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December 31, 2003 |
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2003 Best of Arab Voices |
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Topic: |
Interviews with various guests
conducted in 2003 on Arab Voices. |
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Date: |
December 24, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dr. Edward Said
Palestine's
foremost political commentator |
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Topic: |
"On Dignity & Solidarity":
Recorded speech for Dr. Edward Said. |
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Date: |
December 17, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Kathleen Christison
Freelance writer, who worked as
a political analyst with the CIA for 16 years, dealing
with the Middle East for eight years |
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Topic: |
The U.S. Foreign Policy towards the Middle East. |
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Date: |
December 10, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dr. Ziad Asali
President and founder of the American Task Force on
Palestine, and former President of the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee. |
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Topic: |
The volatile situation in the Middle East. |
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Date: |
December 3, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Tareq Ayoub
Graduate from the University of
Texas Law School, who spent a year in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories working with the Communications
Department of the Negotiations Support Unit, a group of
advisors to the PLO. |
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Topic: |
Israel's Apartheid Wall |
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Date: |
November 26, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Amal Al-Khedairy
Founder and Director of
Al-Beit Al-Iraqi, “Iraqi House”, an arts and cultural
center in Baghdad. |
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Topic: |
Iraq, its culture, heritage and how the
war affected it |
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Date: |
November 19, 2003 |
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preempted
(no show) |
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Date: |
November 12, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Kathy Kelly
Founder of
Voices in the Wilderness, coordinator of Iraq
Peace Team
and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, who returned to the US
from Iraq few weeks ago. |
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Topic: |
The War on Iraq, and what she witnessed
there. |
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Date: |
November 5, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dr. Ussama Makdisi
Associate Professor of History at
Rice University and a leading expert on modern Arab
history. |
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Topic: |
The volatile situation in the Middle
East, as well as the Arab American Relations. |
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Date: |
October 29, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dr. Laurie King-Irani
Co-founder of Electronic
Intifada, coordinator of the International Campaign for
Justice for the Victims of Sabra and Shatila, and former
editor of
Middle East Report. |
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Topic: |
What is happening in the occupied
Palestinian territories. |
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Date: |
October 22, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dr. Doug Rokke
Former Director of U.S. Army’s
Depleted Uranium Project. |
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Topic: |
The adverse health
effects of depleted uranium among soldiers, reporters
and Iraqis |
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Date: |
October 15, 2003 |
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Membership
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Date: |
October 8, 2003 |
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Membership
Drive |
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Date: |
October 1, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dr. Edward Said
Palestine's
foremost political commentator |
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Topic: |
Tribute to Dr. Edward Said, and a
recording of one of his recent speeches. |
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Date: |
September 24, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Chris Toensing
Executive Director & Editor of Middle East Report
and Director of the Middle East Research and
Information Project in Washington. |
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Topic: |
President Bush's speech at the UN and his policy
towards the Middle East. |
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Date: |
September 17, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dr. Jess Ghannam
Palestinian American Psychoanalyst, who teaches at
University of California, San Francisco. He is a
human rights activist who serves on the coordinating
committee for the Palestine right to return coalition
(Al-Awda) and a board member of the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee in San Francisco. |
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Topic: |
Israel's escalation of violence against
the Palestinians, and its call for Arafat's
assassination. |
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Date: |
September 10, 2003 |
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Guests: |
Francis Nugent
and Aminah Al Zahir,
two members in the International Solidarity Movement |
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Topic: |
Franics' eyewitness account of what he
witnessed in the West Bank and Baghdad, and Aminah's
views who will be traveling to the West bank next month. |
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Date: |
September 3, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Charlie Richardson
Co-founder of Military Families Speak Out, whose son, a
U.S. Marine, returned from serving in Iraq |
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Topic: |
The U.S. Military involvement in Iraq |
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Date: |
August 27, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian-American journalist, and editor-in-chief of
Palestine Chronicle |
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Topic: |
The latest developments and escalations
of violence in the Middle East |
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Date: |
August 20, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dr. Rania Masri
Director of the Southern Peace
Research and Education Center at the Institute for
Southern Studies, a national board member of Peace
Action, coordinator of the Iraq Action Coalition, and a
member of the steering committee for the United For
Peace with Justice coalition. |
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Topics: |
Iraq, Occupied Palestine, and Israel |
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Date: |
August 13, 2003 |
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Guest: |
Cindy & Craig Corrie
The
parents of
Rachel
Corrie |
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Topic: |
The murder of U.S.
citizen
Rachel Corrie by the Israeli Occupation Forces
in the Gaza Strip |
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Date: |
August 6, 2003 |
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Guest: |
Dr. Mark Lance
Professor at Georgetown University who was in the West
Bank with a delegation of university faculty and has
written about the wall that Israel is constructing in
the West Bank, and also a participant in Stop U.S.
Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now organization |
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Topic: |
Mark's trip to
the West Bank, the apartheid wall Israel is building,
and the U.S. Aid to Israel |
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Date: |
July 30, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Diana Buttu
legal advisor with the
Negotiations Support Unit of the Negotiations Affairs
Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization |
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What happened to the Peace Process and
the "Road Map" |
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Date: |
July 23, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Scott Ritter
Former Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector in Iraq |
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Where are those "Weapons of Mass
Destruction" in Iraq? |
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Date: |
July 16, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Daryl Kimball
Executive Director of the
Arms Control Association |
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The Bush administration's
handling of intelligence prior to the U.S.-led invasion
of Iraq, and future implications of such tactics |
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Date: |
July 9, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Catherine Cook
Media Coordinator for The
Middle East Research and Information Project, and former
International Advocacy Coordinator for Defense for
Children International |
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Palestinian Political Prisoner's inside
Israel |
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Date: |
July 2, 2003 |
| Guests: |
ADC-Houston Board Members
Arab-American Anti-Discrimination
Committee
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Membership
Drive |
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Date: |
June 25, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dr. Lisa Hajjar
Professor of Law and Society at the University
of California-Santa Barbara. She is an
expert on Geneva Conventions, human rights,
humanitarian Law, and contemporary Middle East.
She is also a member of Middle East Research and
Information Project's Board of Directors and
Chair of the Editorial Committee of Middle East
Report. |
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Topic: |
The occupation of Iraq
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Membership
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Date: |
June 18, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Norman
Solomon
Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy,
who visited Baghdad several times, and authored many
books, including "Target Iraq:
What the News Media Didn't Tell You" |
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Topic: |
The latest developments in the Middle
East, particularly the situation in Iraq |
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Date: |
June 11, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Chris Toensing
Editor of
Middle East Report and Director of the Middle East
Research and Information Project |
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Topic: |
The latest developments in the Middle
East |
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Date: |
June 4, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Ali Abunimah
Media
analyst, vice-president of the Arab-American Action Network,
and co-founder of
Electronic Intifada |
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Topic: |
The "Road Map" and the Peace Process |
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Date: |
May 28, 2003 |
| Guests: |
The Listeners |
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Live calls from the listeners, covering
various topics |
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Date: |
May 21, 2003 |
Guests/
Topics: |
Dr. Abdel K. Fustok
President of the Arab-American Cultural and Community Center
Live discussion about the Arab-American Cultural & Community
Center in Houston |
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Beau Grosscup
Author of "The newest Explosions of Terrorism"
Live
discussion about
terrorism |
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Date: |
May 14, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Adam
Shapiro
Jewish-American who is an activists in the International
Solidarity Movement |
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Topic: |
Israel's treatment of Palestinians and
foreign peace activists |
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Date: |
May 7, 2003 |
| Guest: |
John Reese
Peace activist and a hydrogeologist, and one of the coordinators for the
International Solidarity Movement, who visited Palestine
recently |
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Topic: |
"Palestine: It’s HELL"
documentary, people living under occupation, and about
the Palestinian and international nonviolent resistance
movement that is growing in the West Bank and Gaza |
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Date: |
April 30, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Samia Halaby
Passionate artist and an activist, who published a
brilliant history of the liberation art of Palestine |
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Topic: |
"Made In Palestine" Art Exhibit, and her
paintings |
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Date: |
April 23, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Benjamin Joffe-Walt
Peace worker with "Human
Shields" |
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Topic: |
Eyewitness Iraq: What Benjamin witnessed
in his recent trip to Iraq |
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Date: |
April 16, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dr. As'ad AbuKhalil
Arab-American scholar, associate professor of political
science at California State University at Stanislaus, and
Research Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the
University of California at Berkeley |
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Topic: |
The war on Iraq, and is Syria being
targeted next? |
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Date: |
April 9, 2003 |
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Guest: |
Roger Normand
co-founder and Executive Director of the Center
for Economic and Social Rights, where he
oversees policy, program and outreach, and
