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"NexGen Family Days" - LACMA

2010-10-31T21:01:34.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-11-07 12:30:00 PST
Duration: 10800
Where: 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Andell Family Sundays 12:30–3:30 pm | Free Join us on Sundays for programs designed especially for families. Make art, explore the museum, or join a bilingual gallery tour. Most of all—have fun! You're Invited October 3**, 10, 17, 24 and 31 Celebrate the opening of the Resnick Pavilion all month! Check out LACMA's newest building and make your own art inspired by the innovative architecture and by the stunning debut special exhibitions. North Piazza | Free, no reservations Ancient Olmec Monuments November 14 and 21 The Olmec are Mexico's oldest civilization, before the Maya and the Aztec. See the first ever Olmec exhibition on the west coast featuring royal portraits of ancient Mexico--giant heads of rulers! Make your own clay portraits and other inspired art in workshops. North Piazza | Free, no reservations Andell Family Sundays will be on break from November 28, 2010 to January 9, 2011. Visit the Boone Children's Gallery to make art with your family! **Expanded activites in conjunction with the openi...

"NexGen Family Days" - LACMA

2010-05-23T17:14:45.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-05-23 12:30:00 PDT
Duration: 10800
Where: 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Andell Family Sundays 12:30–3:30 pm | Free Join us on Sundays for programs designed especially for families. Make art, explore the museum, or join a bilingual gallery tour. Most of all—have fun! Drawing off the Wall May 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 Be inspired by artist Robin Rhode's playful artwork: a bicycle made of green soap, artist videos, or a chalk drawing made just for LACMA! Then dance and make art in artist-led workshops with Doran George, Katie Bachler, Eryn Talevich, and Quan Yen Trang. Pacific Island Art June 6, 13, 20, and 27 Check out LACMA's new collection of art from the Pacific Islands and see beautiful objects made of natural materials like wood, feathers and shells. Make your own art in artist-led workshops. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Andell Family Sundays is supported by Andrew and Ellen Hauptman and the Hauptman Family Foundation.

Sunday Live Music - LACMA (free admission)

2010-10-31T21:05:10.000Z

When: Sun Nov 28, 2010 6am to 7:30am PST

Where: 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90036
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Ruslan Biryukov & Pavel Petrov Sunday, November 28 | 6:00 pm Ruslan Biryukov (cello) and Pavel Petrov (piano) perform Handel: Passacaglia for solo cello, Cassadó: Spanish Suite, and Barber: Cello Sonata. Bing Theater | Free, no reservations

Sunday Live Music - LACMA (free admission)

2010-10-31T21:03:24.000Z

When: Sun Nov 14, 2010 6am to 7:30am PST

Where: 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90036
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Gonzalo Farias Sunday, November 14 | 6:00 pm NEC pianist Gonzalo Farias performs Robert Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Opus 6, and music by György Kurtag. Bing Theater | Free, no reservations

TABLET AND PEN: LITERARY LANDSCAPES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST - LA Central Library

2010-11-04T21:01:02.000Z

When: Tue Nov 9, 2010 7pm to 8:30pm PST

Where: 630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A Celebratory Reading with Aimee Bender, Howard Gordon, Heather Graham, Evan Handler, Jaime Ray Newman, Sholeh Wolpe, Gideon Yago, and Necar Zadegan with traditional Persian music by Hamid Saeidi Hosted by Reza Aslan Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library Tuesday, November 09, 2010 7:00 PM This long-awaited work, assembled by Reza Aslan, features literature from countries as diverse as Morocco and Iran, Turkey and Pakistan, many presented in English for the first time. Celebrate this landmark publication with a stellar cast who will read from a diverse selection of authors- from Khalil Gibran to Naguib Mahfouz, from Orhan Pamuk to the grand dame of Urdu fiction, Ismat Chughtai. Reza Aslan, associate professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside and author of the best-selling No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, and the Pacific Council on International Policy...

Sunday Live Music - LACMA (free)

2010-10-31T21:04:44.000Z

When: Sun Nov 21, 2010 6am to 7:30am PST

Where: 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90036
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Kyu-Yeon Kim Sunday, November 21 | 6:00 pm NEC pianist Kyu-Yeon Kim performs Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Opus 15, and Kreisleriana, Opus 16. Bing Theater | Free, no reservations

Sunday Live Music - LACMA (free)

2010-10-31T21:02:49.000Z

When: Sun Nov 7, 2010 6am to 7:30am PST

Where: 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90036
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Capitol Ensemble Sunday, November 7 | 6:00 pm Members of the Capitol Ensemble, Phillip Levy (violin), Julie Gigante (violin), Victoria Miskolczy (viola), David Low (cello), François Chouchan (piano), perform Dvorák: Sonatina, Opus 100, and Piano Quintet in A major. Bing Theater | Free, no reservations

