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Printer-friendly versionMENA-X: Secrets of Saudi Women
posted February 3, 2012 - 10:12am by EditorAn evening in the MENA-X series with authors Ferial Masry and Chris Cryer. Chris Cryer's new book is Tolstoy in Riyadh-A Story of a Teacher and Her Muse. Ferial Masry is the author of Running for All the Right Reasons: A Saudi-Born Woman's Pursuit of Democracy. The two women discuss their lives, their friendship and their books on the Saudi exotique.
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
Rowyda Amin's Multicultural London Poetry
posted August 31, 2011 - 4:04pm by Editor
While London burns, multiculturalism is reemerging as a testy topic, as if cultural differences would or could ever disappear, as if the human family would be better without some of us, as if each of us hadn't been born into the same human milieu in Africa and spent eons mixing into the glorious collage we finally each represent.
"Art and the Arab Spring" Art talk
posted July 13, 2011 - 11:16am by Editor
"Hybrid" Artist Khalid Hussein, A Solo Exhibition
posted July 13, 2011 - 10:59am by Editor
From Al-Andalus to Los Angeles: a Personal Journey
posted April 15, 2011 - 11:34am by Editor
I literally stumbled across the Levantine Cultural Center one day while walking to an Ethiopian restaurant in West Hollywood. I saw it from the corner with the words "Bridging Cultures, Building Peace since 2001" written across the door, and I knew I had to go inside. I took information and offered to intern with them a few days later. This was just after having returned to America from two years abroad in southern Spain.
How Western Corporations Have Been Helping Arab Tyrants
posted March 31, 2011 - 3:34pm by EditorSpringtime in the Arab world is looking bleaker now that despots in Libya, Bahrain, and Yemen and reactionary elements in Egypt have gained an upper hand against the pro-democracy protesters who have inspired the world. And the Internet, hailed sometimes in excess as a potent tool for these movements, has itself come under increasing fire from these and other autocratic states seeking to crush popular dissent.
Women's Voices Awards Ceremony and Closing Benefit
posted March 8, 2011 - 11:24am by LaurenOn Saturday, March 19, Women's Voices Now presents the final day of the Women's Voices from the Muslim World: A Short-Film Festival. The event will include screenings of a multitude of amazing and empowering films along with roundtable discussions and a book reading and signing. Topics include: girls in the Muslim world, health taboos in the Middle East, and women at work, among others. The event will wrap up with an awards ceremony and closing benefit.
"Hybrids" Art Talk Will Discuss Art, Identity, Politics and the Middle East
posted February 2, 2011 - 5:55pm by Editor.jpg "Transglobal-Mutation-Series-(Camels-&-Cola): by Noah Haytin")
Transglobal-Mutation-Series-(Camels-&-Cola): by Noah HaytinKhalid Hussein (Egypt/Saudi Arabia/U.S.) and Noah Haytin (U.S.), two artists collaborating on the exhibit HYBRIDS, will engage in a moderated Art Talk on Thursday, Feb. 10, 8:30 pm, at the Inside/Outside Gallery, Levantine Cultural Center.Hussein includes such historical figures as Saddam Hussein, Benazir Bhutto, Ayatollah Khomeini and Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in his layered canvases. Noah Haytin present collage and multimedia interpretations of postmodern and traditional Morocco in its global context.
Alumnus Khalid Hussein collaborates with Noah Haytin in "Hybrids"
posted January 31, 2011 - 8:53am by Editor.jpg "\"Hitbodedut\" is a multimedia work by Khalid Hussein.: This piece is on display at the Levantine Cultural Center")
"Hitbodedut" is a multimedia work by Khalid Hussein.: This piece is on display at the Levantine Cultural CenterBy ANDREA WANGDaily Bruin
Published January 31, 2011 in A&E,
Theater & Arts
Friday evening, the Levantine Cultural Center seemed to be the only source of life on West Pico Boulevard. While the rest of the shops lay quiet, conversation and light came from the center's large windows.
The Levantine Cultural Center occupies a modest space, changing to accommodate different events. Right now it's transformed into the Inside/Outside Gallery, displaying the artworks of Noah Haytin and UCLA alumnus Khalid Hussein. Here, most dialogue revolves around the Middle East and North America.
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