Islamic, African American art museums team up in New Orleans
Sunday, 10.28.2007, 12:57am
It seems like an unlikely collaboration: an exhibit of 75 paintings by more than 10 Muslim artists from five different countries, co-sponsored by Southern University at New Orleans; the New Orleans African American Museum of Art, Culture and History; and the International Museum of Muslim Cultures, Jackson, Miss. But according to the curator of the show, the team makes a lot of historical sense.
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Festival promises first rate films
Saturday, 10.27.2007, 12:58am
Morocco, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria without leaving Dearborn? Or better yet, without leaving the Arab American National Museum? The museum is sponsoring the third annual Arab film festival, a series of first-rate films from the Arab world. These films feature a range of different countries and narratives highlighting all aspects of life. |
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Film sparks revival of Jenin theater
Saturday, 10.20.2007, 12:40am
Hamtramck—Years after the release of the award-winning, heart-crushing documentary "Arna's Children," the film's creator is traveling the world to raise money to rebuild the Palestinian youth theater that the movie centers around. Footage of smiling, hopeful faces of a group of Jenin refugee camp children juxtaposed with later images of them as militants and corpses is eliciting a sense of urgency and generating donations from audiences, according to the film's co-director Juliano Mer Khamis.
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Regime change begins at home
Saturday, 10.20.2007, 12:28am
While the Bush White House promotes the possibility of armed conflict with Iran, a tantalizing passage in Wesley Clark's new memoir suggests that another war is part of a long-planned Department of Defense strategy that anticipated "regime change" by force in no fewer than seven Mideast states. Critics of the war have often voiced suspicions of such imperial schemes, but this is the first time that a high-ranking former military officer has claimed to know that such plans existed.
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Zionist pressure puts press in jeopardy
Saturday, 10.13.2007, 01:16am
ANN ARBOR —For four years, the University of Michigan’s publishing house has distributed books from the catalog of Pluto Press. Pluto’s books are critical, often challenging the ideas of those in power. Their catalog examines issues of Israel-Palestine, globalization, foreign policy, and many other topics.
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Ramadan show captivates audiences
Saturday, 10.13.2007, 12:10am
DEARBORN — Every night after dusk during Ramadan this year and last, Arabs around the world, Muslim or not, have been united, not by anything religious or nationalistic, but by a phenomenon known as "Bab Al Hara." The second installment of the addictive television series has had tens of millions of feverish Arabs flocking to living rooms and cafes at scheduled times every day for the past month. |
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