Malihe Razazan

Oakland

Senior Producer and Journalist at Your Call

Co-Host at Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Journalist, senior producer @yourcallradio @kalw, host of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa @kpfa @StatusHour

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Articles

House Republicans vote to eliminate $1.1B in PBS, NPR funds

1 week ago | kalw.org | Malihe Razazan |Rose Aguilar

On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss the Trump administration’s plan to cut $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds more than 1,500 public television and radio stations across the country. If the Senate also approves this bill, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will not receive any federal money.
A Greek Tragedy: The Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis

3 weeks ago | kalw.org | Malihe Razazan

On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, award-winning journalist Jeanne Carstensen discusses her new book,A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis. She tells the story of migrants who survived a deadly 2015 shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island of Lesvos. About 80 people died, but the exact number may never be known.
Kids Under Fire In Gaza

4 weeks ago | kalw.org | Malihe Razazan |Rose Aguilar

On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss an Al Jazeera/Reveal documentary about US physicians who’ve volunteered in Gaza. They report witnessing a disturbing and systemic pattern of children shot by the Israeli military. They’re now pushing for accountability. The US-backed Israeli assault on Gaza has killed about 17,500 children since October 2023, most of whom have died in indiscriminate bombings.
The consequences of the political battle over late-term abortion

4 weeks ago | kalw.org | Malihe Razazan |Rose Aguilar

On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, The Nation's abortion access correspondent Amy Littlefield discusses her report on one of the last remaining clinics in the US that provides third-trimester abortions. She writes, Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it, but later-abortion care has never been more important. Since Roe was overturned almost three years ago, abortion bans have pushed some patients further into pregnancy.
Trump's budget calls for deep cuts to Medicaid and food stamps

1 month ago | kalw.org | Malihe Razazan

On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss the GOP's budget, which calls for deep cuts to Medicaid, food stamps, healthcare, eduction and other key programs. The legislation contains one of the largest Medicaid funding cuts in modern history, projected to be nearly $700 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The legislation also cuts $290 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the food aid program for low-income Americans.
How the US is lobbying foreign governments for Elon Musk’s Starlink

1 month ago | kalw.org | Malihe Razazan

On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss a ProPublica investigation exposing how the State Department has pressured African governments to advance Elon Musk’s business interests. According to the report, senior State Department officials have coordinated with executives from Musk’s satellite internet company Starlink to coax Gambian government ministers to help Musk. It’s not just Gambia.
The environmental and health impacts of AI data centers

1 month ago | kalw.org | Malihe Razazan

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we discuss the environmental and health impacts of AI data centers on frontline communities. The growing demand for massive data centers to handle energy-intensive tasks, such as cryptocurrency mining and artificial intelligence processing, has prompted tech companies to look for cheap land, electricity, water, and other resources across the country to house and feed giant data centers.
For one Texas county, arresting migrants made big money

1 month ago | kalw.org | Malihe Razazan

On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss a New York Times investigation exposing how a county in Texas made made over $1 million by collecting bail from migrants who were deported. According to the report, more than 39,000 migrants have been arrested in counties along the border on charges of trespassing on private land and other state violations, which is part of Governor Abbott’s multi-billion-dollar effort to step up policing on the border, known as Operation Lone Star.
Israeli airstrikes kill hundreds in Gaza as Trump visits Gulf

1 month ago | kalw.org | Malihe Razazan

On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss Israel's intensified military assault on Gaza and Donald Trump’s visit to the region. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,010 Palestinians and wounded 119,919, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Thousands of people are still missing under the rubble. Gaza is also facing a dire humanitarian crisis.
The US-Ukraine minerals deal & the alarming drop in bird populations

1 month ago | kalw.org | Malihe Razazan

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet series, we discuss Trump’s so-called "minerals deal" with Ukraine, which grants the US priority access to Ukrainian minerals and sets up an investment fund for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Then, we look at a new study, published in the journal Science, showing that three out of every four of the 500 North American bird species are in decline, with two-thirds of the total shrinking significantly.