Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jan 29 2012 11:30am - 2:30pm

Price: 

$45 general with lunch, $20 students, $15 no lunch (standing room only)
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Where: 

UCLA
Faculty Center
480 Charles Young Drive East
Los Angeles CA 90095

Join us for an afternoon of celebrating the vision of the Egyptian Revolution. The program will include an exclusive keynote via phone from Cairo by prominent blogger and activist, Alaa Abd El-Fattah. VJ Um Amel joins DJ Ma'at for an afternoon of world music synchronized to a remix of Egyptian cinema and media emerging from the revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa. Drawn from the databases of the R-Shief initiative, this performance pays tribute to the vision of the people. Lunch will be served.

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Date/Time: 

Jan 29 2012 4:00pm - 7:00pm

Price: 

Contributions Requested
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Where: 

Hollywood Woman's Club
1749 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles CA 90046 (Jan. 29 only)

"Empathy is a wave that need never be stopped. If our children can catch this wave, from the ocean of tears shed by Palestinian children, they might have a future in a more stable and saner world." —Alice Walker [read Walker's original essay on the challenges of this exhibit]

Please come and see and support this new exhibition, A Child's View of Gaza, in Los Angeles.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jan 18 2012 6:30pm - 9:00pm

Price: 

$10 general, $8 students/seniors, free for children 12/under with parent/guardian
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Where: 

Woodland Hills Community Church
21338 Dumetz Rd.
Woodland Hills CA 91364
ample free parking

DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL, THIS SCREENING HAS BEEN CANCELED. A special interfaith opportunity to view a film and dialogue on the relationship of Islam, Judaism and Christianity. The Levantine Center's New Voices in Middle Eastern Cinema series and the Muslim Public Affairs Council's Hollywood Bureau are pleased to announce a special screening of Joel Fendelman's feature debut David, followed by a cast/crew Q & A with star Maz Jobrani, Pastor Craig Peterson, and LCC executive director Jordan Elgrably, on Wed., Jan. 18, 6:30 pm, at the Woodland Hills Community Church, 21338 Dumetz Rd., Woodland Hills CA 91364. Children 12 and under may enter free with parent or guardian. General admission is $10, members, students and seniors, $8. RSVP early to 310.657.5511 to save your seats.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Oct 1 2011 8:30pm - Oct 2 2011 12:00am

Price: 

$15 general, $12 members, $10 students

Where: 

Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
ample street parking
between La Cienega and Fairfax

Palestinian American performance artist Remi Kanazi will appear at the Levantine Cultural Center, along with special guests VJ Um Amel with a live visuals show and Philistines master rapper Nizar Wattad. Mix together outrage at the illegal occupation of Palestine and the passionate performance of spoken word artist Remi Kanazi and you get an evening of "Poetic Injustice," slated for Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Levantine Cultural Center. + Special guest poets Nadia Shamout and Saria Idana.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Sep 9 2011 7:00pm - Sep 15 2011 11:00pm

Price: 

$12 movie tickets

Where: 

Covina
1414 North Azusa Ave
Covina CA 91722
888.262.4386

Orange AMC 30 At the Block
20 City Blvd West, Orange, CA
888. 262.4386

Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football is a feature-length documentary film that follows four talented high school football players from the working class Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan as they gear up for their big senior year rivalry game during the last ten days of Ramadan, a month when Muslims traditionally fast every day from sunrise to sundown. The film begins on September 11, 2009 and concludes at the end of Ramadan ten days later. The story takes place at Fordson High School, a public school built by Henry Ford in 1922 that was once all white, but now attracts a 98% Arab-American population. The film plays in Southern California at the AMC 30 at the Block in Orange (OC) and in LA County at AMC Covina. Locations/showtimes.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jul 19 2011 10:00pm - 11:30pm

Price: 

$10 cover (doors open 9:30 pm) Click here to buy tickets

Where: 

Flappers Comedy Club
102 East Magnolia Blvd.
Burbank, CA

Comedian Mike Batayeh, a long-time star of the Sultans of Satire, hosts and performs in Browntown, at the Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank. Along with this very funny Jordanian American comic are some of our Middle Eastern faves—Max Amini ("Mind of Mencia"), Maria Shehata (winner of OC Funniest Comic), Amir K, Joe Berry, Omid Singh et al.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jul 7 2011 9:00pm - Jul 8 2011 12:30am

Price: 

$10 advance purchase
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Where: 

Whisky A Go-Go
8901 West Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood CA 90069

On Thursday July 7, Angelenos will have the rare opportunity to catch some of that heavy metal Baghdad you've already heard so much about, when Iraq's Acrassicuada or "Black Scorpions" play live at the venerable Whisky A Go-Go. Opening for them is the female-fronted Egyptian metal band, Massive Scar Era.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jun 9 2011 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Price: 

Free to the public (donations welcome).
Refreshments available.

Where: 

Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90035
between La Cienega & Fairfax
ample parking available or in the underground CVS lot
across the street (closes 10 pm sharp!)

The Levantine Cultural Center presents the new anthology I Speak For Myself: American Women on Being Muslim, edited by Maria M. Ebrahimji and Zahra T. Suratwala. I Speak for Myself is a collection of 40 personal essays written by American Muslim women under the age of 40, all of whom were born and raised in the US. It is a showcase of the true diversity found in American Islam.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jun 2 2011 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Price: 

$12 general admission, $10 members, $5 students with I.D.
to buy tickets call: 310.657.5511 or Click here
free light refreshments

Where: 

Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
between La Cienega and Fairfax
ample street parking
or in the CVS underground lot (closes 10 pm)

In "Rocking the Casbah: Morocco and the Arab Spring," writer and professor Laila Lalami will discuss the North African uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, before focusing on the case of Morocco, which has experienced its own unique response to this unexpected era of change.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

May 13 2011 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Price: 

Free to the public.

Where: 

Ackerman Ballroom
UCLA campus. 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024

The United Arab Society at UCLA presents its Annual Arab Culture Show featuring a live performance by the Sultans of Satire, with Mike Batayeh and Noel Elgrably. Join the general public and UCLA students for a night of Arab music, poetry, dance, theater and comedy—the largest event of the year put on by members of the United Arab Society who have been rehearsing for months.