Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Sociology Professor Asef Bayat taks about his recently published book, Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East , where he focuses on the diverse ways in which ordinary people, the subaltern- the urban dispossessed, women, the globalizing youth, and other urban grass roots- strive to affect the contours of change in their societies. Sunday on 1014.4 FM between noon and 1 or streamed on www.esonancefm.com The interview is taken from Voices of the Middle East and North Africa and was first broadcast on KPFA Radio, Berkeley, US.

What is going on in Iran today? Is there a revolution? What is the nature of the opposition movement and what is its future? Does it have any support from the West? And more questions will be answered by Maziar Razi, an Iranian with 37 years of militancy within the workers movement, founder of Iranian Workers Solidarity Network and spokesperson of the Iranian Revolutionary Marxist Tendency. Razi argues that in Iran today "we cannot even speak about a pre-revolutionary situation" drawing a parallel with the events of 1978-79. Sunday between 12:00 and 13:00 GMT on 104.4 FM or online: www.resonancefm.com To listen To download

Middle East Panorama will be reporting on a social gathering on Saturday February 13 in London, a gathering organized by the International Committee for the Third Option "to denounce", what the organizers call "recent executions in support of Iran uprisings and in memory of 120,000 brave men and women who sacrificed their lives for peace and freedom since 1981." Sunday between 12:00 and 13:00 GMT on 104.4 FM or www.resonancefm.com

Selection from previous shows - "The Myths of Zionism" by John Rose (May 2008) "Class and Sect in the Middle East" by Anne Alexander (Jan 2008) "Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World" by Lina Khatib (August 2008)

The Quiet American in Yemen, elimination of subsidies in Iran, music from Morocco. Resonance FM Radio 17 January 2010.

Sounds and music from Istanbul, Turkey. Sunday between noon and 1pm on 104.4 FM (London) Or resonancefm.com (worldwide)

Between 26 of December 2008 and 18 January 2009 Israel carried out a military assault on Gaza . Here is a discussion that took place at the time between a Marxist (Heiko Khoo) and a Jewish supporter of Israel. The event took place at Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, London 04 January 2009, and recorded by Nadim Mahjoub. It was first broadcast on Resonance FM radio. Sunday between noon and 1pm on 104.4 FM (London) Or resonancefm.com (worldwide)

Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought' is a talk by Steven Salaita, author of "The Uncultured Wars". Steven Salaita, RAWI Executive Director, is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Tech. His other books include "Anti-Arab Racism in the USA", "The Holy Land in Transit", and "Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics".

"The life and the music of Zohar Argov reflect the struggle of Mizrahim in Israel." In this week show Benjamin Rosendahl, a freelance journalist, translator and holder of a degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem talks about the time and music of Zohar Argov. Sunday between noon and 1pm on 104.4 FM (London) Or resonancefm.com (worldwide)

Part 2 of an interview with Sami Shalom Chetrit author of Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews (Routledge publication, October 2009) and an essay on the Black Panthers in Israel .

Part 1 of 2 of an interview with Sami Shalom Chetrit author of Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews (Routledge publication, October 2009) and an essay on the Black Panthers in Israel . Part 1 Hello Nadim, Don't know if this will be of interest to you:- Is Israel Marketing a New Conflict? Sam Gardiner, 7 November 2009 http://www.spinwatch.org/blogs-mainmenu-29/sam-gardiner-mainmenu-106/5329-is-israel-marketing-a-new-conflict Enjoyed part one of the Sami Shalom Chetrit interview. It's not easy for westerners such as myself to get an insight into what's happening in the Middle East. Your programme has been infinitely more useful in than all of my years listening to the BBC. Hope you're well, BET

Islam in Power ? An interview with Hadani Ditmars, co-editor of the New Internationalist magazine. News and analysis: Yemen, Egypt and Iran. Sunday between noon and 1pm on 104.4 FM (London) Or resonancefm.com (worldwide)

- Barak Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. - Interview with Kaveh Ehsani from DePaul University on the economic and social situation in Iran. The interview was produced by Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on KPFA Radio, Berkeley, USA. - Iran's alleged nuclear programmes.

