March 6, 2011

Broadcast Date: 
Mar 6 2011

Mona Eltahawy on the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa; a porn producer pressures New York's LGBT Center into canceling a Party to End [Israeli] Apartheid; plus Compulsion, a new play by Rinne Groff at New York's Public Theater.

Episode segments
  • A New Generation Emerges in the Middle East and North Africa
    Global Justice, International Politics, Middle East, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian journalist based in New York City, has reported extensively thoughout the Middle East and North Africa. 
    Marissa Brostoff and Kiera Feldman

    We talk with Mona Eltahawy about the generational shift that is fueling the pro-democracy movements that are roiling the Middle East and North Africa.  What's next in Palestine?

  • Money Talks at New York's LGBTQ Center
    Health Care, International Politics, Israel/Palestine, Gay Rights, Occupation
    Nadia Awad is a visual artist active with Al Qaws and Palestinian Queers for BDS.  And see her video by clicking here.
    Marissa Brostoff and Kiera Feldman

    When a major funder of New York's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center (LGBT) objected to an Israeli Apartheid Week event--the Party to End Apartheid-- the Center responded by cancelling the event and banning the sponsoring group, Siege Busters, from the Center in the future.

  • One Man's Obsession with Anne Frank
    Holocaust, Theater, Arts & Culture
    Playwright Rinne Groff is the author of Compulsion and a founding member of the theater company Elevator Repair Service.
    Marissa Brostoff and Kiera Feldman

    We talk with Rinne Groff about Compulsion, which is playing through March 13, at New York's Public Theater.  Compulsion was inspired by the story of Meyer Levin, the writer who was instrumental in bringing Ann Frank's diary to public attention, but failed to have his own adaption accepted for production setting off a 30 year legal battle for recompense.