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April 2013
marked the 11th anniversary for Arab Voices on KPFT!
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Next Show:
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Wednesday,
May 22, 2013 |
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7
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Did you miss the last show, or the previous shows?
(click on a date
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listen to a specific show) |
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May 15, 2013  |
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Ron Sconyers
Brigadier General Sconyers is President and Chief Executive
Officer of Physicians for Peace, a global nonprofit
medical education and treatment organization serving
developing nations with unmet medical needs and scarce
resources. General Sconyers was a career military officer in
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Mohannad Mansour
Physical Therapist at Rafedia Hospital in occupied
Palestine, and is currently in Houston to further enhance
his skills as a trainer through Physicians for Peace.
He is one of two
therapists in the Burn Unit, the only one of its kind in
Palestine, serving patients from all over the West Bank. |
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We will speak live with General
Sconyers and Mr. Mansour about Physicians for Peace
and the work it does around the globe. We will also talk
about the Peace Burn Care Program and the West Bank Burn
Clinic, and hear some great stories of miracles they've
performed to reduce the suffering of so many.
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Membership Drive |
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Date: |
May 8, 2013  |
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Sahar Aziz
Associate Professor of Law at Texas Wesleyan School of Law;
President of the Egyptian American Rule of Law Association;
former Senior Policy Advisor at the Office for Civil Rights
and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security; and legal fellow at the Institute for Social
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A live discussion with professor
Aziz about the current situation in Egypt and how the
historic revolution that toppled the Mubarak regime has
changed Egypt. We will talk about some of the issues that
triggered/caused the revolution and where they stand now
such as democracy, freedom, the constitution, corruption,
and more.
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Membership Drive |
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May 1, 2013  |
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1st Segment:
Khalil AbuSharekh
Member of the
board of directors at the
Houston Palestine Film Festival, scheduled to be held in
Houston on May 10-11 & 17-18. Khalil is a practical creative
who continually raises the bar in verbal and visual
communications. He aims to create memorable films to
contribute lasting value to the good of business and
community. We will speak live with Khalil about the 7th
Annual Houston Palestine Film Festival.
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2nd Segment:
Manufacturing
Terror: The Media’s Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Problem
After the Boston Marathon bombing, journalists scrambled to
identify those responsible for the attack, and their motive.
Rolling news and online message boards were filled with
speculation, many pointing the finger at Muslims and Arabs.
Does the media reinforce anti-Arab and anti-Muslim
stereotypes? This is a special program produced by the
National Radio Project. |
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April 24, 2013  |
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Nadia Kayyali
Syrian-American and Human Rights Activist,
Legal Fellow at the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and
Executive Vice President and served as Student National
Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild. Her experiences include work at the ACLU of
Northern California, and Occupylegal.
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Lara Kiswani
Executive Director of the Arab Resource and Organizing
Center in California. She is a Palestinian raised in
California, and has been active with antiwar, Palestinian,
Arab, feminist, and student organizations. She is a
Collective member of Sunbula: Arab Feminists for Change, was
part of the Free Palestine Alliance and active in the
immigrant rights movement in Northern California.
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Civil liberties abuses, domestic
surveillance and the use of drones, racial profiling,
indefinite detentions, government spying, targeting Arabs
and Muslims in the US, and how the recent Boston events
affect these issues. |
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April 17, 2013  |
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Malek Jandali
Award-winning prolific Syrian composer and pianist, who is
recognized as a leading figure in today's piano world. His
outstanding recordings and extensive concert tours receive
abundantly glowing praise. Jandali has received numerous
awards and recognitions throughout the years, and his works
have been performed with several leading orchestras around
the world. Jandali appears frequently as a guest on numerous
national and international media outlets.
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He is the first Arab musician to
arrange the oldest music notation in the world, which was
featured in his 2008 album “Echoes from Ugarit”. He was the
recipient of the 2011 “Freedom of Expression” award in Los
Angeles for his song “Watani Ana – I am my Homeland”, as
well as his activism in the Arab Spring movement for human
rights and democracy. In 2012, he was recognized in New York
City with the Arab-American Cultural Achievement Award. His
latest album (just released) "Syria...Anthem of the Free" is
dedicated to the Syrian people in their noble quest for
freedom, dignity and human rights. |
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April 10, 2013  |
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Omar Barghouti
Palestinian researcher,
commentator, and human rights activist committed to
upholding international law and universal human rights. He
is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the
Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the
Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
(BDS) campaign against Israel. He is the author of BDS: The
Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights.
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We will listen today to
Omar Barghouti's talk about the Palestinian Civil Society
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against
Israel. Barghouti's remarks were made on February 1, 2013 at
an event in Santa Fe, New Mexico that was part of the Lannan
In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series organized by the
Lannan Foundation. Amy Goodman introduced Omar Barghouti at
that event, and we will also listen to the remarks she made. |
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April 3, 2013  |
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Dr. Stephen
Zunes
Professor of Politics and International Studies at the
University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in
Middle Eastern Studies. He is recognized as one of the
country's leading scholars on U.S. Middle East policy and on
strategic nonviolent action. He serves as a senior policy
analyst for the Foreign Policy in Focus project of the
Institute for Policy Studies, an associate editor of Peace
Review, a contributing editor of Tikkun, and chair of the
academic advisory committee for the International Center on
Nonviolent Conflict. |
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March 27, 2013  |
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1st Segment:
Rabeea Eid
A conversation with
Eid, Political Science student
at Haifa University, journalist, activist from the village
of Eilaboun and member of the National Democratic Assembly
in Israel. Rabeea
spoke up during President Obama's speech to students in
Jerusalem last week. He asked
Obama
“President Obama, did you come to make
peace or to support Israel and the Israeli occupation? How
can you be democratic and support a Jewish country? Who
killed
Rachel Corrie? Did you see the apartheid wall when you
came from Ramallah?”
