Mustafa Barghouti on CNI Radio, Feb. 4th
Posted February 1, 2010
On February 4th, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti will be our guest on the “CNI: Jerusalem Calling” internet-radio show. A veteran Palestinian social activist, Barghouti is the head of the pro-democracy Palestinian National Initiative party and ran as the PNI’s candidate in the 2005 elections for the P.A. He also still heads the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, a non-governmental organization that he helped found back in the 1980s. The UPMRC has played a key role in buttressing the resilience of the people of the West Bank and Gaza faced with the many stresses of prolonged military occupation.
Barghouti was a delegate to the Madrid Conference, convened by the U.S. back in October 1991 with the aim of ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
When he ran in the 2005 PA election the Israelis arrested him while he was campaigning in East Jerusalem, and prevented him from traveling to Gaza and Nablus to campaign. In 2003, he had been earlier been arrested in Jerusalem, where he suffered injuries while under interrogation but was released after a few days’ detention. He was arrested again in Jerusalem in early 2006.
Barghouti is one of the PNI’s two elected representatives in the P.A. legislature, and he was Minister of Information in the short-lived Palestinian unity government of March-June 2007. Last October he was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, alongside Jewish-American activist– and CNI board member– Anna Baltzer.
On the upcoming radio show, Barghouti and CNI Board Member Dr. E Faye Williams will discuss the state of the peace process, halth issues for Palestinians, Jerusalem, and other topics of ongoing concern.
The show will air live online from Noon to 1 pm EST (5 pm to 6pm GMT). To listen, go to the show’s home-page, here, and click on the “Listen Live” button for Studio A, at the top left.
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