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an eve of arab hip hop in ny [damon dash dd172 gallery] @shadiamansour @lowkeyuk @thenarcicyst

ra — Wed, 05 May 2010 04:20:49 +0000

homeland hiphop iii [southpaw brooklyn]. @thenarcicyst

ra — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:58:06 +0000

the narcicyst (@theNarcicyst)performs tonite.

Ok people, here it comes! As the guys told us before, that Hip Hop is not DEAD! It lives in PALESTINE! From Palestine they made a long trip till they get to the US, and now they are here, here in NEW YORK!
DAM the first Palestinian Hip Hop band, are coming to hit New York city again! So we’ll meet Friday night, April 30 at Southpaw, Brooklyn with:

DAM
QUEEN GODIS
DJ. OJA
DJ. LAYLO

Open Doors: 21:00
Tickets: Advance: 12$e Door: 15$ *Tickets available: http://spsounds.com/

*BROUGHT TO YOU BY PEP (PALESTINE EDUCATION PROJECT)
with Nomadic Wax, Leftist Lounge, and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.

dam | shadia mansour | palestinian hip hop as a social movement. [columbia] (avantcaire.com)
Theater Review | ‘Palestine’: So Many Identities, So Little Time (theater.nytimes.com)

the infidel [david baddiel | omid djalili] @tribecafilmfest

ra — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:09:46 +0000

baddiel + djalili. 2010 tribeca film festival.

will prolly be in line for rush tkts sat nite.

Tribeca Film Festival: Where to Begin (artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com)

dam | shadia mansour | palestinian hip hop as a social movement. [columbia]

ra — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:26:20 +0000

dam in ny tonite.

Date: Monday, 26 April 2010
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Held Auditorium (Room 304), Barnard College
(3009 Broadway)

Featuring:
DAM
Hasan Salaam
Shadia Mansour
Lowkey
Mazzi

From Palestine to NY to the UK, this panel and performance will address the power of conscious hip-hop and hip-hop as a social movement.

How is/can hip-hop be used as a tool to mobilize, empower and raise awareness on the struggles of oppressed people? How powerful is hip-hop as a means of advocacy: speaking out against war, genocide, conditions in the ghetto and the life of poverty? How can this powerful art form transcend boundaries, break down walls and stereotypes, and provide understanding among marginalized communities throughout the globe? Does the rise of hip-hop among marginalized groups internationally demonstrate an important trend?

Hip-Hop emerged as an innovating artistic form in the late 1970s in New York City. Historically, it has been a way for marginalized communities, specifically Blacks and Latinos, to express the struggles of their people and to highlight local problems to a global scale. Now there is a growing hip-hop movement amongst Arabs, both domestically and internationally, who use it as a means to express the struggles of their people. This panel will discuss the importance of this global dialogue and how it can be used as a space for unheard voices to be recognized.

PERFORMANCES WILL FOLLOW THE PANEL

**Entrance fee: $5

Sponsored by the Arab Student Association at SIPA, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, TURATH, LUCHA, MSA, the Black and Latino Student Caucus, International Socialist Organization, and NYU Students for Justice in Palestine.

Email us at columbiasjp@gmail.com for more information

no one knows about persian cats.

ra — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:21:33 +0000

no one knows about persian cats a fun sounding documentary by bahman ghobadi opens at ifc today.

hoping to watch this weekend. more misuc from iran.
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400 Screens, 400 Blows – I Know About ‘Persian Cats’ (cinematical.com)
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Movie Review | ‘No One Knows About Persian Cats’: Indie Rock in Iran in Bahman Ghobadi’s New Work (nytimes.com)
No One Knows About Persian Cats | Film review (guardian.co.uk)

happy day israel. paul romer charter-cities for palestine.

ra — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:40:49 +0000

twelve years ago i took part in the 50th anniversary israeli parade on fifth avenue in new york. my support for the young state though far from unquestioning has become more resolute over time.

i just got home from an inspiring paul romer talk on charter cities at columbia where he built on the ideas in the ted talk above.

during the post-talk q+a romer was asked whether his idea for charter cities could somehow be a part of the resolution to the israel / palestine question. he hesitantly and carefully responded that it was possible. although the middle east was not a part of the world he though about when developing these ideas he has recently been asked by a businessman who grew up in the west bank to carry out some research on the idea. romer did elaborate briefly on the two schools of thought: on the one hand giving young, unemployed populations options for economic empowerment in well-governed cities could possible go along way towards ridding the region of violence. on the other some say the geographic entrapment is a central part of a resistance to the encroachment of other peoples.
a few years ago in a setting of young egyptian professionals i threw the idea out of handing over the for the most part unoccupied sinai to palestinians and leaving (greater israel) to the israelis. the response was predictable vehemently opposed. but as i dragged the conversation out, the initial reactions gave way to more measured, and i would say rational, responses that grew more agreeable, with a few even changing sides.
tonight there was talk of dubai in someways being a not quite fully formed proto-charter city as well thought experiments of abu dhabi funding these charter cities around the world with governance perhaps partly designed by scandinavian countries and immigration opened up to the developing world.
it’s a fascinating and inspiring idea for continuing our already impressive progress on improving and sharing economic development as widely as possible. and an intriguing idea for escaping the current middle east peace gridlock.

i am becoming increasingly moved and passionate about the need for arab voices in support of israel and for fresh thinking that will address the palestinians’ economic and political stranglehold.

