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April 2016 will mark the 14th anniversary for Arab
Voices on KPFT!
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Next Show:
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Wednesday,
March 23, 2016 |
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7
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Tune
in and participate live by calling the studio at
713-526-5738 during the show.
You can also listen live on the Internet at
www.ArabVoices.net.
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Did you miss the last show, or the previous shows?
(click on a date
below to listen to a specific show) |
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March 16, 2016 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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1st Segment:
The
6th Annual Houston Palestinian
Festival
A
live conversation with
Ruba Afifi,
Festival Co-Chair and Board Member with the Palestinian
American Cultural Center (PACC-Houston), and
Mona Fareed,
Festival Team Member, about the 6th Annual Houston
Palestinian Festival that will be held on Saturday and
Sunday, March 19-20 at
Jones Plaza in Downtown Houston.
This year, Palestinian Singer Rola Azar (from Palestine) will be performing live at
the Festival. In addition, there will be live performances
by Jabour, Ayman Al-Khatib, DJ Ashraf, and more.
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2nd Segment:
Bill Corcoran
A
live conversation with
Bill Corcoran, President and CEO of ANERA, American Near
East Refugee Aid, about the Syrian and Palestinian refugee
crisis, and ANERA's projects and efforts to assist the
refugees in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
Mr. Corcoran will be in Houston on Tuesday, March 22, to
give a presentation about the current and ongoing projects
in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon (Benefit Dinner: Stories
of Hope from Palestine & Lebanon). This event will be held
at 7 p.m. at Fadi's Mediterranean Grill, 12360 Westheimer
Rd. in Houston. He will also be participating at the
Palestinian Festival on Saturday and Sunday, March 19-20. |
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March 9, 2016 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Guest: |
Ghada Talhami
Emeritus
Professor in the Department of Politics at Lake Forest
College in Illinois. She has published several books
including "Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East
and North Africa", "The Mobilization of Muslim Women in
Egypt", and "Syria and the Palestinians". She has also
published numerous articles including "Arab Women and the
Attack of September 11", “Women, Education and Development
in the Arab Gulf Countries”, and “Women and Philanthropy in
Palestine and Egyptian Societies”. Professor Talhami
previously served as Director of Arab Studies at the
University of Illinois-Chicago, and Director of the Arab
Information Center in Chicago (an office of the Arab League
of States). She also served as President of the Association
of Arab-American University Graduates, Editor of Arab
Studies Quarterly, and Chair of Palestine Human Rights
Campaign. She is also the recipient of several awards and
honors over the years. |
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Tuesday, March 8th was the
International Women’s Day, and today on Arab Voices
we will speak with professor Talhami about women in the
Middle East; their great contributions to societies; the
important roles women play politically, economically,
socially, and culturally; women's involvements in education;
political activism; and their struggle and sacrifices for
human rights, justice, and freedom. We will also talk about
the west's view and stereotyping of Arab women; and more. |
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Joe Lauria
(live from Iraq)
Veteran
foreign-affairs journalist, author and political commentator
based at the United Nation since 1990. He has been an
independent journalist covering international affairs and
the Middle East for more than 20 years. A former Wall Street
Journal United Nations correspondent, Joe has been an
investigative reporter for The Sunday Times of
London. He has also corresponded from the U.N. in New
York for numerous newspapers, and his work has appeared in
many publications. Mr. Lauria has taught journalism at two
American universities and traveled widely throughout the
Middle East and the world. He is the author, with former
U.S. Senator and American presidential candidate Mike
Gravel, of A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American
Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It. Joe has
appeared on BBC World, PBS News Hour, Al-Jazeera, CNN, and
other TV and radio programs. |
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We will speak
live with Joe (currently in Iraq) about
the situation in Iraq and what he is witnessing there; and
the wars in Syria and Yemen. Joe just published
an article titled
"Obama’s
Most Momentous Decision" which states: "With the
Russian-backed Syrian army encircling Aleppo, cutting off
Turkish supplies to rebels and advancing on the Islamic
State’s capital of Raqqa, a panicked Saudi Arabia and Turkey
have set up a joint headquarters to direct an invasion of
Syria that could lead to a vast escalation of the war. And
there’s only one man who could stop them: President Barack
Obama". |
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February 24, 2016 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Stephen Zunes
(live from
New Zealand)
Professor
of politics and international studies and program director
of Middle Eastern studies at the University of San
Francisco. He has published scores of articles in academic
journals, anthologies, magazines, and newspaper op-ed pages
on such topics as U.S. foreign policy, Middle Eastern
politics, Latin American politics, African politics, human
rights, arms control, social movements and nonviolent
action. He is the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East
Policy and the Roots of Terrorism; co-author of
Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution;
and co-editor of Nonviolent Social Movements.
