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MAHSA VAHDAT Radio Without Borders: Listen to the Banned Here on Earth - Radio Without Borders, a one-hour live programme on Wisconsin Public Radio broadcasted a special feature programme about the album ‘Listen to the banned’ 10 November 2010 Mahsa Vahdat Two video interviews with Iranian singer Mahsat Vahdat. About women, religion, and music censorship in modern Iran 02 September 2010 Songlines review of Freemuse CD: ‘It is Top of the World’ Songlines, an influential UK-based world music magazine, has chosen the CD ‘Listen to the banned’ as Top of the World in their August 2010 issue 11 August 2010 Freemuse Award 2010: Winners honoured in London The joint winners of the Freemuse Award 2010, Mahsa Vahdat and Ferhat Tunç, gave a short and impressive performance at the award ceremony in London 29 March 2010 Press release: Freemuse Award winners 2010: Mahsa Vahdat and Ferhat Tunç Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat and Turkish-Kurdish singer and activist Ferhat Tunç are the 2010 Freemuse Award Winners. They receive the award at a ceremony in London 22 March 2010 Freemuse Award winners 2010: Mahsa Vahdat and Ferhat Tunç Award ceremony held in London on 25 March 2010 in collaboration with Index on Censorship 22 March 2010 CD: Listen to the banned Compiled by the artist Deeyah and Freemuse, this CD compilation album is published on 3 March 2010 by Norway's most successful music label, Grappa Records 15 March 2010 Facts about the CD 'Listen to the banned' Track list, cover photo for download, and general information about the Freemuse CD 'Listen to the banned', published in March 2010 03 March 2010 Press release: New Freemuse CD: Listen to the banned The new Freemuse CD 'Listen to the banned' is a unique collection of 14 contemporary songs by artists who have been censored 24 February 2010 How Music Freedom Day 2009 was observed in Stockholm Two seminars and concert in Stockholm on 3 March 2009 became a beautiful, yet serious and powerful manifestation for musicians' human rights 04 March 2009 Human Rights for Musicians – Impressions & Descriptions: Mahsa Vahdat Testimonial by Mahsa Vahdat in the anniversary publication 'Human Rights for Musicians - Ten Years With Freemuse' 30 January 2009 Iran: ’Unveiled: Art and Censorship in Iran’ Excerpt from Chapter 8 in the report ’Unveiled: Art and Censorship in Iran’ published by Article 19 in September 2006. Chapter 8 is about music in Iran: 05 October 2006 Freedom of musical expression in the Middle East - report 'All that is Banned is Desired' summarizes the sessions and discussions held at the 'Conference on Freedom of Expression in Music' in Beirut in October 2005 06 June 2006 Iran: Mahsa Vahdat - Singing in the absence of others Mahsa Vahdat speaks with Naghmeh Taqizadeh from TehranAvenue about the challenges of being a female musician and singer in Iran 18 December 2002