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Community Events & Requests
Upcoming community events around or related to the Boston area & Special announcements submitted by our community are posted here, as well as sent in our monthly newsletter.
Arabesque
Mondays
When:
Every
Third Monday of Every Month
Where: Club Passim
47 Palmer St.
Harvard SQ. Cambridge MA
Cost: $12 / tickets & table reservations call 617.492.7679
Contact:
tablugee@aol.com or: www.ArabesqueMondays.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Community Past Events & Requests
The Arabic Hour Fundraiser
- An Evening of Fellowship and Entertainment
The Arabic
Hour is a non-profit organization, run completely by volunteers, that produces a
one hour program that has been aired locally for over 24 years. It is an
English-language program that deals with issues related to the Arab World and
the Arab-American experience (news, views, cuisine, culture, etc.) This
fundraiser is in support of this effort.
The Arabic Hour
presents An
Evening of Entertainment and Fellowship
A Celebration of
the Arts and Culture of the Arab World
Music, Dance and
Poetry
For
Reservations and more info:
Arabic Hour: 617.323.2226
Simon Haidar:
617.851.6910
Katia: 508.654.1701
When: Saturday May 14, 2005
at 7:30 pm
Where: 38 Cameron St., Cambridge MA (click here for
directions)
Contact: arabichour@gmail.com
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Just-Vision
Documentary Film Project Request for Arabic-English
Translators
Just Vision is a non-partisan, non-profit
initiative led by a joint team of Palestinian, Israeli, North American and
Brazilian young women highlighting Palestinian and Israeli efforts to build a
civic base for peace through digital media. We are seeking Arabic-English
translators to assist us with the translation of Arabic interviews with local
Palestinian activists (ranging from professors, artists, farmers, bereaved
family members and more). To view a sample of such interviews, please visit the
portraits section of www.justvision.org. Translators must have fluency in both
Arabic and English, must feel comfortable translating idioms and complex,
nuanced material from Arabic into fluid, equally eloquent English. Translators
can work from home, preferably in Washington D.C., Boston, New Hampshire or New
York, using a tape recorder or CD player and a computer. Modest payment
available. If interested, please contact Nahanni Rous.
Tax-deductible
contributions can be made online at www.justvision.org or by sending a check
payable to: Just Vision c/o EarthWays.
(click here for complete
info.)
When: Wednesday June 1, 2005
Contact: Nahanni
Rous - Nahanni@justvision.org
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MIT
Arab Students' Organization Second Annual Science and Technology Banquet
Please join the MIT arab students at their
second annual celebration of the contributions of Arab Americans to science,
technology, and other areas of scholarship and engineering that will best serve
the nation and the world in the 21st century. The keynote address will be given
by Prof. Hassan Ali of Harvard Medical School.
$65.00 Per Guest
Ticket
$15.00 Per Student Ticket (must show valid Student ID at The
Door)
Advance ticket sales only - No tickets sold at the door
Purchase
your tickets online now (click here for complete
info.)
When: Saturday April 16, 2005 at 7 pm - 10
pm
Where: MIT University Park Hotel 20 Sidney St., Cambridge, MA
(click here for directions)
Contact: arab-comm@mit.edu |
The Human
Rights Watch International Film Festival
International
Institute of Boston and Museum of Fine Arts www.hrw.org/iff The Human Rights Watch International Film
Festival returns to Boston for its fifth year this coming January, bringing its
mix of challenging and provocative documentary and dramatic films on human
rights issues around the world.
The Festival showcases 13 titles, with
several films focusing on Muslims and the Arab world.
Information for individual venues can be found by
contacting the Coolidge Corner Theatre at 617-734-2500 and www.coolidge.org and the Museum
of Fine Arts at 617-369-3306 and www.mfa.org/film. (click here for complete info.)
When: Thursday January
27, 2005
Where: Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre |
The Whirling
Dervishes of Damascus w/ Sheikh Hamza Chakour - A Fundraiser for the Islamic
Center of Boston-Wayland
It is our pleasure to bring
you this year a rarely seen form of traditional Islamic art with roots deep into
the Classical Arabic Music and Sufi traditions. These songs (qudud, adwar,
muwashahat) will be performed by the renowned Whirling Derviches of Damascus and
Aleppo-based Al-Kindi Ensemble, composed of the traditional Arabic music
"takht," with the moving voice of Sheikh Hamzeh Chakour.
