Poetry of Peace: A Night of Hip Hop & Culture Jam for Peace
* DAM the Palestinian Hip Hop Stars from Israel + Omar Offendum & Ragtop
* Read Taleed El-Sabawi's article on Palestinian Hip Hop
* Shaun Toub "Crash" & "The Kite Runner"
* Shiva Rose "David & Layla"
* Raya Meddine "Bosta"
* Mark LeVine author of Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Religion and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
* Saree Makdisi author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
* Jodie Evans cofounder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace
* Apoetnomadali featuring Morvarid performing Sar Zamin
* Basic Poetry Base One Basic & Apoetnomadali featuring Weapon X performing 1.9.7.9.
* Jerusalem Women: Partners for Peace
* with Deejay Al Fareed
Artists, writers and activists for Middle East peace, a benefit for Levantine Cultural Center, celebrating six years of progressive arts programming.
Bovard Auditorium, USC, 3551 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles 90089. 7-8 pm meet/greet, booths; 8-10:30 pm show; 10:30-midnight after-party.
And, it has just been announced that Palestinian standup comedian Maysoon Zayid is to join the lineup.
Read the press release for the event here. (But note that my friend Mark Levine is wrong about Palestinian-Israeli rap group Dam. Their name means "lasting" or "persisting" in Arabic, "blood" in Hebrew. See Joseph Massad's article, "Liberating Songs: Palestine Put to Music" in the book I co-edited with Rebecca Stein, Palestine, Israel and the Politics of Popular Culture.)
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One of the cool things about the Levantine Cultural Center is that one of its founders is Jordan Elgrably, a Moroccan Jewish American. (Thanks, Mohja!)
2 comments:
Just saw DAM live for the first time, here in Brooklyn the other week. They were brilliant.
(and I'm the elizabeth who worked on your & Rebecca's book, by the way...)
...and what's more, Slingshot Hip Hop, the up and coming film by Jackie Reem Salloum about Palestinian Hip Hop featuring DAM just made it into the Sundance Film Festival!
http://www.slingshothiphop.com/
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