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April 2017 marked the 15th anniversary for Arab
Voices on KPFT!
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Wednesday,
May 31, 2017 |
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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
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May 24, 2017 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Guests/
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1st
Segment:
Zaha Hassan
Human
rights attorney, Middle East Fellow at New America,
and former coordinator and senior legal advisor to the
Palestinian negotiating team during Palestine’s bid for UN
membership from 2010-2012. As a New America fellow,
she will complete a novel, Die Standing Like Trees,
which deals with a Palestinian-American woman’s search for
answers twenty years after her mother’s violent death during
the height of the Oslo peace talks. Zaha received her J.D.
from the University of California at Berkeley, an LLM in
transnational & international law from Willamette
University, and graduated magna cum laude from the
University of Washington in Seattle with a B.A. in political
science and Near East languages and civilizations. She has
been co-host for the last two years of the Portland, Oregon
radio show, One Land Many Voices, on KBOO 90.7 FM and is a
contributor to the online magazine, The Civil Arab.
We will speak live with Zaha about President Trump's visit
to occupied Palestine, the ongoing (37 days and counting)
Palestinian Political Prisoner's Hunger Strike, and more.
Please note there will be a protest "Houston Stands with
Palestinian Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike" this
Thursday, May 25, 2017, in front of the Consulate General of
Israel in Houston organized by Students for Justice in
Palestine at the University of Houston.
Click here for more details.
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2nd Segment:
Sahar Aziz
Professor
of law at Texas A&M University School of Law where she
teaches courses on national security, civil rights, and
Middle East law. She also serves as a Nonresident Fellow at
Brookings Doha Center. Prior to joining Texas A&M, Professor
Aziz served as a Senior Policy Advisor for the Office for
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security where she worked on law and policy at the
intersection of national security and civil liberties. Her
academic articles have been published in the Harvard
National Security Journal, George Washington International
Law Review, Penn State Law Review, and the Texas Civil
Rights and Civil Liberties Journal. In 2015, Professor Aziz
was named an Emerging Scholar by Diverse Issues in Higher
Education and received the Derrick Bell Award from the
American Association of Law Schools Minority Group Section.
She is a blogger for the Huffington Post and the Race and
the Law Profs blog. She also serves on the board of the ACLU
of Texas. Professor Aziz earned a J.D. and M.A. in Middle
East Studies from the University of Texas where she served
as an associate editor of the Texas Law Review.
We will speak live with Sahar about President Trump's visit
to Saudi Arabia. Sahar published oped on CNN titled
"Trump's
Doublespeak in Saudi Arabia", in which she says "If
there's one thing we've learned about Donald Trump, it is
that he has no qualms about contradicting himself to get
what he wants. In Saudi Arabia, he wanted a $110 billion
arms deal -- not to promote peace and tolerance, as he later
proclaimed in his Sunday speech. Thus, his speech will not
"be remembered as the beginning of peace in the Middle
East," as he loftily put it, but rather a boost to the war
that is ravaging it. Nor will Trump's speech put an end to
the Islamophobia and bigotry that he has spent the past two
years inciting. After all, he needs scapegoats to blame when
the terrorism in the Middle East inevitably reaches the
United States.". |
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May 17, 2017 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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"Israel's Politics of Fear and the Palestinians" by Nadera
Shalhoub-Kevorkian
The
Arab-American Educational Foundation Lecture Fund and
the History
Department at Rice University sponsored a talk titled "Israel's
Politics of Fear and the Palestinians" on April 4, 2017, at
Rice University with guest speaker Professor Nadera
Shalhoub-Kevorkian from Jerusalem.
The talk was based on Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian's newly
published book about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
entitled Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics
of Fear. By drawing attention to violence against
Palestinians, and by pointing to legal, symbolic and
material means of dehumanization, Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian
explores the production of racialized and violent forms
of surveillance and fear that results in human suffering. In
connecting the structures of Israeli power with the
invisible and mundane lives of the colonized Palestinian
people, the talk shares data, including photos, videos,
and relevant laws, to show how the personal has become
profoundly politicized. Moving from the dead to the newborn,
from the graveyard to the womb, from the attack on home to
homeland, Shalhoub-Kevorkian discusses the way in which
intimate agonies are political sites of colonial governance.
Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is the Lawrence D. Biele
Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology
and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Today on Arab Voices, we will listen to Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian's
lecture on "Israel's Politics of Fear and the
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May 10, 2017 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Guests/
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1st
Segment:
Dr. Faiza Zalila
We
will speak live with Dr. Faiza Zalila,
President of the Arab American Cultural & Community Center
(ACC) in
Houston about the center, and the new community-wide
needs
assessment survey the ACC is conducting to obtain feedback
from the community and constituents, Arabs and friends of
Arabs, about social service needs and cultural programs you
want to see offered at the ACC Center, as the ACC is looking
to align its services and programs with the community needs
and interests in order to better serve the community.
We will also talk about the upcoming free
Family Health Fair
for the community at large, to be held Saturday, May 13th,
where the ACC in partnership with other organizations will
be offering free screening of vital health signs, vision,
cholesterol, blood pressure, fitness tests, in addition to
smoking cessation, mental health counseling, dental exams,
and much more.
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2nd Segment:
Mustafaa Carroll
We
will speak live with
Mustafaa Carroll, Executive
Director of the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR-Houston) about the new civil rights report
titled "The Empowerment of Hate" released yesterday, May 9,
2017, by CAIR documenting a spike in Anti-Muslim bias
incidents. The report reveals a 57 percent increase in 2016
anti-Muslim bias incidents over 2015. This was accompanied
by a 44 percent increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes in the
same period.
Other issues covered in the report include public officials
conditioning American audiences to fear Muslims, flying
while Muslim, closure of bank accounts linked to Muslim
names, the FBI, the impact of Islamophobia in educational
institutions, watch lists, and workplace discrimination.
We will also talk about the new Texas Senate
Bill 4 signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott banning
"sanctuary cities" in Texas and requiring local police to
cooperate with federal immigration authorities and allowing
police to inquire about the immigration status of people
they lawfully detain. |
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1st
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Houston
Palestine Film Festival
We
will speak live with
Mayk Chahine,
Board Member with the
Houston Palestine
Film Festival (HPFF) about the
11th Annual Houston Palestine Film Festival
(It's time
to share stories from and about Palestine)!
The festival will be held
Friday, May 5 through Sunday, May 7 at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston
and Rice University Media Center.
Click here for more details and Program Lineup.
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2nd Segment:
The Israel Lobby and Fake Peace Processing
by Khalil Jahshan
We will listen to the
speech titled "The Israel Lobby and Fake Peace Processing"
delivered by Khalil Jahshan at
The Israel Lobby and American Policy Conference, which
was held on March 24, 2017 at the National Press Club,
Washington, D.C. The conference was sponsored by the
American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs, and the Institute for
Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep).
