Podcasts about malihe razazan

Now approaching seventy tons annually, gold has replaced cotton as Mali's leading export, turning that country into Africa's third-largest gold producer. The primary destination of artisanal gold seems to be the United Arab Emirates. By all evidence, the gold that shines in the souks of Dubai is the product of a complex web of criminal networks, terrorist groups and internationally sanctioned regimes, who use this non-industrially mined gold to launder their money. The Emirates have long been a global hub for transnational African merchants, who travel to Dubai to purchase imported goods such as Japanese-made auto parts or Chinese-made garments. Emirati authorities and commercial players are now exploiting their country's existing commercial status to make the UAE an important node for the trade in precious metals, especially gold. These buyers are actively financing associates in Mali and throughout the Sahel and Sahara regions, driving the expansion of artisanal mining into new areas." Malihe Razazan speaks with Bruce Whitehouse about the reasons why Mali is emerging as the main production hub for Sahelian countries and why Dubai is the number one destination for artisanal gold trade.

Last September, Mahsa-Jina Amini, a twenty-two-year-old woman from the Kurdish region of Iran, died while in the custody of Iran's notorious "morality police." During the funeral in her hometown of Saghez, which was to become the epicenter of the nationwide protests in Iran, women took off their headscarves, chanting ‘Women Life Freedom', a slogan which became an iconic chant both within Iran and beyond. Images of young women protesters openly taking off their headscarves and burning them sent the unmistakable message to the ruling clerics that they could no longer impose their draconian and nonsensical laws on women and girls in Iran. Throughout the country, in the schools, universities, and streets young people became the leaders of protests calling for an end to the oxymoronic "Islamic republic.“ But, as predicted, the brutality employed by the regime's security apparatus to suppress the protests at any cost took on epic proportions. Over 500 protesters have reportedly been killed so far, including 70 children. In addition, to this day four protesters have been executed by the state, with many more also facing the death sentence. Hundreds of protesters were also blinded by Metal Pellets and Rubber Bullets. Furthermore, over the past six months, human rights organizations have documented the pervasive use of torture and abuse of detained protestors. A newly released report by Amnesty International, for example, reveals that the Iranian authorities have, among other torture methods, used sexual violence against imprisoned children. Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Diana Eltahawy, has said that "Iran's violence against children exposes a deliberate strategy to crush the vibrant spirit of the country's youth and stop them from demanding freedom and human rights.” Professor Shahrzad Mojab, who is our guest today, says that much of the push for the current protests has come from young people, who are more aware than previous generations of women's issues thanks to social media. "They have their own powerful reason for wanting a change of regime: a desire for a better future." Professor Shahrzad Mojab is a scholar, teacher, and activist, and she's internationally known for her work on the impacts of war, displacement, and violence upon women's learning and education. Malihe Razazan spoke with her about the protest movement, the islamization of the education system as well as the role of young women in the protests, and started by asking her to talk about the genesis of the slogan "Women Life Freedom," and how it encapsulates the spirit and objectives of the protests in Iran.

In August 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an act expanding benefits and healthcare to U.S. veterans exposed to toxins in burn pits. But what about Iraqi exposure to burn pits? Kali Rubaii's research addresses their longterm diffuse exposure at all stages of their life, with effects that are varied and widespread. Rubaii has worked closely with Iraqi families since 2009, leading a team of doctors, epidemiologists and activists to conduct a case control study among families experiencing birth defects that may be linked to burn pits and bombings. In this interview, she speaks with Malihe Razazan about her work. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA). ---- Kali Rubaii earned her PhD in Anthropology from University of California, Santa Cruz and her BA in International Relations from University of California, Davis. Specialization: displacement, ecologies of war, spatial politics, forensic ethnography, health justice, Middle East. Kali Rubaii is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University, interested in sharpening resistance strategies that target the vulnerable nexus between coercive power and the physical world. Her research explores the environmental impacts of less-than-lethal militarism, and how military projects (re)arrange political ecologies in the name of “letting live.” Her book project, Counter-resurgency, examines how farmers in Anbar, Iraq struggle to survive and recover from transnational counterinsurgency projects. She is currently conducting fieldwork for two ethnographic projects: Taking toxicity as an analytic for material politics, she is working with a team of doctors, epidemiologists, and environmental activists to document the links between the epidemic of birth defects in Fallujah and military environmental damage. She is also researching the corporate-military enterprise of concrete production in post-invasion Iraq and how it enforces global regimes of class and citizenship.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in facial recognition, surveillance tools and internet technology to monitor the Iranian population, block or slow down the internet, suppress dissent and cover up the regime's widespread violent suppression of recent protests. Amir Rashidi spoke with Malihe Razazan about this subject. Amir Rashidi is an internet security and digital rights researcher. He has over 10 years of experience in digital security and rights in Iran. Rashidi is an expert on Iranian Internet censorship, cyber-attacks, and security trends. He has conducted tens of digital security audits, trainings, and rapid response actions for Iranian human rights defenders and organizations. He is in a unique position to assess the security risks and needs of Iranian organizations, especially those who are in contact with at-risk people, such as activists and journalists. Rashidi worked as the internet security and digital rights researcher at the Center for Human Rights in Iran, where he conducts in-depth research, data collection and analysis on internet security and access in Iran, internet policy and infrastructure, and the tools and methods of state-sponsored censorship and hacking. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA). 

