April 2006 Show

Plan to attack Iran--Fool Me Twice!
Thursday April 13th, 2006
6-7 PM (PST)

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Recently several articles in the US and UK have pointed out the administration’s planning of attacks on Iran. Seymore Hershe’s New Yorker report is the latest with details on why and how these attacks are being developed. Joseph Cirincione a month ago revealed the same story in an article for the Journal of Foreign Policy, titled “Fool Me Twice”.

In the first part VOME program hosts Joe Cirincione for a live interview about this issue and the Iranian nuclear program and its potential threat (if any). Second part of the show covers the paper recently published about Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy in an interview with Jeff Blankfort.

Joseph Cirincione is the Director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats, (Second Edition, 2005) and co-author of Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security (March 2005). He teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service and is one of America’s best known weapons experts, appearing frequently in print and on FOX News, CNN, ABC, NBC, PBS, NPR and occasionally on Comedy Central.

Cirincione worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives on the professional staff of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Joseph Cirincione appeared in the 2005 award-winning documentary, "Why We Fight," by Eugene Jarecki. He is the author of numerous articles on proliferation and weapons issues, a co-author of WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implication (January 2004), the editor of Repairing the Regime (Routledge, 2000) and producer of the award-winning DVD, The Proliferation Threat.

Fool Me Twice


Second Part: Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
Two Political Science scholars, professors John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science and Stephen M.Walt of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government recently published a research paper about “The Israel Lobby and U.S Foreign Policy”.

The 83-page Mearsheimer-Walt paper is a downloadable PDF file at the following links:

Original research paper as was initially released.

Against the Next War?

I am not affiliated with any of the following organizations but I support their cause to stop the nexr war before it starts:

• stopwaroniran.org


• Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

March 2006 Show;

Iraq 3 years after the occupation;
March 9th, 2006 - 6PM
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Within two weeks the 3rd anniversary of the Iraqi invasion will arrive, a look at personal accounts of the people who are affected by the war will be presented.

Part I: An interview with Farnaz Fassihi chief Middle East correspondant for the Wall Street Journal. (Goudarz Eghtedari)
Part II: Absent Voices: Iraqi Americans on War and Peace (Miae Kim)



Farnaz Fassihi was stationed in Iraq for 3.5 years from before the start of the invaision until recently when she was relocated to become the WSJ's Middle East chief correspondant. I have talked to her today from her home in Beirut.

A self Biography of Farnaz Fassihi from Association of Newspaper Editor's web site, click here!
Farnaz Fassihi's article after she left Baghdad. Click Here!
And for Farnaz's infamous e-mail of 2004 that created some controversy in the media click here!

Part II:

Absent Voices: Iraqi Americans on War and Peace
with Dr. Enas Mohamed, who has returned to Iraq frequently since the war began, and others. Produced by KBOO's Miae Kim

A Commentary:

An Honest Conflict Resolution!!
Goudarz Eghtedari

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to send a report on the Iranian nuclear program to the UN Security Council on March 6th. After almost 4 years of meetings and extensive monitoring, UK, France, and Germany (EU-3) have called off the negotiations due to an impasse on these talks.

Last week German former foreign minister Joschka Fischer and Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to President Carter, appeared together to discuss foreign policy problems at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and called on the US administration to get directly involved in the nuclear negotiations with Iran. However, when Adam Ereli, deputy spokesman for U.S. Department of State, was asked about the Fischer-Brzezinski’s comments, he responded that the US is happy with the outcome of the EU-3 negotiations and does not think there is a need for direct talks with Iran. Considering that negotiations between the EU and Iran were halted a month ago without a positive result, one would ask what exactly the US administration is calling successful. And what is in the outcome that our State Department is happy about?

