Poster for "The Palestinian Women's Movement: Non-Violent Resistance and Liberation" event held at Wayne State University, presented by WSU Students for Justice in Palestine with guest speakers Huwaida Arraf and Leila Abdelrazaq.
Stewart-Warner Corporation was an American factory producing automotive instruments. These are the identification cards of Najib Dababneh, a Jordanian factory worker in Chicago. The top ID is a union membership card for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The bottom is an employee pass for the Stewart-Warner Corporation.
Khalil Jassem reports on US persecution and govt raids of his Michigan-based charity organization and comment on this by attorney Sherif Akhil. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: SF-based radio host and activist Jess Ghanem, Michigan US Charity leader Khalil Jassem; attorney Sherif Akhil. Topics: Muslim Americans, civil rights, Arab American activism, media, world music
Land Holy" poem by Suheir Hammad, Maha Shaloui talks about coming NY Arab festival, Sayeed reviews building election coalitions, Abi Nader reports election mobilizing Arabs in US. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Arab American Comedian Maha Shaloui director of Nibris Theater Group, Muslim community organizer Agha Sayeed, Jean Abi Nader of Arab American Institute, poet Suheir Hammad; assistant Saadia Aslam. Topics: Arab American comedy, art, US elections, Arab American and Muslim Americans in elections, world music, poem
Kit Gage updates on history of US government use of secret evidence and detentions of Arab and Muslim Americans and civil rights fight against it; comment on the liberation of South Lebanon, with listener calls. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Kit Gage Director of DC-based NCPPF. Topics: secret evidence, civil rights, Lebanon.
Gage updates regarding efforts to overturn government use of secret evidence in more than 20 US federal cases HR2121; Ibish reviews history policy and future of ADC Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, Qurashi describes work as experimental theater. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Kit Gage of National Coalition to Protect Political Freedoms (NCPPF), political observer Hussein Ibish, Theater director Ibrahim Qurashi. Topics: secret evidence, civil rights, Muslim Americans; Arab Americans, theater.
Our US Thanksgiving Day program "Taking the Land" explores parallels between Palestinians and Native American experience. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Native American activist/producer Raven Silva, Palestinian editor/economist Adel Samara. Topics: Native American history, Palestine history, land loss.
Lightner describes work in MAAD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and countering discrimination; Kassem reviews work with major Arab American organizations working biases against myths and highlights prominent US Arabs. Hosts/Producer: Dave Hall. Interviewees/Guests: Casey Kassem radio producer, activist Candy Lightner, MAAD founder. Topics: Arab American, activism, civil rights, racial biases.
Discussion of western bias in media reports and books on Arab and Muslim women and demonization of Islam in the US, critique of western feminists, and backlash. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Prof. Yvonne Haddad, Religious Studies, Georgetown University, DC. Topics: Arab women, Islam, media bias, civil rights.
Guests comment on Arabs in election and Arab dialogue in NJ and NY city administrations. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: NJ-based observer publisher Seif Ashmawi, NY-based activist and social worker Essa Abed. Topics: US elections, Arab American community.
Tarif comments on media bias and effects on accusations in US bombings, announcements, Dr Al-Saadawi comments on US media bias and anti-Muslim rhetoric. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: NY-based attorney Tarif Warren, Egyptian author Nawal El-Saadawi; author Nita Renfrew. Topics: NY-1993 bombing, civil rights, Islam, US media.
Kashmiri records violence against Canadians in wake of US bombing of Iraq, Abed reports on attacks and harassment against Arabs in schools in US. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Canadian journalist Zuheir Kashmiri, author of "The Gulf Within"; NY-based community rep. Essa Abed. Topics: Iraq, war, human rights, media, racism, Canada, anti-Arab acts in USA.
Aziz interviews women (Edith Koniky, Meena Alexander, Barbara E Smith, Claire Coss) celebrating Women's History Month. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: American writers Edith Koniky, Meena Alexander, Barbara E Smith (Feminist Press), Claire Coss. Topics: world literature, Women.
Each guest describes the work of their committee in the USA, to build solidarity and educate Americans. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Arab America Institute director, Helen Samhan, Palestine Solidarity Committee, Riyad Khourey; AAUG director Ghada Talhami. Topics: Arab American community activism in US, elections, Palestine solidarity, Arab American University Graduate Association work in USA.
Written proposal to implement ME/NA identity category option be used on the application for undergraduate and graduate admissions to the Univeristy of Michigan.