Khalil Jahshan has been serving as Executive Director of
Arab Center Washington DC (ACW) since its inception in 2014.
Between 2004 and 2013, Jahshan was a lecturer in
International Studies and Languages at Pepperdine University
and Executive Director of Pepperdine’s Seaver College
Washington DC Internship Program. Previously, Jahshan served
as Executive Vice President of the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee and Director of its government
affairs affiliate, NAAA-ADC. Throughout his career he has
held numerous positions, including Vice President of the
American Committee on Jerusalem, President of the National
Association of Arab-Americans, and National Director of the
Association of Arab-American University graduates. He
received a bachelor’s degree in political science and French
from Harding University in 1972. Mr. Jahshan has served on
the board of directors and advisory boards of various Middle
East-oriented groups including ANERA, MIFTAH and Search for
Common Ground. He has appeared on various media outlets such
as Al-Jazeera, Al-Hurra, CCTV, Al-Arabiya, C-SPAN, and
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April 26, 2017 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Guest/
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Joe Catron
Organizer with Samidoun:
Palestinian
Prisoner Solidarity Network. We will speak live with Joe
about the thousands of Palestinian political prisoners
including children, women and legislative council members
held in Israeli jails, and the latest on the massive hunger
strike that started 10 days ago on April 17, 2017
(Prisoner's Day) by nearly 1,500 Palestinian political
prisoners in Israeli jails and detention centers, amidst
resentment of Israel’s cruel policies towards Palestinian
political prisoners.
We will also talk with him about the hearing held yesterday
in a Detroit U.S. District Court where a plea agreement was
reached to revoke Palestinian American Rasmea Odeh's U.S.
citizenship and deport her from the U.S.! |
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April 19, 2017 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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"Beyond the Arab Muslim
Ban: Feminist Futures and Joint Struggle"
by Professor
Nadine Naber
The
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and The
Arab-American Education Foundation Chair in Modern Arab
History at the University of Houston held the Nijad and Zeina Fares
Arab-American Educational Foundation Annual Distinguished
Lecture in Modern Arab Studies on March 21, 2017, at the
University of Houston. The lecture was titled "Beyond
the Arab Muslim Ban: Feminist Futures and Joint Struggle",
and the speaker was Professor Nadine Naber.
Today on Arab Voices, we will listen
to Professor Naber's lecture on "Beyond the Arab Muslim
Ban: Feminist Futures and Joint Struggle".
Professor Nadine Naber is
a leading Arab-American feminist scholar, author, and social
justice advocate. She is an associate professor in the
Gender and Women's Studies Program and the Global Asian
Studies Program and the director of the Arab American
Cultural Center at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Professor Naber is author of Arab America: Gender,
Cultural Politics, and Activism and editor of Race
and Arab Americans; Arab and Arab American Feminisms
(winner of the Arab American Book Award 2012); and The
Color of Violence. |
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April 12, 2017 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Philip Giraldi
Former
CIA Officer and Army Intelligence Officer who spent twenty
years overseas in Europe and the Middle East working
terrorism cases. He is the Executive Director of the
Council for the National Interest and a recognized
authority on international security and counterterrorism
issues. He writes regularly on terrorism, intelligence, and
security issues, and appears frequently on national and
international broadcasts. He holds a BA with honors from the
University of Chicago and an MA and Ph.D. in Modern History
from the University of London.
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A live conversation with
Mr. Giraldi about the recent U.S. missile attack on Syria
after a horrific poisonous gas attack in Khan Shaykhun,
south of the Syrian city of Idlib that killed dozens of
civilians.
Mr. Giraldi is one of several prominent former intelligence and
other officials with Veteran Intelligence Professionals
for Sanity (from virtually every branch of the U.S.
national security state) that have released a statement
saying "Trump Should Rethink Syria Escalation", and also
asking Trump to pull back from his dangerous escalation of
tensions with Russia. |
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April 5, 2017 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Spring Fund Drive |
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March 29, 2017 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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The
3rd Annual Lebanese Festival
A
live conversation with
Hiba Elroz and
Fred Davis, members
of the
Lebanese Festival Committee, about the
3rd Annual
Lebanese Festival that will be held Friday through
Sunday, March 31-April 2 at
Jones Plaza in Downtown Houston.
There will be entertainment, food, different activities,
great festivities, enjoyable atmosphere for both adults and
children, door prizes, music, folkloric dances,
performances, and much more. This will not just be a
festival...it will be a one of a kind experience as
attendees are whisked away on a memorable and exquisite
journey to explore all that Lebanon has to offer. The 3rd
Annual Houston Lebanese Festival will be unlike any other
festival before. It will be filled with surprises that take
you to the streets, the sights, and the sounds of Lebanon.
This event is hosted by the
American Lebanese Cultural
Center (ALCC) in Houston.
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Spring Fund Drive |
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March 22, 2017 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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1st Segment:
The
7th Annual Houston
Palestinian Festival
A
live conversation with
Ruba Afifi,
Festival Chair and Board Member with the Palestinian
American Cultural Center (PACC-Houston) and
Alma AlQuqa,
Festival Co-Chair about the
7th Annual Houston Palestinian Festival scheduled to be held March
25-26 at Jones Plaza in Downtown Houston. We will also speak
with
Dalal Abu Amneh
who will be performing live at the Festival. Dalal is a
Palestinian singer singing classical and folk music of the
Arabic musical heritage, and also a neuroscientist from
Nazareth. She is committed to achieving humanitarian goals
through her art and draws from the rich culture of
Palestine, and aims to develop this art and spread the
Palestinian culture to the wider world. Dalal is crafting a
global Palestinian identity and advocating for the
Palestinian cause through her music. She has participated in
many international and Arab festivals and has represented
Palestine in several Arab operettas and also participated in
many local and International cultural events. In addition to
her participation with her own band, Dalal is the lead
singer in the international orchestra MESTO where she
performs Arab and Palestinian folk, accompanied by Western
musicians and orchestral arrangement. A surprise to many of
her fans, besides music and singing, Dalal is studying for a
Ph.D. in neuroscience in the Faculty of Medicine at the
Technical Institute in Haifa.