The fact of the matter is that one can not enter an honest conflict resolution process hoping for stalemate negotiations. Parties who are directly benefiting or feeling harmed by the situation should be involved for the remedies to be meaningful. In this case however, the US’s objective must have not been to resolve the problem, but to take Iran to the UN-SC similar to the case of Iraq. Perhaps that is why Mr. Ereli calls it a success; otherwise this is clearly a failed process, as Mr. Fischer and the rest of the diplomatic community believe. Joschka Fischer was directly involved in the negotiations until Germany’s new chancellor came to office and has the most insights. Hassan Rowhani, the chief Iranian negotiator at the time has recently disclosed in a published report that “… cooperating with the Europeans would not change anything because Europe was not independent from the US which was committed on taking us to the Security Council.” (Raahbord, journal of Iranian Center for Strategic Studies, Fall Issue 2005)

Two points that have been conveniently ignored by the Western media were that right before the formal breakdown of the negotiations last January, Iran agreed to a ban for up to two years on industrial uranium enrichment process, while negotiations continue, and in return asked for a guarantee that the country will not be attacked militarily. Unfortunately the European negotiators could not offer such security guarantees while Americans were not at the table. President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Secretary Rumsfeld on the other hand have continuously reminded the world that a military option is still on the table. As Mr. Brzezinski noted in his appearance in Portland last year, you can not stop a country from the pursuit of nuclear capability if you constantly threaten them with military attack and regime change.

One last minute announcement from the Russian and Iranian Nuclear Energy Agency chairmen this week brought some hope that there might still be a way to resolve the issues in hand. Reports from Tehran and Moscow indicate that Iran has accepted in principle the Russian proposal (endorsed by President Bush) to establish a joint venture that would enrich Iranian uranium to reactor level outside of the country to defuse the suspicions that Iran might divert some nuclear fuel into a weapons program.

Considering Russia's record with providing natural gas to Ukraine, the Iranian party understandably has asked for other partners, such as China, in the deal. Iran again has linked this agreement to guarantees of its territorial sovereignty. It is time for President Bush to refrain from his unilateral strategy in dealing with world affairs and become an involved partner in solving this problem.

As President Bush mentioned in his state of the union speech and is followed up with India and Pakistan, it is every country’s right to have peaceful nuclear energy--he is in fact proposing it as an alternative energy source in the US. So why not call on the Iranian proposal to get involved in their energy project, give them modern and safe nuclear reactors and monitor their activities on the ground under IAEA safeguards. After all we should remember that the master plan for Iran’s nuclear program was designed and endorsed by President Ford’s administration, and the Iranian regime is just following the steps that the US Department of Energy and Stanford University outlined back in 1976. The US should actively participate in the discussion and use its economic and strategic advantages to concurrently pursue other important issues such as Human Rights, the Middle East peace process, and the fight against drugs and terrorism. If we have learned anything from the Iraqi adventure, it is that we should stop the bloodshed before it starts.

February 2006 Show;

Thursday February 9th, 2006
6-7 PM on KBOO 90.7 FM
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On Saturday February 4th the board of Governors of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted to report Iran to the United Nations Security Council with regards to its nuclear activities. Iran claims that it only aims to use the nuclear energy in a peaceful manner and has no intention to produce weapons. United States and some European countries on the other hand charge that Islamic Republic of Iran pursues a nuclear program that can eventually produce weapons of mass destruction.

My guests this week is Cyrus Safdari. Mr. Safdari is a lawyer and a political analyst on Iranian affairs.

January 2006 Show

Palestinian/Israeli Peace Process after Ariel Sharon

Interviews with Dr. Joel Beinin and Dr. Robert Blecher
Thursday January 12th, 2006 at 6 PM
KBOO 90.7 FM
webcast at www.kboo.fm

Departure of Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon from the helm will bring new opportunities or obstacles? Who Ariel Sharon was and how his departure will affect the Peace process? Join Goudarz Eghtedari in an interview with two scholars in the field for answers to these questions;

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Robert Blecher is director of scenario planning at Strategic Assessments Initiative, where he directs a team of Israeli and Palestinian scholars investigating unorthodox solutions to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He is also an editor of Middle East Report. Previously, he was an assistant professor of history at the University of Richmond and has consulted with International Crisis Group and United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