Recognized as
one of the country’s leading scholars of U.S. Middle East
policy and of strategic nonviolent action, Professor Zunes
serves as a senior policy analyst for Foreign Policy in
Focus, an associate editor of Peace Review, a contributing
editor of Tikkun, and
the chair of the
academic advisory committee for the International Center on
Nonviolent Conflict. He has contributed to the Nation,
Huffington Post, and Alternet. Professor Zunes has presented
numerous lectures and conference papers in the United States
and over a dozen foreign countries and has traveled
frequently to the Middle East and other conflict regions,
meeting with prominent government officials, scholars and
dissidents. |
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We will speak
live with professor Zunes about
the rewriting of the history of the Iraq War, challenging
recent inaccurate statements by Marco Rubio, Hillary
Clinton, and other presidential candidates. |
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February 17, 2016 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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The 2015
Edward Said Memorial Lecture with Dr. Cornel West
The
Palestine Center in
Washington, D.C. held its annual Edward Said Memorial
Lecture on October 1, 2015. The speaker was Dr. Cornel West,
Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union
Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton
University.
In this lecture, Dr. West discusses the profound legacy of
Edward Said in social and political thought. He explores Dr.
Said’s role as an “engaged intellectual” whose voice
provoked introspection, deep questioning, dialogue, and
enduring change.
Today on Arab Voices, we will listen to that lecture. |
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February 10, 2016 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Winter Membership
Drive
Arab Voices Needs YOUR Support!
Please call during the show on Wednesday
between 7 and 8 pm central time and pledge your support (713-526-5738),
or send e-mail to
ArabVoices@hotmail.com
with your name and the amount you want to pledge (all gifts
to KPFT are tax-deductible).
Click here for a list of the "Thank-You
Gifts" offered.
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Membership Drive |
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February 3, 2016 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Listen: Israeli army
is “making our lives impossible,” says Hebron activist
A podcast produced by
The Electronic Intifada.
Activists in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron have been
staging an around-the-clock sit-in protest at an Israeli
military checkpoint located at the entrance to Shuhada
street in the Old City. The checkpoint leads to an area
occupied by Israeli settlers. In this podcast, The
Electronic Intifada speaks with
Issa Amro,
coordinator of Youth Against Settlements.
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Membership Drive |
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January 27, 2016 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Guest/
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Dyala Husseini
Palestinian
activist (born and currently lives in occupied Jerusalem)
who is heavily involved in social work. She graduated with a
general education degree from the American University in
Beirut, Lebanon. She worked at the Jordan Pavilion during
the New York World Fair in 1964-65, and worked as a guide at
the United Nations in New York in 1965-67. She joined the
Jordan Mission to the United Nations for a year. In 1967,
she helped create the Social Society of Burj Al-LuqLuq
NGO in the Old City of Jerusalem (it gives social and
psychological support and services to the residents of the
Old City).
We will speak live with Dyala about the ongoing Israeli
atrocities in occupied Jerusalem; home demolitions; colony
expansion; and the Israeli destruction of Mamilla Cemetery,
the oldest Muslim burial ground in Jerusalem, displacing
hundreds of Muslim graves dating as far back as the 7th
century, in order for US-based Simon Wiesenthal Center to
build a "Museum of Tolerance" on its ground!
