This week, we speak with world renowned dancer and choreographer Shahrokh Mosh-kin Ghalam about his new performance of Love Stories of Shahnameh, playing on March 18th, at the Montgomery Theater in San Jose.

But First, On saturday, March 10, we lost prominent and celebrated anthropologist and a dear friend of our program, UC Berkeley Professor Saba Mahmood. This week, we celebrate her life and pay tribute to her everlasting legacy by airing one of her last lectures, given at Bogazici University in 2015.

VOMENA March 23rd, 2018

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.