Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

The detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul's mayor and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's most formidable rival, on March 19th sparked the largest demonstrations in Turkey in years. Last Saturday, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets, expressing their discontent with the government and demanding the release of the city's imprisoned mayor, who is the Republican People's Party (CHP)...

Toxic Supply Chains of War in Iraq by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Bassam Haddad is an associate professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and coeditor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Haddad is cofounder/editor of Jadaliyya ezine and execut...

Yanis Varoufakis on unbridled capitalism's descent into fascism and genocide by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Journalists risking their lives to report on Gaza & companies and countries supplying oil to Israel by VOMENA Team at KPFA

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Artists demanding an end to Gaza genocide by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Standing in the Dust – Photography of Yalda Moaiery by VOMENA Team at KPFA

The Role of International Actors In The War in Sudan by VOMENA Team at KPFA

On this edition of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we speak with Dr. Eli Cahan about why Arab and Muslim Americans face significantly higher rates of mental illness.

On this edition of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we have a conversation with Jacobin staff writer BRANKO MARCETIC about his In These Times investigation, which reveals the individuals behind AIPAC’s election war chest: nearly 60% are CEOs and other top executives at the country’s largest corporations.

On this edition of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we have a conversation with independent journalist Adnan Khan about his recent article in MERIP titled "A Deadly Trade—Refugee Labor in Turkey and Europe’s Plastic Waste." He writes that China’s ban came at an ideal time for Turkey’s plastic recyclers. Less than two years before it was implemented, the European Union had signed a contr...

The Mediterranean Sea has become a huge cemetery for many thousands of migrants and asylum seekers who have been risking their lives trying to cross it in search of a better future. This week, we speak with Athens based independent journalist Moira Lavelle about the state of refugees and asylum seekers trying to reach Greece- Later in the program, we remember Palestinian revolutionary and novelist...

Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah are at all-time high. Israel and Lebenese Hezbollah have been exchanging fire since October 8 the, when Israel launched its devastating war on Gaza, but the conflict between the two archenemies escalated after one of Hezbollah's most senior commanders was killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, on June 11the. Hezbollah retaliated by launching a large...

Hossam el-Hamalawy on Egypt’s role in Israel's war on Gaza by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Students face backlash for supporting Palestinian rights, Stage reading of Woman Life Freedom by VOMENA Team at KPFA

What does it take to end the war on the Palestinians in Gaza? by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Gaza: Besieged since 2007, now under Israel’s “total blockade” by VOMENA Team at KPFA

American Anthropologist Association voted in favour of boycotting Israeli academic institutions by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Making sense of the devastating floods in Libya by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Israeli' assault on Jenin refugee camp & 'Sinbad Voyage' mural in Berkeley by VOMENA Team at KPFA

In recent months, Fondomonte Arizona, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia-based Almarai dairy Company has been getting renewed attention for growing alfalfa in drought-prone Arizona, and sending it to Saudi Arabia to feed the country’s cows. Despite a worsening drought, several factors including Political influence and lack of regulations have allowed the company to draw an unlimited amount of groundwate...

On May 28th, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected for a third term by winning 52% of the popular vote- His main rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu garnered 48%. Two weeks earlier, the right wing islamist-nationalist coalition consisting of Erdogan’s rullingJustice and development party AKP and its allies had won the majority in the parliamentary election. we spend the hour discussing how a...

Part 1- Professor Khahlid Medani discusses the root cause of the ongoing crisis in Sudan by VOMENA Team at KPFA

The 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq resulted in massive death and destruction, and fueled sectarian tensions, which culminated in a violent civil war. More than 300,000 Iraqis have died from direct war violence and 9.2 million people have been internally displaced, according to Brown University's Costs of War Project. The Brutal invasion and occupation of Iraq entrenched the country in a cycl...