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We’re continuing with selected excerpts of “Yearning for peace
with justice. Four women four perspectives”. brought to you
courtesy of Alternate Focus.
We’ll bring you excerpts from Zoe Batarseh and Amal Jubran.
Also, in the program, we’ll pay tribute to the late historian,
writer and activist Howard Zinn, who died Jan 27th, 2010 |
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Amal
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On
this week program we’re bringing you selected excerpts “Yearning
for peace with justice. Four women four perspectives” brought to
you courtesy of Alternate Focus.
Part
1 with TWO speakerS: Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb and
Ethel Sweed.
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Ahlam Muhtaseb |
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Ethel Sweed |
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“ISRAEL WANTS IRAN WAR” and “Awakening to Israel with Alice
Rothchild” are the main segments of today’s program. Both programs
brought to you courtesy of: Alternate Focus and were co- produced by
Moral Politics. |
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A talk by Omar Barghouti about “The Global BDS ( Boycott
Divestment & Sanctions.) movement. Omar Barghouti is a Researcher. human
rights activist. And, a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign
for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
The program brought to you courtesy of Alternate Focus.
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Omar Barghouti |
40th
National Day Of Mourning
November 26, 2009
Native Americans and their supporters have gathered on Cole’s Hill
in Plymouth Massachusetts to commemorate
The 40th National Day of Mourning. |
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An
interview with filmmaker
Jean Marie Offenbacher
talking
about her Syria film “Tea on the Axis of Evil”.
Jean Marie Offenbacher graduated from NYU with honors in Philosophy
and Film. Her initial work in film was as an artist, creating 16mm
experimental films. She worked in post-production on three
documentaries, including Ken Burns' Thomas Hart Benton (first
assistant picture editor and sound editor). Her career in
post-production mainly focused on studio feature films, including
Reversal of Fortune with Glenn Close, American Heart with Jeff
Bridges and The Rapture with David Duchovny. From 1994 to 1996, she
worked on various projects for BBC and Prisma Films providing
production management services. She produced and directed her first
feature documentary, Tea on the Axis of Evil, after spending the
larger part of 2004 to 2006 filming throughout Syria. She is
currently shooting a feature documentary in Algeria that explores
the relationship between imposed identity and violence in that
society |
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Jean Marie Offenbacher
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Forum part 2
Presented by:
People of African Descent & Students for Justice in the Middle East.
It took place on
Wednesday Dec 9, 2009, at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
In this week program you'll hear from Mr. Ashanti Alson
Speaker, Writer,
Organizer
To be followed by the Question and Answer period.
Feel free to email the sponsors at: sjme@umassd.edu |
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Mr. Ashanti Alson |
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Forum
presented by:
People of African Descent & Students for Justice in the Middle East.
It took place on
Wednesday Dec 9, 2009, at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
guest
speakers:
Dr As’ad Abukhalil
from California State University
And Mr. Ashanti Alson
Speaker, Writer,
Organizer
In
this program,
we’ll bring you Dr. As’ad AbuKhlil presentation. To be concluded
next week with speaker Ashanti Alson and the Question and Answer
period.
Feel free to email the sponsors
at: sjme@umassd.edu |
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Views of Bethlehem: Then and Now - An exhibition of historical
images and contemporary photographs with our guests:
- Dr. Jeffery Spurr, Islamic and Middle East Specialist and
former archivist at Harvard’s Fine Arts Library
- Dr. Abdulfattah Abusrour resident of the Aida Palestinian
Refugee camp in Bethlehem and director of the photography program at
the AL-Rowwad cultural center.
- John Roberts, of the Cambridge/Bethlehem People-to-People
Project
The historic footage Courtesy of:
The Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library
Related links:
http://alrowwad.virtualactivism.net/ |
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Watch an
interview with
Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
author of:
"Through the Wall of Fire: Armenia, Iraq, Palestine – from Wrath to
Reconciliation".
