{"id":2385,"date":"2007-10-14T09:51:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T09:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2007-10-14T09:51:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T09:51:49","slug":"2007-10-14-audio-classic-voa-interviews-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2385","title":{"rendered":"Audio: Classic VOA interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">The US Embassy recently produced a CD of old interviews from the Voice of America Arabic service archives. (VOA Arabic was canceled a while ago, to be replaced by the much-criticized, pop-heavy Radio Sawa). The interviews &#8212; of major Egyptian writers, artists, singers such as Naguib Mahfouz, Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Tahia Carioca &#8212; are also available\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cairo.usembassy.gov\/voa\/index.htm\">online<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had a chance to hear more than the opening minutes of the Mahfouz interview, but I look forward to furthering my Mahfouz obsession by listening to the whole thing soon. In general, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nice to see the US Embassy support a cultural initiative like this.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">The US Embassy recently produced a CD of old interviews from the Voice of America Arabic service archives. (VOA Arabic was canceled a while ago, to be replaced by the much-criticized, pop-heavy Radio Sawa). The interviews &#8212; of major Egyptian writers, artists, singers such as Naguib Mahfouz, Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Tahia Carioca &#8212; are also available\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cairo.usembassy.gov\/voa\/index.htm\">online<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had a chance to hear more than the opening minutes of the Mahfouz interview, but I look forward to furthering my Mahfouz obsession by listening to the whole thing soon. In general, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nice to see the US Embassy support a cultural initiative like this.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[102,6,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}