Voices of the Middle East & North Africa

Voices of the Middle East & North Africa Voices of the Middle East and North Africa airs every Friday 11am and Wednesday at 2pm and on 94.1 FM KPFA radio. Hosted by Malihe Razazan and Mira Nabulsi.

It explore the rich world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Voices of the Middle East and North Africa consistently brings listeners deeply informed and authentic voices that take them beyond the headlines into the richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, exploring the complex web of class, gender, ethnic, religiou

s and regional differences which separate and distinguish the ways of life and political and ideological perspectives of people in that part of the world.

This week, we dive into the situation in  . We speak with Professor Ali Ahmida about the power struggle & the battle for...
07/22/2019

This week, we dive into the situation in . We speak with Professor Ali Ahmida about the power struggle & the battle for . We also discuss the resolution introduced by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar protecting the right to boycott with Palestine Legal attorney Zoha Khalili

Rebroadcast: In this Interview, Khalil Bendib talks with the Israeli scholar Ilan Pappé about his book "On Palestine" wh...
07/15/2019

Rebroadcast: In this Interview, Khalil Bendib talks with the Israeli scholar Ilan Pappé about his book "On Palestine" which he co-authored with Noam Chomsky.

Published in the aftermath of Israel's offensive on Gaza known as "Operation Protective Edge" which left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab.

Khalil asks Pappé about where he agrees and disagrees with Chomsky, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and the comparisons with apartheid in South Africa.

In this Interview Khalil Bendib talks with the Israeli scholar Ilan Pappé about his book "On Palestine" which he co-authored with Noam Chomsky. Published in the aftermath of Israel's offensive on Ga

An exclusive interview with Samer N. Abboud, Associate Professor of historical and political studies at Arcadia Universi...
07/10/2019

An exclusive interview with Samer N. Abboud, Associate Professor of historical and political studies at Arcadia University about his latest book "Syria: Hot Spots In Global Politics"

With more than 500,000 people killed and at least half of the population displaced, Syria’s conflict is considered the most deadly of the twenty-first century. In his new book, Professor Samer Abboud provides an in-depth analysis of Syria’s descent into civil war, then the Involvement of regional and international players.

In this interview, VOMENA's Shahram Aghamir discusses with Abboud the consequences of Russian military involvement after 2015, the economic interests of Iran and other actors, the US role, and plans of reconstruction in Syria.

The interview starts with the latest offensive on Idlib province one of the last strongholds of the armed groups fighting Al Assad regime.

https://soundcloud.com/vomekpfa-1/syria-hot-spots-in-global-politics-complete-interview-with-dr-samer-n-abboud

With all the controversy around  , this week we spoke with Dr. Loubie Qutami about why the   administration doesn't want...
07/01/2019

With all the controversy around , this week we spoke with Dr. Loubie Qutami about why the administration doesn't want a "Middle East North Africa" category on the census. And what we should know about the racialization of these communities in the US

In recent months, the Trump administration’s plan to add a citizenship question on the 2020 US census, has garnered significant controversy and media attention. For now the supreme court decide to blo

The Battle of Algiers more than 50 years later on VOMENA:
05/12/2018

The Battle of Algiers more than 50 years later on VOMENA:

At age fifty one, the film the Battle of Algiers has never seemed so current, as it continues to inspire, instruct and inform as much as it did when it first came out in 1966. What is it about this c

'Bread, Jobs and Freedom': A conversation with Arang Keshavarzian about the Street Protests in Iran (recorded on 1/4)
01/10/2018

'Bread, Jobs and Freedom': A conversation with Arang Keshavarzian about the Street Protests in Iran (recorded on 1/4)

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