Tahrir Team

Ryme Katkhouda

Co-founder of the dcradiocoop.org and wbix.org, Ryme is executive producer of "Voices With Vision", airing Thursdays at 11am on WPFW 89.3FM in DC.

She has been a senior producer and trainer at WPFW 89.3FM since 2003 and is also national correspondent with Free Speech Radio News FSRN.org

2008 Tahrir Producers

Sarah Malaika, Saadia Aslam, BNimri Aziz, Aydin Baltaci

Sarah Malaika

Sarah Malaika studied anthropology, Middle East and museum studies in graduate school. She is an assistant producer with Tahrir after completing our intern program in radio journalism. "I joined Tahrir to be part of a creative radio voice on air." Malaika is a long-time community radio fan and has been involved in community programs for many years.

2004 co-producers

Kareem Freeman,Saadia Aslam, Rachida Mohammedi, Imran Ahmed, and BN Aziz

Aydin Baltaci

Aydin Baltaci, assistant producer, is www.RadioTahrir.org’s webmaster. He holds a B.S. from Istanbul and M.A. in Geography from Hunter College N.Y. “Tahrir offers me a refreshing, down-to-earth, yet sophisticated work atmosphere. I enjoy great colleagues while I engage in the honorable work of bringing unbiased voice to our worthy minority peoples. These are some of the things that attracted me to Radio Tahrir."

Robert E. Meyer

Meyer helped build our program web site in ,2003 and has contuinued supporting Tahrir WBAI thoughout our work and growth.

Saadia Aslam

Saadia is completing her MPS in Art Therapy at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She joined Tahrir in 2004. As a broadcast journalist, Aslam takes delight and pride in discovering voices in our Muslim communities and introducing new personalities to Radioland.

Hassen Abdellah

Hassen Abdellah joined our team as co-host in 2001. He likes to bring controversial issues on to the air and open the phones to for listener call-ins. WBAI offers a perspective not found elsewhere, he says.

A graduate of Seton Hall Law School and Bucknell U.,PA, now has his own law firm in Elizabeth, NJ. He is chairman if the board of Darul Islam Elizabeth Inc. Mosque in New Jersey.

At high school and college Br. Hassen played basketball and football and continues to follow NBA, NFL and college sports.

Dean Obeidallah

Obeidallah is a standup comedian working in many venues. Co-director with Maysoon Zayid of the successful Arab American Comedy Festival, they also hosted "Fen Meshnoon with Dean and Maysoon" on Tahrir from 2004-2006. Dean is based in NYC but travels constantly, performing and organizing festivals. See www.deanofcomedy.com.

Barbara Nimri Aziz

Dr. Barbara Nimri Aziz is an anthropologist and a print journalist as well as a broadcaster. As a student at Queen's University, Canada, Aziz was a radio producer for CFRC. She returned to broadcasting in 1989 when she took up journalism in New York. Aziz has been with Pacifica WBAI in New York for 17 years where she produces news as well as features, and co-hosts his regular weekly magazine. Based on her early interviews working with Arab and Arab American writers, Aziz founded the Radius of Arab American Writers Inc. (RAWI), a national organization. Aziz regularly visits the Arab countries on assignment. Many of the productions broadcast over WBAI are based on interviews conducted abroad. Aziz also writes for a variety of publications.

Jad Abumrad

A graduate in music composition and a Tahrir intern from 1999-2001, Jad is now host and curator of RadioLab, a weekly program on WNYC, NY.

Each episode of RadioLab is a patchwork of people, sounds, stories and experiences centered around One Big Idea. On RadioLab, science bumps into culture... information sounds like music. radiolab@wnyc.org

Lynne Stewart with our interns

Civil rights Attorney Lynne Stewart with Nazek Habatfa(l) and Mona Iskander.
www.LynneStewart.org

Maysoon Zayid

Maysoon Zayid is an actress and professional stand-up comedian. She has appeared on major TV programs and tours widely performing standup comedy.

Zayid is co-producer of The Arab American Comedy Festival in NY , now planning its 5th season. Follow her performances on www.maysoon.com

Mona Iskander

Mona Iskander is now associate producer with PBS TV, having spent two years as a producer at CNN in New York and NPR Radio.

She started her journalism career in 2002, as an intern with Radio Tahrir, WBAI New York. Iskander has a master's degree from the Columbia Journalism School.

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

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

Tahrir Podcast

Now you can listen to our programs from our podcast pages.

Radio Tahrir Podcast

Tahrir Diwan

a poem.. a song..

"The Man Who Makes Brooms"
Naomi Shihab Nye reading

See poems and songs list

Qur'an Surat Mazzamil
Huzna Majid, NJ student, reading

See audio list

Book review

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Arabic language instruction
reviewed by Ginan Rauf.

See review list

Tahrir Team

Dean Obeidallah

Read about Dean Obeidallah in the team page.

See Tahrir Team

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