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(Aziz reads selected personal blog entries, listener calls. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Christmas Day special. Topics: world music, selected readings.)

(Willow Wilson, author of "The Butterfly Mosque" talks about her new fantasy novel "Alef, The Unseen". Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Willow Wilson, Muslim American author, graphic novelist, Seattle. Topics: Muslim, literature, poetry.)

(A selection of world music to celebrate the New Year. Hosts/Producer: Sarah Malaika. Interviewees/Guests: New Years Day special music. Topics: world music.)

(Critic Amar Kessab talks Algerian cultural policy and democracy in Algeria, Simon Fattal exposes misunderstandings of Alex Tocqueville's role in Algerian occupation, Oran-based scientist reviews France nuclear tests in Algeria. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: special on Algeria with Paris based Algerian critic Amar Kessab (part 2), author Simon Fattal, scientist Prof Al-Aboudi. Topics: Algeria rights and art, Alex Tocqueville, France nuclear policy in Algeria.)

(Co-hosts discuss various political developments in Arab Middle East, then review history, gains and obstacles experienced by Americans in USA, Aziz reports on celebration of life of civil rights attorney Ramsey Clarke. Hosts/Producer: Hassen Abdellah, Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Muslim gains and setbacks in Middle East reviewed by hosts. Topics: Muslim Americans, Middle East politics, US attorney Ramsey Clarke, world music.)

(Haddad, author of many books on Muslims in the West, reviews history and changes, author Ahdaf Soueif discusses the characters an plot of her novel "The Map of Love" set in 20th century Egypt. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Georgetown U. (DC) Professor of Religion Yvonne Haddad, author Ahdaf Soueif (from our Tahrir archive). Topics: Muslim Americans, history of Muslims in US, Arab literature.)

(Episode featuring Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, book reviews)

(Episode featuring Samuel Hazo, Willow Wilson, Lynne Stewart)

(Willow Wilson, author of fantasy novel "Alif the Unseen", author Hanan al-Shaykh 2009 archival interview speaking about novel "The Locust and the Bird", Tamara Issak interview hiphop poet Gaith AlAdami. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: author G Willow Wilson (part 2), London based Arab author Hanan Al-Shaykh (archival), HipHop artist Gaith Al-Adhami. Topics: Muslim literature, Muslim rap hiphop, Arab literature.)

(2003 archival interview on her family history with Souad Al-Radi prior to UN invasion of Iraq, Aziz commentary of Brussels Tribunal report on Iraq, poems by Iraqi Canadian author and scholar Lamees Al Ethari. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Baghdad resident Souad Al-Radi, Lamees Al Ethari. Topics: Iraq, sanctions, history, Arab poetry Arab literature, women.)