[Monday December 10, 2012] On Wednesday December 19th, The Levantine Cultural Center presents honored media critic and film scholar Dr. Jack G. Shaheen in an intimate discussion and forum on misleading stereotypes based on Hollywood's negative portrayal of Arabs. Shaheen will be discussing his life-long commitment to illuminate social justice, with insights into the highs and lows of his 40-year quest, including his mission to reveal and terminate these damaging Arab and Muslim stigmas.

WHO: Jack G. Shaheen, media activist
WHERE: Levantine Cultural Center, 5998 W. Pico Blvd., LA 90035, street parking.
PRICE: Free to general public
INFO/RSVPs: Levantine Cultural Center, 323.413.2001, levantinecenter.org.

[Los Angeles-Monday November 27, 2012] Beginning Saturday, December 1st, the Levantine Cultural Center presents a fascinating new exhibit based on the work of film and media scholar Dr. Jack G. Shaheen's work: A is for Arab: Stereotypes in U.S. Popular Culture.

Vijay Mahajan, Ph.D., visited 18 Arab nations for his book that reveals a vibrant, bustling place full of commerce and consumers hungry for goods of almost every kind.

BEYOND "ARAB SPRING" & "ARAB RAGE"
VIJAY MAHAJAN FINDS THRIVING ARAB MARKET
OF 350 MILLION CONSUMERS
THU, OCT. 18, 2012, 7 PM

Levantine Cultural Center invites you to join our annual friends and family barbeque picnic on Sunday, June 24, 2012 from noon to 6 pm at the beautiful Kenneth Hahn State Park, located just south of La Cienega Blvd. and Rodeo Road. You may bring food for the barbeque and dishes to share if you wish. The LCC will provide drinks, some food, and all the other functional items (plates, napkins, cups etc) including charcoal for the barbeques.

Levantine Cultural Center and the Jewish Film Festival present Kaddish for a Friend in the New Voices in Middle Eastern Cinema series, supported in part by a grant from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, spotlighting the LA premiere of debut filmmaker Leo Khasin's feature in a special screening at Laemmle's Music Hall in Beverly Hills on Monday, May 7, 7:30 pm.

From our neighbors up north comes Monsieur Lazhar, a French-Canadian film starring Algerian actor Mohamed Fellag. The film is set in a Montreal public school, where the sixth-grade class has just lost their teacher to suicide. As the story begins, two of the kids discover the teacher's body hanging from the ceiling of their classroom. The motives behind her grizzly act and her deliberate choice of venue never become quite clear; this lack of clarity is in essence what drives and complicates the kids' emotional journey in the weeks and months that follow.

The Tazzla Institute presents the 4th annual Amazigh Film Festival. Amazigh or "free people" is the proper name for the original inhabitants of North Africa, often referred to as "Berber." An estimated 60% of Morocco's population, for example, shares Amazigh heritage. The Amazigh Film Festival is sponsored by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and cosponsored by the Levantine Cultural Center.. Tickets are $16 in advance for the program on Sat April 21, available here. Get them directly at the Electric Lodge on Sun Apr 22.