Muriel
Mirak-Weissbach, born of Armenian immigrant parents in the United
States, has
lived most of her
adult life in Italy and Germany. For the last twenty years, she has
been active as a
political journalist, travelling extensively throughout the Arab and
Islamic World.
During the 1990s,
she engaged in a humanitarian aid effort for young Iraqi victims of
Desert Storm and
monitored
developments in Arab-Israeli relations. Her book tackles the
question, whether peoples and
nations who have
been pitted against each other in geopolitically manipulated
conflict can ever reach true
reconciliation
and peace. Taking the examples of the Armenian genocide of 1915,
the ethnic cleansing of the
Palestinians
beginning in 1948, and the two Anglo-American wars against Iraq, she
presents the tragic events
through the eyes
of those who were children at the time, to communicate the emotional
and psychological impact
on them and their
offspring. Her accounts are based on personal experience, through
family history as well
as journalistic
work over many years in the Middle East. |
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Today, we'll conclude
the interview with our guest Nimer Sultany, a Palestinian
citizen of Israel, and a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School.
He is the editor of
“Citizens Without Citizenship”, “Israel and the Palestinian
Minority 2003”, and “Israel and the Palestinian Minority 2004”.
he’ll be examining
the situation of Palestinians who are citizens of Israel, and who
constitute around 20% of the Israeli population. |
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Our guest today is
Nimer Sultany, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and a doctoral
candidate at Harvard Law School.
He is the editor of “Citizens
Without Citizenship”, “Israel and the Palestinian Minority 2003”,
and “Israel and the Palestinian Minority 2004”.
He’ll be examining the
situation of Palestinians who are citizens of Israel, and who
constitute around 20% of the Israeli population.
part 1.
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coverage of
"Implications of the Goldstone Report"
a Panel discussion
covering the many aspects of the Report of the United Nations Fact
Finding Mission on the war against Gaza
Speakers:
Omar Baddar:
Political Scientist &
Human Rights Activist based in Washington , DC .
Ahmad Amara
Clinical Instructor &
Global Advocacy Fellow, human right program, Harvard law school
Dr. Assaf Kfoury
Professor & Political
Activist; Boston University
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The conclusion of “A History
Of Palestine”,
courtesy of Alternate Focus.
Alternate Focus is a
non-profit
organization. Their Mission is to offer
the general public a balanced
coverage of Middle East issues.
www.alternatefocus.org
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Part1 of “A History
Of Palestine”,
courtesy of Alternate Focus.
Alternate Focus is a
non-profit
organization. Their Mission is to offer
the general public a balanced
coverage of Middle East issues.
www.alternatefocus.org
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Noam Chomsky on " the
war on Gaza" which will be the focus on today's program in light
of the recent Goldtosone report. The report accused Israel of
war crimes and crimes against humanity. It also accused the Hamas
movement of war crime violations, but reserved most of its criticism
for Israel.
Prof Chomsky's lecture took place on Jan 13, 2009 @MIT in Cambridge
Massachusetts during the time of the war on Gaza.
World-renowned
intellectual Noam Chomsky has been a professor of linguistics at the
Massachusetts Institute of technology
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On September 26, 2009,
the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth honored the eminent
Palestinian-American Scholar, Dr. Naseer Aruri. Dr. Aruri
served on the Political Science Faculty of the University for
decades.
He retired from the University several years ago.
Recently, he contributed his papers, publications, and book
collections to
the University’s Carney Library to be deposited in their research
archives.
Among his many papers from his long professional and activist
careers were those from his term on the Board of Directors of
Amnesty International. It was on the occasion of the dedication of
his life’s work that the University organized the celebration of
this esteemed scholar.
Dr. Aruri is no stranger to Arabic Hour audiences. He is also
nationally and internationally recognized as a respected public
intellectual. Arabic Hour is happy to present the University
program honoring Dr. Aruri. |
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Today’s guests are Tom Arabia and Khury Petersen Smith, two
young activists from the Boston Area who recently returned from
Gaza, part of the Viva Palestina-USA convoy members to reach
Gaza on July 15, 2009.