Joel Beinin has taught Middle East history at Stanford since 1983, including a broad range of courses from the rise of Islam to the present. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982, his A.M. from Harvard University in 1974, and his A.B. from Princeton University in 1970. His principal areas of research have been the social histories of modern Egypt, Israel and Palestine, radical movements, minorities, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. His intellectual profile has been formed by engagement with political economy, cultural studies, and comparative empire studies. His most recent books are The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2006); co-edited with Rebecca L. Stein and Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2001). He is the past president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and a member of the editorial committee of Middle East Report, published by the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).

December, 2005 Show

Part I: A pre-recorded lecture by Dr. Laila Al-Marayati on struggles that American-Muslims face in the US nowadays.

Part II: A live interview with Dr. Lisa Hajjar about CIA practices of secret detentions and interrogations.

Thursday December 8th, 2005
6-7 PM
KBOO 90.7 fm

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Lisa Hajjar is an associate professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California-Santa Barbara. She is the author of Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (University of California Press, 2005). Dr. Hajjar is a member of the editorial committee of Middle East Report, a publication of the Middle East Research and Information Project.

Dr Laila Al-Marayati is the spokesperson and past president of the Muslim Women’s League, a Los-Angeles based organization dedicated to disseminating accurate information about Islam and women and to strengthening the role of Muslim women in society, Al-Marayati is an obstetrician –gynecologist and director of Women’s health at Northeast Valley Health Corporation.

She has served as presidential appointee to the Commission on International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2001. As an American of Palestinian- descent, Al-Marayati frequently speaks about the right of the Palestinians. She is a member of the Board of Directors of KinderUSA, addressing the health and educational needs of Palestinian children living in the West Bank and Gaza.

November 2005 Show

Iran-US-Israel Triangle of Mistrust
A round table with Professor William Beeman and Professor Hooshang AmirAhmadi

Thursday Nov.10th, 2005.
6-7 PM
KBOO 90.7 FM

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A month ago Iranian President Ahmadinejad during a summit called for elimination of Zionism. This public announcement, perceived by the world as “Israel should be wiped out…”, caused a global outrage that indeed fueled more rhetoric from both sides. Looking at this statement in light of Iranian pursuit of Nuclear energy and discussion with IAEA generated a wide variety of concerns in the western countries. People question the value of these kind of statements and want to understand the Iran-US-Israel game plan in the future. Voices of the Middle East welcomes back two distinguished scholars with insight knowledge about the issue; Professor William Beeman and Professor Amirahmadi.

William Beeman is a professor of anthropology and director of Middle East Studies at Brown University. He writes extensively about Iran and US relations and their conflicts. Dr. Beeman has recently visited Iran and is the author of The "Great Satan" vs. The "Mad Mullahs": How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other. (Praeger/Greenwood). For his latest op-ed on this issue click here!
Hooshang Amirahmadi holds a PhD in economic planning and international development from Cornell University and is professor and director of the Middle East Studies Center at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Dr. Amirahmadi is also president of the American Iranian Council an organization aimed at normalizing the Iran and US relations. For his latest opinion on this issue click here!

October 2005 Show

An interview with Professor Birol Yesilada, Professor of Political Science and Chair of Turkish Studies at Portland State University.

Thursday October 13th, 2005
6-7 PM KBOO 90.7 fm

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Despite resentments in part of several European Countries finally EU entered into the negotiatiosn for Turkey's full membership in the Union. Dr. Yesilada will elaborate on this process and reasons behind EU's resentment to accept a predominantly Muslim country as a full member. What is at stake for both sides and future implications will be discussed.

Birol A. Yesilada is professor of Political Science and International Studies at Portland State University (PSU). He is also holder of the endowed chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government. He came to PSU in September1998 from the University of Missouri-Columbia where he was Chair of the Department of Political Science.


