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Robert Fisk - Play: The Hot Zone

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 http://www.resonancefm.com/ worldwide Every Friday 14.00 - 15.00 London time (GMT) Robert Fisk, the revered foreign correspondent for The Independent, his knowledge and insight of the Middle East is perhaps unrivalled among contemporary commentators. Fisk, who has met Osama bin Laden three times, talks about his experience of covering conflict throughout the region, the Middle East's history and the possibilities for its future. Part of a talk given at the Institute of Education at the book launch of Fisk's Wars for Civilization, London 13 October 2005. >> Listen here .   The Hot Zone , new play explores the stories of British Asians at Guantanamo Bay. The play is based on three British Asians detained in an international detention centre. Iqbal, Waris and Sonny were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They are now incarcerated in a international prison camp. http://www.asiansinmedia.org/news/article.php/theatr...

Iranian Embassy picket - Michel Foucault and The Iranian Revolution

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 http://www.resonancefm.com/ worldwide Every Friday 14.00 - 15.00 London time (GMT) The Committee for a Marxist International, OutRage, Iranian Revolutionary Socialists’ League and the Iranian Civil Rights Committee, took part in a picket outside the Iranian regime’s embassy in London. Interviews. Michel Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: a talk given by Jonathan Ree at the Kufa Gallery on the 6 July 2005 in London.
The elections in Egypt. The Egyptian economist Samir Amin speaks on ‘The Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East’. >> Listen here (10:54) Interview with Oumnya Talat, member of the Egyptian Kefaya Movement, works at the MBC Broadcasting Centre in Dubai, on the elections in Egypt. A play: Crocodile Seeking Refuge . Interview with the playwright, Sonia Linden.
Coverage of “No deportation of Iraqi and Kurdish Asylum Seekers”. A protest took place in front of Bush House, London, UK. Has Iran got the right to have nuclear weapons? Interviews conducted in Speakers Corner, London. The First International Conference against Terrorism , Manchester, UK. Interview with the organiser, Amir Riadh, a human rights student. Speakers include: Mark Curtis, author of Web of Deceit .

Interview with Mordechai Vanunu

Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) In this Friday's edition of Middle East Panorama, Nadim Mahjoub conducts an interview with Mordechai Vanunu. Kidnapped from Rome by Israeli secret agents on September 30th, 1986. Vanunu served eighteen years in prison (eleven and a half in solitary confinement) for revealing Israeli nuclear weapons secrets.Vanunu was elected Rector of Glasgow University in December 2004.On March 17th 2005 Vanunu was charged with violating his release restrictions by granting interviews to foreign media. >> Listen to the interview

Marxism 2004 - Bethlehem Diaries - Music

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 The Failure of Marxism 2004 to address the Middle Eastern issues. Part I: How Can Palestine Be Free? Bethlehem Diaries play: excerpt and interview. Music: Salaam (Sheva) Hinna ya Hinna (Almayadeen), Sebika (Anouar Braham) and more.

Iraq at Speakers' Corner - Ihsan Imam

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 http://www.resonancefm.com/ worldwide Every Friday 14.00 - 15.00 London time (GMT) Iraq: "invasion, occupation, lies, torture, and beginning of the war of liberation." Hear speakers at Speakers' Corner (in English) and a typical discussion between some Arabs (in Arabic) at Hyde Park Corner (London) on this Tuesday show. Plus intervals of music by the Iraqi Ihsan Imam and co.

World Peoples Resistance Movement - Fight Racism Fight Imperialism

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 http://www.resonancefm.com/ worldwide Every Friday 14.00 - 15.00 London time (GMT) Hasan, an Iranian living in London, from the World Peoples Resistance Movement in Britain, speaks about Iraq, the current situation in the Middle East and imperialism. Also a speaker from Fight Racism Fight Imperialism. Contributions by : a Kurdish from Iraq, a Spanish and others.

End the Occupation, Stop Torture Demo - Human Rights: a discussion

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 The 22nd of April Demonstration: "End the Occupation of Iraq, Stop Torture" in London. Speakers: Lindsey German (Stop the War Coalition), Jeremy Dear (Member of Parliament), Tony Benn, A representattive from the Moslim Association of Britain, Ken Livingston (Mayor of London). Also discusions among Arabs and Americans on Human Rights.

Iraq: War and Occupation

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 "The war in Iraq and the occupation of the country." Middle East Panorama interviewed demonstrators who marched against the war last Saturday 20th March and who also have made a link between the war in Iraq and the conditions of the people in UK. Could they stop war by demonstrating for peace?
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 ...