Belahdan
Arab-American TV show
Sundays,Public TV Ch17
172 East4th Street
St Paul,MN 55101
ahmedtharwat@belahdan.com 

Sponsorship for year 2008

Contact Person: Ahmed Tharwat

Population Served: Residents of the State of Minnesota and Western Wisconsin

Staff:

 Caren Hohenstein Abdelaal: Director
 Salah Fattah :  Music Director
 Esam Aal : Community Commentator
 Sara Tharwat : Camera Operator
 Ahmed Tharwat:      Host/ Producer

Our Objectives:

1.Bring the Arab-American community into the culture diversity realm.

2.Introduce the Arab-American culture to the American community at large in the context of their American experience.

3.Introduce the diversity and the multiculturalism within the Arab American community itself.

4.Introduce the different views of the Arab Americans through alternative TV programming.

5.Give the Arab American another voice to represent their own views of current events, events that have an immediate impact on the Arab-American community here in Minnesota.

Some of the fascinating and diverse guests we hosted :

  1. Jihan Sadat, the widow of the former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.
  2. Tom Heffelfinger, US Attorney
  3. Tim Pawlenty, MN House Majority leader
  4. Hamdy El Sawaf, Executive director of the Islamic Center Minnesota
  5. Hend Al-Mansour, A Saudi artist and women’s activist
  6. Fatma Reda, one of the founders of the worldwide human rights organization “Women in Black”
  7. Emmet Carson, President of the Minneapolis Foundation
  8. Fouzi Slisli, Media chairman of Arab American Anti Discrimination Committee
  9. Moshe Git, Israeli Lawyer

 

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