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April 2013 marked the 11th anniversary for Arab Voices on KPFT!

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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 the U.S. Air Force.

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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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 Policy and Understanding.

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.
   

Membership Drive

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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.
  

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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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.
   

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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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.
   

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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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.
  

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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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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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?”
  

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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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.

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.
  

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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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?"

   
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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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.

 
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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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.
  

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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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.
   

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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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.
   

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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