Date sent: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:00:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: malihe razazan <vomekpfa@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Tonight,7 PM,KPFA:An homage to Mahmoud Darwis
h, Palestineâ??s national poet
To: vomekpfa@xxxxxxxxx
Tonight's program will be a homage to Palestine's national poet Mahmoud Darwish
who passed away on August 9.
http://www.mahmouddarwish.com/english/
Our guests will be Iraqi poet and novelist Sinan Antoon
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/910/fr1.htm as well as Michel Shehadeh
http://imeu.net/news/article009026.shtml, Executive Director of the Arab Film
Festival. http://www.aff.org/about.html
Also in the program, Dr. Zeina Zaatari will be reading from obituaries and
homages written in memory of Mahmoud Darwish by his
friends and colleagues in the Arab world.
Our web log is operational now. http://vomena.org/blog/
Also, we are hoping to have our web site working very soon! Stay tuned!
As always, tonight's program can also be heard live on-line at http://kpfa.org.
It will then be archived at
http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=25. This program is also Podcasted
on http://kpfa.org/podcast/ . The Middle Eastern
and North African Perspectives (MENAP) produces Voices of the Middle East and
North Africa that is aired on KPFA 94.1 FM
in Berkeley as well as KFCF 88.1 FM in Fresno every Wednesday at 7 PM (PST). To
contact us, please call 510-848-6767 ext.
632, or send us e-mail to vomekpfa@xxxxxxxxx .