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  • Levantine TV Interviews John Esposito on "The Future of Islam"
    Host and producer Maha Awad interviews America's renowned Islam expert
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    Revolution in Syria: Factors and Forces
    local Syrian gives talk at Levantine Cultural Center
    Samir Twair, Syrian activist, journalist and correspondent for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, spoke at the Levantine Center on Sunday, November 6, 2011, about the history of and current situation in Syria. The talk was parts of the series of "Progressive Conversations on Israel/Palestine and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East," sponsored jointly by the Levantine Center, LA Jews for Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace, and Friends of Sabeel Los Angeles and Orange County.
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    After 9/11: A Global World View
    The author of "Destiny Disrupted" sees the world through Islamic eyes even as the east-west narrative becomes more complex
    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.
  • Levantine Book/DVD Drive for New Resource Library
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    The Dictator's Son: A Familiar Figure Brought to Life by Dominic Cooper
    International cast recreates the opulent years of a decadent regime
    The international independent feature "The Devil's Double" comes off as a sort of glossy Middle Eastern gangster epic replete with blazing guns and psychotic outbursts. The film offers a highly stylized yet emotional experience of the years when Saddam Hussein's evil empire was characterized by the long Iran-Iraq war, the invasion of Kuwait, the Gulf War, and the dastardly exploits of his spoiled and dangerous son Uday.
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    What the Muslim world needs to hear from Obama
    It feels like domestic politics -- and not meaningful change in the Middle East -- is on the president's mind.
    Barack Obama's decision to deliver a speech this Thursday on the "events in the Middle East and North Africa and U.S. policy in the region" is baffling as much for its timing and venue as for its purpose.
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    Will a Palestinian Autumn follow an Arab Spring?
    director of the Palestine Center questions efficacy of 20-year "peace process," looks ahead to U.N. move in September
    With much of the Arab world experiencing uprisings in recent months, there has been one resounding question among Palestinians: why not us? It is a sad irony that the Palestinians, under Israeli occupation for nearly 44 years, watch from the sidelines as other Arabs shake off their repressive shackles by pouring into the streets - a tactic employed by Palestinians in the first intifada two decades ago.
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    Levantine Center organizes "Building Bridges" Mideast Tour
    tour Israel, Palestine, Jordan from June 25 to July 7, 2011
    The Levantine Cultural Center is sponsoring a very special tour of Israel, Palestine and Jordan that will provide a unique insight into the cultural and social realities of living in that region. And we will be hosting a similar tour to Tunisia in the fall.
  • "Miral" makes some see red
    Palestine Comes to Hollywood by way of New York
    Despite its flaws, 'Miral' marks the first time anyone has tried to tell just a Palestinian story in Hollywood
    Most Americans, Jew and Gentile, grew up with the Leon Uris history of the struggle for the Holy Land. Exodus chronicles the heroic birth of Israel out of the ashes of the Holocaust. There the story ends; there is no other narrative.
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    Arab Revolutions from the Perspective of Egyptian-American VJ Um Amel
    Media-Making Madness and Meditations
    I have not yet been able to digest the magnitude of what has happened in Tunisia, Egypt, and is happening now Iran, Syria, Yemen, and other Arab countries. As an Egyptian-American VJ and media artist whose work concerns the Arab world, the revolutions of 2011 have deeply impacted me professionally, artistically, and personally. There is something extremely poignant for Egyptians living outside of Egypt at this exact moment in history.
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