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Barbara Aziz broadcasts collection, 1988-2014

868 digital audio files (online) — 0.1 linear feet

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Dr. Barbara Nimri Aziz is an Arab American author, anthropologist, and journalist. She founded Radio Tahrir, which broadcasted regularly from circa 1990-2013 over New York City's WBAI Radio. Radio Tahrir was the first radio program in the United States to focus on a wide range of topics pertaining to different Arab and Muslim communities across the world. The materials in this collection are dated from 1988-2014 and include broadcast episodes and episode segments as well as commentaries, documentaries, interviews, news reports, and literary recitations.

The Barbara Aziz broadcasts collection (868 digital audio files (online) and 0.1 linear feet) document Dr. Barbara Nimri Aziz's journalistic career, particularly as it pertained to WBAI Radio's Radio Tahrir, Behind the News, and TalkBack programs. Collection material is dated from 1988-2014 and includes broadcast episodes and episode segments, commentaries, documentaries, interviews, news reports, and recitations.

There is some overlap between the Radio Tahrir and related material series as well as the Interviews and related material series. Researchers are encouraged to consult both series for relevant material.

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Radio Tahrir and related material, 1989-2014

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The Radio Tahrir and related material series (648 digital audio files (online) and 0.1 linear feet) consists primarily of episodes, episode segments, and unique series associated with the radio magazine, Radio Tahrir.

Radio Tahrir episodes typically consisted of multiple kinds of content, including commentaries from experts as well as listening audience members, interviews with guests, literary readings and recitations, reports, and/or testimonials. Guests on the program included activists, attorneys, authors, artists, religious and secular community leaders, filmmakers, journalists, musicians, poets, and scholars. Although a wide range of cultural, historical, literary, political, and religious topics relating to different Arabic and/or Muslim communities around the world were discussed on the program, those relating to Iraq, Israel, and Palestine are prominently featured.

Also included are several special series associated with Radio Tahrir. The most prominent of these series included are "Maqam: From Cordoba to Baghdad" (circa 1997), which focused on Arabic music and featured Simon Shaheen; "6 Arab American Poets" (1997); and "Fen Mejnoon with Dean and Maysoon" (2004-2006), which was co-hosted by Arab American comedians Dean Obeidallah and Maysoon Zayid.

Other material in this series are several National Alliance of Third World Journalists' Alliance Report episodes as well as physical "6 Arab American Poets" brochures.