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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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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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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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Part 1 of an interview by Dr. Souad Dajani 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. |
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Jeff Klein |
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Coverage of an event held at the Palestine Cultural Center for Peace
in Boston, to mark the 42nd anniversary of Israel's illegal
occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.
- Salma Abu-Ayyash
Palestinian Activist, Engineer, and Co-Founder of Tawassul.
Tawassul’s main aim is to promote Palestinian art and culture in
Massachusetts and Palestine. (www.Tawassul.org)
- Deema Faisal
Palestinian Poet
- Dr. Husam Zomlot
Visiting fellow at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Served as a PLO representative to the UK (2003-2008). His previous
work experience includes the United Nations, the London School of
Economics, the Oxford Research Group and the Palestine Economic
Policy Research Institute.
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Salma Abu-Ayyash
Dema Faisal
Husam Zomlot
Omar Baddar |
1- The American Arab
Anti-Discrimination
Committee of Massachusetts (ADC-MA) had their 4th Annual
Community Banquet on Saturday, May 9th, 2009. in Boston
Keynote Speaker was Atty Noura Erakat, and This Year's
Honoree recipient of ADC-MA was Atty Susan Akram.
2- The conclusion of
the Q/A segment of the Debate that we started last week. The
“Conflict in Gaza” debate was sponsored by the Lesley University
Chapter of Amnesty International- Participants in the debate were :
Mr. Jeff Robbins,
Omar Beddar and moderated by Joshua Rubenstein |
PLAY VIDEO
5/17/09
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Noura Erakat and Merrie
Najimi |
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Coverage of the Debate
on “the conflict in Gaza”, which was sponsored by the
Lesley University Chapter of Amnesty International, and was held
in Lesley University. The debate addresses the conflict in Gaza and
question of whether combatants on either side committed war crimes.
Participants were :
Mr. Jeff Robbins,
a former US delegate to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva,
Switzerland
Mr. Omar Beddar,
a political scientist and Director of the Palestine Cultural
Center for Peace
The debate was
moderated by Mr. Joshua Rubenstein, the Northeast Regional
Director of Amnesty International USA
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5/10/09
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| Joshua
Rubenstein |
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| Jeff
Robbins |
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| Omar
Beddar |
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Coverage of the
Evelyn Abdalah Menconi Memorial Cultural Series With Guest
speaker Anthony Shadid
A Lost Levant: A
Reporter’s Reflections on Lebanon, Palestine, & Iraq “ the
title of Anthony Shadid’s presentation
Anthony Shadid
is presently the Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post.
Previously he served with the Boston Globe. Since 2001, he has
reported from most countries in the Middle East, where he was
wounded in the back while covering fighting in 2002 in the West Bank
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5/2/09
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Anthony Shadid
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1- An interview with
Ogarite Dandache who was on the "brotherhood" boat. Ogarite
is a Lebanese reporter who works with the Lebanese Television
New TV and she will tell us today the full story of the Lebanese
brotherhood that was hijacked by the Israelis. The interview will
be in Arabic with English subtitles.
2- The conclusion of our
coverage of the the event
entitled “Iraq Uncensored”, Dahr Jamail’s report on
the US invasion and occupation’s impact on the Iraqi people. |
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3/28/09
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Two documentaries:
1- A talk by rev.
Rev. Naim Ateek and Dr Jeff Helper on Israel divestment
Strategy. Program by Sabeel and brought to you by Alternate Focus
2- Ex-communicated:
Enclosure Landscapes in Palestine
or more information
on the program please visit
www.alternatefocus.org |
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3/22/09
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| Jeff Helper |
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A coverage of the event
entitled “Iraq Uncensored”, Dahr Jamail’s report on
the US invasion and occupation’s impact on the Iraqi people. He is
the author of “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an
Un-embedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq”.
The
event was sponsored by, among others, Dorchester People for
Peace, William Joiner Center for the Study of War & Social
Consequences at UMASS Boston, And “Iraqi Veterans Against the
War”, and it took place at the First Parish Church in
Dorchester, MA on March 9th 2009. In the seminar Dahr Jamail
discussed his personal experiences as an independent journalist in
Iraqi society, and the Iraqi people’s side of the occupation’s
story. |
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3/14/09
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Dahr Jamail |
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the documentary film
produced by My Way Productions entitled: Beyond the wall.
