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(Aziz comments on Andalusian music tradition from Algeria, and reviews Said's work and life and struggle, listener calls. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Aziz commentary. Topics: Aziz comments on Andalusian music tradition from Algeria, US intellectual Columbia U. professor Edward Said, Andalusian music, world music.)

(Nassef introduces us to the relation of Sunni and Shiia schools of Islam and describes their history and evolution. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: NY-based historian Ahmed Nassef, editor of MuslimWakeUp.com. Topics: Islam, Sunni/Shia, World music.)

(Nahla Saleh announces 3rd Palestine solidarity conference on US campuses, Safi and Haeri analyze positive Iranian response to Ebeidi's Nobel Prize award, and review US-Iran relations and conditions in Iran and offer background to Ebeidi. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Colgate U Professors Omid Safi and Boston U. Shahla Haeri, Palestine Solidarity movement Nahla Saleh. Topics: Palestine solidarity DBS divestment, Iran, Nobel Peace Laureate Shereen Obeidi, civil rights, world music.)

(Aziz comments on Ramadan gatherings, Al-Arian updates us on discrimination against persecution of Muslim Americans around the case of Sami Al-Arian. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Laila Al-Arian daughter of US Muslim political prisoner Sami Al-Arian. Topics: Ramadan, Islam, Civil Rights, Sami Al-Arian, World music, children.)

(To celebrate Ramadan, PA-based Muslim poet Abdu Hayy Moore reads Ramadan poetry and we play Lebanon children's songs, Dean Obeidallah reviews coming NYC Arab American Comedy Festival, comedy talent, Qumseiya describes Israeli apartheid wall. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: PA-based poet Abdu Hayy Moore, comedian Dean Obeidallah, CT-based Palestinian activist Mazen Qumseiya. Topics: Palestine, Israeli separation wall, Arab American comedy, world music.)

(Ramadan recitation by schoolgirl Abdul Majid, Aisha Adawiya announces Ramadan food drive, Maurii Saalakhan arrest and detention of Muslim American leader Abdul Rahman Al-Amoudi of American Muslim Foundation. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: DC-based Peace and Justice Foundation Muslim civil rights worker Maurii Saalakhan, Women in Islam leader Aisha Adawiya. Topics: Ramadan, Islam, Civil Rights, Qur'an, children, world music, religious music.)

(Abu Jaber speaks to Aziz about latest novel "Crescent", Aziz comments on socio-economic issues in Algeria, global influences, compositions by Algerian composer musician Farid Makhloufi recorded live in South Algeria. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: US Arab novelist Diana Abu Jaber, Algerian musician Farid Makhloufi. Topics: Arab American Literature, Algeria, world music.)

(Abdul Gafour describes women\'s magazine "Azizah" and its goals, Lynne Stewart reviews government indictment and case against her, listener callins. Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: US magazine editor Salimah Abdul Gafour, NJ civil rights worker Magdy Mahmoud, NY civil rights attorney. Topics: Muslim Americans, Muslim media, civil rights, secret evidence, world music.)

(Aziz commentary, reading of children\'s poems, reading of "Sura of Miriam" on birth of Jesus (with translation). Hosts/Producer: Barbara Nimri Aziz. Interviewees/Guests: Christmas special. Topics: Christmas Special, Quran, world music.)

(Fen Mejnoon with Dean and Maysoon, featuring John Cowie; Tony Shalhoub; and Najla Said and Maha Shahlawi, co-founders of Nibras, Arab American Theater Collective. Hosts/Producer: Dean Obeidallah, Maysoon Zayid. Interviewees/Guests: Fen Mejnoon with Dean and Maysoon. Topics: Arab American Arts and Comedy.)