Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Wednesday 31 of October between 9pm and 10pm (GMT) on Resonance FM Radio Sunday 04 November between noon and 1pm (GMT) A Guest to be Proud of?: The Saudi King in Britain Freedom Will Come : The story of an Iranian trade union leader whose two-year fight for the dignity of workers has landed him and his deputy Ebrahim Madadi, in prison and in urgent need of medical treatment. Chavez Meets Iran Khodro Workers The crisis between the US and Iran Listen to the whole show here

A Guest to be Proud of?

Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 or http://www.resonancefm.com/ Every Friday 14.00 - 15.00 London time (GMT) "If one day the people will to live Then destiny must reply; The might must disappear, And bonds must break" Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi Audio (mp3) >> The show theme music >> Overcoming Zionism: Interview with Joel Kovel , 04July 2007 >> The War Economy of Iraq , Christopher Parker, 15 June 2007 >> Joel Beinin on Workers Struggles in Egypt , 30 March 2007 >> Assaf Adiv on Arab Workers plight and struggle in Israel, 23 March 2007 >> "Iran on the Brink - Rising Workers and Threats of War", Part 1 , Part 2 , 16 March 2007 >> Lara Deeb on Hizballah, Part 1 , Part 2 , 09 March 2007 >> "The Logic of Withdrawal" by Anthony Arnove, 26 January 2007 >> The Blood Never Dried : The British Empire in the Middle East, John Newsinger, 01 December 2006 >> China Mieville on the Mid

Listen to the 24th of October 2007 show Listen to the interview with the Egyptian historian Mahmood Ibrahim, author of Merchant Capital and Islam .

When Patience Snaps Another Betrayal is Being Prepared

"Social Revolution Only Way Out" (Hindustan Times)

Poetry as Performance Art "Clash of Civilizations": The Mother of all Pretexts Why the US is a Self-Serving Empire?

Che Guevara in the Middle East Forty Years Since the Death of Che Guevara

The Struggle for Land that Never Ends Rural Egypt returns to the ancien regime

Pakistani's Army '$20bn' Business

"The Yacoubian Building"

"The U.S. news media have very little appetite for stories about Arabs who don't carry knives, shoot machine guns, launch grenades, or talk on gold-plated cell phones". Middle-east correspondent Rami G. Khouri " News about the Egyptian workers' struggle never reaches European media." Eg ypt : The Victory of Mahalla Workers Exposes the Weakness of Mubarak's Regime The Militancy of Mahalla al-Kubra Background interview and article >> Listen to the interview >> Read article US Imperialism and the Iranian Regime: Ready for War or Peace? >> Listen to the talk , part of MEP show of 04 October 2007 Recent interviews Middle East Panorama on Resonance FM Radio Wednesday between 21:00 to 22:00 GMT (repeated on Sunday between 12:00 - 13:00 GMT) 104.4 FM or www.resonancefm.com

Articles Science and the Islamic World Between Imperialism and Islamism

The Iranian President Speaks at Columbia Univeristy

The Privatizing of the Israeli Mind. Poet Aharon Shabtai discusses the influence of the Occupation on Israeli culture

ORB: More Than One Million Iraqi Deaths Bush-Linked Texas Company Signs Oil Deal with Iraqi Kurds Hundreds Held in US Anti-war March France: Prepare for War with Iran Audio - Articles - Books - Shows Films

" The crisis is so intense today that never in the history of Pakistan has anyone seen such confusion, perplexity and bewilderment in society. The media, pseudo-intellectuals and analysts are adding to this confusion. They are raising all kinds of secondary issues, such as the judicial crisis, the Red Mosque, the Musharraf-Benazir deal, the return and re-exile of Nawaz Sharif, the uniform of the President, frivolous statements by American diplomats and presenting them as key issues in the minds of the masses... "In the last three years the section of the ruling class in power has had loans worth Rs.33 billion waived and at the same time it has received subsidies to the tune of Rs.24 billion. This blatant theft of Rs.57 billion was to the benefit of just 1122 feudal lords, industrialists and businessmen. Among them 11 industrialists alone plundered Rs12.3 billion in 2003 from the State." Read full article

US Professor Critical of Zionism Resigns >> Norman Finkelstein's talk , London, December 2005 (57 ms, audio) Finkelstein is author of Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Simitism and the Abuse of History (2005). 9/11 and the Functions of the ‘War on Terror’ SA Interviews a Student Activist in Lebanon The US Will Lose War Regardless What It Does

Pakistan Under Siege (Zia Mian) Behind Bush's Latest Anti-Iranian Threats (Muriel Mirak-Weissbach)