It is about peace workers in occupied West Bank of Palestine
and the palestinian non-violant struggle against the occupation. |
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3/8/09
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A documentary film
produced by Alternate Focus entitled: Sea of Oil.
As Congress debates whether, when, and how to withdraw from
Iraq, a long-standing strategy to control Iraqi oil emerges as the
fundamental rationale for the 2003 invasion. Left unchallenged, the
assumptions underlying this strategy, which fails to take the
desires of the Iraqi people into account, will doom any attempts to
end the occupation. |
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2/28/09
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1- Part 2 of an
interview with Dr. Paul Larudee, Co-Founder of the
Free Gaza Movement which sailed the first boat to Gaza in 41
years and has now broken the Israeli blockade of Gaza shipping six
times, delivering medicine and food. The interview was
conducted by our own Jeff Klein.
2- A short film
about the grassroots effort of a relatively new Palestinian
community organization, Dalia Association. (Dalia also
means grapevine). Dalia is located in East Jerusalem. It
was founded by members of the Palestinian community from the West
Bank including East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, Palestinians in
Israel and the Diaspora. Dalia’s main goal, among others,
is: To fund hopeful, inspirational, and sustainable civil society
initiatives, including community efforts that just need a small
grant to supplement their local resources. The film focuses on the
village of Saffa in the West Bank where the Dalia Association
implemented an innovative community-led resource distribution model
call “The Village Decides” that Dalia hopes will develop into
a permanent grant-making program. You can learn more about Dalia and
its Board of Directors by going to its website:
www.dalia.ps . You can
contribute to Dalia by sending a tax-deductible donation to its
partner organization, Grassroots International, 179 Boylston Street,
4th floor, Boston, MA 02130, USA. Make your check payable to
Grassroots International but make sure to write in the Memo
section: Grassroots International Dalia Fund. |
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2/21/09
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1- A part 1 of an
interview we had with Dr. Paul Larudee, Co-Founder of the
Free Gaza Movement. Paul Larudee, co-founder of the Free
Gaza Movement, which sailed the first boat to Gaza in 41 years and
has now broken the Israeli blockade of Gaza shipping six times
successfully. Dr. Larudee is a human rights advocate a. He
has a Ph.D. in linguistics from Georgetown University. He last
traveled to Gaza in August 2008 on the first boat to break the
41-year siege. The Free Gaza Movement is a 501(c)(3) IRS approved
human rights organization.
2- Part 2 of our coverage of the forum entitled “For Gaza”
that took place recently in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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2/14/09
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Dr, Paul Laroude |
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A coverage
in two parts, of forum entitled “For Gaza . . .”, a
forum that took place in Cambridge Massachusetts on Jan 31st, 2009.
It featured leading intellectuals on the subject, such as Nancy
Murray, Sarah Roy, Leila Farsakh, And highly anticipated guest
thinker Howard Zinn .
Sponsors were: The
American Friends Service Committee, Arrowsmith Press, and The
William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences.
The event took place against the backdrop of the recent Israeli War
on Gaza. Which had killed 1,330 Palestinians, and left 5,300
wounded. The Forum’s speakers focused on the ongoing conflict, its
causes, the Gaza crisis, and the region’s uncertain future. We take
you now to footage of the event. |
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2/8/09
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1- An exclusive
interview with world-renowned public intellectual Noam Chomsky
has long been a critic of American middle east foreign policy.
2- A full coverage of a
teach-in given by prof Chomsky at the Palestine Cultural
Center for Peace, in Boston on Wednesday Jan 21, 2009. The event
entitled: The truth about the war on Gaza, the US government's
role, and why we must fight back!