directs projects in the Middle East & Central
Asia |
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Topic: |
The U.S. attack on Iraq |
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Date: |
April 2, 2003 |
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Guest: |
Ora Wise
Hebrew school teacher and the daughter of a rabbi, who
is very active in various organizations, calling for
Justice in Palestine, and an end to the Occupation |
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Topic: |
Ora's views on what is going on in the
Middle East, and a special presentation by her (Spoken
Words) |
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Date: |
March 26, 2003 |
| Guests: |
The Listeners |
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Live calls from the listeners, covering
the war on Iraq |
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Date: |
March 21, 2003 |
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Guest: |
Denis Halliday
Former head of the UN oil-for-food program and former UN
Assistant Secretary General, who just returned from
Iraqi |
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Topic: |
The UN, Iraq, and the war (special live broadcast across
the nation) |
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Date: |
March 20, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dr. Ziad Asali
President of the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
Special
live broadcast across the nation |
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Topic: |
The war on Iraq |
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Date: |
March 19, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Rahul Mahajan
Antiwar activist, member of Nowar Collective, serving
on the national boards of Peace Action and the Education
for Peace in Iraq Center |
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Topic: |
The war on Iraq |
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Date: |
March 12, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Michael Ratner
International Human Rights
Lawyer, president of the Center for Constitutional
Rights and coauthor of "Against War with Iraq" |
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Topic: |
The possible war on Iraq and the role of
the UN in this regard |
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Date: |
March 5, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dr. Imad Khadduri
Former Iraqi Nuclear Scientist,
who worked with the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission for
30 years |
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Topic: |
Iraq's nuclear weapons program |
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Date: |
February 26, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian-American journalist, and editor-in-chief of
Palestine Chronicle |
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Topic: |
The latest developments and escalations
of violence in the Middle East |
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Date: |
February 19, 2003 |
| Guests: |
Hannah Hawk
Spokesperson for the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public
Affairs Council (MPAC) and Coordinator for its Houston
Chapter
Nebeil Al-Oboudi
An Iraqi-American living in Houston |
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Topic: |
What happens if the war starts on Iraq, how
will that
affect Muslim Americans, and a view from an
Iraqi-American
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Date: |
February 12, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Jackson Allers
Reporter with KPFT Radio, 90.1 FM,
who visited occupied Palestine recently. |
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Topic: |
What is happening in occupied Palestine?
Jackson's eyewitness report from his recent trip to
occupied Palestine
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Membership
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Date: |
February 5, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dennis Bernstein
Investigative reporter, radio host, human rights
advocate, poet, contributor to Pacifica's Democracy Now,
and host of Flashpoints News Magazine |
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Topic: |
Dennis' coverage of the Middle East, and the U.S. policy
towards the Middle East |
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Date: |
January 29, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Khalil Jahshan
Executive Vice-President of the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee, and director of its
Government Affairs Affiliate, the National Association
of Arab Americans |
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Topic: |
U.S.-Arab relations, and the U.S. foreign policy towards
the Arab world |
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Date: |
January 22, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Dr. James Jennings
President of Conscience International, and coordinator
of "U.S. Academics Against the War" |
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Topic: |
The Iraqi situation, and James' recent
trip to Iraq |
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Date: |
January 15, 2003 |
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Guest: |
Denis Halliday
Former head of the UN
oil-for-food program and former UN Assistant
Secretary General, who just returned from Iraqi |
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Topic: |
The UN oil-for-food program for Iraq, and
the war |
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Date: |
January 8, 2003 |
| Guest: |
Anees Barghouti
Deputy minister for the Ministry of
Planning and International Cooperation in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories, and former Ambassador of the
Palestine Liberation Organization to the United States
from 1992 to 1995 |
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Topic: |
Is the Peace Process working? What is really
happening the occupied Palestinian territories? |
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Date: |
January 1, 2003 |
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Guests: |
Adam Shapiro
Jewish-American activist in the International Solidarity
Movement
Huwaida Arraf
Palestinian-American
activist in the
International Solidarity Movement |
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Topic: |
The situation in occupied Palestine, and
their eyewitness accounts of what they saw there |
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