Voices of the Middle East and North Africa
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa
VOMENA Team at KPFA
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa is a weekly program hosted by Malihe Razazan and Mira Nabulsi. It explores the richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa through a complex web of class, gender, ethnic, religious and regional differences. Voices of the Middle East and North Africa airs on KPFA radio, 94.1 FM, in Berkeley, CA. Online on kpfa.org or on Apple Podcasts.
Toxic Supply Chains of War in Iraq
Toxic Supply Chains of War in Iraq by VOMENA Team at KPFA
Jan 20, 2025
38 min
What Is Israel's Endgame in Lebanon?
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 executive director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as founding editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is coproducer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Sami Hermez, PhD, is director of the Liberal Arts Program and associate professor in residence of anthropology at Northwestern University in Qatar. He obtained his doctorate degree from the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the author of War is Coming: Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon (UPenn 2017), which focuses on the everyday life of political violence in Lebanon and how people recollect and anticipate this violence, and My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine (Stanford 2024), that tells the story of a Palestinian family resisting ongoing Israeli settler colonialism.
Oct 13, 2024
58 min
Yanis Varoufakis on unbridled capitalism's descent into fascism and genocide
Yanis Varoufakis on unbridled capitalism's descent into fascism and genocide by VOMENA Team at KPFA
Sep 6, 2024
1 hr 2 min
Journalists risking their lives to report on Gaza & companies and countries supplying oil to Israel
Journalists risking their lives to report on Gaza & companies and countries supplying oil to Israel by VOMENA Team at KPFA
Aug 29, 2024
58 min
How Joe Biden Became a Steadfast Israel Defender
https://jacobin.com/author/branko-marcetic
Aug 12, 2024
31 min
Artists demanding an end to Gaza genocide
Artists demanding an end to Gaza genocide by VOMENA Team at KPFA
Aug 2, 2024
39 min
Standing in the Dust – Photography of Yalda Moaiery
Standing in the Dust – Photography of Yalda Moaiery by VOMENA Team at KPFA
Jul 25, 2024
24 min
The Role of International Actors In The War in Sudan
The Role of International Actors In The War in Sudan by VOMENA Team at KPFA
Jul 18, 2024
57 min
How Islamophobia Is Driving a Mental Health Crisis Among Michigan’s Muslim Youth
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.
Jul 17, 2024
41 min
The Corporate Power Brokers Behind AIPAC’s War on the Squad
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.
Jul 17, 2024
39 min
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