On March 1, the Israeli Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing 4 Palestinian families slated for eviction in East Jerusalem to stay in their homes for now. What is the significance of this ruling? Jerusalem-based Palestinian activist Amany Khalifa speaks with Malihe Razazan about Israel's forced expulsion of Palestinians from Jerusalem and the south. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA).

From 2011 on, Professor Natasha Iskandar documented labor practices on Qatari construction sites. In her new book, "Does Skill Make Us Human? Migrant Workers in 21st Century Qatar and Beyond," Prof. Iskandar explores how migrants are recruited, trained and used. Listen to the second part of her conversation with VOMENA host Malihe Razazan.  Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA)

From 2011 on, Professor Natasha Iskandar documented labor practices on Qatari construction sites. In her new book, "Does Skill Make Us Human? Migrant Workers in 21st Century Qatar and Beyond," Prof. Iskandar explores how migrants are recruited, trained and used. Listen to the first part of her conversation with VOMENA host Malihe Razazan.  Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA).

**Boycott, is screened on this year's DocLands on Sunday, May 8 at 4 PM at SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER in San Rafael- For more information please visit, doclands.com** The freedom to refuse to buy a product at any time from anyone you want, which has historically been used by oppressed minorities throughout the world, witness the bus boycotts of the 50s, the grape boycotts of the 60s or the anti-Apartheid campaign of the 80s, is now at the heart of the struggle for Palestinian rights. The new documentary film "Boycott," examines the heroic plight of three individual Americans in three different states who rejected the dictate of anti-BDS laws surreptitiously passed by 31 states of the union, challenged that ban in court and prevailed in the head. BOYCOTT chronicles the stories of three everyday Americans -- a speech pathologist, a public defender, and a newspaper publisher -- who take the extraordinary step of suing their states after new laws require them to sign a pledge saying they won't participate in boycotts of Israel in order to receive a government contract. VOMENA's Khalil Bendib spoke with the film's producer Suhad Babaa. Palestinian American journalist Laura Albast says the media must stop giving reign to Israeli aggression & begin telling the full story of Palestine. Recently- Ms Albast and Cat Knar coauthored an opinion piece in the Washington Post on the biased & inaccurate coverage of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine- they write, we have seen the same patterns over and over again in media coverage of Palestine. Palestinians are not killed; we simply die. When Israeli forces raid our neighborhoods in the middle of the night, bomb our children, demolish our homes, colonize our land and kill our people, we are somehow equal instigators. Media descriptions regularly imply a false symmetry between occupier and occupied, propping up anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic narratives that blame the Palestinian people for Israeli aggression.” Malihe Razazan spoke with Laura about the media coverage of Palestine in the US media and Why the media fails to cover Palestine with accuracy and empathy. Laura Albast, a Palestinian American journalist and translator, is senior editor of digital strategy and communications at the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA.