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2nd Segment:
ESCOWA's New Report: Israel is guilty of apartheid
We
will talk about a
new report published a few days ago by the
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western
Asia, ESCOWA, which directly accuses Israel of imposing an
apartheid regime on the Palestinian people. The report also
urges governments to "support boycott, divestment and
sanctions activities and respond positively to calls for
such initiatives." What did the U.N. do when the report was
released? Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ordered the
report be withdrawn and removed from the web! Rima Khalaf,
the head of the U.N. agency ESCOWA, responsible for this
report resigned in protest! |
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Trump’s Foreign Policy
Positions on Palestine and the Middle East
The
Palestine Center in
Washington, D.C. held an event titled "Trump’s Foreign Policy
Positions on Palestine and the Middle East" on February 7,
2017. Panelists
Dr. Nathan Brown,
Dr. Shibley
Telhami, and
Professor P.J. Crowley
will examine in
this panel the foreign policy positions of President Donald
Trump with regard to Palestine and the Middle East. Among
the many issues related to the subject of this panel are
President Trump's campaign promise to relocate the US
embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and his appointment of
David Friedman, a pro-settlement lawyer with no foreign
policy experience, as US ambassador to Israel. The panelists
will discuss these issues, while examining the widespread
regional and global effects the Trump administration will
bring.
Today, on Arab Voices, we will listen to that panel.
Dr. Nathan Brown is a professor of Political Science and
International Affairs and Director of the Institute for
Middle East Studies as well as Director of the Middle East
Studies Program at George Washington University. From 2013
to 2015, he was President of the Middle East Association–the
academic association for scholars studying in the region. In
2013, Dr.Brown was named a Guggenheim Fellow. Four years
earlier he was named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie
Corporation of New York. For the 2009-2010 academic year, he
was a fellow at the Wilson International Center for
Scholars.
Philip J. (P.J.) Crowley is a professor of practice and
distinguished fellow at the Institute for Public Diplomacy
and Global Communications at George Washington University,
after serving a long career in the U.S. Department of State.
He is a specialist on national security and from 2011- 2012
he was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress
where he authored detailed analyses on security issues
including Safe At Home —a national security strategy to
protect the American homeland, improve national preparedness
and rebuild the US standing in the world.
Dr. Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat
Professor for Peace and Development and the Director of the
University of Maryland critical issues poll. He is also a
non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His
best-selling book, The Stakes: America and the Middle East,
was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books
on the Middle East in 2003. His recent book, The World
Through Arab Eyes: Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of
the Middle East, was published in 2013. Dr. Telhami was
selected by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, along with
the New York Times, as one of the “great immigrants” for
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1st Segment:
President Trump's new "Muslim Ban"
President Trump signed on Monday, March 6, 2017 another
executive order to ban Muslims and Arabs from 6 Muslim
countries from entering the United States. This is his
second attempt at this after his first executive order to
ban Muslims from 7 countries was stopped in courts. Several
national organizations voiced opposition and concerns about
this second attempt at banning Muslims from entering the
United States.
Today on Arab Voices, we will listen to statements and
reactions to this latest executive order from the
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), the
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Muslim Public
Affairs Council (MPAC). We will also listen to a news
conference held by the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR).
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2nd Segment:
Dr. Michael Fares
Instructional
Assistant Professor of Arabic at the University of Houston.
He joined the department of Modern and Classical Languages
at UH in 2012. Michael grew up in the Middle East and has
spent time in several Arabic speaking countries. He teaches
beginning and intermediate Arabic, and is working to develop
the curriculum for these courses as part of the department’s
newly created Arab Studies Minor. Prior to teaching at the
University of Houston, Michael worked as a teaching
assistant for the Arabic Flagship Program at the University
of Texas. He also served as an instructor of advanced Arabic
for the University of Texas Arabic Summer Institute. Michael
is interested in foreign language acquisition, as well as
Medieval Arabic philosophy and literature. He also has
several publications and projects, including University of
Houston Arabic Speaking Faculty Interview Series, Online
Beginning Arabic “Catchup” Lecture Series, The Phenomenon of
Interlanguage and its Importance for Teaching Arabic as a
Second Language, and Ghassan Kanafani’s “The Stolen Shirt”:
A Translation and Introduction.
We will speak with professor Fares about the Syrian refugees
and the upcoming “Sketches
of the Syrian Diaspora: A night of Music and Storytelling”
event that will be held at the University of Houston on
March 22, 2017. |
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Dr. Ramzy Baroud
US-Arab
journalist, media consultant, author,
internationally-syndicated columnist, founder and editor of
Palestine Chronicle, former managing editor of the
London-based Middle East Eye, former editor-in-chief
of The Brunei Times, and former deputy managing
editor of Al Jazeera online. He is the author of
several books including Searching Jenin: Eyewitness
Accounts of the Israeli Invasion, The Second
Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle,
and My
Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story. He is also the co-author, with Samah Sabawi and
Jehan Bseiso, of the poetry collection I Remember My Name.
His work has been published in hundreds of newspapers and
journals worldwide, and is
regularly translated and republished in several languages. He has contributed to and was
referenced in hundreds of books and academic journals.
Baroud has been a guest on many television and radio programs
nationally and internationally, and he has been a guest
speaker at many top universities around the world. Baroud has a Doctorate of Philosophy in Palestine
Studies from the European Centre for Palestinian Studies at
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1st Segment:
Building Resistance: Japanese Imprisonment and the Fight
Against a Muslim Registry
Produced by
Making Contact (02.14.2017)
This
year is the 75th anniversary of we now call Japanese
Internment. And every year since 1942, Japanese Americans
have tried to get the rest of us to remember what happened.
To notice the scar that mass incarceration left, not just on
the Japanese community, but on all of us.
We found ourselves at similar crossroads in 2001 when the
Bush Administration used the chaos of 9/11 to push through
drastic changes, including the creation of a Muslim registry
called NSEERS, the National Security Entry Exit Registration
System. But, people fought it. And won.
Today, as President Trump moves to ban Muslims from entering
the U.S. and threatens to build another registry we are
faced with similar choices. So, what can we learn from our
history? And how do we fight back?
Featuring:
Satsuki Ina, documentarian; Mutsu Homma, Roy Ebihara, George
Murihiro, Matsuo Watanabe, survivors; Joseph Arsinoe, US
soldier; War Relocation Authority. Lara Kiswani, Executive
Director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center; Anirvan
Chatterjee, Alliance of South Asians Taking Action Liz
Ouyang, attorney; Mohammad Sarfaraz Hussain; Anirvan
Chatterjee, Alliance of South Asians Taking Action; Jason
Prado, Sophie Xie, DoBetter.Tech
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Lawyers, activists organize against Trump’s Muslim ban
A podcast produced by
The Electronic Intifada
(02.03.2017)
Immigration
attorneys and immigrant rights groups continue to fight the
Trump administration’s so-called Muslim ban but the
executive branch of the US government remains intransigent
in its refusal to comply with federal court orders against
the ban. The executive order banning persons from seven
Muslim-majority countries from entering the US was signed by
President Donald Trump last Friday. On Saturday, thousands
of activists poured into airports around the US to demand
that Customs and Border Protection (CPB) release people it
had detained under the ban. By the evening, a federal court
in New York had issued an immediate order against the ban.