"Homeless in Homeland" Theater - Art Share LA

2010-10-31T21:02:07.000Z

When: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8pm to 10pm PST

Where: 801 E 4th place Los Angeles, CA 90013
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: "Homeless in Homeland" is an 80 minute one woman theater show that documents the journey of a Jewish American woman to understand her identity and her desire for justice in the face of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Poet, dancer, actor and musician Saria Idana weaves the personal with the political, poetry with journalistic theater. Saria speaks in her own voice and in the voices of fifteen other characters, American, Palestinian and Israeli. Date/Time: Nov 11 2010 8:00pm - Nov 13 2010 8:00pm Price: $12 general admission, $7 students Reserve tickets: homelessinhomeland@gmail.com A 30 minute discussion with the artist generlally follows each performance. The intention of the discussion is to investigate the intersection of art and activism and the topics raised by the performance. Topics will include, but not be limited to: the artistic process, identity, violence and how Americans can choose to participate as actors for justice in relation to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The show first premiered ...

Film Screening: Not an Illusion (Na Yek Tavahhom) [Iran] - UCLA

2010-10-26T18:21:54.000Z

When: Sun Oct 31, 2010 5pm to 7pm PDT

Where: Dodd Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Screening of the film Not an Illusion (Na Yek Tavahhom), followed by a Q&A session with director, writer, producer Torang Abedian. In Persian with English Subtitles. Not An illusion is a documentary about underground musicians of Iran. The film follows Sara and her musician friends in Tehran over six years, looking at the development of the underground music scene in Iran. The film offers unique insights into contemporary Iranian society. Running Time 85 minutes. Bilingual lecture series Sunday, October 31, 2010 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM 147 Dodd Hall UCLA Cost: Free and open to the public For more information please contact Johanna Romero Tel: 310-825-1455 romero@international.ucla.edu www.international.ucla.edu/cnes

Film Screening: Masquerades [Algeria] - UCLA

2010-10-26T18:25:12.000Z

When: Tue Nov 23, 2010 7pm to 9pm PST

Where: James Bridges Theater, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Screening of the film Masquerades, followed by a Q&A session with director Lyes Salem. Photo courtesy of the Global Film Initiative. Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:00 PM James Bridges Theater UCLA After working for much of his life as a gardener in his dusty Algerian village, Mounir dreams of improving his family’s fortune and gaining a measure of respect by marrying off his narcoleptic sister, Rym, to a “real gentleman.” However, Rym has other plans—she dreams of marrying Mounir’s best friend, Khliffa, who has secretly courted her for years. When Mounir lashes out at village gossip with a fib that he has promised Rym to a wealthy outsider, she comes out of her sleepy stupor to embrace the rumor and press her real betrothed into action. Beautifully brought to life by a memorable cast—including director Lyes Salem as the cocky but compassionate bumbler Mounir—this heartfelt comedy suggests that when dreams become reality, it’s time to wake up. Lyes Salem was born in Algiers, Algeria in 1973. After studyi...

Lebanon - Israel Film Festival

2010-10-25T07:03:49.000Z

When: Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:30pm to 11:30pm PDT

Where: Laemmle's Fallbrook 7, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: About the Film: June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratrooper’s platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot contain. Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose themselves in the chaos of war. Director: Samuel Maoz Screenplay: Samuel Maoz Producers: Uri Sabag, Einat Bikel, Mosche Edery, Leon Edery, David Silber, Benjamina Mirnik, Ilann Girard Director of Photography: Glora Bejach Music: Alex Claude Editor: Arik Lahav Leibovich Country: Israel Running Time: 94 min. Format: 35mm Year: 2009 Genre: Feature Awards/Other Festivals: Winner - Golden Lion 2009 Venice Film Festival; Official Selection - 2009 Toronto Film Festival; Official Selection - 2009 New York Film Festival; Tribeca Film Festival 2010 http://www.israelfilmfestival.com/films-and-tickets/lebanon

The Peace Project - Gallery 9

2010-10-26T14:44:48.000Z

When: Sat Sep 25, 2010 to Sat Nov 6, 2010

Where: 6101 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: What's your vision of peace? Soldiers laying down their arms? The smile of a child who's overcome the trauma of war? Picasso's famous dove? Or something more abstract yet just as powerful? That's the challenge - and promise - of The Peace Project from The Whole 9, an international collaborative art competition and exhibition created to connect peace-minded individuals everywhere. Artists from around the world, working in diverse mediums, are invited to submit their creative interpretations of peace. This collective vision will be unveiled September 21, 2010 at a press event at Gallery 9 in Los Angeles, followed by an opening reception on Saturday, September 25. The exhibit will subsequently travel to San Francisco and New York in conjunction with a simultaneous online exhibition. It's no coincidence that the premiere date of The Peace Project is on World Peace Day. World Peace Day was conceived by filmmaker Jeremy Gilley, who inspired the 192 member states of the United Nations to come together and celebrat...

