Sunday between noon and 1pm on 104.4 FM (London) Or http://www.resonancefm.com/ (worldwide) This week show is an adaptation from Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, a programme on KPFA radio, featuring a conversation with Sohrab Behdad , co-author of " Class and Labor in Iran : Did the Revolution Matter? " and the Iraqi poet and novelist Sinan Antoon reading from his recently published book of poems, "Baghdad Blues".
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51