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Suad Khiary - Tunisia: Hunger Strike - Music

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.

Robert Fisk - Play: The Hot Zone

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

Iranian Embassy picket - Michel Foucault and The Iranian Revolution

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 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 .