Dr. Yesilada received his B.A. degree in 1977 in Neurobiology from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.A. in Political Science in 1979 from San Francisco State University, and his Ph.D. in Political Science in1984 from the University of Michigan.

His recent publications include books, The Emerging European Union (with David Wood, Longman, 1996, 2nd ed. 2001 and 3rd ed. 2003), Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites (University of Michigan Press, 1999), The Socioeconomic and Political Transformation of Turkey (co-ed., with Atila Eralp and Muharrem T?Praeger, 1993), and numerous articles and book chapters including ?Political Future of Afghanistan and Its Implications for U.S. Policy? Conflict Management and Peace Science (Spring 2003 with Jacek Kugler and Brian Efird), ?Negotiating a Resolution to the Cyprus Problem: Is Potential European Union Membership a Blessing or a Curse?? International Negotiation Journal (2002, with Ahmet Sozen), ?Turkey?s EU Candidacy? Middle East Journal (2002) ?Turkey and the United States? Dangerous Neighborhood: Aspects of Turkey's Foreign Relations, (2002), ?The Virtue Party,? Turkish Studies (2002), and ?Realignment and Party Adaptation,? in Politics, Parties, and Elections in Turkey (2002). His is co-editor of International Studies Perspectives and Associate editor of Middle East Studies Association Bulletin.

His current research interests include: The European Union (enlargement issues, ESDI-NATO, economic integration and other internal policies), political and economic development of Turkey, radical Islam and terrorism, the Cyprus negotiations (decision making and bargaining analysis), global power transition, and politics of economic reform in the emerging markets.

August 11th, 2005 Show

Palestine and Palestinians in Lebanon
Thursday 8/11/05
6:00 PM
KBOO 90.7 FM webcast at www.kboo.fm

First part of the show this week is about Palestinian refugees right to work in Lebanon in light of changes in the Lebanese reforms after Syrian Pullout. Hundreds of thousands of stateless Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon scattered in refugee camps throughout the country, originally displaced through the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Legally defined as foreigners, Palestinians live in Lebanon as second-class citizens without any basic social or political rights.

Currently Palestinian refugees in Lebanon do not have the right to work in over 70 professions, while broader laws and regulations of the Lebanese state undermine the basic survival of Palestinians. They are forbidden from owning property, the majority living in refugee camps throughout the country, which are surrounded by Lebanese military check-points.


In June 2005, Lebanon’s Labour Minister proposed changes to the country’s labour laws regarding the right to work for Palestinian refugees. The changes, if implemented by Lebanon’s newly formed government, will grant the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the country the right to work in manual and clerical jobs, while still being forced to apply for foreign work permits. The proposed changes will still prohibit many Palestinian professionals from working in their fields of expertise including, medicine, law and engineering.

The proposal to grant Palestinians the right to work in limited professions, takes place in the context of larger ongoing political changes in Lebanon. In April 2005, Syria complied with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559 and withdrew upwards of 15 000 troops from Lebanon.

Social and political pressure also forced from Lebanon, tens-of-thousands of Syrian workers from the country. Many Palestinians in the camps express skepticism regarding the economic motives for this change regarding their right to work. It has been argued that Palestinian refugees can now fill the cheap-labour vacuum, left by the withdrawal of Syrian labour force.

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The second part of the show is a speech from Aaron Lakoff a member of the International Solidarity Movement and a journalist with CKUT community radio in Montreal. This presentation was given in Montreal, at a panel organized by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR.org), shortly after Aaron returned from working for 2 months in the Israeli occupied West Bank, with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Aaron originally traveled to Palestine, as part of a “Birthright Israel” trip, with the intention of going to work with Palestinians struggle against Israeli occupation.

This presentation specifically focuses on the realities on the ground in occupied Palestine, in the context of the reemergence of “negotiations” between the Israeli state and the Palestinian Authority, specifically addressing the ongoing construction of Israel’s Apartheid Wall and ongoing “Settlement” construction throughout Palestinian territory.

