This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa
2/25/09
Guests:
Professor Lisa Taraki, associate professor of Sociology at Birzeit university in Ramallah
Dr John Chalcraft, lecturer in the History and Politics of Empire AT THE London School of Economics.
A conversation Torange Yeghiazarian, Artistic Director of Golden Thread production. GTP is presenting the West Coast premiere of Joyce Van Dyke”s award-winning play, A Girl”s War at the Thick House. This love story of opposite sides was first produced at Boston Playwrights” Theatre in 2001. Named one of the “top ten” plays of the year by the Boston Globe, A Girl”s War won the John Gassner Playwriting and the Provincetown Theatre Company Playwriting Awards.
Resources of interest:
PACBI – Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
British Committee for the Universities in Palestine
To listen to the program or download the episode go to the kpfa website.