Contribution
Levels (as acknowledged in the Concert’s Program) -All contributions include
the Suhur reception-
.:. Sponsor ($10,000 and above): Eight
invitations included.
.:. Patron ($5,000- 10,000): Six invitations
included.
.:. Friend ($2,500-5,000): Four invitations
included.
.:. Supporter ($1,000-2,500): Two invitations
included.
Individual invitations are provided for a donation of $125
each
Because of space constraints, seating is very limited. Please
make checks payable to The Islamic Center of Boston-Wayland, and remit your
checks no later than October 28th to:
Dr. Ghiath Reda
19 Tamarack
Road
Weston, MA 02493
Contributions are fully tax deductible as
allowed by the law. Per the Academy’s rules, no ticket sales are allowed at the
door - no exceptions.
When: Friday November 12,
2004 at 8:30 PM
Where: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 200
Beacon street, Somerville, MA (click here for
directions)
Contact: (617) 576-5000 |
Conference - Dual
Occupations
From the Rule of Force to the Rule of
Law in US Middle East Policy
What does US support for the Israeli
occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the US invasion and occupation of
Iraq mean for the Middle East and global order? What are the contours and
implications of US imperial goals in the region? What role can we play to
replace the rule of force with the rule of law and end unilateralism in US
Middle East policy?
The event will feature a keynote address by Noam
Chomsky, panel discussions, and afternoon workshops on building specific
campaigns.
Speakers Include
SUSAN AKRAM • M. SHAHID ALAM • NASEER
ARURI
GEORGE BISHARAT • NOAM CHOMSKY • LAWRENCE DAVIDSON
NADIA HIJAB •
ROBERT JENSEN • WILLARD JOHNSON
MARK LANCE • DON WAGNER • WILL
YOUMANS
REGISTRATION FEE (Payable at the
door)
Public: $10
Seniors: $5
Students: Free
Registration begins
at 8:30 AM
Sponsored by: MIT Arab Students Organization & Trans-Arab Research
Institute
(click here
for complete info.)
When: Saturday November 6, 2004 at 9:00am - 6:15pm (not on 12/6 as
advertised previously)
Where: MIT, Bldg. 10, Room 250 (click here for directions)
Contact: (781) 648 1245 - echagop@aol.com |
Second annual Harvard Conference
The conference will include five events: a Keynote
Speech, two consecutive panel discussions with Q&A sessions on Saturday, and
a welcome dinner followed by a cultural event on Friday evening. The panels will
be as follows:
Panel 1: The Current State of Democracy in the Middle East
Panel 2: The Future of Democracy in the Middle East
Conference
Registration Fees:
Full Conference: $35 Professionals ($15 Students)
Sat.
Events Only: $15 Professionals ($5 Students)
Fri. Events Only: $25
Professionals ($10 Students)
Fri. Night Dinner Only: $15 Professionals ($5
Students)
Fri. Night Concert Only: $15 Professionals ($5 Students)
Registration fees can be paid in person at the conference, or can be
sent to our Treasurer, Ahmad Atwan, at the following address:
Ahmad
Atwan
HAAA
1601 West Webster St., Suite 4
Houston, TX 77019
(click
here for complete info.)
When: Friday November
5, 2004 at 7:30PM
Where: Harvard University - Boyleston Hall for All
Saturday Events and Lowell House for Friday Evening Events (click here for
directions)
Contact: hegazy1@yahoo.com |
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Zaitoun
Dabke Group - Open Sessions and Talent Search
Zaitoun,
an aspiring professional dabke troupe based in Boston, is holding a talent
search during two open dabke sessions free to the public. We are looking for
people with both the dedication to be in a regurarly practicing dance troupe and
a natural acumen for the art of dabke. Participants are also expected to have an
appreciation for Arab and specifically Palestinian culture and
dance.