“What I saw at the protests at SFO [San Francisco
International airport] was an organized and focused crowd of
protesters … to respond and protest to the immediate
implementation of Trump’s executive order,” said The
Electronic Intifada’s Charlotte Silver in an interview for
the podcast.
On Wednesday, immigration attorneys in Southern California
told The Electronic Intifada that the US Marshals Service is
failing to enforce federal court orders against the CPB at
Los Angeles International airport, Silver reported.
There have been ”several” instances in the past few days
where CBP agents “are telling lawyers, telling congress
people, telling activists that they are specifically not
complying with the court order, that it is not applying to
them,” Silver explained.
She said that there are “serious reasons to be concerned
about the Trump administration and its federal agency’s
willingness to comply with court orders.”
Featured audio: Lara Kiswani, Executive Director of the Arab
Resource and Organizing Center, speaking to crowd at SFO, 28
January; crowd chanting and drumming via Palestinian Memes |
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Panel Discussion about "Immigration Ban Statement"
The
Arab American Cultural and Community Center (ACC) in Houston
held a panel discussion of local immigration lawyers and
experts on February 11, 2017 to help address the community's
concerns and help clarify questions in regards to the
immigration ban that was put in effect January 27, 2017. The
Panel included:
Wafa Abdin, Esq.
Vice President for Immigration and Refugee Services at
Catholic Charities. She oversees the Cabrini Center for
Immigrant Legal Assistance, the largest non-profit provider
of immigration legal services for low-income and indigent
non-citizens and Refugee Resettlement Program. She has more
than 15 years of experience in immigration law and is a
frequent lecturer at immigration conferences and has also
written several articles and papers on immigration law
topics. In recognition of her outstanding work and
dedication, she was awarded the Chrys Dougherty Legal
Services Award in 2010 by the Texas State Bar.
Norma Ayoub
Attorney at the law firm of Ayoub & Associates, PC. She has
been practicing law for about 18 years. Earlier in her
career she handled international corporate matters while
working overseas. Upon returning to the US, she opened her
own office and has handled strictly immigration matters for
the past 16 years and is licensed in both New York and
Texas. She is admitted in various appellate courts. She
speaks fluent Arabic.
Nejd Jill Yaziji
Attorney at Yaziji Law Firm. She has been practicing
Immigration & Asylum Law for more than a decade. She
represents clients from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Pakistan,
Sudan, Egypt, Ukraine and other countries. She is a graduate
of the University of Texas School of Law, and is
Editor-in-Chief of The Houston Lawyer magazine (2016-2017),
the official publication of the Houston Bar Association.
Today on Arab Voices we will listen to the remarks made at
the panel discussion on refugees, asylum and non-immigrant
visa. We will also listen to some of the questions and
answers raised during the event such as could a Muslim
registry be enforced, the National Security Entry-Exit
Registration System (NSEERS), what do undocumented
immigrants need to do, what to do if targeted by ICE, what
can we do to counter hate speech and hate crimes, what will
happen to TPS, when can one apply for asylum, what is the
legality of agents asking for and searching smartphones and
laptops at airports, what is the status of DACA, and more. |
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1st Segment:
Wafa Abdin
Vice
President for Immigration and Refugee Services at Catholic
Charities. She oversees the Cabrini Center for Immigrant
Legal Assistance, the largest non-profit provider of
immigration legal services for low-income and indigent
non-citizens and Refugee Resettlement Program. Ms. Abdin has
more than fifteen years of experience in Immigration Law and
is a frequent lecturer at Immigration conferences and has
also written several articles and papers on Immigration law
topics. In recognition of her outstanding work and
dedication, Ms. Abdin was awarded the Chrys Dougherty Legal
Services Award in 2010 by the Texas State Bar.
We will speak live with Wafa about President Trump's
executive order, the lawsuits filed to stop it, where does
it legally stand now, and more.
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Ussama Makdisi
Professor
of History and the first holder of the Arab-American
Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice
University. In 2012-2013, Makdisi was an invited Resident
Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for
Advanced Study, Berlin). In April 2009, the Carnegie
Corporation named Makdisi a 2009 Carnegie Scholar as part of
its effort to promote original scholarship regarding Muslim
societies and communities, both in the United States and
abroad. Professor Makdisi is the author of Faith
Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations,
1820-2001. His previous books include Artillery of
Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of
the Middle East, which was the winner of the 2008 Albert
Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association,
the 2009 John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies
Association, and a co-winner of the 2009 British-Kuwait
Friendship Society Book Prize given by the British Society
for Middle Eastern Studies. Makdisi is also the author of
The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and
Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon and
co-editor of Memory and Violence in the Middle East and
North Africa. He has published widely on Ottoman and
Arab history as well as on U.S.-Arab relations and U.S.
missionary work in the Middle East. Among his major articles
are “Anti-Americanism in the Arab World: An Interpretation
of Brief History” which appeared in the Journal of
American History and “Ottoman Orientalism” and
“Reclaiming the Land of the Bible: Missionaries, Secularism,
and Evangelical Modernity” both of which appeared in the
American Historical Review. Professor Makdisi has also
published in the International Journal of Middle East
Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and
in the Middle East Report. Professor Makdisi is now
working on a manuscript on the origins of sectarianism in
the modern Middle East to be published by the University of
California Press.
We will speak live with professor Makdisi about President
Trump’s Muslim ban executive order, what it means to U.S.
relations with the Arab and Muslim world, President Trump's
exempting Christians from his ban, and more. Professor
Makdisi published an
article last week titled "Trump's executive order pits
Muslims against Christians" in which he says "The cynical
executive order is not only blatantly discriminatory, but it
plays Muslim against Christian, demonizing the former while
pretending to be sympathetic to the latter. Trump's politics
of sectarian sympathy and the purported protection of
minorities has a long history. It has led to more
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Arsalan
Safiullah
Staff Attorney at the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR-Texas Houston). He earned his undergraduate degree
from McGill University in Montreal and holds a Master of
Biotechnology (M.Biot.) and a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from
Texas A&M University. In his current position, Arsalan
focuses on employment discrimination, civil liberties
issues, hate crimes, and know your rights community
education.
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Yolanda
Rondon
Staff Attorney for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee (ADC National), where she works on legal cases and
policy issues related to surveillance, racial and religious
profiling, hate crimes, employment discrimination and
immigration. She has provided written and oral
testimony to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
on surveillance, privacy and profiling concerns of the Arab
American community, and has provided written
testimony and reports to the United States Commission on
Civil Rights on religious violations of prisoner rights and
religious accommodation issues in immigration detentions.