Our own Omar
Baddar, spoke with Prof. Chomsky, in his office at MIT,
in Cambridge about the current crisis in Gaza, as well as President
Barack Obama’s election and the possibility of change of American
foreign policy toward the middle east. |
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1/31/09
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Prof. Chomsky
Footage courtesy of
Paul Hubbard |
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Discussing the
aftermath of the “War on Gaza”. Since Israel started its
bombardment of Gaza, over 1,300 Palestinians have been killed at
least 410 of which were children. And over 5400 injured. During the
22 day war, Gaza was completely besieged land, air and sea including
the Rafaah crossing with Egypt. The Egyptian authorities prevented
all access to Gaza from it’s territory including humanitarian aid.
On the program:
A telephone interview with anti war activist Dr. Rania Masri.
Dr. Masri, is a Lebanese-American antiwar activist, author,
and currently is a professor of Environmental Science at the
University of Balamand in Lebanon.
And in our studios,
we are honored to have Prof. Duncan Kennedy from Harvard
Law School. Where, among other things, he teaches
Israel/Palestine Legal Issues at Harvard university. Interview
conducted by Dr. Elaine Hagopian |
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1/24/09
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As of Jan 17th 2009, the
date of taping this program, the Israeli assault on Gaza continued.
To understand
further the situation in Gaza. And it’s impact on the residents of
Gaza we interviewed two guests:
from Gaza, an exclusive
interview with Dr Eyad Sarraj. And here in our studios we
have Omar Baddar in conversation with Howard Lenow.
1- Attorney Howard
Lenow is a founding member of American Jews for a just peace.
American Jews
for a Just Peace (AJJP) is an alliance of activists in the
United States working to ensure equal rights, safety, and dignity
for all the people of historic Palestine. Their website is:
www.ajjp.org.
2- A phone interview
with, Dr. Eyad Sarraj from Gaza. Dr Sarraj is the
founder and president of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program
and the commissioner of the Palestinian Independent Commission
for Human Rights. |
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1/17/09
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| Howard
Lenow |
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| Dr. Eyad
Sarraj |
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On this week program:
1- we’ll conclude our
interview with Human rights activist Dr Nancy Murray. The interview
was taped on Jan 3rd, 2009.
2-
Footage from the Boston rally that took place on Sat Jan 3rd.2009
On Saturday December 27
2008, Israel launched air attacks across the besieged Gaza Strip
followed by ground incursion on Saturday January 3 2009.
On Saturday 1/17/09,
Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, has announced a unilateral
truce in the Gaza Strip. The announcement came after a meeting of
Israel's security council on Saturday evening and halts the 22-day
offensive which has left more than 1200 Palestinians dead, more than
400 of them children and More than 5100 people have also been wounded.
10 Israeli soldiers and
three civilians have died in the same period
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1/10/09
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Boston Rally
 A
Palestinian boy taking refuge at a UN school in Gaza [Reuters]
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On this program:
We’ll have an in-depth analysis of the disastrous situation in
the completely besieged Gaza Strip. An interview with Human rights
activist Dr Nancy Murray. Dr. Murray holds a Ph.D. in
History from Oxford University; has written on civil and human
rights issues. She was the co-founder and director of the Middle
East Justice Network from 1989 to 1995, and authored a book on
Palestinians: Life Under Occupation (1991). She is the
president of The Gaza Mental Health Foundation. We’ll bring
you this interview in two parts. Today, we’ll show part 1 to be
concluded next week. Dr Murray was interviewed by our own Dr.
Elaine Hagopian. |
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1/3/09
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Dr Nancy Murray |
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On this program:
In January 2006, in a surprise victory, Hamas wins the majority
of seats in Palestinian parliamentary elections, after campaigning
for change and reform and challenging the old Fatah party’s
“corruption.” Ismail Haniyeh is sworn in as the new Palestinian
prime minister..
To help us
understand the genesis of the conflict, we will re-air from our
archives a report back by activist Janice Hayden and Noura
Erakat on the Hamas win of the Palestinian general election.
