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Katie Halper Show
Wed, Oct 28, 2026 3:00 PM
ROGER WATERS & MONA MIARI
On today’s program Katie speaks with Roger Waters and Mona Miari about art and politics, cowards (like Ed Sheeran and Metallica frontman James Hetfield) and their musical collaboration "Comfortably Numb Reimagined."
Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Waters was the main lyricist for the classic British rock band Pink Floyd. Waters is an active supporter of the BDS movement since 2011, and has routinely called for a total cultural boycott in Israel, urging artists to not perform in the region. Waters famously called out Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke for holding concerts in the Israeli capital, Tel Aviv in 2017. The singer has routinely spoken about how the people in the West are indoctrinated to believe that Israel is not an apartheid state, even lending a voice-over to the 2016 documentary film Occupation of the American Mind.
Mona Miari is a Palestinian artist, singer - songwriter and artistic director. Based in New York City, she elevates Arabic music on the global stage and has performed at venues including Lincoln Center, BAM, Opera America, Brooklyn Museum, National Sawdut, The Alex Theatre (Los Angeles), The Great American Music Hall (San Francisco), Steri Hall (Palermo) and many others. She serves as the Artistic Director and leader of the first-ever Arab Chorus in New York City (NYAC).
