Radio Tahrir

Forthcoming

Feb 1-March 1, WBAI Winter Fund-drive. Volunteer. Pledge your support toWBAI and Tahrir with a cash donation.

Jan 31. Turkish TV dramas across the world: the history of Turkish TV serials and social/political implications, with Aydin Baltaci and B Nimri Aziz; RNasr's preview interview with Ashraf Khalil, journalist and author of Liberation Square.

Jan 10: Sex education for Muslim youth--Mohamad Ahmad and Amir Mertaban, hosts of Irvine CA’s online radio’s "Boiling Point" debate the issue.

Jan 3, “Warrantless Profiling and Surveillance”: guest attorneys Omar Mohammedi and Faiza Petel. and we review the boycott of NY mayor's interfaith breakfast.

Dec 27, 2011 Adel Iskandar reviews an extraordinary year-- "2011 across the Arab World"; and "How Does It Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America", with editor Moustafa Bayoumi.

Dec 20. Educating our children in Islamic values: Principal Amanny Khattab of Noble Academy private Muslim school, and NJ public school teacher Suada Charaf..

Dec 13 Detection tools for special needs children-- with NJ educator Wafaa Elezaby; Zaid Saleh on Egypt’s election; Tamara Barsik updates us on protests against Russia’s Olympic venue, site of Circassian oppression

Nov 29, Fencing champion Ibtihaj Muhammad joins Reem Nasr in studio, and we review disabilities afflicting Arabs in the USA.

Nov 22, Siraj Wahhaj, Brooklyn's Al-Taqwa Mosque imam and Hassen Abdellah review NY's Muslim centers.

Nov 8, 2011 New Jersey community activist Aref Assaf.

Tahrir podcasts through Oct 4, 2011 on RadioTahrir.org

Oct 4 see podcast Afghan-Americans in a NY performance; Khalil Meek of Muslim Legal Fund.

^{Sept 27 see podcast. Mohammed Ghani Hikmat ,Iraqi sculptor (1929-2011); and BN Aziz' report on her 1993 visit to Gaza at the time of the Oslo Accord (archive)}

^{Sept 20 See po}^{dcast Playwright Ismail Khalidi; Producer Reem Nasr meets Egypt's youth at Tahrir Square; and Sabra and Shatila 29 years on.}

^{Sept 6, see podcast}^{US Muslims and the law: civil rights and entrapment of Muslims by security agencies. Attorneys Asaad Siddiqi and Lamis Deek.}

Aug 30, see podcast Prophet Mohammad: a third in our series on "the prophets", with Muhammad Jaaber.

Aug 23 see podcast Tahrir archive special Ramadan children's stories, poems and people: AbdHayyMoore, Ibr.Gonzalez, Sapphire Ahmed, Somayieh Uddin, Dasham Brookins, Sharam Shiva & more.

Aug 16, no podcast available. What is halal and how halal is your Ramadan iftar? "My Halal Kitchen", and spiritual melodies of our Syrian group "Noor".

"Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story" film review in our review section.

August 9, see podcast Tell us what Ramadan means to you. Hosts Nasr and Issak open phones to listeners.

June 28 see podcast Said Arikat, correspondent for Al-Qudus. Evelyn Alsultany, curator of “Reclaiming Identity”.

June 21 see podcast. Ibrahim Jaaber and his multi-layered life as a professional athlete. And Aisha Adawiyyah, on The Betty Shabazz Program.

April 19 see podcast Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and the growing need for relaible sources on Islam; Earth Day with farmer Zaid Kurdieh Norwich Meadows Farm

March 29 see podcast.Nutrition in the Islamic tradition: dietitian Sarah Amer; Contemporary Muslim marriage services: Kamal Shaarawi,Ali Ardekani, & Zeba Iqbal.

March 22, see podcast.A New McCarthyism: reporting on Congressman King's hearings. Niloufar Talebi's "Atash Sorushan".

March 1 see podcast. Mohamed Keita, Committee to Protect Journalists discusses North African uprisings. Poet Remi Kanazi’s “Poetic Injustice: Resistance and Palestine”.

see Jan 4 podcast. Muslim charities in post 9/11 recession, with Tamara Issak. Elia Suleiman Palestinian film director

see Dec 7 podcast Palestinians under occupation: narratives from NYU's Palestine Awareness Week. And, what Islam teaches us about protecting our planet: "Green Deen" author Ibrahim Abdul-Matin.

see Nov 23 podcast. Muzammal Hussain of Wisdom in Nature (UK) a UK-based environmental movement. Beauty and food blogger Shyema Azam. And a personal experience of Eid al-Adha and Hajj.

see Oct 5 podcast. Open phones with Shaykh Abdallah Adhami.

see Aug 31 podcast. Pakistan's flood victims: with Danish Iqbal and Kashif Akhtar. Poet Sarah Husain; Aisha Zia Khan organizer of "Remembering the Indus".

see July 27 podcast Author Mahmoud Ibrahim on The Dar-ul-Islam Movement: An American Odyssey Revisited, and an interview with Hip Hop Artist Shadia Mansour

podcast June 22 Poet Kazim Ali's latest book Bright Felon. Attorney Farhana Khera. Syrian radio broadcaster Nidaa Al-Islam Hussein.

podcast April 27. Celebrating national poetry month 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; Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi re"No One Knows About Persian Cats" and other work.

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)
: "Malfunctioning Flowtron" by Marian Haddad
: "Al-Quds" by Ameer el-Shu'ara, Palestinian poet, in Arabic
: "Jerusalem" by Naomi Shihab Nye
: "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
: 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)

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Book review: Remi Kanazi's
Poetic Injustice:Writings on Resistance and Palestine
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