On August 10th 2021, Hamid Nouri, a former prosecutor in Iran, went on trial in Sweden for his alleged role in the executions of thousands of political prisoners in Iran in 1988. The historic trial against Nouri, will hear testimonies from dozens of witnesses and it will be the first time that one of the worst crimes of the past 40 years in Iran will be examined in a court of law. In July 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran agreed to bring an end to the brutal eight-year war with Iraq. Over the next two months, under the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, political prisoners around the country were secretly brought before a tribunal panel that would later become known as the Death Commission. Thousands of men and women were condemned to death, and many buried in mass graves in Khavaran Cemetery in the vicinity of Tehran. Through eyewitness accounts of survivors, research by scholars and memories of children and spouses of the deceased, Nasser Mohajer's new book "Voices of a Massacre," reconstructs the events of that bloody summer, which has still not officially acknowledged by the Iranian government. VOMENA host Malihe Razazan spoke with Nasser Mohajer about The 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners, the significance of Hamid Nouri and the charges against him.

Since its occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in 1967, Israel has practiced a policy of Jewish-only settlement expansion over Palestinian land. A land that the International Community designated as the territory of a future Palestinian State. Jewish-only settlements constitute a violation of international law and international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention, but they have remained a stable policy of consecutive Israeli right-wing and left-wing governments. Even with the upheaval inside Israeli politics, the Israeli cabinet still had the time to green-light the construction of over 500 new settlement units in the Bethlehem region, in May. And as protest and legal challenges to forced evictions, of Palestinian families, continue in East Jerusalem, we take a look at the the American non-profits supporting Israeli settler expansion in the occupied territories. Mira Nabulsi speaks with journalist Alex Kane. He is a contributing writer for Jewish Currents and +972 Magazine. His work has also appeared in The Intercept, Vice, In These Times, Al Jazeera and more. In the second half of the show, Malihe Razazan speaks with Palestinian director Farah Nabulsi about her recent film "the Present". The Present was nominated for this year's Academy Award for best live action short film and won the BAFTA Award for best short film.

In conversation with Malihe Razazan, Gianfranco Rosi discusses his film "Notturno" (2020) which was shot over a 3 year period along the borders between Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon, giving voice to a human drama that transcends geographical divisions and time. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa (VOMENA).

Malihe Razazan spoke with Kali Rubaii, an assistant professor of anthropology at Purdue University, about the toxic legacy of the war in Iraq and the underlying reasons for the high rates of birth defects in the city of Fallujah

عربي تحت Malihe Razazan spoke to Human Rights Watch (HRW) Iran Researcher Tara Sepehri Far about Nasrin Sotoudeh's hunger strike and the criminalization of peaceful protests in Iran. Sotoudeh is an Iranian human rights lawyer, who was arrested in 2010 and started her second hunger strike this year in August to protest the inhumane treatment of Iranian political prisoners during the COVID pandemic. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa (VOMENA). أسباب إضراب نسرين ستوده عن الطعام احتجاجاً على ظروف السجن الرهيبة في إيران تحدثت مليحة رزازان إلى الباحثة الإيرانية في منظمة هيومن رايتس ووتش تارا سبهري فار حول إضراب نسرين ستوده عن الطعام وتجريم الاحتجاجات السلمية في إيران. ونسرين ستوده محامية إيرانية في مجال حقوق الإنسان كانت قد اعتقلت في عام 2010 وبدأت إضرابها الثاني عن الطعام هذا العام في أغسطس احتجاجاً على المعاملة اللاإنسانية للسجناء السياسيين الإيرانيين خلال جائحة كورونا

Renewable, clean sources such as solar and wind energy have become an important part combatting the climate crisis and its impacts, but can we divorce the environmentally friendly technologies from the conditions under which these are developed and implemented? And what happens when renewable energy development becomes synonymous with colonial expansion and political repression? Israel’s feverish plans to build the largest onshore wind farm in the occupied Golan Heights are a good example of why the conversation about a decarbonized economy may not be abstracted from considering prevailing power structures and systems of oppression including colonialism. Malihe Razazan spoke with Muna Dajani and Wael Tarabieh, an activist and co-founder of Al-Marsad | The Arab Centre for Human Rights in the Golan Heights, which is an independent, not-for-profit international human rights organization located in Majdal Shams, in the Occupied Syrian Golan. The center was founded in October 2003 by a group of lawyers and professionals in the fields of law, health, education, journalism and engineering, along with human rights defenders and other interested community members. Muna Dajani holds a PhD from the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. Her PhD research aimed to examine the distinctive livelihood practices by which water use and farming acquire political subjectivity in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and Al Battuf Valley in the Galilee. She is now the Research Officer in a collaboration project between Birzeit University and LSE entitled ‘Mapping Memories of Resistance: the untold story of the occupation of the Golan Heights’ Wael Tarabieh, the co-founder of al-Marsad, The Arab Centre for Human Rights in the Golan Heights is an independent, not-for-profit international human rights organisation located in Majdal Shams, in the Occupied Syrian Golan. The centre was founded in October 2003 by a group of lawyers and professionals in the fields of law, health, education, journalism and engineering, along with human rights defenders and other interested community members.

