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 "Sovereign Threads: the History of Palestinian Embroidery" was on display recently at the Craft and Folk Art Museum Sovereign Threads |
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 "The Arab/Muslim Revolution: the Middle East & the West" a conference with Islamic scholar Reza Aslan and Middle East historian Mark LeVine See Calendar, Jan. 12, 2006 |
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 Global Frequency concert att the Levantine Cultural Center, Fri., Dec. 2! Featuring Naked Rhythm, MC RAI and Antoneus Maximus & the Nuthouze Band. Advance tix $10. Reserve now. |
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 Don't miss the next Sultans of Satire show on Thurs., Dec. 15, and read about the first one... Middle East Comic Relief, Thurs., Nov. 17, 8 pm. Click here. |
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 Levantine Cultural Center cosponsored the 2005 Los Angeles Film Festival, which included several films with Middle Eastern themes or subjects. |
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 The
Naser Musa-Adam del Monte Ensemble performed Arab-flamenco fusion
on Dec. 19, 2004. Click
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 Iraqi-American Playwright and Actor Heather Raffo and Her One-Woman Show, "Nine Parts of Desire," Are the Talk of New York and Los Angeles |
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Articles
of Note Palestinian Samia Dodin Talks to Israeli Sami Shalom Chetrit Lian Ensemble Concert Review Turkish news: Snow—the new novel by Orhan Pamuk Can Jews/Arabs Make Peace Through Music? By Ghada Karmi In Search of Fatima—a review of Ghada Karmi's memoir "Heart" of Arab Music by Jim Motavalli Persians on the Pacific by Tara Bahrampour Tariq Ali On Poetry In Turbulent Times in the Mideast (audio) |
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Al-Andalus
to Jerusalem: Levantine Festival at the John Anson Ford  Al-Andalus with Tariq Banzi, Julie Banzi and flamenco dancer Ana Montes Click Here To Read Three Articles on the Concert |
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Los Angeles Memorial for Mutanabbi Street,
Baghdad, Iraq
 On
March 5, 2007, a bomb exploded on Mutanabbi Street, the lively center
of Baghdad bookselling, filled with lively bookstores, cafés
and book stalls. 30 people were killed, more than 100 wounded. LA
Central Library's "Aloud" organizers and several cosponsors
invite Los Angeles to memorialize the blast's wounding of Baghdad's
literary-intellectual heart, on Monday evening, Nov. 19, 7 pm, at
the Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library, Fifth and Flower Streets,
downtown L.A.Poets and writers Chris Abani, Beau Beausoleil, Laila Lailami, Suzanne Lummis, Majid Naficy, Marisela Norte, Sholeh Wolpé, and Terry Wolverton will be featured, along with a very special musical performance by the Saadoun Al-Bayati Ensemble, music of Iraq. Details: Free to the public, limited seating, reservations are necessary. Reserve online. Call 213.228.7025. Parking at 524 S. Flower is $1 until 8:45 pm with a valid library card and validation, which must be obtained by 8 pm when the library closes.$8 flat rate after 4 pm without validation.  ABOUT
THE ARTISTS Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Saadoun Al-Bayati
was exposed to the meditative states produced through percussion and
vocalizing as a child while attending Sufi rituals and ceremonies.
His voice training took place through Qur'anic recitation, and as
a young man, Saadoun often substituted for the muezzin at his neighborhood
mosque, calling Muslims to prayer. Saadoun has performed the music
of Iraq and other parts of the Arab Middle East since childhood. In
the United States Saadoun pursued studies in acting and graduated
from the Goodman Theatre at the Art Institute of Chicago. His accomplishments
as an actor include playing Dr. Aziz to Lillian Gish's Mrs. Moore
in "A Passage to India" and working with such theatrical
talents as Morris Carnovsky in "Mother Courage" and "King
Lear" and Sam Wanamaker in "MacBeth".Chris Abani's prose includes the novels The Virgin of Flames, Graceland, Masters of the Board, and the novellas Becoming Abigail and Song For Night. His poetry collections include Hands Washing Water and Kalakuta Republic. He is a professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient of many awards, including the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship and PEN Hemingway Book Prize. Beau Beausoleil is a radio host, bookseller and the author of nine books of poetry, the latest titled Concealed In Language. He lives in San Francisco, California. Laila Lalami, a native of Morocco, is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New York Times and elsewhere. Her debut book of fiction, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, was published in the fall of 2005 and translated into five languages. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. Suzanne Lummis' reviews and poetry have appeared in The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Poetry International and other magazines. Her collection In Danger was part Heyday Books' California Poetry Series. She is director of The Los Angeles Poetry Festival and editor of the literary web magazine, www.speechlessthemagazine.org. She teaches poetry writing through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. Majid Naficy was born in Iran in 1952. He published poetry, criticism and an award-winning children's book in Iran. During the 1970's Dr. Naficy was politically active against the Shah's regime. After the 1979 Revolution, as the new regime began to suppress the opposition, his first wife, Ezzat Tabaian and his brother Sa'id were amongst the many to be executed. He fled Iran in 1983, eventually settling in Los Angeles with his son Azad. He has since published six volumes of poetry in both English and Farsi, as well as numerous books of criticism. His most recent volume of poetry in English.. Marisela Norte is an East Los Angeles-based writer. Her work has appeared in various publications such as BOMB, Propagandist and West magazine. Her first collection of prose East L.A. Days/Fellini Nights is forthcoming from City Works Press. Sholeh Wolpé, a native of Iran, is a poet, literary translator and writer. She is the author of Sin—Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad, The Scar Saloon, and the forthcoming Rooftops of Tehran. She is the associate editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Modern Literature from the Muslim World and editor of the forthcoming Iconoclasts and Visionaries. Terry Wolverton is the author of seven books of fiction, memoir, and poetry, including Embers, Insurgent Muse, and, most recently, Shadow and Praise. She is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing center in Los Angeles. |
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