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(Bayina Sabour and Sabah discuss domestic violence and rape crisis intervention and how mosque communities can address it, F. Boyle traces US policy and sanctions towards Libya and Lockerbie case. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: NY Brooklyn Mosque leaders Sister Bayina Sabour and Brother Rabah; University of Illinois law Professor Frances Boyle. Topics: domestic violence, Muslim Americans, social services, Middle East, Libya, sanctions.)

(Aziz reviews Iranian, Egyptian and other Arab films showing at NY-NJ film festivals, with clips from reviewed films. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Aziz reviews and commentaries. Topics: film, art, Iran, Middle East, Egypt, Majid Majidi, Bahman Ghobadi.)

(Nawa reviews conditions of Afghanistan's drought, humanitarian relief and civil war, Dan Winters announces Denver conference for actions supporting Iraq. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Afghani American journalist Fariba Nawa, Colorado activist Dan Winters. Topics: Afghanistan, Iraq anti-sanctions activism.)

(Al-Mukthar (at Iraq conference in Baghdad) reviews illegality of sanctions as international terrorism, and world public reaction to embargo, reading of poems by of SV Attallah and Etel Adnan. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: London based attorney Sabah Al-Mukthar, head of Arab Lawyers Guild in UK. Topics: Iraq, UN sanctions, world music with poetry readings.)

(Nasir Zakeria and Moh Dagman interview Khalife (Arabic and English translation), about Arab music and politics and art in music and life with music clips, Laurent interviewed in Baghdad describes work with Iraq street children, Gonzalez Arab and Latino music composition and comment. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: international musician activist Marcel Khalife, Sufi musician Ibrahim Gonzalez, French volunteer Golam Laurant. Topics: world music, Arab music, Lebanon, Marcel Khalife, Sufi, Ibrahim Gonzalez, Iraq, children under UN sanctions.)

(Interviewed in Baghdad, Buthaina Nasri speaks about breaking UN sanctions on Iraq with books, Abdul Baki speaks about her latest novel "Ghost Songs" with passages read by Sybil Wong. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Cairo-based Iraq publisher and author Buthaina Nasri, US-based novelist Kathryn Abdul Baki. Topics: Iraq, women, Middle East, Arab literature, anti-intellectual sanctions, Kathryn Abdul Baki, world music.)

(Altoush and Kudos describe student union attempts to petition Canadian government criticizing Israeli policy, Khankan reports of attempts to include Muslim representative in Interfaith NY radio program, listener callins. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Canadian Concordia University students Samer Altoush, Christina Kudos, NY-Muslim community leader Gazi Khankan. Topics: petitions in support of Palestine rights, Israel-Palestine relations, Muslim Americans.)

(Ghanem reports on decimation by employer related her Palestinian-US husband, Aziz comments on life under Israeli occupation, artist Taysir Barakat at his café and gallery in Ramallah speaks about his work and goals. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: former US employee Wendy Ghanem, West-Bank Palestinian resident artist Taysir Barakat. Topics: Palestine, civil rights, art under occupation, world music.)

(Aziz reads reports striking information about women in Saudi Arabian economy, letter by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, listener callins. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: NY-based author Tara Barampour, commentator Barbara Nimri Aziz. Topics: end of interview with Tara Barampour, Saudi economy, women, Asian American literature, Palestinian casualties, Israeli occupation, Iran, world music.)

(Guests speak about their research resources on ancestor Gibran with details of Gibran's life, and Gibran's colleagues, ongoing on-air fundraising. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Boston-based Kahlil and Jean Gibran, authors of new biography of poet Kahlil Gibran, producer Ibrahim Gonzalez. Topics: Arab American Literature, Kahlil Gibran, Arab American history.)