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(Gonzalez interviews Moore about personal, spiritual, and global issues of Ramadan. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: 3rd edition Ramadan Special --PA-based poet Abdul Hayy Moore, Sufi musician Ibrahim Gonzalez. Topics: Ramadan poetry, music, Islam, Muslim Americans.)

(Aziz reviews books ("War on the Top of the World", "War, Lies and Videotape"), interviews from Iraq with Iraqi doctors on health medical conditions, listener callins. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: reports by various Iraqi doctors, listener calls. Topics: Iraq, sanctions, medical reports, listeners callins.)

(Aziz comment on Palestinian music, 3 guests report and comment on this anti-Arab feature film (and other films) and planned public protests, film review, listener callins. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: 3 NY-area students, Osama Cortaz, Ramsey Kassam, and Samar Al-Balusi. Topics: US film "Rules of Engagement", anti-Arab media defamation, Iranian films by Majid Majidi.)

(Aziz reviews film "The Color of Paradise" by Majid Majidi, Ibish comments on US TV and film portrayal of Arabs and Muslims, listeners calls. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: political observer Hussein Ibish. Topics: Iran, Iranian films, US film on Arab themes.)

(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 on struggle to overturn secret evidence, listener calls, Lebanon. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Kit Gage, director of NCPPF. Topics: secret evidence, civil rights, Arab American literature, Lebanon.)

(Court update regarding secret evidence, Kiblan reviews government use of secret evidence against her client and others; Gonzalez reads his memoir, NY-based novelist Shaw Dallal interview (by Aziz), with reading by Steve Howard. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: VA-based attorney Melia Kiblan, sufi musician Ibrahim Gonzalez, Arab American author Shaw J. Dallal, writer of book "Scattered Like Seeds". Topics: Mazen Al-Najjar, Anwar Haddam, Civil rights, Muslim Americans, secret evidence, Latino Muslim, Arab American literature.)

(Samara describes economic and political coincidence of conditions in Palestine post-Oslo, and decline of agricultural sector, Ibish comments on passing of Hafiz Al-Assad and post-Al-Assad. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Palestinian editor and economist Dr Adel Samara, political observer Hussein Ibish. Topics: Palestine, Palestinian economy, Israeli occupation policy on Palestine, Syria.)

(Lecture by Nawal El-Saadawi at NY Brecht Forum, mixed with readings from "Daughter of Isis" by Nadja Middleton. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Egyptian author Nawal El-Saadawi, Nadja Middleton. Topics: Arab women, Middle East, Media.)

(Tamather Al-Akhil reads from her stories, their ancient origins, her reading style and playwriting; Aziz interviews Donni George in Baghdad speaking about status of Iraq National museum, archeology dig-sites, and antiquities under UN sanctions. Hosts/Producer: Nadja Middleton. Interviewees/Guests: Author/storyteller/actress Tamather Al-Akhil, Baghdad-based Iraq Archeologist Donni George. Topics: Arab American literature, Iraqi history, UN sanctions, archeology.)