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Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 or http://www.resonancefm.com/ Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) Question and Answer session from 'Syria - cockpit of Middle East Politics' , leture by Dr Sami Khiyami, Syrian ambassador to London, School of Oriental and African Studies, London 30 January 2007. Books reviews: two Syrian writers. Menstruation by Ammar Abdulhamid and Sun on a Cloudy Day by Hanna Mina.

Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 or http://www.resonancefm.com/ Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal , a new book by Anthony Arnove, editor of Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War and, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People's History of the United States . Arnove joins Middle East Panorama online from New York. >> Listen to the interview Lebanon: General strike, violent clashes and more threats from the Lebanese opposition to carry on its protests untill the resignation of the government. So far, six people have been killed and more than 100 injured.

Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 or http://www.resonancefm.com/ Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) ' Perdition '. The announcement by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign that it will stage January performances of Jim Allen's celebrated 1987 anti-Zionist play, "Perdition," triggered off enraged response by the British Jewish establishment. Interviews with: David Cesarani , Research professor at Holloway University, London, Roland Rance (Jews Against Zionism, UK) and Lenni Brenner , author of 51 Documents - Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis . On the 11th of January 2007 Human Rights activists gathered outside the US embassy in London as part of an international day of protest marking the 5th anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo Bay concentration camp. The execution of Saddam Hussein. Was the trial a 'Kangoroo trial' as Stephen Lendman calls is? Why is it that the manner in which Saddam was executed is 'unaceptab

Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 or www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) 'The vision of the East and the heritage of the West: the ideological dialectics in the art music of the Jewish community in Palestine and Israel' by professor Jehoash Hirshberg.

Interview with Paul Rogers , author of A War Too Far: Iraq, Iran and the New American Century (Plutobooks 2006) and A war on Terror Afghanistan and After (Pluto Books 2004) . >> Listen to the interview Lebanon - What is behind the Conflict? This week quote: "Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions." Bertolt Brecht, German playwright

Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 or http://www.resonancefm.com/ Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) "The Financial War on Terror". Ibrahim Warde , adjunct professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Massachusetts, and journalist for Le Monde Diplomatique, speaks about The Price of Fear: Al Qaeda and the Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror (IB Tauris. 2006). 4th London Kurdish Film Festival. This year's festival will run for one week and will present an extraordinary variety of films made by Kurdish film makers or about Kurdish issues: features, documentaries, shorts and, for the first time, animated films, from all over the world. For more deails visit: www.riocinema.org.uk Sherif Abdel Samad on the Internet portal Qantara.de wrote about the Egyptian band Wust EL Balad saying there is "a touch of religion, politics, love, and revolution."

Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 or resonancefm.com Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) "I can definitively say that what Al-Jazeera is doing is vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable," Rumsfeld told reporters on 15 April, 2004 after Al-Jazeera showed the bodies of women and children killed by U.S. bombs in Fallujah. "...Al-Jazeera has been ragarded with suspicion by Arab governments who complain that its programs bruise their sensitivities and threaten the stability of their regimes," wrote Mohamed Zayani in Al-Jazeera Phenomenon, Critical Perspectives on New Arab Media ( 2005) Jon Anderson and Dale Eikelman argue that "Al-Jazeera plays a role, jejune as it may be, in the pacification of Arab public opinion."  The Blood Never Dried: A Peoples' History of the British Empire (Bookmarks 2006). Part of a book launch speech by the author John Newsinger: >> The British Empire in the Middle East   Friday 8 December : "The