Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the uproar around the mosque in NY City. We will also talk about coverage of the U.S. pulling "combat troops" out of Iraq and the Time magazine cover showing the photo of a disfigured Afghan girl. We'll be joined by investigative journalist John Gorenfeld, McClatchy's Nancy Youssef and independent journalist Alia Malek. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What caught your attention this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Nancy Youssef, Pentagon Correspondent with McClatchy Newspapers based in Washington, DC

Alia Malek, a freelance journalist and author based in NY

John Gorenfeld, a freelance writer in San Francisco

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What's the State of the Arts in the Arab World?

What's the state of artistic expression in the Arab world? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with three filmmakers at this year's Arab Film Festival. What are the boundaries of free expression in the Arab world and how do they differ from one country to the next? What can we learn about the Middle East through cinematic narratives? Join us live at 11 or email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What impacts have political and economic change had on what artists can put into the public realm? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Michel Shehadeh, executive director of the Arab Film Festival

Ibrahim El-Batout, an Egyptian filmmaker based in Cairo and director of Ein Shams (or Eye of the Sun)

Kalthoum Bornaz, Tunisian filmmaker and director of The Other Half of the Sky

Najwa Najjar, Palestinian filmmaker and director of Pomegranates and Myrrh

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Your Call 061009 Do Arabs and Muslims feel a change under Obama?

Do the people targeted after 9/11 feel a change under Obama? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the Arab and Muslim communities' responses to President Obama's address in Cairo. Can that make a difference for Muslims here? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What about the non-Muslims who became the targets of the "war on terror"? And what could we do to combat the prejudice and distrust that remains? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Veena B. Dubal, an attorney at the Asian Law Caucus
Khalil Bendib, an Algerian-American fine artist and political cartoonist
Beshara Doumani, history professor at UC Berkeley

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Your Call 021109 Did the Iranian Revolution Change the World?

How did the Iranian revolution change the world? On the next Your Call we will follow the trail of one of the monumental events of the 20th century and see how we are still living with the repercussions in the 21st. After nearly a decade and a half in exile Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran on February 1, 1979. Soon after, Time magazine speculated that the revolution threatened "to upset the world balance of power more than any political event since Hitler's conquest of Europe." How did the Iranian revolution reshuffle the deck in the Middle East and Central Asia? How did it shift the political conversation within the Muslim world, from Morocco to Indonesia? And 30 years on, what do we still need to understand about the Iranian revolution?

Guests:
William O. Beeman in St Paul
Professor and Chair of Anthropology and specialist in Middle East Studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul. He also maintains the very informative and interesting blog on Middle Eastern affairs,Culture and International Affairs

Behrooz Moazami in New Orleans
Assistant Professor of history Loyola University New Orleans where he is creating a Middle East / Peace Studies interdisciplinary minor program. He is a native of Tehran and also a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies @ NYU.

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