April 2008
Arts and Culture

• Kiosk, Iranian Band Rocks the California Casbah
Concert Review by Babak Nahid


• Robin Wright on the Arab/Muslim World

Public Program Review by Jeff Warner


A Culture in Exile: Baghdad's Artistic ExodusHadani Ditmas in The Walrus
Heavy Metal in Baghdad: the documentary — Sasha Frere-Jones in The New Yorker


Visit our April Calendar of Middle Eastern cultural arts programs
Center News
 March 2008 Programs Emphasize Our Larger Mission of Coexistence

From "Arabs, Blacks & Jews" to "Artists for Baghdad," Levantine programs stretch the boundaries of national, religious and ethnic identity to create community.
Satire & Opinion

Silencing the Drums of War: Why Music Is the Answer Mark LeVine in Al-Jazeera
Yussef El-Guindi's "Enemies" Satirizes Arab American Stereotypes — Nina Metz in Metromix
Oh What a Lovely War! So? — Michael Takiff in The Nation
There Is More to the "Arab Jews" Controversy Than Just Identity — Yossi Alpher
in The Forward

For 60 years, Israelis and Palestinians have fought over the same land.
Cartoon by Clayton Bennett.

Titles We Recommend Because They're Good For You
The Dream of the Poem



Peter Cole, author of The Dream of the Poem and MacArthur-Award winning translator from Arabic and Hebrew, Speaks at Levantine Cultural Center on March 9, 3 pm—save the date!

And discover great books from Peter Cole's own publishing company, Ibis Editions, such as Baghdad, Yesterday by Sasson Soomekh:

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Exile's Poet
A new book of critical essays on poet Mahmoud Darwish from Interlink, edited by Hala Kh. Nassar and Najat Rahman.






Also from Interlink: We Begin Here, Poems for Palestine and Lebanon, edited by Kamal Boullata & Kathy Engel.
April 2008's Main Attractions
April 10, 8 pm

AmericanEast Screening


Levantine Cultural Center cosponsors this Noor Film Festival screening of "AmericanEast" with a cast of Arab American actors including Tony Shalhoub. Read more.
April 13, 7 pm

Artists and War
Iraqi Kurdish multimedia artist Adalet Garmiany and author Hadani Ditmars will present live music, video, photography and discussion in this artists' salon on Sunday, April 13, 7-10 pm.

For more info click here.

Free to the public, donations requested. Includes a light reception.

Reservations are suggested: 310.657.5511.


Elias Khoury, Tony Khalife

with Elias Khoury, Tony Khalife & Saree Makdisi
April

3 • "Encounter Point"
12 • New Arabic Classes
13 • Kurdish Culture
25 • Elias Khoury, Tony Khalife
29 • Who Speaks for Islam?

30 • Sultans of Satire

May

3 • Iranian American Writers
12 • Israeli & Palestinian Activists
17 • Arab American Writers
20 • Public Forum on Holy Land
28 • Sultans of Satire


June

21 A Land Twice Promised
25
• Sultans of Satire
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