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Who Speaks For Islam?
On Saturday, February 5th at 10PM ET (7PM PT), a new Link TV television program, Who Speaks for Islam?, will will explore Islam in an age when Muslim extremists are laying claim to the religion. Veteran NPR and PBS journalist, Ray Suarez, hosts a provocative roundtable discussion with American Muslim scholars and, via satellite, Mike Scheuer, a CIA expert who has followed fundamentalist Islamic movements for a decade. The program will give Americans the opportunity to hear rarely-heard Muslim voices, including Shaykh Muhammad Tantawi (pictured), Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the first prominent Shaykh to speak out against Bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks.
Video pieces from the Middle East will be interwoven throughout the program to give viewers a political and cultural context. The one-hour discussion will be preceeded by Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, a 2-hour documentary about the 7th century prophet who changed world history. By airing this historical documentary in tandem with a discussion about the struggle within modern-day Islam, Link TV seeks to shine a light on a religion that is often misunderstood in the United States. Look for more details on our website in the coming weeks.
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Jeremy Rifkin: European Dream
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Information and Broadcast Times
An exploration of the theories of social
thinker Jeremy Rifkin, whose recent book, The European Dream: How Europe's
Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, postulates
that the The American Dream is in decline. Americans are increasingly
overworked, underpaid, and squeezed for time. But there is an alternative: the
European Dream - a more leisurely, healthy, prosperous, and sustainable way of
life. Europe's lifestyle is not only more desirable, argues Rifkin, but may be
crucial to sustaining prosperity in the new era.
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In Focus: An Eye For An Eye
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A Deutsche Welle special report on the
20-year history of secret negotiations between Germany, Israel and Hezbollah,
the Lebanon-based terrorist organization, over the exchange of prisoners and
agents.
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In Focus: In A New Land
More Information and Broadcast Times
A Deutsche Welle profile of Rodolfo Stavenhagen who was selected in 2001 from a pool of applicants, including more than 20 Nobel prizewinners, as the first U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous People. Since then, the 70-year-old anthropology professor has been visiting Native American tribes in Mexico and South America, Bushmen tribes in Africa, and Eskimos, among others. He reports regularly to the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva on the problems of the different groups.
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Video of the Week
Artist: Macaco
Song: "Giratuto"
Country: Spain
In the past few years musicians from Spain have been gathering up the myriad strands of the Spanish musical diaspora into a new hybrid, called "mestizo" music. Once the term was specific to Latin America, now in the hands of such eclectic radicals as Ojos de Brujo, Dusminguet and Macaco, it means a freewheeling blend of all that and including the influences of Spanish music, from the North African to the Catalan. Macaco's "Giratuto" is a laid back song with a "Latin" feel. But its musical provenance is hard to pin down. The video, with its miraculous metamorphosis machine mirrors the song's lyrics about the importance of aspiration�there is pain in life but hope will help you grow wings.
To own the music of Macaco, click here.
Premiere: Monday, 1/17 at 7:55 PM ET (4:55 PM PT)
Repeat times are:
Tuesday, 1/18 at 1:55 AM ET (10:55 PM PT)
Tuesday, 1/18 at 7:55 AM ET (4:55 AM PT)
Tuesday, 1/18 at 1:55 PM ET (10:55 AM PT)
Remember that you can own much of the music featured on our music blocks by visiting our online music store. We have either CDs or 99 cent song downloads available for many of the artists on our 60 playlists. Check them out
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Link TV Current Events Coverage
 Mosaic: World News From The Middle East
A selection of daily news reports in English from a variety of
Middle Eastern broadcasters. MOSAIC currently airs Monday - Friday @ 10:30 PM ET
(7:30 PT). For more information about Mosaic, click here.
Watch Mosaic Online!
We now offer a limited
selection of programming, including "Mosaic: World News From The Middle East,"
via streaming on our
website.
 Democracy Now!
A national independent news
program, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez and
produced out of the Downtown Community Television Center, a community media
center in New York City's Chinatown. Democracy Now normally airs Monday through
Friday at 11AM ET (8AM PT) and Monday through Thursday at 6PM ET (3PM PT). For
more information, click here.
 Viewpoint With James Zogby
A live
call-in discussion program about Middle East and world issues hosted by Dr.
James Zogby from Washington D.C. and broadcast throughout the Middle East by Abu
Dhabi Television. U.S. viewers may call 1-800-528-2090 with their questions or
comments during the program. A new live installment of this program will air
every Friday at 5:00 PM ET (2:00 PM PT). For more information about Viewpoint,
click here.
 DW Journal
Live broadcasts of Deutsche
Welle's live newscast to provide you with a European perspective on breaking
news. DW JOURNAL currently airs Mon - Fri @ 10PM, 4AM, 10AM, 4PM ET (7PM, 1AM,
7AM, 1PM PT). For online streaming of JOURNAL, please visit our Live Streams page.
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Download A Free Single Every Day
Download a Free Single from the Link TV Music Store every day... a great way to discover new artists! Each day we are putting up one song as a free download. As you all know we have been placing a free compilation of 8 tracks on the site each month. This has been a popular way to showcase some of our artists. Now we will be featuring a new artist every single day and you will be able to start collecting a new song each day from around the world. More...Download Today's Free Single.
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Best Viewer Comments Of The Week
(Keep them coming. Next week it could be yours!)
January 9, 2005
Dear Link TV,
I love you. My 1984 Volvo has your sticker on the new back
windshield. Tight back because I'm in the fast lane. I need 10 more
stickers�
January 9, 2005
As a music
teacher in Seattle Public Schools (Seattle, WA) I especially appreciate your
cultural context offered for music videos especially appreciate your cultural
context offered for music videos on your network. The context you provide
is complete: social, ecological, economic, psychological, etc. when taken
as a network in total.
January 8, 2005
I saw a
portion of Underground Orchestra and was absolutely spellbound. What a
wonderful, moving program. The music was haunting! I hope you will rebroadcast
this progam - many times! I enjoy all of the programming of Link TV. It was the
election "season" that moved me to stop watching network TV or at least
dramatically cut down watching it and watch more of Link TV. I love Democracy
Now.
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Vital Info
Link TV can be seen on:
DIRECTV - Channel 375
The DISH Network - Channel 9410
Program Schedule and Descriptions:
Daily Schedule
Weekly Schedule
To see the contents of all World Music Blocks currently being aired, click here.
How to reach me:
Robert Eisert
Manager, Viewer Relations
Link TV
P.O. BOX 2008
San Francisco, CA 94126
For comments or questions about our World Music programming, please contact our Music Team at [email protected].
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