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2nd Segment:
Where is the Syrian
Conflict Heading?
A special
segment from Al Jazeera English:
Inside Syria, with presenter Hazem Sika. Guests:
Yaser Tabbara;
legal advisor for the Syrian National Coalition, and the
Syrian opposition coalition in the United States;
Joshua
Landis, a Syria expert and
director of Center of the Middle East Studies, and associate
professor at the University of Oklahoma; and
Danny
Makki, the co-founder of
the Syrian Youth in Britain - a group of Syrians advocating
democratic change through dialogue. |
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March 20, 2013  |
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First, we
will listen to a short audio message from the
parents of Rachel Corrie on the 10th anniversary of the murder of their daughter.
Rachel was killed by Israel in March 2003 in the occupied Gaza Strip
in Palestine as she was trying to protest the Israeli demolition of
a Palestinian home in Rafah. |
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Raed
Jarrar
Communications Director for the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). He is an Arab
American political advocate, media analyst, and
architect. Since his immigration to the US in 2005, he
has worked on political and cultural issues pertaining
to US-Arab relationships. Given his personal and
professional experiences with issues that impact Arab
Americans, Raed is a sought after analyst who frequently
appears on English and Arabic media outlets.
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A live discussion with
Raed about Iraq and Syria as this week marks the 10th
anniversary of the US-led war on Iraq and also marks the 2nd
anniversary of the Syrian uprising, and how the events
affected both countries. We will also talk about President
Obama's current visit to the Middle East and what is
expected (if any) to come out of it. |
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March 13, 2013  |
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1st Segment:
Ten Years Later: Counting
the Costs of War in Iraq
A special report produced on March
12, 2013 by the National Radio Project: "The invasion
and occupation of Iraq defined a generation; the world’s
largest anti-war protest was followed by the 3rd longest war
in US history. 10 years later, American troops have
officially left Iraq, but the occupation and its effects
continue. On this edition, we look back at the 2003 invasion
of Iraq. For Iraqis, for the US military, and for the
anti-war movement; how have things changed? And what, if
anything, has the world learned?" |
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2nd Segment:
The 3rd Palestinian
Festival
A live conversation with
Wafa Abdin, Board Member
with the Palestinian American Cultural Center (PACC-Houston)
and one of the organizers for the
3rd Palestinian Festival about the festival scheduled to
be held March 16-17 at Jones Plaza in Downtown Houston.
This year, world-renowned Al Hanouneh folkloric dance
group will be performing live at the festival.
Last year, more than 5,000 people attended the festival. |
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March 6, 2013  |
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Laura
Nader
Professor of
Anthropology at the University of California at
Berkeley. An influential voice in contemporary
anthropology, Laura Nader’s books include Culture
and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the
West, Naked
Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power
and Knowledge , The Life of the Law, and Plunder–When
the Rule of Law is Illegal. |
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A live discussion with
professor Nader about her new book "Culture and Dignity -
Dialogues between the Middle East and the West", in which
she examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the
complex relationship between the East and the West,
revealing how cultural differences can lead to violence or a
more peaceful co-existence. |
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February 27, 2013  |
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1st Segment:
US and Iran: Can talks take
place?
A special
program produced by Al Jazeera English that looks at
tensions between the US and Iran as the US imposes more
sanctions on Iran days after offering direct negotiations.
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2nd Segment:
Palestinian Political
Prisoners
We will talk
about Arafat Jaradat, Palestinian Political Prisoner who was
tortured to death in Israeli interrogation facility, and
also listen to an interview conducted few months ago by Arab
Voices with
Sahar Francis,
Director of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights
Association based in Ramallah, occupied Palestine, who is
also a Human Rights Lawyer and lives in Ramallah. The
interview was about the thousands of Palestinian political
prisoners held in Israeli jails. |
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February 20, 2013  |
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Philip
Giraldi
Former
CIA Counter-Terrorism Specialist and Military
Intelligence Officer who served 18 years overseas. He is
the Executive Director of the Council for the
National Interest and a recognized authority on
international security and counterterrorism issues. He
writes regularly on terrorism, intelligence, and
security issues, and appears frequently on national and
international broadcasts.
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A live discussion with Dr.
Giraldi about Christian Zionism, and his newly published
article “Towards a Christian Zionist Foreign Policy”, in
which he notes "This powerful block of pro-Israel sentiment
provides a free pass to the illegal Israeli settlements and
also to Tel Aviv’s brutal foreign policy vis-à-vis its
neighbors, which has damaged other American interests in the
region. It also means that any consideration of Arabs as
aggrieved parties in the Middle Eastern fandango is seldom
expressed, even though many of the Arabs being victimized by
the Israel-centric policies are in fact Christian." |
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February 13, 2013  |
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Lisa
Hajjar
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of
California - Santa Barbara, Visiting Professor at the
Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at the
American University of Beirut in Lebanon, and author of
"Courting Conflict". In addition to being a Co-Editor at Jadaliyya, she serves on the editorial committees
of Middle East Report and the Journal of
Palestine Studies.
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Today we will listen to a
new lecture by Professor Hajjar titled "Lawfare and Armed
Conflict: Comparing Israeli and US Targeted Killing Policies
and Challenges against Them", which was delivered on
February 5, 2013 at the American University of Beirut in
Lebanon (a lecture co-sponsored by AUB's Issam Fares
Institute and the Center for American Studies and Research).
Note: Because of time limitations, Arab Voices aired the
first 53 minutes of professor Hajjar's 60 minutes lecture.
You can listen to and view the entire lecture including the
question and answer session by clicking
here. |
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