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Date/Time: 

Dec 16 2011 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Price: 

$11 general admission

Where: 

Laemmle Royal
11523 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90025-3007
310.477.5581

Powerful performances by Brenda Blethyn and Sotigui Kouyaté drive this touching film from Rachid Bouchareb, the three-time Academy-Award nominated director of DAYS OF GLORY (Indigènes) and OUTSIDE THE LAW (Hors La Loi). LONDON RIVER, the story of two parents looking for their respective children following the aftermath of the London bus bombings will have its American premiere at NY's Cinema Village on December 7 and at the Laemmle's Royal in Los Angeles on December 16 with Q & As slated in L.A. on the opening weekend.

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Date/Time: 

Dec 20 2011 12:30pm - 2:30pm

Price: 

Contribution requested (min. suggested $100)
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Where: 

The Palm
1100 S. Flower StreetLos Angeles CA 90015
RSVP by Dec. 15 to 310.657.5511

At 11th and Flower across from the Staples Center
free valet parking at lunch behind the restaurant

The arts help create a safe space for exploration of potentially difficult issues. The Middle East is the birthplace of our civilization. It is where Judaism, Christianity and Islam-three faiths with much in common-originate. The Middle East is also the primary resource for our energy needs and where we have many strategic partners, from Turkey and Israel to Saudi Arabia.

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Date/Time: 

Dec 9 2011 10:00am - 8:00pm

Price: 

Free entrance, gift wrapping and refreshments

Where: 

Levantine Cultual Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
Between La Cienega Blvd. and Fairfax Ave.
ample street parking or CVS underground lot

The holidays are a time for levity and friendship! We are pleased to present fine art, books, DVDs, CDs, jewelry, clothing and various and sundry items for sale in our gallery-bookshop! All sales support the Levantine Cultural Center's arts and educational programming in 2012. Free refreshments and gift wrapping, up to 50% off all items in stock! Get your holiday shopping done early, stop by the Levantine Cultural Center...

Halal Pork and Other Stories, by Cihan Kaan

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.

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Date/Time: 

May 26 2011 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Price: 

$15 advance, $20 at the door
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Where: 

Ahavat Torah Congregation at Village Church of Westwood Lutheran
343 S. Church Lane
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Yuval Ron and his ensemble players present a fusion concert, "My Heart is in the East" with music from Israel, Morocco, Yemen, Spain, Turkey and Pakistan. This will be the last concert in Los Angeles before the Ensemble departs on a Peace Mission Tour in Turkey.

By Regina Keil-Sagawe | Qantara

The Moroccan Jewish writer Edmond Amran El Maleh died last year at the age of 93. The Moroccan National Library in Rabat is now dedicating a major exhibition to this anti-colonial freedom fighter and patriot. The Levantine Cultural Center celebrates El Maleh as a bridgebuilding writer spanning Morocco's multiple cultures, and will help make more of his work available in English translation [for information, contact the Editor].

Edmond Amran El Maleh: "A thief of stories and a protector of words" (30 March 1917 – 15 November 2010)His death was a shock to the nation, striking with all the force of a phantom pain. Edmond Amran El Maleh, born into an old Jewish commercial and rabbinical family in Essaouira on 30 March 1917, was given all the trappings of a real state funeral on 16 November. From the northern city gate of Bab Doukkala, the funeral cortège wound its way through the city to Essaouira's old Jewish cemetery.

My father's family was from Morocco, my mother a Jewish American whose Lithuanian grandparents came over through Ellis Island. When my mother first brought my father home, her mother called him a shvartze ("darkie") and said her daughter was getting mixed up with an Arab. They married and had me but I was their only child (they divorced when I was two).

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Date/Time: 

Apr 30 2011 2:30pm - 6:00pm

Price: 

Free to the public.

Where: 

Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
between La Cienega Blvd. & Fairfax Ave.
ample street parking or in the CVS underground lot

The American Middle Eastern Women's Leadership Coalition is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization dedicated to enhance the skills of women leaders that are engaged in the awareness of our democratic principles, civic involvement and actively helping their community in the United States. We also want to assist women to become goodwill ambassadors using their heritage and language through cooperating with the women in the Middle East and other countries to help them become agents of positive change in their own communities.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Los Angeles, Feb. 2, 2011] On February 17, 2011, 7:30-9:00 pm, The Sultans of Satire: Middle East Comic Relief returns to Orange County at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1201 West Malvern Ave., Fullerton CA 92833.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Feb 17 2011 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Price: 

$20 general admission
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Where: 

Muckenthaler Cultural Center
1201 West Malvern Avenue
Fullerton CA 92833
ample free parking

The Sultans of Satire Return to OC!: with special guest Mike BatayehThe Sultans of Satire: Middle East Comic Relief is the longest-running Arab/Middle Eastern comedy show in the US, now entering its 7th year. The Sultans of Satire includes some of the best stand-up comedians today who happen to be of Arab, Iranian, Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Middle Eastern Jewish heritage. In this show Ronnie Khalil, Elham Jazab and Noel Elgrably return behind the Orange Curtain for an encore performance after their last show together at the Irvine Barclay Theater. They will be joined by special guest comedian, Mike Batayeh.

Get a fresh satirical perspective on American and Middle Eastern life when Ronnie Khalil (Egypt), Elham Jazab (Iran) and Noel Elgrably (Morocco/US) bring their Arab, Persian and Sephardic sensibilities to the Muckenthaler Cultural Center for the first time. Mike Batayeh (Jordan/U.S.) also makes a special guest appearance. The popular and long-running Sultans of Satire show has been a monthly feature at the world-famous Laugh Factory and Improv comedy clubs in L.A. Many of the most celebrated Arab and Iranian comedians in the world have been members of the Sultans cast.