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Membership Drive |
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January 20, 2016 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Joshua Landis
Director
of the Center for Middle East Studies and Associate
Professor at the University of Oklahoma’s College of
International Studies. He writes “Syria Comment,” a daily
newsletter on Syrian politics that attracts over 100,000
readers a month. Dr. Landis travels frequently to Washington
DC to consult with government agencies and speak at think
tanks. He has lived over 14 years in the Middle East (4
years in Syria, 8 years in Lebanon, and spent most summers
in Damascus until the revolution began) and speaks Arabic
and French fluently. He served as President of Syria Studies
Association. He is a frequent analyst on various media
outlets including Charlie Rose, PBS News Hour, Al-Jazeera,
and many others. He is frequently published in many journals
such as Foreign Policy and Middle East Policy. He has won
the best teacher prize at his university; helped raised over
one million dollars for a new chair in Iranian studies, and
helped bring the government funded Arabic Flagship Program
to OU. Three Fulbright grants, the SSRC and other awards
have helped support his research. Dr. Landis teaches
Political Islam, International Relations in the Middle East,
Islam, The Modern Middle East, Culture and Society in the
Middle East, and the US in the Middle East. |
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We will speak
live with Joshua about the crisis in Syria;
foreign interventions by various countries (Russia, Iran,
US, Turkey, Arab States); the Syrian peace talks set for
next week in Geneva; and the prospects of a real peace deal
and/or path to end the crisis. |
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January 13, 2016 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Chris Hedges'
Talk in Houston
The Houston Peace and Justice Center (HPJC) held its 2015
Peacemaker Awards Dinner on November 14, 2015. The National Peacemaker Award
recipient was Chris Hedges, who was also the keynote
speaker.
Today on Arab Voices, we will listen to Chris Hedge's talk
at this event, and also listen to some of the questions and
answers that followed his talk.
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer
Prize winning journalist who writes a weekly column for the
online magazine
Truthdig. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign
correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa,
and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries
and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National
Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York
Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15
years. Hedges left the Times after being issued a formal
reprimand for denouncing the Bush administration’s invasion
of Iraq. In 2012, he sued President Barack Obama after the
passing of the National Defense Authorization Act. Hedges
authored numerous bestselling books, including Empire of
Illusion; Death of the Liberal Class; War is a Force that
Gives Us Meaning; Days of Revolt which he co-wrote with Joe
Sacco; and his most recent book Wages of Rebellion: The
Moral Imperative of Revolt. Hedges received many awards and
recognitions over the years. He was part of the team of
reporters at The New York Times that was awarded a Pulitzer
Prize, and he also received the Amnesty International Global
Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges is a senior fellow
at The Nation Institute in New York City. He has taught at
Columbia University, New York University, Princeton
University and The University of Toronto. He currently
teaches prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New
Jersey. Hedges holds a B.A. in English literature from
Colgate University and a Master of Divinity degree from
Harvard University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate
from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley,
California. Hedges speaks Arabic, French and Spanish and
studied classics, including ancient Greek and Latin, at
Harvard. |
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January 6, 2016 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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"Islam in Liberalism" by Joseph Massad
The
Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab
History at the University of Houston held an
event
on December 3, 2015 titled "Islam in Liberalism". The guest
speaker was Joseph Massad, Professor of Modern Arab Politics
and Intellectual History at Columbia University. He is the
author of
Islam in Liberalism (Chicago, 2015); Desiring
Arabs (Chicago, 2007), which was awarded the Lionel
Trilling Book Award; The Persistence of the Palestinian
Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinian Question
(Routledge, 2006); and Colonial Effects: The Making of
National Identity in Jordan (Columbia, 2001).
Today on Arab Voices, we will listen to
Professor Massad's lecture on "Islam in Liberalism". |
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December 30, 2015 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Interviews from 2015
Arab Voices will air portions of several interviews
conducted with different guests in 2015, including:
Remi Kanazi
Poet, writer, and organizer based in New York City. He is
the author of the new released collection of poetry
Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to
Palestine.
Zakaria Odeh (in occupied Jerusalem)
Executive Director of the Civic Coalition for Palestinian
Rights in Jerusalem.
Chris Hedges
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author who writes a
weekly column for the online magazine Truthdig.
Phyllis Bennis
Fellow and the Director of the New Internationalism Project
at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C. She
is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in
Amsterdam. She has been a writer, analyst, and activist on
Middle East and UN issues for many years.
Dr. Clovis Maksoud
Former ambassador and permanent observer of the League of
Arab States at the United Nations and its chief
representative in the United States for more than 10 years. |
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December 23, 2015 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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1st Segment:
We will first air the
statement by the
US Council of Muslim Organizations
(US-CMO), a coalition of leading national and local Muslim
organizations, announcing major educational, outreach and
civic empowerment initiatives to address growing
Islamophobia in America and to enhance national security
through the promotion of freedom and justice.
