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(Mohja Kahf speaks about her work and reads her poems. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Topics: Arab American literature, poetry.)

(Khaled Mattawa talks about his work and reads his poems. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Topics: Arab American literature, poetry.)

(Bouziane's interview with director Chahine, NY exhibit of photographer Yasmine Bouziane; Hussein Ibish review Iraq response to US-UN inspections. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: intern Ryme Katkhouda, film critic Anissa Bouziane; political observer Hussein Ibish. Topics: Egyptian filmmaker Yusuf Chahine; Iraq, US policy on Iraq, sanctions.)

(Abu Sabe reviews Arab role in NJ elections, Ryme Katkhouda's radio profile of Palestinian village of Deir Yassin; Hussein Ibish comments on UN inspections leaving Iraq. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Murad Abu Sabe, NJ-based observer, Ryme Katkhouda, Amherst-based political commentator Hussein Ibish. Topics: state elections, Palestine, Deir Yassin village, UN sanctions on Iraq and its policy on UN inspections.)

(Sheik Al-Khalidin describes community outreach and education; Ibish comments on US and Russian policies regarding Iraq. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: NY-based Muslim Sheik al-Khaladin, Hussein Ibish. Topics: police brutality, civil rights, anti-Islam racism, Muslim Americans, Iraq and US policy.)

(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.)

(Ibish reports on OIC conference in Tehran; Lisa Mohammed reads her new work, and Bouziane reviews North African films in NY-African Diaspora Film Festival. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: poet Lisa Mohammed, film-reviewer Anissa Bouziane, Hussein Ibish. Topics: Organization of Islam Conference, poetry, French-Algerian films.)

(Ibish comments on Jordanian political tensions and Jordan-Iraq strained relations; Awadallah reports on wider observance of Muslim holidays; part 2 of interview with Farid Esack edited by Mona Al-Dahry; Gonzalez's Ramadan music production. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: political observer Hussein Ibish, South African Muslim leader/author Farid Esack, NJ-Community rep Prof Hani Awadallah; sufi musician Ibrahim Gonzalez. Topics: Jordan, election, Middle East, Iraq-Jordanian relations, Ramadan, Islam, sufi poetry.)

(MT Mehdi reports on Ramadan public education, Gonzalez's music-poetic Sufi production, poems by Abdul Hayy Moore who also talks about Ramadan. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: film critic Anissa Bouziane, community leader MT Mehdi, Sufi musician Ibrahim Gonzalez, poet Abdul Hayy Moore. Topics: Ramadan, Muslim Americans.)

(Bouziane describes her current exhibit, satirizing colonial art postcards; Poets Kaldas and Moosey read their work, Al-Radi on Uzbekistan. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: photographer Yasmine Bouziane, poets Pauline Kaldas and Brenda Moosey. Topics: Arab American poetry and art, photography, women.)