RADIO INTIFADA

intifada=shaking off - oppression/silence

Voices from Kolkata to Casablanca
Voices of struggle, Voices for change 

Thursday, August 21, 2008 3-4pm PDT

KPFK/Pacifica Radio 90.7 FM, Los Angeles
streaming at kpfk.org and available on audio archive for 90 days

SPECIAL ELECTION COVERAGE

Pakistan, Central Asia and Syria

Where do the candidates stand?

The Middle East is of strategic importance to American citizens, our choices this November will not only effect our own country but it the rest of the world.

For the next two weeks Radio Intifada will explore the two candidates stance on key countries in the region to gain a better understanding of where our future lies.

This week we will focus on Pakistan, Central Asia and Syria.  Next week we will discuss Israel/Palestine,Iran and immigration issues affecting the Arab, Muslim and South Asian world and communities in the US.

Special Guests:
TAYYAB MAHMUD teaches Civil & Economic Rights, Contracts, Comparative Law, International Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History.  Professor Mahmud has published extensively in the areas of comparative constitutional law, human rights, legal history and legal theory. His primary research areas are critical legal theory and colonial legal regimes and their legacy. His current research is focused on extra-constitutional usurpation and exercise of power in post-colonial states.

ZAMAN S. STANIZAI is a political scienctist who teaches Islamic traditions and Imaginal perspectives at Pacifica Graduate Institue.

HAMOUD SALHI is a political scientist teaching at Cal State Dominiguez Hills

THIS SHOW IS PRODUCED  AND HOSTED BY LUCY DERTAVITIAN FROM THE RADIO INTIFADA COLLECTIVE, WITH SPECIAL HELP FROM SEJAL PATEL.