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posted July 13, 2010 - 5:01pm by EditorIraq in Pieces: Seven Years Later
posted July 2, 2010 - 7:33am by Editor
By Hadani Ditmars
I am back in Baghdad after seven years away.
Since 2003, a million people have died in Iraq in the wake of post-invasion violence. (1) Sectarian wars have torn the country apart, foreign troops have established huge military bases, and politicians who have sworn to crack down on militias have their own private armies. This once secular nation has been scarred by extremism, with terrible consequences for women, gay people and religious minorities. As government ministries remain feeding troughs for cronyism and sectarian patronage, national reconciliation remains elusive.
May 27 Public Forum on Cultural Diplomacy Addresses Americans, Arabs/Muslims
posted May 20, 2010 - 1:35pm by EditorContact: Jordan Elgrably, Nile El Wardani, Elie Karam
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& LOS ANGELES SPEAKERS, MAY 27, 7-10 PM
[Los Angeles, May 20, 2010] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top aide, Special Representative to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith, will speak in a public forum on cultural diplomacy organized by the Levantine Cultural Center on Thursday, May 27, 2010, at 7 pm at the Mark Taper Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles.
The "clash of civilization" dialectic and the "war on terror" discourse require Americans to broaden our international outreach, to improve understanding of the Arab/Muslim world. In fact, the alchemy of change requires that we empathize with narratives that may differ from our own; and sometimes these narratives are strikingly similar. Cultural diplomacy efforts use the arts to address communities in conflict-or groups that appear to have opposing interests whether because of different religious traditions, political beliefs or ethnic identification.
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- Persian Gulf
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- 9/11
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Destiny Disrupted
posted November 4, 2009 - 2:42pm by EditorBy Tamim Ansary
Review by Tara Marie Good
A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes: your purchase benefits in part Levantine Cultural CenterIn 1940 Walter Benjamin wrote, "To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize ‘how it really was.' It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger." For the German-Jewish Marxist philosopher that moment of danger was the Nazi march on Europe. The moment of danger that inspired Afghani born Tamim Ansary to articulate Islamic history in Destiny Disrupted was September 11th.
Destiny Disrupted is a historical narrative of the Islamic world addressing the chasm seen to separate Western and Middle Eastern histories. The main thesis presented by Ansary is that the history of Islam and the West are two parallel histories, which overlap at points, but are fundamentally separate. Claiming to represent a general Muslim perception, Ansary charts Middle Eastern history from the ancient world to the western colonial and economic expansion in the modern era.
Amnesty Int'l Secretary General Irene Kahn on the Goldstone Report, Peace, Poverty, Human Rights
posted October 16, 2009 - 5:57pm by EditorALOUD and the Vesper Society present Irene Khan, on "The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights." She will in conversation with David Kaye. Executive Director, UCLA School of Law International Human Rights Program
"Severe Clear" Doc From Soldier's POV Shows Kuwait, Iraq
posted July 29, 2009 - 2:24pm by Editor
Severe Clear doc
The International Documenary Association presents the Docuweeks festival during August 2009.
SEVERE CLEAR
Director/Writer: Kristian Fraga
Producer: Kristian Fraga, Marc Perez
Executive Producers: Benjamin Charbit, John L. Sikes
U.S.A | 93 min.
Armed with the world's most lethal ordnance and his home video camera, First Lieutenant Michael T. Scotti takes us on an epic first-person journey with the Marine Corps as they fight their way 300 miles from Kuwait to Baghdad. No Reporters...No Politics...No Censors...This is what he saw.
Shirin Neshat on her film “Women without Men” at LACMA
posted June 1, 2009 - 12:25pm by Editor
Shirin NeshatLACMA and the Farhang Foundation present internationally renowned artist Shirin Neshat at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Bing Theater at 8:00 pm. The program includes a screening of work-in-progress segments of her film “Women without Men,” followed by a discussion between Shirin Neshat and Nasrin Rahimieh, Professor of Comparative Literature and Film, University of California, Irvine.
A Panel Discussion on Rationality and Opinions about Democracy in Iran
posted May 31, 2009 - 10:02am by Editor
Iranian elections will contrast Islam and democracy June 12, 2009With elections in Iran on June 12, all eyes are on the results. Will a shift open further dialogue with the Obama Admistration, or will the Islamic leadership prevail in positioning the West as largely undesirable interlocutors?
Two Iranian intellectuals at UCLA will try to make sense of the arguments.
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