Posts Tagged ‘Riz Khan’

Video : Alaa Al Aswany on Riz Khan’s ‘One on One’

In fame, History, News, Opinion, Politics, TV on 21 February 2011 tagged Abbas El Aswany, Alaa Al Aswany, Cairo, Chicago, egypt, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hosni Mobarak, Hosni Mubarak, Huffington Post, Husni Mubarak, Kefaya, Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, New Zealand, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, One on One, Riz Khan, The Yacoubian Building, TV, Victor Hugo, Video, Yacoubian Building, Youtube with no comments

In a 2009 episode of his show One on One, “the Oprah of Al Jazeera” (which is selling him short) Riz Khan spoke to the Arab world’s best-selling novelist Alaa Al Aswany. Avid readers of Al Aswany’s works will see some of the ideas about Egyptian society in Al Aswany’s novel in his answers to [...]

Dr. Mark Levine Stopping Settlements is Meaningless, Obama Must Challenge Israel

In History, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Racism, religion, TV, War on 29 May 2009 tagged 1967 Borders, Al Jazeera English, An Impossible Peace: Oslo and the Burdens of History, Benjamin Netanyahu, China, Dr. Mark LeVine, Dr. Shibley Telhami, EU, Fatah, Gaza air strikes, Hamas, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, Oslo, Palestine, Riz Khan, Russia, Settlements, Two State Solution, UC Irvine, UN, Video, Youtube with no comments

Al Jazeera English’s Riz Khan show focused on the Israeli settlements today. Speaking to Dr. Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland and Dr. Mark Levine of the University of California at Irvine, what both guests made clear was that peace between Israel and Palestine is as important to the United States national security as [...]

Jan Jananayagam on Tamil Reconciliation in Sri Lanka

In History, india, Internet, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Racism, religion, TV, Twitter, War on 26 May 2009 tagged @_M_I_A_, Al Jazeera English, Anna Neistat, Devinda Subasinghe, HRW, Human Rights Watch, Internment Camps, Jaffna, Jan Jananayagam, LTTE, M.I.A., Mahinda Rajapakse, Riz Khan, Sri Lanka, Sumukan, Tamil, Tamil Tigers, Tamils Against Genocide, Twitter, UNHRC, Vavuniya, Video, Youtube with 4 comments

Al Jazeera English’s Riz Khan program discussed the post conflict situation in Sri Lanka and what it will take for a reconciliation among the Sri Lankans and the Tamils. M.I.A. went on to link to the Youtube videos of this episode on her Twitter, as she found herself in awe of Tamils Against Genocide‘s Jan [...]