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Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am Future human rights activists are taking courses on Human Rights Advocacy organised by Education Action International. They are from Yemen, Western Sahara, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran, 'Kurdistan', Palestine, The Sudan. Some of them are refugees in UK. This first part is featuring a meeting of the students with Mick Chatwin, a trainer and consultant, a solicitor who has worked for over 20 years in the area of asylum and immigration law. Formerly he is the Legal Director at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI). And also a meeting with Lord Dubs of Battersea (Peer), House of Lords, held in Westminster.
Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am This show of Middlle East Panorama is on: The Culture of Anti-Semitism . That was the topic of the meeting held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, London) on Saturday, the 8th of February 04. Speakers: Brian Klug from the Oxford University and Azmi Bishara from the Israeli Knesset.
Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am This week show is featuring parts of a concert took place in Croydon last Saturday. The group Nara led by the Syrian kanun player and composer Abdullah Shahateh is incredible! Also we have a movie review and flash news from Iran, Iraq and the Occupied Territories.
Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am Discover the music of Arab composer and singer Marcel Khalife.

Films

The Road to Guantanamo (2006, 1h: 31 mins) Life Style of Richest People of the Middle East (2006) The Battle of Algiers (1966, 2hrs) The Black Panthers Speak (2003, 53 mins) Palestine 1948 (July 2007, 9:39) The Yacoubian Building Related films: The War on Democracy by John Pilger (2007, 1hr 34mns)
The Battle of Algiers Berlin Alexanderplatz by Fassbinder Omar Destiny by Youssef Shahine Bab Al-Hadid by Youssef Shahine Gangs of New York Papillion Ivan the Terrible Amistad Frida Jamon Jamon by Bigas Luna Schindler's List Of Mice and Men Animal Farm The Night by Mohammad Malas Clockwork Orange Apocalypse Now Full Metal Jacket Rosa Luxemburg Sophie Scholl Wilhelm Reich Lolita Midnight Express Potemkine Querel de Brest by Fassbinder The Great Revival Life of Brian Oliver Twist Motorcycle Diaries 1984 The War on Democracy (a documentary by John Pilger) Land of Freedom by Ken Loach Bread and Roses Michael Collins Strike by Eiseinstein Dr Strangelove by Stanley Kubrik Al-Massir by Youssef Shahine Persepolis Germinal Caution, Lust

Quotes

“Hugo of St. Victor, a twelfth-century monk from Saxony, wrote these hauntingly beautiful lines: It is, therefore, a source of great virtue for the practised mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about invisible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may be able to leave them behind altogether. The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is as a foreign land. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has extended his love to all places; the perfect man has extinguished his. ” Quoted in Edward Said’s  Reflections on Exile and Other Essays , p. 190 . “A society is not the temple of value-idols that figure on the front of its monuments or in its constitutional scrolls; the value of a society is the value it places upon man’s relation to man. To understand and judge a society one has to penetrate its basic structure to t