In this interview, which is featured as a part of the launch of the new Jadaliyya Environment page, Malihe Razazan speaks to four of the page's co-editors: Danya Al-Saleh, Brittany Cook, Huma Gupta, and Owain Lawson. They discuss critical approaches to covering the environment, what the new Jadaliyya page seeks to contribute to these conversations, and the need to decolonize our analysis of the environment, energy, and climate change.

Last May, Donald Trump unilaterally violated the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran, the United States, and 5 other world powers, and followed this up by reimposing harsh economic, trade and financial sanctions against Iran- Back in July of 2015 Iran, the US, along with Russia, China, and the European Union had agreed to a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA.) Under this agreement, Iran would be protected from economic sanctions in exchange for accepting to subject its nuclear research program to international inspections. This agreement was widely seen as a crowning achievement of former President Barack Obama’s foreign policy but was vociferously opposed by Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Zionist forces and their allies in the US. Once in power, the Trump administration decided to violate and terminate this hard-won accord, calling it a “bad deal” and it has since ramped up a new “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, a maneuver aiming to strangulate Iran’s economy which now extends as far as bribing Iranian tanker captains to surrender control of their ships to the US. With so much attention given to the war of nerves between Iran and the US, how are the US’s back-breaking sanctions impacting the Iranian population and the Iranian economy in general? To get some clarity on these issues, Malihe Razazan spoke with Iran expert and journalist at the NY Times, Farnaz Fassihi.

In the summer of 1988, thousands of political prisoners were systematically executed in Iran. The killings were horrific, not only in scale, but this was done in total secrecy. To this day, the Iranian regime has never openly acknowledged these executions. In this interview, VOMENA host and producer Malihe Razazan speaks with Iranian historian Nasser Mohajer, who researched and documented the horrific events of the summer of 1988, which are also the subject of his upcoming book, "Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988." Courtesy of VOMENA.

Malihe Razazan of VOMENA speaks with attorney Zoha Khalili from Palestine Legal about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's proposed resolution to protect the right to boycott. This comes after the US House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution condemning the BDS movement.

On March 29th The Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State will bring together academics, researchers, artists, and filmmakers from seven countries, for a 2-day conference titled "Forty Years & More: International Conference on Iranian Diaspora Studies" The conference will mark the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution by understanding the ways that Iranians as exiles, immigrants, and as second and third generation hyphenated citizens of their respective nations, have met with both challenges and opportunities of diaspora experience. Malihe Razazan spoke with Dr. Persis Karim, director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State about the upcoming conference and the significance of recognizing and understanding the Iranian diaspora

[Courtesy of Voices of Middle East and North Africa, VOMENA] VOMENA host Malihe Razazan speaks with award-winning Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki about her latest film, Capernaum (@capharnaumfilm). Capernaum won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 and is nominated for the 2019 Academy Awards, in the foreign language film category.

Award-winning journalist Rania Abu Zeid has made countless trips inside Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Washington, and several European towns and cities to cover the Syrian uprising and the deadly civil and proxy war that ensued and destroyed tens of millions of lives. Rania Abouzeid joins Status and VOMENA host Malihe Razazan to talk about her new book, "No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria". Interviewed by Malihe Razazan | June 22nd, 2018 Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa.

On today's show, Shahram Aghamir speaks with Erdem Yörük, a sociologist at Koç University in Turkey about workers' rights and safety in Turkey. On May 13th, Turkey witnessed what has been characterized as the deadliest mining accident in Turkish modern history. This tragedy has raised questions about the impact of neo-liberal and privatization policies of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its far reaching impact on the lives of millions of workers in Turkey. Later in the program, Malihe Razazan hosts a conversation with John Lee, Associate Professor of history at UC Santa Barbara and Dr. Jaleh Niazi of HistoryAdvocates, about a new campagin to bring radical change in the way ancient Persian civilization is being taught in K-12 public education.  The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – ” Coal mine tragedy in Turkey and correcting ancient Persian history in schools” appeared first on KPFA.