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-> For more information of the situation of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon visit the Independent Media Center of Beirut at: www.beirut.indymedia.org
-> To view report and pictures from Aaron Lakoff in Palestine visit: aaron.resist.ca

Campaign for Ganji's release!

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Appreciate your help and support of Human Rights.

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June 2005 Show

Voices of the Middle East presents:
Thursday June 9th, 2005 6:00 PM
KBOO 90.7 FM

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First part:
June 16, 2005 is the day of presidential elections in Iran. Eight candidates from right to center reformists are running to replace President Khatami. One of the people who signed up as a candidate for elections but was disqualified by guardian council is professor Hooshang Amir Ahmadi. I am talking to Dr. Amirahmadi about presidential elections in Iran and his plans for remedy of the US-Iran problems.

Second part:

Food is central to Arab culture in general and Lebanese culture in particular. It is also central to one of the most important factors in that culture which is Hospitality.

Food is served to family and guests in copious amounts and the variety of dishes on a well laid table is designed to delight the eye, as well as to impress the appetite and the guest. Such a table is a proud work of art.

I will be talking to Artist Linda Sawaya about her timely book, Alice’s Kitchen, which serves up such a work of art.

May 2005 Show

US-Iran relations and Iranian government's responses
An interview with William Beeman, Ph.D.

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William Beeman is a professor of anthropology and director of Middle East Studies at Brown University. He writes extensively about Iran and US relations and conflicts. Dr. Beeman is currently a visiting professor at Stanford University.


For Dr. Beeman's latest op-ed on Iran click here:

April 2005 Show

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Outside The Ark
An Artist's Journey in Occupied Palestine
By Ellen O'Grady

Ellen O'Grady is an artist and social justice activist who spent six years living in Palestine and Israel. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums throughout the state and country. Much of her work draws from her time in Palestine and Israel and reflects on the present conflict revealing the human faces behind the ongoing tragedy.
Ellen is currently on a nation-wide tour to promote her new book, Outside the Ark. It is the culmination of her painting series of the same name whose inspiration came from her time living and working in the West Bank. Outside the Ark tells the stories of individual Palestinians living in the West Bank. It links these stories and her own story through a remembering of the Biblical flood story. The work is exhibited in the form of a slide-show/storytelling performance, in paintings exhibitions, and in a book. It has been reaching people at a variety of venues, including art galleries, public libraries, colleges, high schools and places of worship.

March 31st show with John Limbert

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An interview with Ambassador John Limbert, We will talk about his long experience in Iran, from his Peace Corp volunteer days to becoming a Hostage. Mr. Limbert has writen the "Iran, at war with history" and has recently published a book titled "Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City".

6-7 PM Thursday March 31st on KBOO 90.7 FM
Web cast at www.kboo.fm

March 10th show with Nijyar Shemdin

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Kurds and elections in Iraq, current situation and future prospects.
an interview with Nijar Shemdin

Thursday March 10th, 6-7pm KBOO 90.7 fm
webcast at www.kboo.fm

Nijyar Shemdin is the Kurdistan Regional Government's Representative in the USA. He has tirelessly given all his efforts to support Kurds.

February 10th show with Richard Sale

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6-7 pm KBOO 90.7 FM in Portland, OR.
Webcast at www.kboo.fm

An interview with Richard Sale about recent reports on US intelligent activities in Iran.

Richard Sale is a United Press International correspondent with extensive works in the Middle East. Mr Sale covers military and intelligence in the region. He will be talking about Pentagon intelligence gathering in Iran and potential courses of actions by the administration.