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Chris Hedges, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and a foreign
correspondent for nearly two decades in Latin America, Africa, the
Middle East and the Balkans, writes and speaks extensively on war,
religion and the conflict in the Middle East.
Hedges was a member of The New York Times team that won the 2002
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of
global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International
Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.
He is the author of:
best seller “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning”, a book that
draws on the many conflicts he covered to explore what war does to
societies and individuals.
his New York Times bestseller “American Fascists: The Christian
Right and the War on America”.
His most recent work on the subject is titled “I Don't Believe in
Atheists”.
Recently, Chris Hedges delivered the 2009 Tom Cassidy Lecture at
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Today, We bring you the conclusion including the question and answer
period.
Footage courtesy of:
Roger Leisner, Radio Free Main
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Chris Hedges, a graduate
of Harvard Divinity School and a foreign correspondent for nearly
two decades in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the
Balkans, writes and speaks extensively on war, religion and the
conflict in the Middle East.
Hedges was a member
of The New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for
Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism,
and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for
Human Rights Journalism.
He is the author of:
- Best seller “War
Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning”, a book that draws on the many
conflicts he covered to explore what war does to societies and
individuals.
- His New York Times
bestseller “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on
America”.
- His most
recent work on the subject is titled “I Don't Believe in Atheists”.
Recently, Chris
Hedges delivered the 2009 Tom Cassidy Lecture at Bowdoin College in
Brunswick, Maine.
Hedges' lecture was
entitled "Covering War and Conflict as a Foreign Correspondent,"
Today, We bring you
part 1 of this lecture, and the conclusion including the question
and answer
period next week. |
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ON this week’s Program:
we’ll bring you a speech by George Galloway, a British Member of
Parliament
and founder of the Viva Palestina aid convoy to break the siege of
Gaza.
this program, was brought to you courtesy of alternate focus.
(www.alternatefocus.org) |
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On today’s Program:
1- A program courtesy of Alternate
Focus: entitled: “As’as Abu Khalil,
THE ANGRY ARAB”
2- Music by
Bassam Saba & ensemble
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On this week's Show:
we’ll bring you two programs courtesy of Alternate Focus:
1-“Reverand Don Wagner on Christian Zionism”
2-“Life in Occupied Palestine, a Jewish-American speaks out”. |
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Documentary Film:
Postcard from Lebanon.
The title refers to a 10 day time frame, in October of 2006,
six weeks after the Israeli war on Lebanon when a delegation of
Americans including Arab American leaders, congressional staffers,
clerics and journalists visited Lebanon, particularly South Lebanon,
to assess the destruction in the aftermath of the war.
The director, Jocelyn
Ajami, had no affiliation with any of the members of the delegation.
This program
gives a basic framework of the aftermath of the 34-day war including
interviews with major Lebanese officials contrasted to the facts on
the ground and to the
destruction of South Beirut and Southern Lebanon.
The documentary will also ask fundamental questions regarding the
effects of war, in particular the legacy of cluster bombs on
civilians. |
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On this week's program,
we bring you the documentary “WOUNDS OF THE HEART: AN ARTIST AND
HER NATION” a film by John Halaka presented courtesy of
Alternate focus. (www.alternatefocus.org).
The film features Palestinian visual Artist Rana Bishara
whose work includes sculpture, installation and performance art.
Rana’s artwork functions both as an elegy to the Palestinian Nakba
(the catastrophe of 1948), and as an unmasking of the brutality of
the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
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The war on
Gaza and it’s aftermath will be the focus of this program.
1- the conclusion of last week’s interview with Jeff Klein of
Dorchester People for Peace and a long time human rights
activist.
Mr. Klein just returned from Gaza where he was one of the US members
of Viva Palestina, a humanitarian aid convoy whose purpose is
to break the relentless siege of Gaza.
2- the moving story of Dr. Izzeldine Abuleish.
Dr. Abuleish has been nominated for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. And
he continues his struggle for peace and coexistence even in the face
of tragedy. |
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Jeff Klein
Izzeldine Abuleish |
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