Archive for February, 2009
Simon Shaheen at Town Hall
Saturday, March 07, 2009 8:00 PM
The Middle Eastern musical event of the year! ‘Ud (lute) and violin master Simon Shaheen, one of the Arab world’s most important artists, recreates the golden age of Arab song (1920s-1950s) with the works of such famed composers and singers as Mohammad Abdel Wahhab, Farid Al-Atrash, Wadi Al-Safi, Um [...]
With an Iron Pen: Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry
Under the Olive Tree
By Asher Reich
The light of the olive in this tree
is thick and dark –
the lost blood flows in it.
When I sat under its leaves
time killed itself in the tree’s shade.
All the afternoon hours
a figure on the hill
watched me, her face covered in a veil –
and the sun, like me, looked for her [...]
Free Gaza Art Festival
Emily Jacir Show at Guggenheim
The artwork of Emily Jacir was recently reviewed in the NY Times. Ken Johnson attacks her work at the outset as being “for a political cause”, as opposed to an expression of her experience. Perhaps he is not blown away by her work, but to belittle Palestinian experience is something at which the Times is [...]
Philip Rizk Documentary Screening in NYC
This Palestinian Life” shares stories of nonviolent struggle in Palestinian rural communities in the face of the Israeli occupation. Filmmaker Philip Rizk meets with villagers in the Gaza Strip, Jordan Valley, and the South Hebron Hills who have endured home demolitions, imprisonment, settler attacks, and other forms of oppression that threaten their very way of [...]