She has also addressed the United States compliance with
the Convention Against Torture and privacy issues related to
surveillance at the U.S. Department of State – Universal
Periodic Review. She has also provide written
testimony to U.S. Congressional committees on issues ranging
from profiling and countering violent extremism to the
refugee crisis and the visa waiver program, as well as oral
testimony to the U.S. Department of Education on
implementation of the Elementary & Secondary Education Act,
resource equity, and accountability for English Language
Learners.
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We will speak live with Arsalan and Yolanda about President
Trump's executive order to ban Muslims from 7 countries
entry to the US, the effect of that on Houston and the
nation, the nationwide stay issued by a federal judge
halting part of Trump's immigration ban (after ACLU files
emergency lawsuit), how should travelers deal with this ban
and questioning by authorities at airports, the Texas Muslim
Capitol Day that drew the largest crowd ever (held yesterday
in Austin), the rise of attacks and hate crimes against
Muslims in the US, and more.
We will also listen to the remarks of
Sylvester Turner,
Mayor of the City of Houston and
Art Acevedo,
Chief of the Houston Police Department (HPD) in the wake of
President Trump's executive order on Immigration, and their
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President-elect
Donald Trump said at the AIPAC (The American Israel Public
Affairs Committee) conference last year: "In Palestinian
textbooks and mosques, you've got a culture of hatred that
has been fermenting there for years, and if we want to
achieve peace, they've got to go out and they got to start
this educational process. They have to end education of
hatred. They have to end it, and now".
Today on Arab Voices, we will listen to an interview Arab
Voices conducted with
Nurit Peled-Elhanan,
Lecturer in Language Education at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, an award-winning Israeli peace activist, poet and
author, and one of the founders of the Russell Tribunal on
Palestine. Nurit is the daughter of Israeli General Matti
Peled. In 2001 she was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Human
Rights and the Freedom of Thought by the European
Parliament. She is also the author of the book
Palestine in Israeli School Books:
Ideology and Propaganda in Education. We will
speak with Nurit about Palestinian and Israeli textbooks.
Please note that her book is available as a Thank-You
Gift today on Arab Voices during KPFT's Winter Fund
Drive at the $200 pledge level (call 713-526-5738 or email
ArabVoices@hotmail.com).
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will also listen to an interview Arab Voices conducted with
Sut Jhally, Professor
of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, a
leading scholar on advertising, public relations, and
political propaganda. He is the author of several books
including The Codes of Advertising; Enlightened
Racism; and The Spectacle of Accumulation.
Professor Jhally is the Founder and Executive Director of
the Media Education Foundation (MEF), a documentary film
company that looks at issues related to U.S. media and
public attitudes.
He is the producer, director, or executive producer of
dozens of MEF films, including Peace, Propaganda & the
Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict;
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of
American Empire; Reel Bad Arabs (featuring Jack
Shaheen); Edward Said On Orientalism; Dreamworlds:
Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video; and Advertising &
the End of the World.
We will speak with professor Jhally about his new film
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public
Relations War in The United States,
featuring Roger Waters, Amira Hass, M.J. Rosenberg, Stephen
M. Walt, Noam Chomsky, Rula Jebreal, Henry Siegman, Rashid
Khalidi, Rami Khouri, Yousef Munayyer, Norman Finkelstein,
Max Blumenthal, Phyllis Bennis, Norman Solomon, Mark Crispin
Miller, Peter Hart, and Sut Jhally. This film is
available as a Thank-You Gift today on Arab Voices
during KPFT's Winter Fund Drive at the $120 pledge level
(call 713-526-5738 or email
ArabVoices@hotmail.com).
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"The
Terrorism Label: an Examination of American Criminal
Prosecutions" by
Wadie Said
The Palestine Center in
Washington, D.C. held its annual Edward Said Memorial
Lecture on October 7, 2016. The speaker was Wadie Said,
professor of law at the University of South Carolina School
of Law, where he teaches criminal law, criminal procedure,
and human rights law. Before joining the South Carolina
faculty, Said represented terrorist suspects as an assistant
federal public defender in Tampa, Florida, serving as
counsel in United States v. Al-Arian, one of the largest
terrorism prosecutions in American history. A graduate of
Princeton University and Columbia Law School, he clerked for
Chief Justice Charles P. Sifton of the US District Court for
the Eastern District of New York. He is also the author of
the recently published book, Crimes of Terror: the Legal
and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions,
which provides a comprehensive legal analysis of the
criminal terrorist prosecution in the United States. His
scholarship also appears in many prestigious law journals
and reviews.
Professor Wadie Said spoke on the issue of terrorism and the
ways in which it’s produced and dealt with in the American
legal system. The lecture was titled "The Terrorism Label:
an Examination of American Criminal Prosecutions".
Today, on Arab Voices, we will listen to that lecture and
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Noam Chomsky:
With Trump Election, We Are Now Facing Threats to the
Survival of the Human Species
On
December 5, 2016, Democracy Now! held a special
celebration event for its 20th anniversary at the historic
Riverside Church in Manhattan, New York. More than 2,300
people attended the event. There were several speakers,
including Noam Chomsky, world-renowned political dissident,
linguist and author. He is professor emeritus at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of more
than 100 books.
Today on Arab Voices, we will listen to Noam Chomsky’s
remarks at that event on “Trump and the decline of the
American Superpower”, and will also listen to the
conversation that followed his talk that Amy Goodman and
Juan González of Democracy Now! had with Noam Chomsky
and Harry Belafonte, who also spoke at the event. Harry
Belafonte is a longtime civil rights activist who was also a
popular singer and actor. He was one of Martin Luther King’s
closest confidants and helped organize the March on
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1st Segment:
Dr. Riyad Mansour
Ambassador
and Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations,
and the non-resident Ambassador of the State of Palestine to
Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. He joined the
Permanent Observer Mission of the Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO) to the UN, New York, in 1983 as Deputy
Permanent Observer, and has since represented Palestine in
several committees and bodies of the UN. Dr. Mansour has
published several studies and articles about the Palestinian
community in the US, lectured in several
American universities, and has participated in numerous
international conferences, symposia, seminars and panel
debates as a representative of Palestine. He is also a
member of senior officials committees of the State of
Palestine and the PLO.
We will speak live with Ambassador Mansour about the United
Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 that was adopted
last Friday, December 23, 2016 stating that Israeli
settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories
including East Jerusalem have no legal validity, constitute
flagrant violation of international law, and demands that
Israel stop such activity and fulfill its obligation as an
occupying power under the Fourth Geneva Convention. It was
the first UNSC resolution to pass regarding Israel and
Palestine in 36 years, and the first to address the issue of
Israeli settlements with such specificity since Resolution
465 in 1980. We will also get his reaction to today's speech
by Secretary of State John Kerry about Israel and Palestine.
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Paul Butler
Director
of ANERA's (American Near East Refugee Aid) Palestine
programs overseeing the West Bank and Gaza Strip since 2011.
