Radio Tahrir

Forthcoming

March 16 Tahrir 7-8 pm From our archives-- memorial to Iraqi artist Laila Al-Attar. New author interviews. Host B Aziz with Sally Sharif.

podcast forthcoming March 9, Abdellah Adhami: commentary Pt 2. From Occupied Palestine-- cultural aspects of genocide by Israel. Media production by Bara'a Khadra, Damascus.

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 Sharif book review.

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". 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 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.

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.

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
: "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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"If you form the habit of going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself...you'll always be maneuvered into a situation where you are never fighting your actual enemies, where you will find yourself fighting your own self."

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a poem.. a song..: "Comply" by Zaid Shlah
"Comply" from Taqsim, read by Zaid Shlah
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: Qur'an Surat Al-Qadr, 'Night of Destiny'
Quranic recitation by women is as much a gift to the divine
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Book review: editor Bob Spillman's
Gods and Soldiers
reviewed by B Nimri Aziz.
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Tahrir Team Robert E. Meyer: Read about Robert E. Meyer in the team page.
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