Music and sounds from the Middle East and North Africa. Iran's Nuclear Threat is a Lie , says John Pilger. Unilever PG Tips Monkey on London Casual-T Tour

An interview with Shiva Balaghi. Ms Balaghi talks to MEP about Maziar Bahari 's film "Football Iranian Style" and also about Bahari's other documentaries: "Paint No Matter What" (about the Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh) and "Along Came A Spider" (about a serial killer in Iran which was based in part on an art project that Hassanzadeh created). Cumulatively, Maziar's documentaries helped bring greater attention to the vibrant creative cultural, intellectual, and social life in Iran. Shiva Balaghi is a historian of the modern Middle East, with special interests in the interrelated histories of colonialism, nationalism, gender and visual culture. She is a Cogut International Humanities Fellow at Brown University, where she teaches history. She is completing a book on the cultural history of Iran from the mid-nineteenth century through the present. Also in the show, the recent anti-government protests in Iran and the character of the oppositi...

Israel-Palestine, settlements expansion, peace talks, Obama' policies in the Middle East, social unrest in Egypt, Lebanon. The State and religion in Egypt. Views by: Amr Hamzawy senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and co-editor with Marina Ottaway of a recent book: "Getting to Pluralism Political Actors" and Jean Shaoul, professor at Manchester University and contributor to the World Socialist Website. Sunday between noon and 1pm on 104.4 FM (London) Or resonancefm.com (worldwide)

Sunday between noon and 1pm on 104.4 FM (London) Or resonancefm.com (worldwide) Alan Hart (BBC Panorama programme and ITN's News correspondent, researcher and producer of "Five Minutes to Midnight" film) is the author of a recent book: " Zionism - The Real Enemy of the Jews ". Here you will listen to Hart's ideas expressed in the book. The show includes an interview with the author. Labour news from Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan and Iran. Related: Dilemma of Palestinian Settlement Builders (the BBC) " PA intends to bypass failing peace talks and establish its own state within two years ." ( The Times , UK)

F & D by Mazen Kerbaj The Lebanese worker finally finds his daily bread by Mazen Kerbaj Drawings by Mazen Kerbaj

" "Only nations which liberate themselves can be free." Malalai Joya "really is one of the bravest women in Afghanistan". She told the 300-strong audience at Conway Hall in central London last week that she has survived five assassination attempts and is still not safe with personal security guards or by wearing a burkha to cover her identity. Yet she continues to campaign against foreign occupation and fundamentalist warlords, and for women's rights and education. She believes all NATO troops must leave Afghanistan immediately. On July 16 thousands of quarry workers in Egypt went on strike in the central province of Al-Minya, in opposition to a decision by the authorities to impose a tax of E£40 on each ton of quarried rock. The tax had led some quarries to close and lay off their workers. The dispute is only one of several ongoing textile workers’ strikes since privatisation, despite the brutality with which last year’s strike at Mahalla al-Kubra was put...

Sunday between noon and 1pm on 104.4 FM (London) Or resonancefm.com (worldwide) An interview with Yasser Alwan about his work " The Liberty of Appearing - Photographs of Egyptian Working People " ( Peacock Imprint , 2008, edited by Richard Peacock with an introduction by John Molyneux, Senior Art theory Lecturer, University of Portsmouth). "Yasser Alwan's subjects are sometimes alone, always in a crowd, recognisably Egyptian, resembling everybody else ... Global struggle corralled into an Arab street corner. Still life speaking to the world of how it sees itself..."(Eamonn McCann, author of War and an Irish Town). "These are wonderful photographs. They are very simple, the subjects shine out, and here is humanity without any sentimentality." (Red Saunders, photographer & founder Rock Against Racism).