He is based in Jerusalem and supervises ANERA’s programs in
health and education services, sustainable community
development, water rehabilitation, agriculture, microfinance
and emergency relief and medical aid. He is a veteran
development professional with over two decades’ experience
in the Middle East. He has directed programs in emergency
relief, medical aid and economic development in some of the
region’s most vulnerable places: Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon
and Egypt. A fluent Arabic speaker, Paul has first-hand
experience in the difficult political and economic
situations of the region. He travels to Gaza regularly and
was instrumental in ANERA’s relief efforts after the most
recent war.
We will speak live with Mr. Butler about his experience on
the ground in Palestine, an update on the humanitarian
conditions there and what is being done to address them, the
priorities for humanitarian relief and development work over
the next few years, how has Gaza reconstruction progressed
since the last war, how do the residents of Gaza cope with
poverty and the blockade, how can development work advance
peace in the region, and more. |
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Said Arikat
Journalist,
author, and political analyst. He is the Washington, DC
Bureau Chief for the daily Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds
(based in occupied Jerusalem), for which he is a writer,
columnist, and analyst. He is also an adjunct
professor at the American University in Washington, DC where
he teaches a course on "The Role of the Media in the Arab
World". He also served as spokesman and director of public
information for the United Nations Assistance Mission for
Iraq from 2005 to 2010. |
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We will speak with Said Arikat about various topics
including U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East under
President Obama, and what we might expect under the Trump
presidency; Trump’s selections for his administration, his
foreign policy team, and the selection of David Friedman to
be the U.S. ambassador to Israel; the ongoing expansion of
Israeli colonies on Palestinian lands; President Jimmy
Carter’s call on the Obama administration to recognize
Palestine before leaving office; the crisis in Syria and the
path to end it; media coverage in the U.S. about the Middle
East; and more. |
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Liz Jackson
Founding
Staff Attorney for
Palestine Legal and Cooperating Counsel
with the
Center for Constitutional Rights. Her work includes
representing students, professors and activists on free
speech and academic freedom issues, documenting the chilling
effect of repression campaigns, and educating activists on
their rights. She advised the successful divestment campaign
at UC Berkeley, and helped students respond to Title VI
complaints, which were dismissed, rejecting the theory that
Palestine activism creates a hostile environment for Jewish
students. She has defended the right to advocate for
Palestine on campuses from New Mexico to Southern Florida,
Boston, New Jersey, and California. She has organized for
Palestinian human rights as a member of Students for Justice
in Palestine, as a Jewish solidarity activist, and as a
former Co-Chair of the National Lawyers Guild Free Palestine
Subcommittee. Liz has advocated for First Amendment rights
to speak about Palestine in the San Francisco Chronicle, the
Boston Globe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the
Electronic Intifada podcast, the Real News Network, Al
Jazeera, and more. |
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We will speak with Liz about the controversial and
unconstitutional "Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2016" that
passed the U.S. Senate earlier this month, but failed to
pass the U.S. House of Representatives last week despite
intense lobbying by Israel advocacy groups. Will this be the
end of it, or will we see it again during the next session?
We will also talk about the efforts by some lobbying groups
to restrict speech on U.S. campuses that are critical of
Israel; the attacks on advocacy for Palestinian Rights; the
rights of students advocating for justice in Palestine on
university campuses; and
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“Semitism and
the Palestinians" by Joseph Massad
The United States Senate silently passed a dangerous piece
of legislation last week called “The Anti-Semitism Awareness
Act of 2016”. It was introduced by senators Tim Scott (R-SC)
and Bob Casey (D-PA). This new piece of legislation requires
the Department of Education to apply the State Department's
definition of anti-Semitism in evaluating complaints of
discrimination on educational campuses across the United
States. It threatens the First Amendment rights and academic
freedoms of students and faculty across the country by
equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism.
Arab
Voices will be discussing this in more details on the show
with experts on the subject matter within weeks, but today,
we will listen to a lecture held a few years ago at the James
A. Baker III Institute at Rice University in Houston titled
“Semitism and the Palestinians”, delivered by Dr. Joseph Massad, who is now Professor of Modern Arab Politics and
Intellectual History at Columbia University. He is a
historian, political scientist, a leading scholar of Arab
culture, and author of several books and articles. This
lecture addresses questions such as: What is Semitism and
what does it have to do with the Palestinians? What is the
relationship that Palestinians have to the Semite? Does the
history of Semitism have anything to do with Palestinians?
If so, what is it? |
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Sam Kadi
Director/producer
of the award winning American feature drama THE CITIZEN. THE
CITIZEN received five awards on the festival circuit before
being released theatrically worldwide in 2013. The film was
named among the "Best 10 Films of 2013" by Examiner.com.
Kadi has been recognized by the prestigious Cinema For Peace
organization for raising awareness of human rights issues
through motion pictures, and was asked to speak on the same
subject before the International Criminal Court at The
Hague, Netherlands in June 2012. In 2013, Kadi was presented
with a Humanitarian Service Award by the Life for Relief and
Development Organization. Kadi is a member of the Directors
Guild of America, where he serves on the Directors Guild
Asian American Committee. |
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We will speak with Sam Kadi about the ongoing catastrophe in
Syria; the war that has devastated the country and left
hundreds of thousands dead and millions refugees. We will
talk about the horrific situation in Aleppo; and the path for peace. We will also talk about the new award-winning
documentary film "Little Gandhi" that will be screened in
Houston on December 1 and 2. |
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Dr.
Emran El-Badawi
Program
director and associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies
at the University of Houston. He founded the Arab Studies
program at UH and has designed, implemented and assessed
degree programs in the Humanities and Sciences. He has
consulted for various industries, including government, law
and oil & gas, and he is also active in program development
and fundraising. Dr. El-Badawi is founding executive
director and treasurer of the International Qur'anic Studies
Association, which is the world's first learned society of
its kind. He has published in English as well as Arabic and
has made dozens of national and international media
contributions or appearances including for The New York
Times, Al-Jazeera, Forbes, Christian Science Monitor and
Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne (ARTE). His
current research projects include a book on 'Arab
Liberalism' between secular nationalism and political Islam,
as well as a project documenting the evolution of Eastern
Church/Canon Law to Shariah Law. Dr. El-Badawi has received
numerous awards for his work and research including
honorable acclaim by the British-Kuwait Friendship Society
Book Prize for his book on The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel
Traditions. Furthermore, his professional management and
scholarly projects have raised hundreds of thousands of
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We will speak with Dr. El-Badawi about several issues
including the U.S. election results, populism, immigration,
globalization; Trump's impact on minority groups in the US;
Muslims, Arabs, South Asians in America (contributions and
challenges); Middle East policy, and more. |
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Khalil
Jahshan
Executive
Director of the Arab Center Washington DC, a non-partisan,
non-profit think tank focusing on U.S. foreign policy in the
Middle East, as well as furthering economic, political, and
social understanding of the Arab World in the United States.