  Host Khalil Bendib speaks with Ali Abunimah, co-founder and director of The Electronic Intifada about his new book, “The Battle for Justice in Palestine” We'll ask him about the movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel and the future of Palestine. Later in the program, Malihe Razazan interviews Rachel Rosen, director of programming at the San Francisco International Film Festival about the annual festival, which will start on April 24th and it will run throughMay 5th. This year's festival will feature 168 films, including 74 Narrative Features, 29 Documentaries, and a number of world and U.S. Premieres, including a number of films from the Middle East and North Africa.   The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – “The Battle for Justice in Palestine and the San Francisco International Film Festival” appeared first on KPFA.

  The famous Dead Sea, a salt lake between Jordan and the occupied West Bank and present-day Israel, has been shrinking at the alarming rate of 1.5 meters a year in recent decades. So why is the Dead Sea dying? Malihe Razazan talks to Palestinian enviromentalist, Muna Dajani, about the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project, a 10 billion dollar program attempting to revive the Dead Sea, sponsored by the World Bank. Later in the program, we will mark the 11th anniversary of the war Iraq with Sinan Antoon reading from his book of poems, Baghdad Blues.   The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – Why is the Dead Sea Dying? appeared first on KPFA.

Historian Illan Pappe gives a lecture about the fallacy of the two state solution in resolving Israel/Palestine conflict. Later in the program, host Khalil Bendib speaks with Dr. Abdul Jabar and student Ashley Suarez to discuss the future of Middle East Studies at San Francisco City College. Malihe Razazan interviews Musa Syeed about his short film showing at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – “The Fallacy for Peace between Israel and Palestine; Saving San Francisco City College; and Yemeni short film at Sundance” appeared first on KPFA.

Nearly three years after the fall of Mubarak, with the deep state and the military openly back in control, Egypt seems to have come full circle. How did that happen and what is the situation on the ground really like, as Egyptians go to the polls again to vote on a new proposed constitution? Vomena's Khalil Bendib speaks with Egyptian activist, blogger and journalist, Hossam el-Hamalawy. Selma Debbage says she wanted to write a contemporary novel about the Palestinian struggle that considered what it meant for individuals to have to, on a daily basis, constantly weigh up the competing demands of the Palestinian cause and society, on the one hand, and their own individual wishes and desires on the other. “ I wanted to present a state of war, a state of being, a state of pressure, of siege.” Malihe Razazan speaks with Selam about her background shaped who she is today and how it has influenced her writing. Selam Dabbagh is the author of Out of It. The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa:”Egypt: Three years later; witing on Palestine” – January 15, 2014 appeared first on KPFA.

Two and half years after its birth, the world's youngest nation state South Sudan is engulfed in a crisis. Professor Khaled Medani speaks with Shahram Aghamir about the armed conflict in South Sudan and Malihe Razazan speaks with acclaimed novelist, Selma Dabbagh about her debut novel ” Out of It” The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa-“Turmoil in South Sudan and a conversation with British-Palestinian auhtor, Selma Dabbagh” – January 8, 2014 appeared first on KPFA.

Tomorrow Marks the 16th anniversary of the Abu Salim Prison massacre in Libya when, on june 28th 1996, more than 1,200 prisoners were shot and killed. Malihe Razazan speaks with veteran british journalist Lindsy Hilsum about her reporting from Libya and her new book, Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution.  Middle East Children Alliance's associate director Ziad Abbas talks about Israel's plans to demolish the entire estrinian village of Susya in the West Bank.   The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – June 27, 2012 appeared first on KPFA.

In this week's program, we discuss the wave of protests that has been shaking Syria since the middle of March. Shahram Aghamir speaks with Professor Bassam Haddad. Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program at George-Mason University and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University. He also serves on the Editorial Committee of Middle East Report http://merip.org/ and is Co-Founder of Jadaliyya Ezine. http://www.jadaliyya.com    Later in the program, Malihe Razazan will have a conversation with Ali Samadi Ahadi about his powerful documentary, The Green Wave, which narrates Iran's 2009 post presidential election protests and the regime's brutal crackdown. The Green Wave will be screened in the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival that is being held April 21- May 5. http://fest11.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=38 The post Voices of the Mideast and North Africa – April 20, 2011 appeared first on KPFA.