We will also air few minutes from an interview Amy Goodman
conducted on Democracy Now! on December 22, 2016 with
Pulitzer-winning veteran journalist
Seymour Hersh about
a new report he published in the London Review of Books
that says the US Joint Chiefs of Staff has indirectly
supported Bashar al-Assad in an effort to help him defeat
jihadist groups!
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2nd Segment:
Vijay Prashad
Vijay
Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South
Asian History and Professor of International Studies at
Trinity College. He is the author of sixteen books,
including The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the
Global South, Arab Spring, Libyan Winter,
(co-edited with Paul Amar) Dispatches from the Arab
Spring, and No Free Left: The Futures of Indian
Communism. Vijay's latest book is Letters to
Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation. He is
the chief editor at Leftward Press, and writes regularly for
The Hindu, Frontline, Jadaliyya, Counterpunch, Himal and
Bol. Vijay also served as the Edward Said Chair of American
Studies at the American University of Beirut (2013- 2014).
We will speak live with Vijay about
ISIS and the how it is able to extract and smuggle
oil from the oil fields it controls in Syria and Iraq to
other countries including Turkey and Israel to fund itself. |
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Rev. Ronnie Lister
Reverend
Lister is an ordained minister in the National Baptist
Convention. He is a social activist, scholar, and an
advocate for the poor. He co-founded (with his wife, Minister
Ann Lister) the International Center for Spiritual and
Social Activism, committed to . He has also served as a teaching assistant
at the Interdenominational Theological Center, and Candler
School of Theology at Emory University both located in
Atlanta, GA. Reverend Lister holds a Master of Arts Degree
in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena,
CA, and has pursued post graduate studies at California
State University, and the Interdenominational Theological
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Mustafaa Carroll
Executive
Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Texas,
Houston Chapter. He has more than 23 years' experience in
business and leadership, and 18 years as a corporate
management consultant specializing in leadership, service
and diversity. Mustafaa began his civil rights
activism at 16 as President of the NAACP Youth Council in
his hometown of Gary, Indiana. Prior to his arrival to CAIR's Houston office in June 2010, he served on the CAIR-TX
DFW board from 2004-2006 and the Executive Committee as
Board President in 2007, and was appointed as Executive
Director in June 2007. Carroll has also served on several
other boards including the North Texas Islamic Council,
Masjid Al-Islam, Dallas, the Islamic Medieval Studies Group,
the Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas, the advisory
committee of the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce, and he
was a founding member and Chair of Humanitarian Day-DFW
Event for 5 years. Together with the board and staff of CAIR-TX,
Carroll is helping to develop and execute strategies that
assure justice and civil rights for Muslims in the Greater
Houston Community.
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We will speak
live with our guests about the anti-Muslim sentiment that is
on the rise in the US; recent spike in attacks on American
Muslims and their religious institutions including hate
crimes, vandalism, shootings, harassment, and arson. We will
talk about Islamophobia, fearmongering, stereotyping,
racism, racial profiling, and surveillance of Muslims, Arabs,
and mosques.
We will also talk about ways community organizers,
organizations and religious institutions of different faiths
work together to counter these issues through interfaith
work/relations, and how to deal with the negative image
portrayed by media outlets, politicians, presidential
candidates and others. |
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Today, we will talk about Muslims and Donald Trump’s
comments and
plan to deny Muslims entry into the US if
elected president. We will also run a short documentary
produced by Unity Productions Foundation titled
American
Muslims: Facts vs. Fiction.
During the second half of the program, we will speak live
with
Robert Naiman,
Policy Director at Just Foreign Policy, who edits the Just
Foreign Policy news summary and writes on U.S. foreign
policy at Huffington Post. He is also president of the board
of Truthout, and is on the Steering Committee of Gaza's Ark
Project.
Naiman has worked as a policy analyst and
researcher at the Center for Economic and Policy Research
and Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. He has masters
degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of
Illinois and has studied and worked in the Middle East.
We will get his reaction to President Obama’s plan to defeat
ISIS, and also get his reaction to Donald Trump’s plan to
deny Muslims entry to the US, if elected President. |
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December 2, 2015 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Topic: |
ACC's Annual Unity & Friendship Gala
The
Arab American Cultural & Community Center in Houston held
its 22nd Annual Unity & Friendship Gala on November 14, 2015.
