Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Even by Israel’s abysmal standards, provocations against the people of Palestine have seen a dramatic escalation since the arrival of Bibi Netanyahu’s new government three months ago: Hundreds of innocent civilians murdered, including many children, an outright anti-Palestinian pogrom in the west bank that was cheered on by the minister of interior, a brutal attack on worshippers inside one of Isl...

Guest: Cihan tugal, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism, and Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism

Guest: shahrazad Mojab, professor of Adult Education and Community Development and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto Her most recent books are Marxism & Migration; Women of Kurdistan: A Historical and Bibliographical Study; and Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge.

Now approaching seventy tons annually, gold has replaced cotton as Mali’s leading export, turning that country into Africa’s third-largest gold producer. The primary destination of artisanal gold seems to be the United Arab Emirates. By all evidence, the gold that shines in the souks of Dubai is the product of a complex web of criminal networks, terrorist groups and internationally sanctioned regi...

The country of Lebanon has been in social and economic upheaval over the past few years, sending many of its beleaguered citizens into international exile in search of basic economic survival. We speak with Lebanese activist and academic Rayan El-Amine who, after a decade in his native land, has returned to the Bay area with his family, about the travails of a country that is geographically diminu...

With the arrival of notorious fascists in prominent positions of power in Israel, Western news media everywhere seem surprised at the extreme tenor of Israel’s government since Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power for the umptieth time, as if racism, colonialism and apartheid were somehow alien to the very DNA and mission of the so-called Jewish state. This week, prominent Israeli historian schola...

The plight of imprisoned environmentalists in Iran & refugees in Europe by VOMENA Team at KPFA

What explains the dangerous levels of air pollution In Iran's main cities? by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Political prisoners in Iran & Amir Rashidi discusses internet restrictions in Iran by VOMENA Team at KPFA

The toxic legacies of the U.S. war in Iraq: A conversation with Kali Rubaii by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Guest: Arang Keshavarzian

History of student movement in Iran- Part 2 by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Guests Dr Kaveh Abbasian, former student activist, filmmaker, researcher, and lecturer in Film and Media Practice at the University of Kent in Britain Hamza Hamouchene, London-based Algerian researcher-activist, commentator and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), and Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA). He previously worked for War on Want, Global Justice Now and Platform...

Guest: Amir Rashidi, the director of digital rights and security at Miaan Group

Guest: Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian journalist, photographer and socialist activist

Guest: Nima Tootkaboni is a former student activist, and a Ph. D. student in sociology at the Johns Hopkins University

nationwide protests continue in Iran - What is next? by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Women, Life, Freedom. Women are leading Iran protests by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Victors write history, as the old cliché goes. Over the past 5 centuries, European powers have fanned out across the world, conquering entire continents and writing self-serving accounts of those conquests while diminishing the merits of the conquered civilizations in order to justify their own depredations. Palestine has been no exception to that rule. Today we speak with Professor Salim Tamari,...

Neda semnani tells the story of her parents in"They Said They Wanted Revolution" by VOMENA Team at KPFA

France, a Settler Postcolony? A conversation with professor Olivia Harrison by VOMENA Team at KPFA

we speak with Palestinian-American journalist and media analyst Laura Albast about coverage of Palestine in the US media- In a recent Washington Post Op-Ed, she argues that By neglecting to contextualize Israeli state violence, the media has given the Israeli government a free pass, enabling it to continue ethnically cleansing the Palestinian people with impunity. It is time for outlets to address...

**Boycott, is screened on this year’s DocLands on Sunday, May 8 at 4 PM at SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER in San Rafael- For more information please visit, doclands.com** The freedom to refuse to buy a product at any time from anyone you want, which has historically been used by oppressed minorities throughout the world, witness the bus boycotts of the 50s, the grape boycotts of the 60s or the anti-Apar...

In a bold and historic step backwards for the cause of peace in the Middle East last Sunday, Morocco was one of four Arab countries meeting in a special summit with Israel and the US. Although distant Iran was central to the discussions held during this meeting, the central issue of Palestine never broached during this summit, which took place in the heart of historic Palestine. Khalil spoke with...

March 9, 2022- Amany Khalifa on forced evictions and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by VOMENA Team at KPFA