Open Sessions will be held over two days:
Tuesday, October 26th 2004 - 7:30-9:30PM
&
Wednesday,
October 27th 2004 - 7:30-9:30PM
Interested participants may
attend one or both sessions. Attendance at both sessions is encouraged.
When: Tuesday October 26, 2004 at 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Where:
The Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center, 85 W. Newton Street, Boston, MA 02118
(click here for directions)
Contact: tablugee@aol.com
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Needed:
Arab-American Families for ABC Television Series!
ABC
is currently working on a groundbreaking new series that celebrates the American
family, based on a major award-winning British format. The programs are
portraits of American life and I am looking for Arab American families to
participate because I feel that they are often not well represented on primetime
television. If you are a two parent family with young or teenage children, at
least two of whom are over the age of eight, you can be on our show. If you have
ever wondered what it would be like to be part of a different family, if the
grass is greener, this is an opportunity which may change how you feel about
your life. This is a chance to see how another family lives.
If you're
interested, please call Susie Banikarim as soon as possible. We're looking for
families all the time.
When: Wednesday September 1,
2004
Contact: Susie Banikarim - 212.404.1429 |
Needed:
Personal Subject Matter for Original Arab-American
Drama
Zawaya, a non-profit Arab-American cultural
organization in the Bay Area, is planning to write and perform an original drama
in the English language to showcase the Arab-American experience. This
theatrical production will be presented on February 26, 2005.
For this,
we need your help. YOU, the true Arab Americans, will supply the subject matter
with your own stories. HOW can you do this? You have choices:
You can
write (up to three pages) or speak on tape (up to five minutes). You can use
English or Arabic. You identify yourself or be anonymous. You can audition to
play yourself, or Zawaya can train someone to play your part.
WHAT should
you tell us about? Dreams, attitudes, true-life experiences from your life in
America. A special memory from back home. You may want to share journal entries
or creative writing. As a starting point - to set you thinking but not to limit
your thinking - consider these questions:
* What stereotypes - true or
false - have you had to live with?
* Have you faced discrimination in
school, workplace, job selection and advancement, and social
interactions?
* How do Americans perceive you as an Arab-American, and
how have they
shown you that perception? Have you found unlooked-for support
when least expected?
* What do you like and dislike about being an
Arab-American? About the Bay Area Arab-American community? About juggling two
cultures?
ZAWAYA will stitch your stories together as vignettes,
interwoven with song and dance and poetry. The dramatic production will be
professionally directed by Denmo Ibrahim and Maher Sabry, and coordinated by
Nabila Mango and Haya Shawwa.
Please make your sbumissions by September 1 to Zawaya (see
below)
When: Wednesday September 1, 2004
Where:
Zawaya, c/o Nabila Mango, 311 41st Street, San Mateo, CA
94403
Contact: Nabila - 650-341-3697 - nabila@sbcglobal.net |
MTV
documentary featuring young Arab Americans
MTV is
producing a documentary show that features multi-cultural young adults. It will
focus on young American Muslims/Arab Americans caught between two cultures --
struggling to maintain a balance between personal beliefs and family
traditions.
Specifically, they are looking to approach young adults - age
16 and 27 - with the utmost sensitivity. These people should be energetic and
outspoken youths who want to be on television, and want to tell their stories.
The program is concerned with presenting a balanced portrayal of the struggles
of young Arab Americans and above all, to listen and learn from their
words.
Do you know of any young adults who would be interested in
appearing on television?
Do you know of any families who are outspoken
and want to express their point of views on television in an honest, documentary
format?
When: TBD
Contact: Jonathan
Groce - 646-230-6915 -jonathan@whatcha-lookin-at.com
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Chat The
Planet
Chat the Planet is looking for politically
motivated, articulate young adults between the ages of 18 to 25 with captivating
personal stories of how the last election, the current election, and the war in
Iraq have affected their lives. We seek these people to appear as panelists on
an upcoming television show. Topics will include the roles and conceptions of
freedom and democracy in the United States and abroad.
For more
information about Chat the Planet, please log on to: www.chattheplanet.com .
All interested applicants must send their contact and story information to: casting@nextnextent.com by Friday, August 27, 2004.
When: Friday August 27, 2004
Contact: mozhgan.setoodeh@nextnextent.com |
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