Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Feb 18, 2022 VOMENA- Dr. Utku Balaban on industrialization and 'Islamic revivalism' in Turkey by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Today Tunisian president Kaies Saied dissolved the parliament after parliament members challenged the autocratic powers he has exercised since his self-coup last July. Last Wednesday, lawmakers held an online meeting, defying Mr. Saied’s warning that the session was illegal, and a majority voted against his power grab, which they said violated the country’s Constitution. Elected in a landslide in...

This week, we speak with Jody Sokolower about her new book Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village. Later in the program, Madhdis Keshavarz of the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association joins us to talk about the organization’s recent statement in response to the biased coverage of the Ukraine crisis.

The second part of our conversation with Natasha Iskandar about migrant labor and the World Cup in Qatar.

We discuss green energy and its relationship to colonialism in North Africa with Hamza Hamochin

February 4, 2022: Natasha Iskandar on migrant workers in Qatar by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Jan 12 2022 VOMENA- Desmond Tutu's solidarity with Palestine and political prisoners in Iran by VOMENA Team at KPFA

VOMENA Dec 20, 2021- Mona Halaby's ''In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home'' by VOMENA Team at KPFA

VOMENA Dec 20, 2021-- Mohamed-Dhia Hammami on the latest political developments in Tunisia by VOMENA Team at KPFA

VOMENA Dec 20, 2021-- elections in Libya by VOMENA Team at KPFA

VOMENA Nov 17 2021- Megan Mylan's SIMPLE AS WATER doc and Laila Lalami's Conditional Citizens by VOMENA Team at KPFA

vomena nov 15, 2021- the protests against the coup in Sudan- part 2 by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Last month, a military coup took place in the Sudan, barely two years after a popular uprising forced the removal of dictator, Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled the country for 30 years with an iron grip with the support of the military and Sudanese Islamists. The 2019 protest movement was not able to exclude the military from national politics entirely. In August of that year, a power sharing arrange...

For most of a century, the region including north Africa and large swaths of west Africa all came under one and the same flag: the red white and blue of the French colonial empire. Following the loss of Louisiana in the early nineteenth century, which at the time encompassed about one third of what we know today as the United States of America, and partly to compensate for that tremendous loss, Fr...

guest: Nabil Salih, Iraqi journalist and photographer

After more than a year of sustained weekly demonstrations, in March 2020 the covid pandemic came to the rescue of a contested government seen as illegitimate by many in Algeria, forcing the popular Hirak movement to suspend its protests throughout the country in the interest of public health and safety. One year and a half later, the north African country is now beset by multiple deep crises, afte...

Last month Tunisia’s president Kaies Saeid decided to consolidate power around himself by suspending parliament, firing his prime minister, and assuming leadership of the defense, interior, and justice ministries. The country is now teetering over the edge of a possible return to the one-man rule Tunisians had rejected ten years ago. This week, we’ll get an update on the political crisis in Tunisi...

The 1988 Executions of Iranian Political Prisoners - Interview with Nasser Mohajer by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Professor Cihan Tugal Examines The Structure Of TheTurkish Regime and its Evolution by VOMENA Team at KPFA

This week, we bring you the second part of our conversation with Iranian scholar and researcher Nasser Mohajer about his new book Voices of a Massacre; Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988. Later in the program, we speak with Lara Bitar, the editor in chief of The Public Source, a Beirut-based independent media organization about the economic crisis in Lebanon and the one-year anniversar...

On August 10th, Hamid Nouri, a former prosecutor in Iran, went on trial in Sweden for his alleged role in the executions of thousands of political prisoners in Iran in 1988. According to the indictment brought by Swedish public prosecutors, Nouri is accused as part of the systematic execution of thousands of political prisoners in the summer of 1988. The historic trial against Nouri will hear test...

Since the 2010/2011 revolution, Tunisia has been seen as the most successful democracy in the Arab world but at the moment it tethering at the edge of what some people call have called a constitutional coup. Here is what happened- On July 25th, after a day of protest over the government’s handling of the covid-19 pandemic and the economy, Tunisian President Kais Saied invoked an emergency act, dis...

When the Palestinian Nakba (or the catastrophe of 1948) is discussed it's commonly understood to refer to the destruction of villages and the displacement of about 700 thousand Palestinians. What gets left out is what happened to the people who remained in the borders of what became Israel and the transformations the new state created on the land, natural resources, the public space, and urban dev...

Shadyar Omrani is a journalist, Poet, Novelist, Researcher and Public Lecturer. https://twitter.com/shadyaromrani?lang=en Resources: https://iranhumanrights.org/2021/06/oil-industry-workers-go-on-national-strike-in-iran/ https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-oil-strikes-contract-workers-engulf-industry

Since its occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in 1967, Israel has practiced a policy of Jewish-only settlement expansion over Palestinian land. A land that the International Community designated as the territory of a future Palestinian State. Jewish-only settlements constitute a violation of international law and international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Conve...