In this week's program, we remember Juliano Mer Khamis, leading Palestinian rights activist, actor, filmmaker and Artistic Director of Freedom Theater in Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West bank. He was shot by unknown assailants in Jenin on Monday, April 4, as he was leaving the theatre.  We bring you a conversation that U.C. Berkeley History Professor Beshara Doumani had with Juliano Mer Khamis about his award-winning documentary Arna's Children. Also, Malihe Razazan talks to Nabeel Al Raee, Director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, where he worked closely with Juliano Mer Khamis for many years.  Later in the program, Khalil Bendib speaks with Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri who are among more than 1000 artists calling for a boycott of the $800 million Guggenheim Museum being built in Abu Dhabi over the rights of migrant workers at the constructions site.  Check out Voices of the Middle East & North Africa on Facebook and become a fan of the program. You can also visit our blog http://vomena.org/blog/ to listen to past programs and share your thoughts with us. We look forward to reading your comments. The post Voices of the Mideast and N Africa – April 6, 2011 appeared first on KPFA.

Malihe Razazan speaks with Tunisian filmmaker Kolthoum Bornaz about the current uprising as well as her film, The Other Half of the Sky. And Kate Raphael talks to doulas Kathy Woo, Cindy Whitman-Bradley and Desiree Tamsky about this emerging area of women's health. We also fill you in on the crisis at Lyon-Martin clinic and let you know about great events for women in the coming week.     The post Women's Magazine – January 31, 2011 appeared first on KPFA.

In tonight's program, Khalil Bendib speaks with Director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies and Birzeit University Professor of sociology Salim Tamari http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=68 about an essay published in the Jerusalem quarterly titled "Jerusalem's Ottoman modernity," in which he depicts a very different Jerusalem around the turn of the 20th century than the one we are familiar with today. http://www.jerusalemquarterly.org/ViewArticle.aspx?id=218 Later in the program, Malihe Razazan speaks with Hadani Ditmars, a co-editor of New Internationalist, who went to Iraq in February of this year to explore whatever is left of the art in post-invasion Iraq. http://www.hadaniditmars.com You can visit our blog http://vomena.org/blog/ to listen to past programs and share your thoughts with us. We look forward to reading your comments.   The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – Jerusalem, a modern history; also, in search of Iraq's artistic life appeared first on KPFA.

This is a podcast from KPFA's "Cover to Cover: Open Book" hosted by Malihe Razazan (who usually hosts KPFA in Berkeley's weekly show "Voices of the Middle East & North Africa"), in which she interviews Levantine Review's film editor, Omid Arabian. Omid wrote a critical review of "The Hurt Locker" published in the January 2010 issue of Levantine Review, which takes other critics to task for suspending acumen about the root causes and results of the U.S. war on, and occupation of, Iraq.

In tonight's program, Malihe Razazan speaks with Hossam el Hamalawy, an Egyptian journalist and an activist, about the nearly completed underground wall between Gaza and Egypt. Later in the program, Shuka Kalantari will speak with Austin Heap, a Bay Area based technologist, about how he created a software program designed to provide unfiltered Internet access to the people of Iran by targeting the Iranian government's Internet filtering systems.  You can visit our blog http://vomena.org/blog/ to listen to past programs and share your thoughts with us. We look forward to reading your comments.   The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – The wall between Gaza & Egypt; unfiltered Internet access for Iranians! appeared first on KPFA.

Women's Magazine  will look at the struggle of Women in Iran.    We will talk with York University Sociologist, Haideh Moghissi about the Iranian women's struggle for Equality in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution, the challenges they have faced and the strategies they have devised to reform the discriminatory laws against women.   And we will talk to  Malihe Razazan of KPFA's voices of the Middle East and North Africa  about  women's roles in the ongoing mass protests challenging the outcome of June 12th presidential election that handed president Ahmadinejad a second term. And we will hear Jovelyn's World, the Women's Community Calendar and information about the upcoming LSB election. The post Women´s Magazine – June 29, 2009 appeared first on KPFA.