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12/28/08
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Noura Erakat
Janice Hayden |
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1- Part 2 of an
interview with
Dr. Moustafa Bayoumi author of the book How Does it Feel
to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America Published by
Penguin Press. The interview was conducted by Omar Baddar
2- Music and songs
by Fairuz, Um Kalthoum, and Marcel Khalifeh |
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12/20/08
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1-part 2 and the
conclusion of our coverage of the event commemorating the
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People that
took place recently At thePalestine Cultural Center for Peace, in
boston. Keynote Speaker was Dr. Husam Zomlot, PLO Diplomat &
a Visiting scholar at the Center of Middle Eastern Studies at
Harvard University.
2- Part 1: An
interview with
Dr. Moustafa Bayoumi author of the book How Does it Feel
to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America Published by
Penguin Press. Dr Bayoumi is Associate Professor of
English at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York, he
earned his Phd from Colombia University The interview was conducted
by Omar Baddar |
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12/13/08
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| Husam Zomlot |
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1- Excerpts from the
39th National Day of Mourning Held on Thanksgiving day In
Plymouth Massachusetts. Where members of the United American
Indians of New England held a protest to mark the National
Day of Mourning. Speakers included Moonanum James,
Elena Ortiz and representing the consulate of Mayan Elders
Huan Gonzalez.
2- Part #1 of our coverage of an event commemorating the
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People that
took place At Palestine Cultural Center for Peace, in Boston.
MASS, on Nov 29-2008. Keynote Speaker was Dr. Husam Zomlot,
PLO Diplomat & a Visiting scholar at the Center of Middle Eastern
Studies at Harvard University. The event was cosponsored by
The Palestinian House of New England, & The American Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee of Massachusetts. |
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12/7/08
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| Huan
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| Husam Zomlot |
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| Nancy Murray |
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1- Coverage of a panel
that was part of a conference commemorating “the 60th Anniversary of
the Nakba”, entitled: Struggle for the Land: Zionism and the
Repression of Anti-Colonial Movements sponsored by New England
Committee to Defend Palestine .Participants were :Ward Churchill,
American Indian Movement activist and author. And from
Marta
Rodriguez, Puerto Rican
activist
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11/29/08
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1- Part 2 and the
conclusion of the interview with Dr Husam Zomlot, Charge D’affaires
of the Palestinian General Delegation to the U.K, he was a PLO
representative to the UK (2003-2008).
2- A documentary Peace,
Propaganda & the Promised Land. U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict, produced by Media Education foundation
This documentary
provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media
coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how
structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false
perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For more
information about the documentary, please contact
www.mediaed.org |
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11/22/08
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Part 1 of an Interview
with Dr Husam Zomlot,
Charge D’affaires of the
Palestinian General Delegation to the U.K, he was a PLO
representative to the UK (2003-2008), holds a PhD degree in
economics from the University of London, an MSc in Development
Studies from the London School of Economics and a BA in Economics
and Political Science from Birzeit University. He specializes in
international peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction
programs. The
interview was conducted by our own Dr. Elaine Hagopian |
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11/15/08
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Dr Husam Zomlot |
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An interview with
His Beatitude Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch and all the East
The Most Reverend
Patriarch of the worldwide Antiochian Orthodox Church visited
Boston earlier this month. During his visit he presided over a holy
service attended by hundreds of orthodox parishioners from New
England. He also attended a fundraising event in support of the
University of Balamand, a Lebanese university he helped found 20
years ago. During his visit, the Arabic Hour was honored to sit down
with the Patriarch for an interview conducted by attorney George
Abi-Esber. |
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11/09/08
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Patriarch Ignatius
IV |
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Frontiers of Dreams
and Fears" A film by Award-winning Palestinian
filmmaker
Mai Masri.
Mai Masri is a
Palestinian filmmaker with a Bachelor's degree in film from San
Francisco State University. She has directed, and edited several
award-winning documentaries, which were broadcast on more than 100
television stations around the world including BBC, PBS, France 2,
among others. With her husband, filmmaker Jean Chamoun she set up
Nour productions and MTC. |
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10/25/08
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1- a new segment
produced by Alternate Focus Entitled “Joel Kovel".