This year's theme was "Embracing our Community's Needs
and Aspirations", and it highlighted the culture and people
of the Kingdom of Jordan. The Gala Chair was Mayada Al-Kaisi
Coleman, and the Gala Co-Chair was Sarah Rabie. The Master
of Ceremonies was Phil Snyder. Today on Arab Voices we will
listen to most of the remarks made at the Gala.
This year's ACC honorees were the late Dr. Amer Sabbagh
(2015 ACC Outstanding Community Service Award, presented by
Wafa Abdin, ACC Board Member, and Abdel ElKhadiri, ACC
Treasurer), and Dr. Samir Tuma (2015 ACC Lifetime
Achievement and Leadership Award, presented by Dr. Kamal
Khalil, ACC President).
There was also special recognition for FADI'S
Mediterranean Grill (2015 ACC Business Community Award,
presented to Fadi Dimassi by Wadih ElHajj, ACC Second
Vice-President), and FotoFest (2015 ACC Service to
the Arab Culture and Art Award, presented to Frederick
Baldwin and Wendy Watriss, co-founders of FotoFest, by Dr.
Rudeina Baasiri, ACC Board Member at Large). |
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Guest: |
Paul
Gottinger
An
independent journalist based in Madison, WI whose work
focuses on the Middle East. He recently wrote an analysis of
the "war on terror" in an article titled "Despite 14 Years
of the U.S. War on Terror, Terror Attacks Have Skyrocketed
Since 9/11". In this analysis, Paul Gottinger says: "Terror
attacks have jumped by a stunning 6,500 percent since 2002,
according to a new analysis by Reader Supported News. The
number of casualties resulting from terror attacks has
increased by 4,500 percent over this same time period. These
colossal upsurges in terror took place despite a
decade-long, worldwide effort to fight terrorism that has
been led by the United States." "The analysis, conducted
with figures provided by the U.S. State Department, also
shows that from 2007 to 2011 almost half of all the world’s
terror took place in Iraq or Afghanistan -- two countries
being occupied by the U.S. at the time.
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We will speak with Paul about the "war on terror" and the
rise of terror attacks since 9/11. |
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November 18, 2015 |
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Arab Voices was preempted on
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 for a special Pacifica Radio
Archives National Fund Drive that aired on all Pacifica
stations in the US. Our next show will be on Wednesday,
November 25, 2015. |
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Guest: |
Reese Erlich
Award-winning
freelance foreign correspondent
who
has traveled widely
across the Middle East
and
just came back from there.
He has
covered the Middle
East for three decades and was in northern Iraq at the start
of the U.S. bombing campaign against ISIS. Erlich reports
regularly for several media outlets including NPR,
the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, and CBS Radio News. His
articles on the Middle East have appeared in the Christian
Science Monitor, GlobalPost, Atlantic Online, and Vanity
Fair Online. He is author of several books
including
Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on
Politics, Violence and Empire,
the best selling book
Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You (co-authored
with Norman Solomon), The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of
US Policy and the Middle East Crisis,
and most recently
Inside Syria: The
Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect,
with a foreword by Noam Chomsky. Erlich has received several
awards over the years.
In 2006 he shared a prestigious Peabody Award
as a segment producer
for Crossing East, a radio documentary on the history of
Asians in the US.,
and in 2012 the Society of Professional Journalists awarded
Erlich
a prize for best
“radio explanatory journalism” for his documentary “Inside
the Syrian Revolution”.
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We will speak with Mr. Erlich about Syria and the current
situation there, and the US, Russia and other countries'
involvements, Iraq, Iran, the US foreign policy towards the
Middle East, and more. |
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Guest: |
Remi Kanazi
Poet,
writer, and organizer based in New York City. He is the
author of the new released collection of poetry Before
the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine.
He is also the author of Poetic Injustice: Writings on
Resistance and Palestine, and the editor of Poets For
Palestine. Remi's political commentary has been featured
by news outlets throughout the world, including The New
York Times, Salon, Al Jazeera English and
BBC Radio. Kanazi has toured hundreds of venues
across the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle
East, and he has appeared in the Palestine Festival of
Literature as well as Poetry International. He is a Lannan
Residency Fellow and an Advisory Committee member for the
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott
of Israel. He has taught poetry workshops from Oklahoma to
the West Bank, given talks from New York City to London, and
has performed at hundreds of venues, from New Orleans to
Amman. |
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October 28, 2015 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Political Terrorism in
the US: The Assassination of Alex Odeh
Today on Arab Voices we will air a special Pacifica Radio
Archives documentary from interviews with law enforcement
agents, possible suspects, politicians, and community
members concerning the October 11, 1985 murder of
Arab-American political activist Alex Odeh.