He is a Palestinian-American activist and media commentator. He previously served as Executive Director at
Pepperdine University, Executive Vice President of the
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) and
director of its government affairs affiliate (NAAA-ADC),
Vice President of the American Committee on Jerusalem,
President of the National Association of Arab Americans,
National Director of the Association of Arab-American
University Graduates (AAUG), Assistant Director of Palestine
Research and Educational Center, and Lecturer in Arabic at
the University of Chicago Extension and at Northwestern
University in Evanston, Illinois. Mr. Jahshan has served on
the boards of directors, and advisory boards of various
Middle East-oriented groups, including ANERA, MIFTAH and
Search for Common Ground. |
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We will speak with Mr. Jahshan about the U.S. elections,
Trump’s victory and what we might expect in terms of foreign
policy, the recent Arab Public Opinion Poll about the U.S.
elections by the Arab Center Washington DC, and Trump’s
rhetoric during the campaign about Muslims and other
minority groups and its impact.
Since Trump's victory last week, we have seen a significant
increase in violent hate rhetoric and crimes targeting Arab
and Muslim American communities, and communities of color.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, more than 500 incidents
of hateful harassment and intimidation have been reported in
the U.S. following the
election results (higher than the immediate post-9/11
backlash), and according to Campus Safety magazine, a series
of racially-motivated incidents have been reported at
schools at all levels across the U.S. following Trump’s
victory. A new report released on November 14, 2016 by
the FBI reveals that
law enforcement agencies across the country reported 257
anti-Muslim incidents in 2015, up 67 percent from the year before
(many attribute that to the anti-Muslim rhetoric that came
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1st Segment:
Reactions to Trump's Election
We will listen to the reaction of several national U.S.
Muslim and Arab organizations and interfaith organizations
to the election of Donald Trump as the nation’s 45th
president. The comments will include: Council on American
Islamic Relations (CAIR), Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC),
Muslim Alliance of North America, National Council of
Churches USA, Islamic Circle of North America, American
Muslims for Palestine, Muslim American Society, and others.
2nd Segment:
Hani Al-Masri
Director
General of Masarat, the Palestinian Center for Policy
Research & Strategic Studies, and Policy Advisor at Al
Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network. He founded and was
director general of the Palestinian Media, Research and
Studies Centre, Badael, between 2005 and 2011. He has
published hundreds of articles, research and policy papers
in Palestinian and Arab magazines and newspapers including
Al-Ayyam and Al-Safir. He previously served as General
Manager of the Printing & Publication Department at the
Ministry of Information and as a member of the Committee on
Government in the Commission of Dialogue held in Cairo in
2009. He is also a member of the board of trustees at the
Yasser Arafat Foundation.
Please note that Dr. Hani Al-Masri will be speaking at the
Arab American Cultural and Community Center in Houston on
Sunday, November 13 at 5 p.m. Click
here
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Sheila Carapico
Editor
of the newly released Arabia Incognita: Dispatches from
Yemen and the Gulf, who is widely recognized as a
leading expert on Yemen. She is the author of Civil
Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in
Modern Arabia and numerous other books, book chapters,
and articles about Yemen, the Arabian Peninsula, and the
region. Carapico acquired her reputation as a Yemen expert
through her time as a Fulbright research scholar in the
country and consultancy work she did there for bodies such
as Human Rights Watch, the Royal Netherlands Embassy, and
the International Fund for Agricultural Development. During
2010 and the crucial spring of 2011, she was Visiting
Chairperson of the Department of Political Science at the
American University in Cairo. She teaches Political Science
and coordinates the International Studies program at the
University of Richmond and is a long serving member of the
Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
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A live discussion with professor Carapico
about the crisis in Yemen and the ongoing Saudi-led attacks
on the country; the US and other countries' involvements in
the war on Yemen; the humanitarian catastrophe the war has
caused; and the possibilities of an end to the crisis. |
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October 26, 2016 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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ACC's Annual Unity & Friendship Gala
The
Arab American Cultural & Community Center (ACC) in Houston held
its 23rd Annual Unity & Friendship Gala on October 1, 2016.
This year's theme was "Raising Hope", and it highlighted the
Culture and People of Tunisia. The Gala Chairs were
Mrs. Shiraz Ghedira Goucha and Mrs. Aicha Limayem
Lassoued. The Mistress
of Ceremonies was Kaitlin McCulley, Reporter at KTRK
ABC 13 News in Houston.
This year's ACC honorees were the Levant Foundation
for outstanding community service, Dr. Mohamed Rabie
for the ACC lifetime achievement award, and Minuteman
Press Southwest for the ACC business community award.
Today on Arab Voices we will
listen to most of the remarks made at the Gala, including
the remarks of Dr. Kamal Khalil, ACC President,
Sylvester Turner, Mayor of the City of Houston, and
Ambassador Fayçal Gouia, Tunisia’s Ambassador to the
United States. |
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October 19, 2016 |
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Arab Voices was preempted on Wednesday, October 19,
2016, for a special Democracy Now! LIVE coverage of
the third and final Presidential Debate.
Our next show will be on Wednesday, October 26, 2016. |
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October 12, 2016 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Ann Wright
Former US State Department official/diplomat, retired US
Army Colonel, and a long-time CODEPINK activist.
She resigned from the US
government in March, 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq.
Since her resignation, she has travelled to Gaza seven
times, helped organize the 1,300 person Gaza Freedom March
in 2009, was a passenger on the Challenge 1 in the 2010 Gaza
Freedom Flotilla, was an organizer for the 2011 US Boat to
Gaza and a boat leader on the 2015 Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
She was also an organizer for Gaza’s Ark. Ann Wright was an
organizer and the boat leader for the
2016 Women’s Boat to Gaza that
began to sail on September 14, 2016 from Barcelona in an
effort to break the Israeli naval blockade on Gaza. The
boat, Zaytouna-Oliva, was hijacked in international waters
by the Israeli military on October 5, 2016 a few miles of
the coast of Gaza, and all 13 women on board, including Ann
Wright, were kidnapped by force by the Israeli military and
taken to the Israeli port of Ashdod. On board with her were three
parliamentarians from New Zealand, Sweden and Algerian, an
Olympic athlete from South Africa, and Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, from Northern Ireland. |
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We will speak live with
Ann Wright about her recent attempt to break the siege on
Gaza, and her firsthand account of her kidnapping from international waters by the
Israeli military.
