5/11/2008 How Do I Listen? Archived programs are streamed in the Real Audio Format. Click here to download   Problems Listening? Try this Direct Listen Link if the "Listen to Show" button to the right does not work   Hosted by: Dick Gordon Show Originally Aired: 10/28/2003 CALL 1 800-423-TALK Saudi Voices of Dissent Unidentified Saudi men pass by a closed street. (AP) Email to friend Saad al-Fagih is a man with a mission and a radio station. Everyday, from a modest back room studio in London, he broadcasts his call for democratic reform and human rights to millions of households in Saudi Arabia. And it's making the Saudi royal family very nervous, so nervous that they called on the country's most senior religious leader to denounce the radio station's call to protest. Saad al-Fagih is himself from a prominent Saudi family, but he was forced to leave home and seek asylum in London after being jailed for his political efforts. Now he and his team are penetrating the carefully censored Saudi media with a satellite radio signal that is broadcasting critical voices back to the Kingdom. Tuning in dissent and civil disobedience discourse in Saudi Arabia. Related Shows Troubled US-Saudi Relations? On Point (08/28/2002) The Nature of Islam World of Ideas (09/30/2001) Saudi Arabia and Nuclear Weapons Here And Now (09/22/2003) Security Regulations Block Fireworks Displays Here And Now (07/01/2003) Democracy in Mubarak's Egypt On Point (08/07/2002) 4 More American Soldiers Killed in Iraq Thursday On Point (10/17/2003) Related Links MIRA Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia Middle East Studies at the University of Vermont Saad al-Fagih, founder of Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia Greg Gause , director of the Middle Eastern Studies program at the University of Vermont. · Let's Gather Les McCann : Head Jazz · Punchup At A Wedding Radiohead : Hail To The Thief

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