January 13th show with Jaime Mayerfeld

Voices of the Middle East
Thursday, 1/13/05 from 6 to 7 PM
on KBOO 90.7FM, for webcast go to http://www.kboo.fm
Host: gabriele Ross

* An interview with Jaime Mayerfeld, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington and specialist in theory and practice of human rights. Topic: The nomination hearing of Attorney General to be Alberto Gonzales and his responsibility for reoccurring cases of torture.
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* A conversation with Morteza Baharloo, an author born in Darab, Southern Iran. Mr. Baharloo will introduce his book "The Quince Seed Potion" on February 9th at 7.30 at Powell's Books in Portland and on February 14th at 7.30 at Elliot Bay Books in Seattle. More information at http://www.mortezabaharloo.com
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December 9th, 2004 with Paulann Petersen

A celebration of the Human Right Day- Click here to listen!

Voices of the Middle East
Thursday, 12/9/2004 from 6 to 7 PM
on KBOO 90.7FM, for webcast go to http://www.kboo.fm
Host: Goudarz Eghtedari

A journey to Turkey with poetry of Paulann Petersen and Nazim Hikmet accompanied with Turkish music by Chris Henke, David Reihs.

Archive of previous shows:

Following shows are available on A-info Radio project site, click on each line to access:


US Foreign Policy towards Iran and the Nuclear Aspirations of the Islamic Republic.
Recording of an International seminar on this issue organized by the Unity for a Democratic and Secular Republic in Iran (www.jomhouri.com). Speakers: Gary Sick, Farideh Farhi, Mohsen Sazegara, Mehdi Askaryeh, Ramin Safizadeh

Presidential Candidates and the Middle East
An interview with Prof. Akbar Mahdi, Weslyan University, OH. On different approaches and similarities between two candidates.

Abu Ghraib Abuses
An interview with Mr. Sharif Aquil the litigating attorney for victims of Abu Ghraib prison abuses.

Iraq, Kurds, and Israel
An interview with Professor Robert Olson about situation of Kurds in Iraq after establishment of the interim government and his comments on reports of Israeli involvement in Northern Iraq.

Denis Kucinich at Middle East Forum
Congressman and presidential candidate Denis Kucinich attended a forum at PSU titled Middle East beyond Baghdad. And also an interview with students for Islamic Studies group.

OPEC and price of oil
An interview with Hossein Kamali a retired director of UN Human development program and former Iranian delegation member to OPEC.

Iranian Jews
An interview with Homa Sarshar the founder of the Iranian Jewish Oral History Project.

US & Saudi Arabian Relations
Joint Forum: Portland State University and King Saud University Summary: Interviews with Dr. Saleh Al-Amai and Dr. Hend Khuthaila of King Saud University, Saudi Arabia and Dr. Jon Mandaville of Portland State University on the US-Saudi relations. The political structure and reforms in Saudi Arabia and situation of women is discussed.

Homosexuality in Iranian Society
A Feminista Factor production about the first conference of Hooman about homosexuality in Iranian society. Parandeh Kia one of the members of Hooman is featured

The Crescent
Interview with Diana Abujaber the writer of The Crescent. Diana is an associate professor at University of Miami. Her books Arabian Jazz and The Crescent have won a significant attention by literary critics as well as the Media. (12/11/03)

Modern Iran; Politics and Women Rights
Interview with Dr. Nikki Keddie, Professor of History UCLA. Professor Keddie is talking about current events in Iran and her new book "Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution". (11/13/03)

Democracy and Women Movements in the Middle East
An interview with Dr. Nawal Saadavi Egyptian feminist, novelist and visiting professor at University of Main. (10/09/03)

Two Years and Two Wars after the 9-11
An interview with Dr. Juan Cole professor of Middle East History at University of Massachusetts (9/11/03).

IBDAA Palestinian dance troop
This is a short interview with teen age dancers from Ibdaa, the Palestinian dance group on their tour of US in Portland, OR. They talked about their refugee camp D'Hesha and their ambitions for peace. A voice that should be supported but was ignored by main stream media. (7/15/03)

Is Tehran the next stop?
Dr. William Beeman, Director of Middle East Studies, Brown University (6/12/03)

CIA coup of 1953 in Iran against Dr. Mossadegh
Dr. Mark Gasiorowski, Louisiana State University (5/8/03)