In this week's program, we take you to Tehran and Paris to get a sense of the unfolding political situation in Iran in the aftermath of the presidential election in that country. Following an official announcement by Iran's interior ministry declaring incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner of the presidential election, millions of disaffected Iranians spontaneously poured into the streets of Tehran and other major Iranian cities to protest the result of this election. Since Saturday, June 13, these protests have gone on unabated. Malihe Razazan speaks to Sohrab. He is one of those hundreds of thousands of Iranians who participated in a historic march on June 15.  He talks about his observations and his reactions to the contested election results. Later in the program, Shahram Aghamir will be in conversation Paris-based long-term activist and journalist Nasser Mohajer who will offer his understanding of these events. Also, in the program, Khalil Bendib will talk with SC Mocha about the music and activism of his France-based musical band Checkpoint 303, which will be coming to the Bay Area this week for a couple of concerts. Make sure that you visit our updated blog vomena.org/blog and share you thoughts with us. We look forward to reading your comments.   The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – Iran: Defiance and Unrest following the election; Musical Band Checkpoint 303 appeared first on KPFA.

In Tonight's program, on the occasion of May 1st, International Workers Day, U.C. Berkeley History Professor Beshara Doumani will be in conversation with Leila Farsakh, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  She is the author of Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel. http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/polisci/faculty/farsakh.html Later in the program, Khalil Bendib talks with young Pakistani-American playwright Wahajat Ali and his producer and Pre-eminent African American literary figure, Ishmael Reed, about the play The Domestic Crusaders.   Also, Malihe Razazan speaks with the Arab Film Festival's Executive Director, Michel Shehade, about the May 7th screening of “Salt of This Sea”, a sneak preview benefit for the 13th Annual Arab Film Festival. The screening will be at 7 PM at California Theater located at 2113 Kittredge Street in Berkeley. http://aff.org/ Make sure that you visit our updated blog http://vomena.org/blog/ and share you thoughts with us. We look forward to reading your comments.   The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – Plaestinian Labor; The Arab Film Festival Benefit; The Dmestic Crusaders appeared first on KPFA.

As part of KPFA's daylong celebration of International Women's Day, Women's Magazine presents the history of IWD. Feminist historian Eileen Boris speaks about the origins in U.S. working women's strikes in the early 1900s and its anti-war role during WW I; veteran activists Aileen Hernandez and Judith Mirkinson reflect on IWD's resurgence during the second wave of feminism in the sixties and seventies; Malihe Razazan presents a documentary on feminist protests following the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979.   The post Women's Magazine Special – The history of International Women's Day appeared first on KPFA.

In tonight's program, we will continue our discussion of the shifts in representation, the practices and discourse of federal government and other national institutions, as well as the supposed move from invisibility to visibility of the Arab American community. Tonight's guests Nadine Naber and Evelyn Al-Sultany will be in conversation with Dr. Zeina Zaatari.  Nadine Naber is Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women's Studies at University of Michigan. She co-edited along with Amaney Jamal the recently published book “Race and Arab Americans before and after 9/11: from invisible citizens to visible subjects.” http://141.211.177.75/ac/ac_detail/0,2416,13694%255Fpeople%255F81810,00.html  Evelyn Al-Sultany is an Assistant Professor in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her article entitled “The Primetime Plight of Arab-Muslim-Americans Post-9/11: Configurations of Race and Nation in TV Dramas is published in the book “Race and Arab Americans before and after 9/11.” http://141.211.177.75/ac/ac_detail/0,2416,13694%255Fpeople%255F114490,00.html Later in the program, Malihe Razazan will talk to talented Palestinian musician Kamilya Jubran about her like and her career http://www.kamilyajubran.com/ The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – Representation of Arab Americans in the U.S. – December 10, 2008 at 7:00pm appeared first on KPFA.

We look at the new asexuality movement that is coming out of the closet and making radical challenges to the compulsory sexuality of hypersexual culture. Malihe Razazan talks with Professor Nadje Al Ali about the History of Women's Movement in Iraq, and the conditions of women under sanctions and US occupation. Dr. Nadje Al-Ali is the author of "Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present" The post Women's Magazine – March 17, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.