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"Sovereign Threads: the History of Palestinian Embroidery"
was on display recently at the Craft and Folk Art Museum
Sovereign
Threads
Macedonian-Arabic Fusion
with Goran Alachki, Ljupco Manevski, Naser Musa
& Souhail Kaspar, Jan. 15
"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
Global
Frequency Reserve
now .
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 .
Micheline
Aharonian Marcom , winner of the 2005 PEN Fiction
Award for her novel The Daydreaming Boy ,
Introduced by José Rivera, of "Motorcycle
Diaries," Nov. 10 (Thurs.), at the center.
The
Naser Musa-Adam del Monte Ensemble performed Arab-flamenco fusion
on Dec. 19, 2004.
Click
here for info.
A
9/11 Gallery
Cultural Menu: A Mezze to Whet Your Appetite
The
Heart of Arab Music
Persians
on the Pacific
Tariq
Ali on Poetry in Turbulent Times
A
9/11 Gallery of Arts
Levantine's
Middle East Poetry Portal
What
We Mean by Levantine
Words
Without Borders Online Journal
The
New Turkish Novel by Orhan Pamuk
A
Palestinian Memoir in Review
Can
Arabs/Jews Make Peace With Music?
Buran,
a new short story by Ghada Karmi
Lian
Ensemble Concert Review
Samia
Dodin Interviews Sami Chetrit
This
Land Exhibit (Palestine/Israel_
Al
Karisma Concert 1/22/05
The
Keeper Preview Screening
Nathalie
Handal, Sholeh Wolpé
Hollywood
and Oil, Essay by Darius Kadivar
Meet Simon
Abkarian of YES June 20
Meet
Director Ziad Doueiri June 23
Sulha
Raivolution Concert 7/10.05
Alchemy
of Dreams Sept. 24, 2005
Axis
of People
Iranian
Culture UNcensored
Heather
Raffo at the Geffen
The
Sultans of Satire Nov. 17, 2005
Firoozeh
Dumas - "Funny in Farsi
Micheline
Aharonian Marcom
Sultans
of Satire: Middle East Comic Relief
Global
Frequency Concert
Heather Raffo's "Nine
Parts of Desire"
The
Arab Americans, a History
"Back
of the Throat" by Yussef El Guindi
United
Hip-Hop Sessions Show
The
Soul of Post-Revolution Iran
The
Arab Street Hip Hop for Peace
World
Spirit Festival
Sultans
of Satire 7, 9/29/06
"What's
So Funny?"
Levantine
Cultural Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is the Los Angeles
nexus for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures. We look to new ideas
and forms of expression from artists, writers, iconoclasts and visionaries,
both in the region and abroad.
2008 Events
Jan. 17 Members-only sneak preview
of Oscar-contender Caramel and Q & A with Lebanese
director/star Nadine Labaki (private screening in Hollywood) Jan. 24 Gina
Nahai on Caspian Rain with Bahar Soomekh at LACMA Jan. 27
Interactive audiovisual seminar on Arabic music, 3-6 pm,
at the Center Jan. 30 Sultans
of Satire: Middle East Comic Relief at the Improv, Melrose Feb. 6 "A
Land Twice Promised " performance by Noa Baum, Temple
Beth Am Feb. 9 Global
Grooves Cabaret concert with Naked Rhythm, MC Rai, Temple
Bar Feb. 24 An
Illuminated History of Jewish-Muslim Relations with
Mehnaz Afridi Feb. 26 Sultans
of Satire: Middle East Comic Relief at the Improv March 9 Poet/Translator
Peter Cole on Al-Andalus to Jerusalem March 19: Foreign
Exchanges, an Israeli-Palestinian Conversation with Meditators
Beyond Borders
March 22 Art
of Resistance 2: Arabs, Blacks and Jews Culture Jam March 26: Sultans of Satire
March 29 Artists
for Baghdad: Memorial for Mutanabbi Street April
3 Director's
Screening of "Encounter Point" documentary on
coexistence April 13 Artists
and War with Kurdish Artist Adalet Garmiany and Author
Hadani Ditmars
April 18 Checkpoint 303 and MC Rai, special performance
May 3, 10, 17 Sultans of Satire in the Los
Angeles Comedy Festival
May 20
Israel and Palestine at 60: Is There A Solution?
2007 Events [a partial list]
Jan. 7 What's
So Funny? , Comedian Roundtable, Pacific Arts Center Jan. 20 Art
of Resistance: Arabs, Blacks & Jews Culture Jam , Fais
Do-Do Jan. 27 Sultans
of Satire 10 , Bovard Auditorium, USC Jan. 31 Combatants
for Peace , Skirball Cultural Center March 1 Sultans
of Satire: the War & Peace Report , Laugh Factory March 11 Middle
East Women Poets , Loyola Marymount University April 3 Covering
Lebanon , conference on the recent war and its media depiction,
UCLA April 5 Sultans
of Satire 12 at the Laugh Factory April 20 Arabs,
Blacks and Jews Comedy Jam , Mixed Nuts April 26 Author
Maliha Masood presents her book on the Mideast, Pacific
Arts Center April 28/29 Levantine Booth, #727, at
the L.A. Times Festival of Books, UCLA April 29 Sultans
of Satire "Laugh for Peace" at the Barclay Theatre,
UCI May 13 Mothers' Day Comedy & Arts
Festival, Veterans Memorial Park May 17 Sultans
of Satire Middle East Comic Relief 14 Laugh Factory June 7 Sultans
of Satire: Middle East Comic Relief 15 Laugh Factory June 10 The Middle East Rocks Concert,
Knitting Factory Hollywood June 30 Transcending
Nationalisms Fowler Museum at UCLA July 12 Sultans
of Satire: Middle East Comic Relief 16 Laugh Factory August 19 Sultans
of Satire: Middle East Comic Relief 17 , Laugh Factory Sept 20 A
Mirror Garden with Zara Houshmand, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Sussan
Deyhim, literature and music of Iran Oct. 6 Sussan
Deyhim's "Romance Language" Concert, Knitting Factory Oct. 7 Conversations
on the Middle East with Ibtesam Tarabeih Levantine
Center Oct. 14 In
Spite of Partition with Gil Hochberg, Saree Makdisi Pacific
Arts Center Oct. 28 "Drawing
While Brown" with Khalil Bendib Beverly Hills
Library Auditorium Arab Film Festival Sixteen
films and special events, Oct. 31-Nov. 4 AFI Internationl Film Festival Seven
films from the Middle East, Nov. 1-11 Nov. 17 "The
Poetry of Peace" Bovard Auditorium-USC Nov. 18 Jerusalem
Women Speak Beverly Hills Library Auditorium Nov. 19 "Memorial
for Mutanabbi Street Mark Taper Auditorium-L.A. Public
Library Dec. 2 Sultans
of Satire at UC Riverside Theater
For
details on past, present and future programs, please visit
our calendar Read a Los Angeles Times feature
about us.
Levantine
Cultural Center welcomes you to join us in exploration, debate
and friendship!
What
do we mean when we say Levantine See
also Wikipedia's page .
Learn
more about a poetry event Levantine Cultural Center
hosted with poets Nathalie Handal, Dima Hilal, Elmaz Abinader
and Deema Shehabi. See
the Arab poets page.
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The
Naser Musa-Adam del Monte Ensemble performed Arab-flamenco fusion
on Dec. 19, 2004. Click
here for info.