Prof. Kovel is both a scholar and an activist. He has been
engaged in struggles for peace and justice since the Vietnam War
era. 2- We
conclude our coverage of the late Palestinial Poet Mahmoud
Darwish event entitled:
"I COME FROM THERE": Celebrating the Life and Poetry of Mahmoud
Darwish. This event took place on Sept 18th/2008 at
Harvard University. |
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10/18/08
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Joel Kovel |
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1- A new segment
produced by Alternate Focus Entitled “Ilan Pappe on The
Nakba of Palestine". (Nakba means Catastrophe in Arabic).
2- More coverage of an
event entitled: "I COME FROM THERE": Celebrating the Life and
Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish. This event took place on Sept 18th at
Harvard University.
A bi-lingual reading
by students, faculty and community members featuring an introduction
by Sinan Antoon, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature at
NYU. |
PLAY VIDEO
10/11/08
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Ilan Pappe
For more information on
the program please visit
www.alternatefocus.org |
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1- The conclusion of
Want To Know with Attorneys Hugh Samson and
George Abi Esber. Their guest is political scientist Omar
baddar. Omar Baddar is the Executive director of
American Arab Anti discrimination committee Massachusetts
chapter ADC-MA
2-More coverage of an
event celebrating the life and poetry of Mahmoud
Darwish. Entitled:
"I COME FROM
THERE": Celebrating the Life and Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish. |
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10/4/08
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1- A new
segment of Want To Know with Attorneys Hugh Samson and
George Abi Esber. Their guest is political scientist Omar
baddar. Omar Baddar is the Executive director of
American Arab Anti discrimination committee Massachusetts
chapter ADC-MA
2- An
interview
with Sinan Antoon, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature
at NYU. Talking about the Iraq situation from an Iraqi perspective
3- A
poem by the late Mahmoud Darwish |
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9/27/08
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Coverage of
an event celebrating the life and poetry of Mahmoud
Darwish. Entitled:
"I COME
FROM THERE": Celebrating the Life and Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish.
The event took place
on Sept 18th 2008 at Harvard University. A bi-lingual reading
by students, faculty and community members featuring an introduction
by
Sinan Antoon, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature at
NYU. This event was Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern
Studies and the GSAS Alliance for Justice in the Middle East. |
PLAY VIDEO
9/20/08
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Mahmoud Darwish |
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1-
Part 2: part
two and the conclusion of a presentation by Professor Joel Kovel
discussing his book "Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single
Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
2- Music by Rahbani
brothers and songs by seham Shammas, Abdo Yaghi,.... Also Sabah,
Samira Toufic ... & Fairuz and Nasri Shams aldin.
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9/13/08
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1- Part 1: of our
coverage of a presentation by Professor Joel Kovel discussing
his book "Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State
in Israel/Palestine." Prof. Kovel is both a scholar and
an activist. He has been engaged in struggles for peace and justice
since the Vietnam War era. Dr. Koval has published nine books
and over a hundred articles and reviews. The discussion took place
on Jan 22nd 2008. at the Coolidge corner theater in Brookline
Massachusetts. sponsored by Bostonians for One democratic State
in Israel/Palestine. Introduced by Dr. Alice Rothschild,
co-chair of Jewish voice for Peace to introduce
Professor Kovel
2- Arab classical music” performed by the Bassam Saba
Ensemble, from the Third Annual Evelyn A. Menconi Memorial
Cultural Series Event |
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9/6/08
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1-A presentation by
journalist and novelist Haifa Zangna. On the humanitarian
disaster in Iraq after 5 years of occupation. Zangna
presented the keynote address to WAM!2008 the Women, Action and
the Media convention last spring. She examined the situation in
Iraq after 5 years of Occupation. Haifa Zangna is a novelist,
her latest Book is City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account
of War and Resistance (published by Seven Stories Press).
2- A poetry
by
Palestinian-American poet and scholar Lisa Suhair Majaj .
Introduced by Dr. Souad Dajani. |
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8/30/08
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Zangna |
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1- Interview with
presidential independent candidate Ralph Nader. Who spent the
last four decades advocating for consumer safety, workers’ rights,
and helped intact the freedom of information act, clean air act
among many others.