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Fall Fund Drive |
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October 5, 2016 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Fall Fund Drive |
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September 28, 2016 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Dr. Mohamed
Rabie
Distinguished
Professor of International Political Economy who taught at
several Arab and American universities, including the
University of Houston and Texas Southern University in
Houston, Georgetown University, The Johns Hopkins
University, and The American University in Washington. Dr.
Rabie published 43 books
in English and Arabic including The Politics of Foreign Aid;
A Vision for the Transformation of the Middle East;
The US-PLO
Dialogue; Conflict Resolution and the Middle East
Peace Process; and Global Economic and Cultural
Transformation: The Making of History. He also drafted the original document
that guided negotiations and coordinated secret contacts
between the US and the PLO. Dr. Rabie received several
awards and recognitions over the years including the
prestigious 2015 State of Palestine Honorary Award for his
contributions to the humanities and social sciences fields. |
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We will speak live with
Dr. Rabie about various topics including the current
situation in the Middle East and the wars that are
destroying several Arab countries; the U.S. involvement and
its foreign policy towards the Middle East; the
ongoing Palestinian-Israeli problem; and the prospects for
peaceful resolutions to what's happening in the Middle East.
Note:
Dr. Mohamed Rabie is currently in Houston and on Saturday,
October 1, 2016, he will be the recipient of the
Arab-American Cultural & Community Center's Lifetime
Achievement Award at the
ACC's annual gala. |
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September 21, 2016 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Edward Said - Palestine and the
Universality of Human Rights
This
week marks the 13th anniversary of Professor Edward Said's
death, and on this occasion, we will air today on Arab
Voices one of the last major speeches he delivered few
months before he died. The talk was titled "Memory,
Inequality, and Power: Palestine and the Universality of
Human Rights". He delivered that speech at the University of
California, Berkeley on February 19, 2003.
Professor Said is an internationally renowned writer,
author, and scholar, whose writings about the Middle East
and its relationship with the West have gone far to open new
roads in academia and to influence public opinion. Dr.
Edward Said was a giant figure in the Arab-American
community, and for Arabs in the Middle East and across the
world. During the course of his life, he articulated a
vision of Palestine and the Arab world that not only
recalled the significant contributions of the region’s
people but also offered hope for the future. Edward W. Said
was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at
Columbia University. He died on September 25, 2003, in New
York. |
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September 14, 2016 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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1st Segment:
Israel's Netanyahu redefines
“ethnic cleansing”!!!
Comments and reactions to the latest remarks by the Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that those who want to
create a Palestinian state are seeking “ethnic cleansing” of
Jews from the occupied territories. We will also listen to
the reaction of the US State Department, and a talk about
ethnic cleansing by Israeli Historian Ilan Pappe.
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2nd
Segment:
Gareth Porter on Syria
An American historian, investigative journalist, author and
policy analyst specializing in U.S. national security
policy. He has written several books about the potential for
peaceful conflict resolution in Southeast Asia and the
Middle East, including Manufactured Crisis: The Untold
Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter has reported
extensively on Middle East conflicts including Syria.
Porter's analysis and reporting have appeared in academic
journals, news publications, and periodicals for four
decades, and in 2012 he was the winner of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.
We will speak live with Gareth about the latest ceasefire in
Syria, and the probabilities of it succeeding. |
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September 7, 2016 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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US student politics “rapidly shifting” despite Israel lobby
efforts
Podcast produced by
The Electronic Intifada.
We
will listen today to a Podcast by the
Electronic Intifada titled “US student politics “rapidly
shifting” despite Israel lobby efforts”. It features
interviews with
Omar
Zahzah and
Rahim Kurwa,
both graduate students at UCLA and members of Students for
Justice in Palestine (SJP), and
Charlotte Kates of
the
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoners Solidarity Network, who
was denied entry to Palestine by Israel. Kates was
travelling to accompany a delegation of European
parliamentarians and lawyers in support of Bilal Kayed, who
ended a 71-day hunger strike last month. Charlotte was
interrogated about her activism with the BDS movement. |
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August 31, 2016 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Back
to School Mini-Drive |
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August 24, 2016 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Guest/
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Ghada
Alatrash
Syrian-Canadian
writer, author, poet, and certified translator based in
Calgary, Alberta, in Canada. She is chair of the Syrian
Women's Club of Calgary. She holds a Masters of English
from the University of Oklahoma, with an emphasis on
post-colonial studies, and is currently a doctoral student
at the University of Calgary's Werklund School of Education
in Canada. Ghada taught English at Abu Dhabi Women's
College, Arabic at the University of Oklahoma, and is a
Columnist for Gulf News. In 2012, she released her first
work of translation "So that the Poem Remains", a collection
of poems by Lebanese poet Youssef Abdul Samad, translated
from Arabic to English. She also held a number of poetry
readings set to music by Western and Eastern composers.
Ghada just published her first book "Stripped to the Bone:
Portraits of Syrian Women", a collection of seven short
stories about Syrian women in war-torn Syria and the West,
and it explores issues of identity, love, strife and
courage.
We will speak with Ghada about her stories and work, poetry,
Syrian women, women's issues, and her new book "Stripped to
the Bone: Portraits of Syrian Women". |
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August 17, 2016 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Guest/
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Rania
Khalek
An independent journalist reporting on the underclass
and marginalized; Associate Editor at the Electronic
Intifada; and Co-host of the weekly podcast Unauthorized
Disclosure. She's written for Extra, The Nation, Al Jazeera
America, the Electronic Intifada, Truthout, Salon, AlterNet,
Citizen Radio and more.
We will speak with Rania about last week's murder of
Khalid Jabara, a 37-year-old Arab-American man, who was shot
and killed in front of his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma by his
neighbor, Vernon Majors, who terrorized the victim’s family
for years, referring to them as “dirty Arabs” and "filthy
Lebanese". Majors shot and killed Khalid Jabara while he was
out on bond from a prior hate crime where he intentionally
drove his car into Khalid Jabara’s mother, despite a
prosecutor telling the court that Majors was “a substantial
risk to the public.” According to the Jabara family, Khalid
called the police 30 minutes before he was shot and killed
to report that Majors had a gun and that he was scared for
what might happen, but the police came and told him there
was nothing to be done!
We will also talk about the execution-style killings on
Saturday of New York imam (religious leader) and his
associate, as hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims in the
U.S. continue to rise in an atmosphere filled with hateful
rhetoric in politics and the society at large, and a growing
climate of fear among Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. |
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August 10, 2016 ![](/web/20170525210017im_/http://arabvoices.net/images/spkr.gif) |
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Syrian
Tragedy: Causes, Consequences, and Options
A fascinating overview and analysis of the history of Syria,
from post-WWII to the current quagmire of war, the rise of
ISIS, and the
battleground of the world’s
powerful military countries.
Featured Speaker:
Stephen Zunes
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.
This segment is a production of Global Voices for Justice,
a non-profit media organization. |
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