The compelling new documentary film Surviving Peace, which delves deeply into and challenges core issues driving the Israeli Palestinian conflict opens Friday, October 20 in San Francisco. There will be a Q&A with Director Josef Avesar on Friday, Oct 20 and Sat Oct 21 after the 8:30 pm show. Surviving Peace delves deeply into the … Continued
SOURCE: ARTNET BY EILEEN KINSELLA A senior official lays out research that he says supports the sculpture’s return. Two months after authorities seized an ancient head of a bull that was on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a senior official in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office says, in no uncertain terms, that … Continued
The seventh annual DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival (DCPFAF), which celebrates the work of Palestinian artists and filmmakers from around the world, will take place Oct. 5-8 at E Street Cinemas and Studio Theatre. Rounding out robust programming over the past six years, this year’s festival emphasizes the performing arts, exploring the creative potential … Continued
By Sami Asmar and Amal David/Contributing Writers The Western orchestra is considered the most complex form of music and the top of the pyramid in artistic sophistication. It took centuries to develop in a format based on a large number of performers, each with rigorous training in their particular instrument and carefully selected based on … Continued
By: Jessie McDonald Source: The Guardian Inside a Palestinian refugee camp just outside Bethlehem, an arts centre is encouraging young people to express themselves through photography. Here they share their images and the experiences that inspired them All photographs courtesy of Alrowwad Cultural and Arts Society ‘Photography is a form of beautiful resistance,’ says Kanan Abusrour, … Continued
By: MATT HANSON The Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art is one of three surviving Palestinian art galleries in East Jerusalem. Former director of the Palestinian Museum, the Jerusalem-born Armenian-Palestinian curator Jack Persekian first opened Al Ma’mal as a small gallery in the shadow of the Latin Patriarchate in 1998 before moving to a historic … Continued
Source: CS Monitor By: Steve Donoghue AUGUST 15, 2017 —Historian Ilan Pappe’s new book The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories continues his work of shining new analytical light on the seemingly intractable Israel-Palestine conflict, following up earlier books such as “Ten Myths About Israel” and the bestselling “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.” Pappe … Continued
Source: WDET THE SHORT ANSWER SHELBY JOUPPIArab-American family-owned markets, butcher shops and restaurants can be found throughout Dearborn. The Arab-American community in Detroit began with a small group of Syrian and Lebanese merchants who immigrated in the late 1800s. Many left their lives as peasants in the rural Middle East for the rapidly industrializing West, sometimes passing through Ellis … Continued
Source: GreaterKashimr By: Aijaz Zaka Syed In the passing of Jack Shaheen, the distinguished Arab American author, academic and lifelong crusader for truth, the Arab world has lost a true champion and voice of reason. Born to Lebanese Christian immigrant parents in Pittsburgh, Shaheen dedicated his life to fighting what looked like a lost cause … Continued
By Daniel Gi/ Contributing Writer If the world of Arab music were a kingdom, this instrument would, without a doubt, be its bonafide ruler. It has often been called the “king of instruments” and rightly so as the sound iconic tones it produces has come to symbolize the world of traditional Arab music. Literally meaning … Continued
BY: Mary Elbanna/Contributing Writer Kahlil Gibran was a renowned poet, artist, novelist, and philosopher from Bsharri, Lebanon who immigrated to the United States with his family when he was a child. Gibran grew up in Boston, and became heavily interested in the arts. He took up drawing in school and often explored the cultural world … Continued
by Ani Karapetyan/Contributing Writer In February 2017, British musician, Sting, won Swedish Polar Music Prize, and on Monday announced that he donated the one million kronor ($118,000) awarded in prize money to a refugee non-profit. In a statement posted on the organization’s website Sting said “I was deeply honoured to receive this year’s Swedish Polar Music … Continued
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