2- We also have a
documentary program produced by Alternate Focus entitled “In
the Name Of Security”. This documentary investigates the
aftermath of the 2002 Israeli military action against refugee camps
in the occupied West Bank. For more information on the program
please visit
www.alternatefocus.org |
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VIDEO
8/23/08
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AUDIO
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The Presence of
Absence in the Ruins of Kafr Bir'im
- by John Halaka
Shot on location amid
Kafr Bir’im’s ruins and cemetery, located in Northern Galilee,
Halaka interviews Ibrahim Essa, an elder Palestinian man and poet,
who survived Al-Nakba. Halaka focuses on the stone ruins of houses,
wild grass, flowers, shrubs, and bushes that sway in the wind. When
he confesses that the stone ruins and the trees spoke to him, his
footage brings this feeling home. |
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8/16/08
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For more information on
the program please visit
www.alternatefocus.org |
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1-
Loss Of Liberty - The
Story of the USS Liberty --
Part # 2
2-
- Songs and Music from
the musical Mays Alrreem staring Fayrouz and the
late NASRI Shams-Eldeen. |
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Part#2 8/9/08
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Part # 2
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J.Bamford |
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J.Smith |
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M.Staring. |
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T. Moorer |
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1-
Loss Of Liberty - The
Story of the USS Liberty
On June 8,
1967, Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats launched a ferocious
two-hour attack against the USS Liberty, an American intelligence
ship operating in the eastern Mediterranean. Of the 294 men aboard
the vessel, 34 were killed and 172 were wounded. "The Loss of
Liberty" includes interviews with high-ranking Israeli military
officers. High-ranking American military and civilian officials,
including Dean Rusk, former U.S. Secretary of State, and Admiral
Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff,
provide authoritative analysis. "The Loss of Liberty" tells the
shocking, long-suppressed truth about the treacherous assault, and
ters to shreds the official story that the attack was a case of
mistaken identity.
2- Songs and Music from
the musical Mays Alrreem staring Fayrouz and the
late NASRI Shams-Eldeen.
Music by The Rahbani
Brothers |
PLAY VIDEO
Part#1 8/2/08
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Part#1
for more information
on the program please visit
www.alternatefocus.org |
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THE DYNAMICS OF
RESISTANCE: THE APARTHEID ANALOGY IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE was the
title of a lecture that took place recently at the university of
Vermont.guest speaker was NANCY MURRAY.
Nancy Murray is a
scholar, organizer and human rights activist; advisor to the U.S.
Campaign to End the Occupation; She is also the president of the
Gaza Mental Health Foundation; and author of Palestinians: Life
Under Occupation
Footage courtesy
of
RETN “Regional Education Technology Network”, RETN is a
public service organization that produce and provide media for
learning in the Champlain valley community, in Vermont.
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7/26/08
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Nancy Murray |
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1- A phone interview
with Attorney Noura Erakat, talking about the Popular
Conference for Palestinians in the US. That will take place on Aug
8-10 in Chicago, IL. for more information visit the
conference website
www.palestineconference.org
2- A program produced by
Alternatefocus entiteled “ In the name of Security”. A short
documentary about a team of American attorneys investigates the
aftermath of the 2002 Israeli military action against refugee camps
in the Israeli-occupied territories |
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7/19/08
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1- Interview with
Judd Ne’eman, an Israeli filmmaker. His films “The
Dress” (Hasimla), “Paratroopers” (Massa Alunkot), and
“Nuzhat al-Fuad” ( Promenade of the Heart)have been critically
acclaimed for their thematic and aesthetic innovative aspects. Judd
Ne’eman is among the founders of cinema studies in Israel and has
done research and published essays on Israeli cinema and war films.
2- Footage from the
Arabic Hour father's day Hafli. |
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7/12/08
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1- Interview with
Hicham Kayed, a Palestinian filmmaker living in Lebanon.
He coordinates Al-Jana’s film festivals: “Palestine in the New
Cinema”; and “Jana International Film Festival for Children and
Youth”.
2- Watch Hicham
Kayed award-winning films is Neither Here Nor There,
which is a portrayal of the aspirations and frustrations that
influence the lives of thousands of young Palestinians refugees in
Lebanon |
PLAY VIDEO
7/5/08
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