pm on 99.5 fm. Qur'anic scholar Shaykh Abdallah Adhami discusses interfaith dialogue and the meaning of dawa. Also CAIR's campaign featuring Muslim 911 first responders; and Saadia Aslam's report on the New York Sufi Music Festival. Hosts Tamara Issak and Sarah Malaika.

see Aug 31 podcast. Helping Pakistan's flood victims, with Danish Iqbal and Kashif Akhtar. Poet Sarah Husain; Aisha Zia Khan organizer of "Remembering the Indus". Hosts Saadia Aslam and Reem Nasr.

see August 24 podcast for our review of community support for Pakistan's flood victims, and listeners' comments on plans for a downtown NYC mosque.

see July 27 podcast Author Mahmoud Ibrahim on The Dar-ul-Islam Movement: An American Odyssey Revisited, with host Sarah Malaika. Hip Hop Artist Shadia Mansour speaks with Sarah today too.

see July 20 podcast Shaykh Abdallah Adhami, Quranic scholar. Performer Laila Buck, interviewed by Tamara Issak; "Obama" poem by 'Abbas Jijan (Arabic and English)

see podcast July 13, Tahrir is political anyway you look at it. Yes or no? See current blog. Host BN Aziz and listener calls. Tamara Issak talks with Naeem Muhammad of NativeDeen.

podcast July 6. Reem Nasr and the Eid holiday campaign for NYC schools. Sunnduss Mahmoud speaks with author of "Popular Proverbs" N. Isleem. Host BN Aziz updates the case of civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart. Look for Azzawi's report on Iraqi children.

see June 29podcast Poets Samuel Hazo, Laila Halaby and Nyomi Shihab Nye. Hassen Abdellah on US Supreme Court decision on "material support".

podcast June 22 Poet Kazim Ali with his latest book Bright Felon. Betty Shabazz awardee,attorney Farhana Khera. Syrian radio broadcaster Nidaa Al-Islam Hussein.

podcast June 15, 'OK. Let's Talk about Helen Thomas', with BN Aziz and Reem Nasr

podcast May 18 Tahrir's 2 hr fund-drive special.Saadia Aslam joins Sarah Malaika, Sally Sharif and BNimri Aziz.

podcast May 11. Hassen Abdellah and Mohamed Ibn Bashir review security responses to immigration over the years, and images of those who "threaten US values", with listener call-ins.

podcast May 4. Damascus-based journalist and activist Nadia Khost interviewed by BN Aziz (Arabic/English); Spoken-word artist Kamal Imani in-studio.

podcast April 27. Celebrating national poetry month Tamara Issak with poet Gaith Adhami; readings by Dasham Brookins, Kazim Ali, Lisa Mohammed, Mohja Kahf, Bro Suleiman, Suheir Hammad, Iranian HipHop.

April 20 podcast Commentary on Islam (part 3) by Quranic scholar Shaykh Abdallah Adhami; Sudan's election with Nisrin Elamin. Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi re"No One Knows About Persian Cats" and other work.

April 13 podcast. Trumpeter/composer Amir Elsaffar. Kadir Natho on Circassian History.

April 6 podcast literary ritic/author Steven Salaita. Leila Khalil of American Muslims for Palestine (pt 2).

podcast March 30. host Hassen Abdellah, with Mohamed Ibn Bashir, discussing the government's indictments of the Michigan extremist militia group & listener call-ins.
podcast March 23. Ginan Rauf on Arab American literature since the early 20th C. More facts on Jerusalem. Mohja Kahf's poem for Brenda Moosey. American Muslims for Palestine's Leila Khalil, pt1.

podcast March 16 From our archives-- memorial to Iraqi artist Laila Al-Attar. An introduction the Carcassians by Tamara Issak.
podcast March 9. Quranic scholar Shaykh Abdellah Adhami: commentary Pt 2. From Occupied Palestine: destruction-ancient-muslim-cemetery-jerusalem">-- cultural aspects of genocide by Israel. Bara'a Khadra, Damascus.

podcast March 2 Film "Inside Islam" a by Michael Wolfe. Sahykh Abdellah Adhami commentary Pt 1: Islamic ways of living (recorded in Syria). Malcolm X comments.

podcast Jan 5, 2010 Sociologist Marnia Lazreg on "Questioning the Veil". Egyptian filmmaker Khaled El-Hagar at NYC African Diaspora Film Festival.
Podcast Dec 29 Prof. Walid Khalidi on "The Status of Jerusalem"; Rhonda Sharif, basketball star, with Sally Sharif.
Podcast Dec 22 Amir Parsa, 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". Simone Fattal on deTocqueville in Algeria.

Swimiming 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.

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
: "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
: "I Am Palestinian", by Mohja Kahf read by poet and author Mohja Kahf
: "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
: "Obama"poem (Arabic)
: "Al-Najjar" the Carpenter; Children's playsong, Arabic
: "Olives and bread" by children in Lebanon; Arabic
: "NajwaTil Hasiba" Children's playsong; Arabic
: "13%", a poem by Amal Bishara A young Palestinian woman comments on what's left of her homeland
: 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
: "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

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"The extent to which you resist is the extent to which you are free. Allah says in the Qur'an that Allah does not change the condition of a nation unless they change what is in their own selves."

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a poem.. a song..: "My Wish", poem for South Lebanon, Arabic
Umm Kayed's praise poem for the liberation of South Lebanon, Arabic
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: Qur'an Surat Al-Shams
from 'Approaching The Qur'an', CD.
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Book review: Khaled Hosseini's
The Kite Runner
reviewed by BN Aziz.
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Tahrir Team Ryme Katkhouda: Read about Ryme Katkhouda in the team page.
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