Event Details

Date/Time: 

Dec 20 2011 12:30pm - 2:30pm

Price: 

Contribution requested (min. suggested $100)
Click here to RSVP with donation

Where: 

The Palm
1100 S. Flower StreetLos Angeles CA 90015
RSVP by Dec. 15 to 310.657.5511

At 11th and Flower across from the Staples Center
free valet parking at lunch behind the restaurant

The arts help create a safe space for exploration of potentially difficult issues. The Middle East is the birthplace of our civilization. It is where Judaism, Christianity and Islam-three faiths with much in common-originate. The Middle East is also the primary resource for our energy needs and where we have many strategic partners, from Turkey and Israel to Saudi Arabia.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Dec 9 2011 10:00am - 8:00pm

Price: 

Free entrance, gift wrapping and refreshments

Where: 

Levantine Cultual Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
Between La Cienega Blvd. and Fairfax Ave.
ample street parking or CVS underground lot

The holidays are a time for levity and friendship! We are pleased to present fine art, books, DVDs, CDs, jewelry, clothing and various and sundry items for sale in our gallery-bookshop! All sales support the Levantine Cultural Center's arts and educational programming in 2012. Free refreshments and gift wrapping, up to 50% off all items in stock! Get your holiday shopping done early, stop by the Levantine Cultural Center...

By Jordan Elgrably

TLC's new reality show, All American Muslim, comes along at just the right time to counter Fear, Inc.'s river of anti Arab/Muslim rhetoric. While right-wing pundits like Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch make a living spewing anti-Islam epithets, 1.7 million Americans tuned in to watch TLC's first episode take take fear out of the equation by following the mundane lives of several Lebanese Muslims of Dearborn, who turn out to be your everyday, garden-variety Americans. One of them, as it happens, is Jeff McDermott, a recent convert to Islam from Catholicism whose nervy wife Shadia sports multiple tattoos and piercings and goes to country music concerts, yet insists he'll have to become Muslim before they can get hitched.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Oct 2 2011 10:00am - 6:00pm

Price: 

Free to the public. Book signings 1 to 4 pm!

Where: 

West Hollywood Library and Park
647 N. San Vicente Blvd.
West Hollywood CA 90069
free parking

Save on book purchases, support literacy, meet authors, get your books signed. Visit the Levantine Cultural Center at the 10th annual West Hollywood Book Fair, which features 25,000 GUESTS * 300 AUTHORS & ARTISTS * 13 STAGES 125 EXHIBITORS * PANELS & PERFORMANCES FOR ALL AGES. This year, many of the Book Fair panels and events will take place in the brand new West Hollywood Library, solidifying its place as a community gathering space. Libraries are centers of the community and the West Hollywood Library is the center of the Book Fair.

1:00-1:45 pm, Remi Kanazi signs Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine
1:45-2:30 pm, Maria Armoudian, Kill the Messenger: The Media's Role in the Fate of the World
2:30-3:00 pm, Reza Aslan, No god But God, Beyond Fundamentalism, Tablet & Pen
3:00-4:00 pm, Chris Cryer, Tolstoy in Riyadh-A Story of a Teacher and Her Muse

Reviewed by Omid Arabian

In writer-director Maryam Keshavarz's debut feature Circumstance, Atefeh and Shireen are schoolmates in present-day Tehran, two sixteen-year-old girls whose feelings for each other are veering beyond mere friendship. As they begin to express and explore these feelings Atefeh, who is more experienced and adventuresome (perhaps because she is from wealthier stock), initiates Shireen into the world of underground parties rife with alcohol, drugs, and sex. Predictably, the pair's freewheeling ways soon push them up against the behemoth straitjacket that is the Islamic Republic—and they struggle to navigate their budding relationship through increasingly perilous and unfamiliar waters.

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: 

Aug 27 2011 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Price: 

$5 admission. Snacks and beverages available for purchase.
Doors 7 pm, films 7:50 pm.

Where: 

Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035

Friends of Film presents an evening of documentary film on North Africa and the Levant with filmmakers Melanie Reynard and Soula Saad in person for Q & A after the screening. Tagut ("Fog"in Tashelhit) (17 minutes), directed by Melanie Reynard, follows the non-profit organization Dar Si-Hmad, based in Ifni, in Morocco's southwest, as activists launch a fog-collecting project in June 2011 in order to provide drinking water to Amazigh (Berber) communities living in the anti-Atlas Mountains to relieve women from fetching water an average of 3.5 hours per day.

Menu for August 20, 2001

Coffee:                                                                             Tea:
Cafe Americain                                                                  Moroccan Mint Tea
Cafe Cassé                                                                        Persian Tea
Café Fez (Turkish Coffee)                                                    Sage Tea                                          
Café Beiruti (w/ cardamom and orange blossom water)         Anise Tea
Espresso                                                                            Chai Tea

Cold Drinks:                                                                      Snacks:
Mint Lemonade                                                                  Labneh Plate
Qamar al-Deen (Apricot drink)                                            Zaatar and Zeit (olive oil) Plate
Ayran (Yogurt drink)                                                           Zaytoun (olives) and Feta Plate
Iced Tea                                                                            Hummus

Café Fez at the Levantine Cultural Center, 5998 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90035 (east of La Cienega, west of Fairfax). 310.657.5511.

Staff Report

Late in July, Beirut's venerable dance company, Caracalla, presented their latest grand epic, "Zayed and the Dream," at Royce Hall. Under the watchful eye of Mohammed Khalaf Al Mazrouei, who sat quietly in the theatre dressed in jeans and a baseball cap, some 100 cast members entertained an audience made up almost equally of Arab Americans and non-Middle Easterners. The first half of the 2-hour plus performance told the hagiographic story of United Arabs Emirates founder Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Sep 11 2011 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Price: 

Suggested donation $11 (students $5) includes light refreshments (no-one turned away for lack of funds) to benefit the center

Where: 

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

Activists, 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.