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Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am Interview with the Iraqi writer and political activist Suad Khiary (76 years old) Here she speaks of her experience, war, terrorism and imperialism, the Iraqi working class, the Iraqi Communist Party, the Arab left and the future of Iraq, and Venezuela. >> Listen to the interview A hunger strike in Tunisia. Eight opposition figures began an indefinite hunger strike on 18 October 04 to demand respect for freedom of expression and association in Tunisia and the release of all prisoners of conscience. The hunger strikers include Lotfi Hajji, the head of the Tunisian Journalists Union (SJT). Music: pieces from Mucians of the Nile - Luxor to Isna.

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 http://www.resonancefm.com/ worldwide Every Friday 14.00 - 15.00 London time (GMT) Robert Fisk, the revered foreign correspondent for The Independent, his knowledge and insight of the Middle East is perhaps unrivalled among contemporary commentators. Fisk, who has met Osama bin Laden three times, talks about his experience of covering conflict throughout the region, the Middle East's history and the possibilities for its future. Part of a talk given at the Institute of Education at the book launch of Fisk's Wars for Civilization, London 13 October 2005. >> Listen here .   The Hot Zone , new play explores the stories of British Asians at Guantanamo Bay. The play is based on three British Asians detained in an international detention centre. Iqbal, Waris and Sonny were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They are now incarcerated in a international prison camp. http://www.asiansinmedia.org/news/article.php/theatr

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 http://www.resonancefm.com/ worldwide Every Friday 14.00 - 15.00 London time (GMT) The Committee for a Marxist International, OutRage, Iranian Revolutionary Socialists’ League and the Iranian Civil Rights Committee, took part in a picket outside the Iranian regime’s embassy in London. Interviews. Michel Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: a talk given by Jonathan Ree at the Kufa Gallery on the 6 July 2005 in London.

The play: Crocodile Seeking Refuge. Excerpts, interviews with the cast and members of the audience

The elections in Egypt. The Egyptian economist Samir Amin speaks on ‘The Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East’. >> Listen here (10:54) Interview with Oumnya Talat, member of the Egyptian Kefaya Movement, works at the MBC Broadcasting Centre in Dubai, on the elections in Egypt. A play: Crocodile Seeking Refuge . Interview with the playwright, Sonia Linden.

Coverage of “No deportation of Iraqi and Kurdish Asylum Seekers”. A protest took place in front of Bush House, London, UK. Has Iran got the right to have nuclear weapons? Interviews conducted in Speakers Corner, London. The First International Conference against Terrorism , Manchester, UK. Interview with the organiser, Amir Riadh, a human rights student. Speakers include: Mark Curtis, author of Web of Deceit .

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 http://www.resonancefm.com/ worldwide Every Friday 14.00 - 15.00 London time (GMT) Interview with Murad Shirin from the Iranian Revolutionary Socialist League on Iran's 2005 Elections. >> Listen

Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) In this Friday's edition of Middle East Panorama, Nadim Mahjoub conducts an interview with Mordechai Vanunu. Kidnapped from Rome by Israeli secret agents on September 30th, 1986. Vanunu served eighteen years in prison (eleven and a half in solitary confinement) for revealing Israeli nuclear weapons secrets.Vanunu was elected Rector of Glasgow University in December 2004.On March 17th 2005 Vanunu was charged with violating his release restrictions by granting interviews to foreign media. >> Listen to the interview

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am The Failure of Marxism 2004 to address the Middle Eastern issues. Part I: How Can Palestine Be Free? Bethlehem Diaries play: excerpt and interview. Music: Salaam (Sheva) Hinna ya Hinna (Almayadeen), Sebika (Anouar Braham) and more.

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 http://www.resonancefm.com/ worldwide Every Friday 14.00 - 15.00 London time (GMT) Iraq: "invasion, occupation, lies, torture, and beginning of the war of liberation." Hear speakers at Speakers' Corner (in English) and a typical discussion between some Arabs (in Arabic) at Hyde Park Corner (London) on this Tuesday show. Plus intervals of music by the Iraqi Ihsan Imam and co.

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 http://www.resonancefm.com/ worldwide Every Friday 14.00 - 15.00 London time (GMT) Hasan, an Iranian living in London, from the World Peoples Resistance Movement in Britain, speaks about Iraq, the current situation in the Middle East and imperialism. Also a speaker from Fight Racism Fight Imperialism. Contributions by : a Kurdish from Iraq, a Spanish and others.

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am The 22nd of April Demonstration: "End the Occupation of Iraq, Stop Torture" in London. Speakers: Lindsey German (Stop the War Coalition), Jeremy Dear (Member of Parliament), Tony Benn, A representattive from the Moslim Association of Britain, Ken Livingston (Mayor of London). Also discusions among Arabs and Americans on Human Rights.

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am "The war in Iraq and the occupation of the country." Middle East Panorama interviewed demonstrators who marched against the war last Saturday 20th March and who also have made a link between the war in Iraq and the conditions of the people in UK. Could they stop war by demonstrating for peace?

Two Iranians, Bahzed and Saeed, speak about their experience as well as their views of the students movement in Iran since the revolution of 1979. >> Listen here (36:33)

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am Future human rights activists are taking courses on Human Rights Advocacy organised by Education Action International. They are from Yemen, Western Sahara, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran, 'Kurdistan', Palestine, The Sudan. Some of them are refugees in UK. This first part is featuring a meeting of the students with Mick Chatwin, a trainer and consultant, a solicitor who has worked for over 20 years in the area of asylum and immigration law. Formerly he is the Legal Director at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI). And also a meeting with Lord Dubs of Battersea (Peer), House of Lords, held in Westminster.

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am This show of Middlle East Panorama is on: The Culture of Anti-Semitism . That was the topic of the meeting held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, London) on Saturday, the 8th of February 04. Speakers: Brian Klug from the Oxford University and Azmi Bishara from the Israeli Knesset.

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am This week show is featuring parts of a concert took place in Croydon last Saturday. The group Nara led by the Syrian kanun player and composer Abdullah Shahateh is incredible! Also we have a movie review and flash news from Iran, Iraq and the Occupied Territories.

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am Discover the music of Arab composer and singer Marcel Khalife.

The Road to Guantanamo (2006, 1h: 31 mins) Life Style of Richest People of the Middle East (2006) The Battle of Algiers (1966, 2hrs) The Black Panthers Speak (2003, 53 mins) Palestine 1948 (July 2007, 9:39) The Yacoubian Building Related films: The War on Democracy by John Pilger (2007, 1hr 34mns)

The Battle of Algiers Berlin Alexanderplatz by Fassbinder Omar Destiny by Youssef Shahine Bab Al-Hadid by Youssef Shahine Gangs of New York Papillion Ivan the Terrible Amistad Frida Jamon Jamon by Bigas Luna Schindler's List Of Mice and Men Animal Farm The Night by Mohammad Malas Clockwork Orange Apocalypse Now Full Metal Jacket Rosa Luxemburg Sophie Scholl Wilhelm Reich Lolita Midnight Express Potemkine Querel de Brest by Fassbinder The Great Revival Life of Brian Oliver Twist Motorcycle Diaries 1984 The War on Democracy (a documentary by John Pilger) Land of Freedom by Ken Loach Bread and Roses Michael Collins Strike by Eiseinstein Dr Strangelove by Stanley Kubrik Al-Massir by Youssef Shahine Persepolis Germinal Caution, Lust