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Voice of Palestine
Since 1987
19 August 2008
The show will be about a Palestinian prisoner, one of over 11,000 Palestinian prisoners held hostage in Israeli jails.
The performance entitled THE UNIVERSITY OF MAJD is by Peter Schumann, the artistic director of Bread & Puppet. http://www.breadandpuppet.org/index.html
THE UNIVERSITY OF MAJD is about a young Palestinian man who was taken during the mass arrests of April 2002, and is now spending a 30-year sentence in an Israeli prison. The texts used in the performance are from emails that were sent by Edward Mast during Majd's arrest, trial and sentencing. Edward Mast is a playwright and performer whose play SAHMATAH, co-written with Hanna Eady, was shown in Vancouver in the 1990's and has been playing in the Middle East and Europe since 1998.
Voice of Palestine broadcasts weekly on Vancouver Cooperative Radio (CFRO) 102.7 FM, Vancouver, Canada. The show broadcasts for one hour every Tuesday night from 8 to 9 pm PST (Wednesday morning 6:00 am - 7:00 am Palestine time). It first went on the air in September, 1987, and has hit the airwaves every week for the past twenty years.
People outside of Vancouver can listen to the show live on the internet http://www.coopradio.org/listen/
Mahmoud Darweesh's life and poetry will also be featured this Tuesday, August 12, on Voice of Palestine www.voiceofpalestine.ca from 8-9 pm, 102.7 FM. We will present some of his best known poems and also speak with Abed Mustafa, who grew up with Darweesh and is a long-time member of the Palestinian community in Vancouver.
Voice of Palestine broadcasts weekly on Vancouver Cooperative Radio (CFRO) 102.7 FM, Vancouver, Canada. The show broadcasts for one hour every Tuesday night from 8 to 9 pm PST (Wednesday morning 6:00 am - 7:00 am Palestine time). It first went on the air in September, 1987, and has hit the airwaves every week for the past twenty years.
People outside of Vancouver can listen to the show live on the internet http://www.coopradio.org/listen/
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