Thirty years ago this month Alex Odeh, who was the West
Coast Regional Director for the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) at that time, was
assassinated in his office, and to this date, the murder
case of Alex Odeh remains unsolved by the FBI.
"Political Terrorism in the United States: The Assassination
of Alex Odeh" is an early look at the circumstances
surrounding the terrorist attack. This documentary features
the voices of Alex Odeh, family members, the FBI and from
the Jewish Defense League, an organization originally named
by investigators as the probably culprit of the crime. Just
who killed Alex Odeh remains a question to this day.
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Visit www.ADC.org for more details.
Born in Jifna, Palestine in 1944, Alex Odeh became a poet,
lecturer and Arab-American peace activist. He originally
studied to become an engineer at Cairo University in Egypt.
When the Six Day War ended in 1967, Israeli authorities
prevented Odeh from returning to his hometown in the West
Bank. Living a life of exile changed him, starting off a
life in politics. Alex Odeh immigrated to the United States
in 1972 eventually continuing his studies with a Masters
degree in political science from Cal State Fullerton. In
1982, the Palestinian activist joined the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee, a newly formed group aimed at
combating grotesque Arab stereotypes in the media and bias
in Middle East reporting. A year later, Odeh became the West
Coast Regional Coordinator, setting up an office in Santa
Ana, California. Death threats haunted Odeh on nearly a
daily basis. On October 10, 1985, a local television station
interviewed him about the Achilles Lauro hijacking and
murder of Leon Klinghoffer. Odeh spoke condemning terrorism
across the board but argued that the media was too quick to
link the attack to the PLO. As fate would have it, the
activist opened the door to his officer the next morning for
what was to be another routine day at work. When the door
swung open, a powerful pipe bomb exploded killing Odeh. |
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October 21, 2015 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Guest/
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Zakaria
Odeh (in occupied
Jerusalem)
Executive Director of the
Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem
(an independent, non-governmental, non-profit coalition of
organizations, institutions, societies, and associations
dedicated to the promotion and protection of Palestinian
rights in Jerusalem). We will speak with Zakaria (in
occupied Jerusalem) about the situation in occupied
Palestine, especially in Jerusalem, and the ongoing Israeli
atrocities and killing in occupied Palestine (more than 51
Palestinians were killed over the past three weeks including
11 children and 1 pregnant woman, and nearly 6,000
Palestinians were injured).
We
will also hear the reaction and statements of several
local
Houstonians
who participated in a demonstration/protest held in Houston
on Saturday, October 17 to protest Israel’s actions in the
occupied Palestinian territories. |
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October 14, 2015 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Susan Abulhawa
Palestinian-American
human rights activist, novelist, award-winning author and a
frequent political commentator. She was born to Palestinian
refugees from Jerusalem, where her family had lived for
centuries. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine,
an organization dedicated to upholding Palestinian
children's Right to Play. Susan received her Master's degree
in Neuroscience from the University of South Carolina. She
is a science writer for medical journals, and has
contributed to several anthologies and has been published in
several US and international newspapers and other
periodicals. Her first book of poems was titled My Voice
Sought the Wind. Her first novel, Mornings in Jenin,
was an international bestseller, with rights sold in
twenty-six languages, and her second novel (just released)
is titled The Blue Between Sky and Water, and was
sold in nineteen languages before its release. Susan tried
to visit Palestine in July 2015 as a US citizen, but was
denied entry by the Israeli occupation forces.
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We will speak live with Susan about her new book The Blue
Between Sky and Water; her recent attempt to visit
occupied Palestine; and the latest escalation of violence by
the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinians
throughout occupied Palestine where at least 33 Palestinians
were killed including 7 children since October 1, 2015,
dozens were kidnapped, and more than 1,600 Palestinians were
injured in addition to more than 4,000 Palestinians treated
for tear gas inhalation fired by Israeli occupation army. |
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October 7, 2015 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Fall Membership
Drive
Arab Voices Needs YOUR Support to
Raise $2,940
Please call during the show on Wednesday
between 7 and 8 pm central time and pledge your support (713-526-5738),
or send e-mail to
ArabVoices@hotmail.com
with your name and the amount you want to pledge (all gifts
to KPFT are tax-deductible).
