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Printer-friendly versionAutumn Reads: Levantine Recommended Titles
posted October 18, 2011 - 1:32pm by Editor
In Halal Pork and Other Stories, Cihan Kaan projects an avant garde, post 9/11 world, from the perspective of a young Muslim New Yorker. It's a place where Coney Island meets Mars; where hijabi girls are punk rock dervishes; where identity salesmen count pigeons at insane asylums as a cream cheese conspiracy brews in gitmo; where rich boys pay to be Muslim for a day; where the transgendered are holy; and where the bacon is halal. Kaan offers up five urban Sufi tales in the swirling graffiti of Brooklyn.
Javed Jabbar on Pakistan-U.S.: Anatomy of a Relationship
posted October 7, 2011 - 11:01am by EditorJaved Jabbar is a distinguished Pakistani author, filmmaker and activist.
The Afghans: Pictures of Resilience, 2001-2011
posted September 3, 2011 - 12:16pm by EditorAfter 9/11: A Global World View
posted September 1, 2011 - 6:55am by Editor
For decades or perhaps even centuries, disparate societies around the globe have been growing more and more intertwined. A single world culture is emerging; or at least the history of the world as told in different places is merging into the single history of us all.
After 9/11, A Community Roundtable
posted August 1, 2011 - 12:46pm by EditorActivists, artists, writers and members of the general public are invited to participate in a community roundtable discussion on the events of 9/11, including the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, the passing of the USA Patriot Act, the "war on terror," Islamophobia, the Green Movement in Iran in 2009, and this year's Arab Spring and just what we can look forward to in the months and years ahead.
American Foreign Policy in Afghanistan in "Crossing Zero"
posted March 14, 2011 - 12:41pm by pimientaWITH CO-AUTHORS ELIZABETH GOULD & PAUL FITZGERALD
DISCUSSED AT THE LEVANTINE CULTURAL CENTER
APRIL 7, 2011
Afghanistan: The War, the People
posted March 14, 2011 - 11:15am by Editor
The new book from the authors of "Invisible History": Afghanistan's Untold StoryThe United States is spending an estimated $1 million per soldier per year for each of the 120,000 troops stationed in Afghanistan, but what do Americans really know about the war there? What do we know about the people of that distant land, bordered by Iran and Pakistan? To address these and other questions, journalists Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald—reporting from Afghanistan since the 1980s—will present their new book Crossing Zero: The Afpak War At The Turning Point Of American Empire at the Levantine Cultural Center on April 7, 2011, 7:00 pm, 5998 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90035. This will be the co-authors' second appearance at the LCC following their presentation of Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story in 2009."Crossroads," "Afghanistan," and "Love, Sex, and Other Dangerous Pursuits"
posted March 7, 2011 - 12:43am by Lauren4:30-6:30pm CROSSROADS: THE INTERSECTION OF CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS NORMS
Roundtable Discussion with:
- Rakibul Hasan, Festival filmmaker and director of Hilla
- Susana Casares, Festival filmmaker and director of Avant Propos
- Alysse Stepanian, Festival filmmaker and director of Roghieh
- Ola Diab, Festival filmmaker and director of The Unveiled
- Miriam Wakim, WVN Director (Moderator)
6:30-7:30 Book Reading and Signing with Christina Asquith, author of Sisters in War
7:30-9:30 AFGHANISTAN: FILMS IN A SUITCASE
Roundtable Discussion with:
- Christina Asquith, author of Sisters in War
- Alka Sadat, Festival filmmaker and director of Half Value Life and We Are Postmodern
- Nushin Arbabzadah, Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women
- Catinca Tabacaru, WVN Executive Director (Moderator)
10:00-12:00 LOVE, SEX AND OTHER DANGEROUS PURSUITS
Q&A with:
- Laila Hotait, Festival filmmakers and director of Basita and Absent Spaces
- Mostafa Heravi, Festival filmmaker and director of It Is Written and Somaye
- Jeff Kaufman, Documentarian and director of Free Shane and Josh: An Urgent Plea for Compassion
- Catinca Tabacaru, WVN Executive Director (Moderator)
Women’s Voices from the Muslim World: A Short-Film Festival
posted February 14, 2011 - 8:54am by Editor
Women's Voices from the Muslim World: A Short-Film Festival presents a collection of voices from women of all faiths living in Muslim-majority countries and Muslim women living as minorities around the world that fills the void in information created by traditional news, media and art sources.
The selection includes many never-before-seen films from women filmmakers in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.
A Satire on Afghanistan Scolds U.S. Occupation
posted February 1, 2011 - 4:21pm by EditorReviewed by Nicole Tellier
...As a poor Afghan family struggles to hold onto its farm in spite of a drought, a warlord offers possible solutions, including a more profitable crop, as well as an odd marriage proposal for the farmer's young daughter... 
a scene from "Shadow Anthropology": Photo by Nigel Dookhoo
Shadow Anthropology: A Post-9/11 Comedy is a provocative and poignantly dark ensemble piece written by Rick Mitchell, and supported by the Puffin Foundation and the CSUN Faculty Research Fellows Program, that incorporates vulgar Turkish shadow puppetry and comic song as a stark commentary on the U.S. occupation in Afghanistan. With Shadow Anthropology, a conflict seemly distant from the American public is placed front and center. The play is critical of U.S. occupation strategies that are intended to reduce conflict, but only fuel it through ignorance. Primarily taking place in rural Afghanistan, the play satirically examines a number of pressing issues including the evolution of culture, efficacy of the U.S. Human Terrain Team, depth of opium production within Afghan society and women's rights within an extreme form of Islam. In exploring how the external pressures of war, drugs and religion control the daily narratives of those involved, it eases reality through a comedy that will cause both laughter and discomfort simultaneously.
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