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This Month in Levantine Review
- Jan 31 2012 - 4:16pm
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Editor's Picks
- Israeli women's rights slipping in face of ultra-Orthodox Jewry—LA Times
View>> - Is the Revolution Eating Its Children?—Qatara
View>> - Yes to Palestine: Reza Aslan on Obama & the UN Vote—L.A. Times
View>> - How 9/11 has shaped our decade and why there is no clash of civilizations—Quantara
View>> - After the Fall, New Yorkers Remember September 11, 2011 and the Years That Followed
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- Israeli women's rights slipping in face of ultra-Orthodox Jewry—LA Times
Favorites & Recommendations
Authors
Printer-friendly versionBassam Haddad on Syria's Authoritarian Regime
posted February 3, 2012 - 10:47am by EditorThe Future of Islam in the 21st Century: Prof. John Esposito
posted January 23, 2012 - 11:04am by EditorUdi Aloni: Conversations on Israeli/Palestinian Binationalism
posted November 13, 2011 - 11:07pm by EditorControversial author/filmmaker Udi Aloni will talk about directing Beckett in the Jenin refugee camp, show excerpts from his films and engage in public conversation at the Levantine Cultural Center, followed afterward by a semi-private party. Aloni is the author of the new book What Does a Jew Want? On Binationalism and Other Specters, and the director of the critically-acclaimed film Forgiveness. He also recently directed "Waiting for Godot" in the Jenin refugee camp's Freedom Theatre. Aloni will be joined by Middle East historian and author Mark LeVine of UC Irvine, author of Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam, and An Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine Since 1989. Also joining the conversation is UCLA professor Gil Hochberg, author of In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination.
Autumn Reads: Levantine Recommended Titles
posted October 18, 2011 - 1:32pm by Editor
In Halal Pork and Other Stories, Cihan Kaan projects an avant garde, post 9/11 world, from the perspective of a young Muslim New Yorker. It's a place where Coney Island meets Mars; where hijabi girls are punk rock dervishes; where identity salesmen count pigeons at insane asylums as a cream cheese conspiracy brews in gitmo; where rich boys pay to be Muslim for a day; where the transgendered are holy; and where the bacon is halal. Kaan offers up five urban Sufi tales in the swirling graffiti of Brooklyn.
Javed Jabbar on Pakistan-U.S.: Anatomy of a Relationship
posted October 7, 2011 - 11:01am by EditorJaved Jabbar is a distinguished Pakistani author, filmmaker and activist.
Mideast Authors, LCC, at the West Hollywood Book Fair
posted September 28, 2011 - 3:09pm by EditorSave 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
MENA-X: "Fast Times in Palestine" with Pamela Olson
posted September 18, 2011 - 2:46pm by Editor
MENA-X: "Fast Times in Palestine" with Pamela Olson
posted September 15, 2011 - 4:44pm by EditorHow does a Stanford graduate and native of a small town in Oklahoma find herself attending Yasser Arafat's funeral, sharing a holiday dinner with a suicide bomber's family, tour-guiding Israeli friends around the West Bank, dating a Palestinian from a conservative Muslim village, and being held at gunpoint?
September/October Poetry Selection: Roger Sedarat
posted September 1, 2011 - 4:36pm by EditorMENA-X: Maria Armoudian Presents "Kill the Messenger"
posted September 1, 2011 - 11:54am by EditorPolitical scientist, KPFK radio host, and journalist Maria Armoudian will present her book Kill the Messenger: The Media's Role in the Fate of the World in the Middle East/North Africa Exchange series, MENA-X, in which you the public participate in an open forum. Published by progressive and independent publisher Prometheus Books, Kill the Messenger's foreward was written by author and former senator Tom Hayden. Armoudian is also an educator and a consultant for Mayor Villaraigosa and other civic commissions. Writes Robert W. McChesney, coauthor of The Life and Death of American Journalism, "Maria Armoudian has written a gripping book that...passionately demonstrates the power and importance of media to the human condition. Rich in contemporary world history, Kill the Messenger is exactly the book the world needs to read in our perilous times."
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