Click here for a list of the "Thank-You
Gifts" offered.
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Membership Drive |
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September 30, 2015 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Topic: |
Fall Membership
Drive
Arab Voices Needs YOUR Support to
Raise $2,940
Please call during the show on Wednesday
between 7 and 8 pm central time and pledge your support (713-526-5738),
or send e-mail to
ArabVoices@hotmail.com
with your name and the amount you want to pledge (all gifts
to KPFT are tax-deductible).
Click here for a list of the "Thank-You
Gifts" offered.
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Membership Drive |
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September 23, 2015 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Topic: |
Fall Membership
Drive
Arab Voices Needs YOUR Support to
Raise $2,940
Please call during the show on Wednesday
between 7 and 8 pm central time and pledge your support (713-526-5738),
or send e-mail to
ArabVoices@hotmail.com
with your name and the amount you want to pledge (all gifts
to KPFT are tax-deductible).
Click here for a list of the "Thank-You
Gifts" offered.
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Membership Drive |
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September 16, 2015 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Guest/
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Shireen
Jasser
Social Worker, community organizer and President of the
Syrian American Council Houston Chapter.
We will speak with Shireen about the Syrian Refugee Crisis
where more than half of the Syrian population (over 12
million) are now refugees as a result of the ongoing bloody
and destructive war in Syria. We will also talk about the
Syrian refugees in Houston, and how the Houston community is
dealing with the situation, and also talk about ways to
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September 9, 2015 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Chris Hedges
Pulitzer
Prize winning journalist who writes a weekly column for the
online magazine
Truthdig. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign
correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa,
and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries
and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National
Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York
Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15
years. Hedges left the Times after being issued a formal
reprimand for denouncing the Bush administration’s invasion
of Iraq. In 2012, he sued President Barack Obama after the
passing of the National Defense Authorization Act. Hedges
authored numerous bestselling books, including Empire of
Illusion; Death of the Liberal Class; War is a Force that
Gives Us Meaning; Days of Revolt which he co-wrote with Joe
Sacco; and his most recent book Wages of Rebellion: The
Moral Imperative of Revolt. Hedges received many awards and
recognitions over the years. He was part of the team of
reporters at The New York Times that was awarded a Pulitzer
Prize, and he also received the Amnesty International Global
Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges is a senior fellow
at The Nation Institute in New York City. He has taught at
Columbia University, New York University, Princeton
University and The University of Toronto. He currently
teaches prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New
Jersey. Hedges holds a B.A. in English literature from
Colgate University and a Master of Divinity degree from
Harvard University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate
from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley,
California. Hedges speaks Arabic, French and Spanish and
studied classics, including ancient Greek and Latin, at
Harvard.
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We will speak with Chris Hedges
about the US Foreign Policy towards the Middle East; ISIS;
the crisis in the Syria, Iraq, Yemen and other countries in
the Middle east; the BDS Movement; and more.
Please note that
Chris Hedges
will receive the Houston Peace and Justice Center HPJC's
2015 National Peacemaker Award and give the keynote address
at the Awards Dinner in Houston on November 14, 2015.
For more details on this event or to purchase tickets, visit
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September 2, 2015 ![](/web/20160320123712im_/http://www.arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Phyllis Bennis
Fellow
and the Director of the New Internationalism Project at the
Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C. She is also
a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She
has been a writer, analyst, and activist on Middle East and
UN issues for many years. She helped found and remains on
the advisory board of the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli
Occupation. Phyllis plays a leading role in US and global
movements against wars and occupation, and writes and speaks
widely across the U.S. and around the world as part of the
global peace movement. She continues to serve as an informal
adviser to several top UN officials on Middle East and UN
democratization issues. She is the author of numerous books
including "Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict",
"Ending the Iraq War: A Primer", "Understanding the US-Iran
Crisis: A Primer", and "Before & After: US Foreign Policy
and the War on Terror". Her most recent book (just released)
is titled "Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on
Terror: A Primer".
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We will speak with Phyllis about her new book
"Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror: A
Primer". We will also get her views on the US foreign policy
towards the Middle East, the turmoil that is engulfing
several areas in that region, and more. |
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