Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Nov 17th: The Political Crisis in Lebanon & ReOrient 2017 Festival of Short Plays by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Nov 10th: Women's Rights in Tunisia and remembering Moroccan revolutionary Ben Barka by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Vomena Program Nov 3rd 2017: 100 years after Balfour by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Vomena Oct 27th 2017 by VOMENA Team at KPFA

The Middle East and North Africa are susceptible to some of the more severe consequences of climate change including extreme weather patterns, heat waves, extensive drought and rising sea levels, and, Climate change could make previously habitable sections of North Africa and the Middle East that were uninhabitable. Meanwhile,, most of the conversation and coverage of climate change and other fact...

Vomena Oct 13th 2017: Remembering Edward Said, and the Arab Film Festival by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Oct 6tth 2017: Kurdistan referendum ( part 2) by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Vomena 9/29/17 : Kurdish referendum with Dr. Firat Bozcali by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Vomena Sept 8th 2017: Dr. Nahid Siamdoust on the politics of music in Iran- Part 2 by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Vomena Sept 1st 2017: Remembering Henri Alleg by VOMENA Team at KPFA

August 25th, 2017: Dr. Nahid Siamdoust on the politics of music in Iran by VOMENA Team at KPFA

We speak with San Francisco State University Professor Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi about the attacks by Zionist groups and the University administration against her personally and against student groups speaking up for Palestinian rights on the campus Rabab Abdulhadi is the Director of the Arab Muslim and Ethnicities Diasporas Studies Program at San Francisco State University. This week, we mark the 9th a...

Vomena August 11th: 1953 coup in Iran: An interview with Ervand Abrahamian by VOMENA Team at KPFA

July 28th, 2017: Israel and South Africa: The Many Faces of Apartheid: an interview with Ilan Pappe by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Gaza has been under siege for nearly 10 years now. In the year 2012, The United Nations declared the Gaza strip will not have the resources for human survival by the year 2020, but recently Robert Piper, the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories describe Gaza as currently “unliveable' land for its 1,8 million inhabitants. To underst...

This week, we continue our conversation with Adel Iskander, Professor of Global communications at Simon Fraser university, about the rise, history of the Al Jazeera network and future following the feud between Saudi Arabia, its allies and Qatar. Later in the program, we pay tribute to prominent media scholar Professor Jack Shaheen, who passed away on July 9. Professor Shaheen’s seminal work “Reel...

Last month Saudi Arabia and its allies, Bahrain, The United Arab Emirates, and Egypt cut off all diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar, and imposed a land and air blockade because of Qatar’s alleged support for "terrorism" Soon after, they turned the screws on Qatar by giving it 10 days to comply to a list of 13 demands. According to news reports, the list of demands included a dictate to shut d...

Humanitarian Crisis In Yemen by VOMENA Team at KPFA

This week, we will talk about the dire humanitarian crisis in Yemen and how one organization is trying to raise awareness about the unfolding human catastrophe in Yemen and to raise funds to help people with food and medicine. We’ll be joined by 3 founding members of Yemen Relief Project, a grassroots, a charitable organization working to provide humanitarian relief while improving the overall qua...

This week, we speak with award-winning Iraqi poet and author Sinan Antoon about his novel “The Corpse Washer”. The book paints a vivid and heartbreaking portrait of Iraq, confronting the war-torn nation’s horrifying recent history. But first, we go to London to speak with Moroccan anthropologist and activist Miriyam Aouragh about the recent revival of anti- government protests in the northern Rif...

VOMENA MAY 5TH 2017 Sopundcloud by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Samer Abboud on Syria by VOMENA Team at KPFA

The Ankara Massacre ; Racism in Israel by VOMENA Team at KPFA

A Black Saturday in Turkey: An interview with Osman Shahin by VOMENA Team at KPFA

Vomena_Oct 07 2015: Syria and Being homeless in West Oakland by VOMENA Team at KPFA