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Middle East
Palestine Writes Literature Festival and Attempts to Shut it Down
Ahmed and Samar spoke with Susan Darraj and Laura Albast about the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, the largest Palestinian Literature Festival gathering in North America. Sadly, some Zionist organizations tried to shut the festival down....
Counting The True Costs Of War. The Secret Lives Of Young Arab Women.
Norman Solomon – War made Invisible: How America Hides The Human Toll Of Its Military Machine More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in...
Samar spoke to Loay Elbasyouni about his fascinating journey with the NASA team especially with the groundbreaking helicopter flight Loay and his team achieved on Mars in April 2021. He spoke about his childhood in...
Talking to Lara Friedman About Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream
Lara Friedman is the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP). With more than 25 years working in the Middle East foreign policy arena, Lara is a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy...
Supporters of Palestinian human rights will rally Saturday in Temple Terrace
This is WMNF News, and I am Blannie Whelan and I’m here with Laura Abu Ghannam, civil and human rights activist and Central Florida coordinator of CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations). Welcome Laura and...
Proof that Soleimani killed hundreds of Americans is “groundless” says Middle East expert
Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Or follow this link and select 01/10/20 from the drop down menu: https://www.wmnf.org/events/radioactivity/ Intro: A week ago the US assassinated the top military leader in Iran—as he was traveling...
Human rights activist discusses Israel’s plans for new settlements in Hebron
Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Or follow this link and select 12/17/19 from the drop down menu: https://www.wmnf.org/events/radioactivity/ Intro: Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Earlier this month Israel’s new defense minister ordered...
Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet had a busy day Wednesday in Israel: a state cabinet meeting, signing a bill on anti-Semitism and a visit to an industrial park in the Israeli-occupied West Bank....
Pasco peace activists hold vigil to remember the Palestinian Nakba
Every year on May 15, Palestinians remember what they call the Nakba, often translated as the ‘catastrophe.’ It marks the period in 1948 when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were expelled from their...
PDA will screen The Occupation of the American Mind in Tampa
The largest pro-Israel lobbying group held its annual conference this week. Several Democratic candidates for president promised to skip the meeting of AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, because of its support for...
Two New Must Reads & Must Hear New Music! (on Life Elsewhere)
After a deadly terrorist bombing at the American embassy in Lebanon in 1983, only one man inside the CIA possessed the courage and skills to rebuild the networks destroyed in the blast: William Buckley. But...
Wetlands scientists support states’ lawsuit to save Clean Water Rule
Several states are suing the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for putting on hold an Obama-era rule to protect wetlands and waterways. And this month an organization of wetlands...