Meir Javedanfar: Happy Birthday, Dear Israel (huffingtonpost.com)
David Harris: O Jerusalem (huffingtonpost.com)

future of arts, education + economy in the middle east | nyu talk.

ra — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:02:16 +0000

will be at this tomorrow- part of the romanticide series:

Fortune-teller: Reflections on the Future of Arts, Education and Economy in the Middle East
April 7, 2010, 6:30 PM

What does the future hold? Speculations on the political, economic and social future of the Middle East are common in many spheres. Political economists Kiren Aziz Chaudhry and Saskia Sassen join Mishaal Al Gergawi, curator and critic, for an informed discussion, building on each other’s perspectives to propose potential directions for regional developments with implications for arts and education internationally.

Location: 19 Washington Square North

Mishaal Al Gergawi Critic
Kiren Aziz Chaudhry Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Saskia Sassen Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

samita sinha ny gigs this week @ps1contempart + @lprNYC

ra — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:57:20 +0000

you know where i’ll be wednesday + saturday:

This Wednesday, ANATOMY (Samita Sinha + Marc Cary), Imani Uzuri, and
Guillermo Brown will share a bill at Le Poisson Rouge– should be a
dynamic night!

Wednesday, March 31
7-9 PM, doors open at 6.30
Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street
$10 for all 3 sets

On Saturday, SAWCC and Sholay Productions present an afternoon of music
and dance atop Christian Marclay‘s ’2822 Records’ at P.S.1. The bill: DJ
Ashu Rai, Samita Sinha & Julia Ulehula, Qasim Naqvi (Bestuy Ewe), and
Parul Shah Dance Company; hosted by Jaishri Abichandani.

Saturday, April 3
4-6 PM
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave

http://ps1.org/

Free with museum admission

wasn’t there a time when imani uzuri was on every hip hop joint that mattered.

shirin neshat | dima el horr | homayoun [new directors new films '10] @ndnf

ra — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:23:41 +0000

lots of film goodies here including:

Women Without Men
Directed by Shirin Neshat in collaboration with Shoja Azari
Winner of the Silver Lion for best director at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, Shirin Neshat’s feature-film debut represents an assured shift from the gallery-based moving images for which she is known, to the grand screen of the cinema. Devotees of Neshat’s earlier work will recognize her signature visual virtuosity and narrative grace in the story of four women in early 1950s Iran, played by Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Shabnam Tolouei, and Orsi Toth. Then as now, the ambitions and actions of these women from across the spectrum of Iranian society inform and affect the course of events—public, private, and often political. With history as a backdrop, and imagination extending the limits of lives lived under oppressive conditions, Neshat offers an exquisitely framed window onto these women’s world. An Indiepix release.

Tehroun
Directed by Nader T. Homayoun
A man holds a sickly child in his arms, begging for money from passersby with a tale of how his wife has recently died and he desperately needs help. We soon learn the man is Ibrahim, a recent arrival in the big city, and that the child isn’t really his—the boy’s actually rented from a local gang-lord to make Ibrahim a more effective beggar. Welcome to Tehroun, as Iranians call their capital city.
Nader Homayoun’s debut feature presents a searing portrait of the city’s hidden, seamier side, a world of child trafficking, smuggling of just about anything, and assorted other criminal activities. A sensation in the Critics’ Week at last year’s Venice Film Festival, where it won the audience award, Tehroun marks a new chapter in the fascinating evolution of Iranian cinema.

Every Day Is a Holiday (Chaque jour est une fête)
Directed by Dima El-Horr
A stunning first scene immediately establishes the highly charged atmosphere in Dima El-Horr’s carefully controlled first feature, filled with absurd moments and symbolic gestures. Three women (Hiam Abbass, Manal Khader, Raïa Haïdar) with very different motives board a bus on the Lebanese Day of Liberation to visit their husbands in jail. When the bus is stopped short by a stray bullet, the women are left to find their own way in the hot sun through mountains full of mines, amid sounds of muffled explosions, throngs of refugees, and rumors of massacres. Their perilous journey becomes an internal one towards liberation, as individual life and collective memory blend, and the personal and political are blurred.

Film: The New Directors/New Films Series Begins (nytimes.com)
Shirin Neshat – Turbulent (video) (wfmu.org)
New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup (artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com)

ny screening | stolen kisses [kobolat masroqah] | khaled el hagar.

ra — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:30:09 +0000

alwan are screening khaled el hagar’s stolen kisses tuesday mar 20 at tribeca cinemas.

can’t say the trailer looks promising so probably skipping this. let me know if you’ve seen it and think otherwise.

Screening: Stolen Kisses (Kobolat Masroqah) by Khaled El Hagar
Tue, March 30, 2010 7:00 pm at Tribeca Cinemas
Alwan for the Arts and 3rd i Collaborative Monthly Series Present:
Stolen Kisses (Kobolat Masroqah) by Khaled El Hagar, 2009, 120 min, 35 mm, Egypt, drama in Arabic with English subtitles.

A strong portrayal of nine Egyptians in their twenties, director Khaled El Hagar sketches a picture of modern Cairo by focusing on themes such as family conflicts, unemployment, sexual frustration, prostitution and violence.
The film, known for its bold, steamy scenes that strayed away from the lines of “Clean Cinema”, narrates the stories of several couples: Ahmed Azmy and Yousra El Lozy who love each other but cannot get married lawfully because of the vast class differences between them; the relationship between Farah Yousef and Basem Samra that is frustrated by Farah’s ambition for a more luxurious life, and Randa El Beheiry and Mohamed Karim, who strive to make a living and keep the balance in their relationship.
Socio-economic woes place enormous pressures on each character, affecting their relationships and ultimately leading to catastrophic actions including betrayal, murder, and false accusations.
This film series is supported in part by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.