The Struggle for Education in Apartheid Israel - USC

2010-10-25T07:01:58.000Z

When: Mon Oct 25, 2010 7pm to 9pm PDT

Where: USC, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Join Students for Justice in Palestine on the evening of Monday, Oct. 25, 7 p.m. in THH 101 for a panel discussion about the obstacles which Palestinian students face daily in the pursuit of an education. Topics of discussion will also include: the ways in which Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, innovative non-violent direct action campaigns, such as the BDS movement, employed by Palestinians to demand their rights, and parallels between the Israeli occupation of Palestine and U.S. imperialist wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan. Co-sponsored by the USC Program of Middle East Studies, Students for Justice in Palestine, Student Activists for a Beloved Community, and Food Not Bombs. Speaker Bios: Lisa Taraki is a professor of sociology at Birzeit University, Palestine and a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Her research and publications have focused on the Palestinian national movement, gender relations in the Middle East, and ur...

Film Screening: Z32 [Israel] - UCLA

2010-10-25T07:01:22.000Z

When: Wed Nov 17, 2010 7pm to 9pm PST

Where: James Bridges Theater, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Z32 is built around a confession— a young man’s account of his participation in the revenge killing of two Palestinian police officers by the Israeli army in the occupied territories. Around the soldier’s account Mograbi interweaves a couple’s extended and often agonizing discussion of their relationship, punctuated by Mograbi himself characteristically addressing the camera. Adding further layers of complexity are the use of a digital “mask,” both to disguise the young soldier’s identity and foreground the politics of the camera as witness, and Mograbi’s radical decision to perform his own musings as Brechtian songs, set to Weill-ian music. The radical elements of Mograbi’s project combine to raise painful and unsettling questions about responsibility, forgiveness and the shape of cinematic truth. Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:00 PM James Bridges Theater UCLA Part of the UCLA International Institute’s Human Rights Film Series Cost: Free and Open to the Public For more information please contact Johanna Romero Tel: (310) 825-1455 romero@international.ucla.edu www.international.ucla.edu/cnes Sponsor(s): UCLA International Institute

Lebanon - Israel Film Festival

2010-10-25T07:01:07.000Z

When: Sun Oct 24, 2010 9:30pm to 11:30pm PDT

Where: Laemmle's Royal Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: About the Film: June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratrooper’s platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot contain. Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose themselves in the chaos of war. Director: Samuel Maoz Screenplay: Samuel Maoz Producers: Uri Sabag, Einat Bikel, Mosche Edery, Leon Edery, David Silber, Benjamina Mirnik, Ilann Girard Director of Photography: Glora Bejach Music: Alex Claude Editor: Arik Lahav Leibovich Country: Israel Running Time: 94 min. Format: 35mm Year: 2009 Genre: Feature Awards/Other Festivals: Winner - Golden Lion 2009 Venice Film Festival; Official Selection - 2009 Toronto Film Festival; Official Selection - 2009 New York Film Festival; Tribeca Film Festival 2010 http://www.israelfilmfestival.com/films-and-tickets/lebanon

Preserving the Two-State Solution - UCLA

2010-10-26T18:23:26.000Z

When: Wed Nov 10, 2010 4pm to 6pm PST

Where: UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A lecture by Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, the Palestine Liberation Organization representative to the US Wednesday, November 10, 2010 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM 314 Royce Hall UCLA Maen Rashid Areikat was born October 12, 1960 in Jericho in the occupied West Bank. Prior to his appointment to Washington, Ambassador Areikat served for 11 years at the Negotiations Affairs Department (NAD) of the PLO in Ramallah, most recently as its Deputy Head and Coordinator-General (2008-2009). Ambassador Areikat first joined NAD in 1998, when it was headed by current Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), and served as its Director-General until March 2008. In addition to overseeing NAD’s day-to-day operations, Ambassador Areikat was responsible for overseeing the work of the Negotiations Support Unit (NSU), which provides legal, policy, communication and technical support to Palestinian Negotiating Teams and to the Palestinian Leadership Prior to his service at NAD, Ambassador Areikat spent six years at Orient Hou...

Arab Film Festival - Writers Guild of America Theater

2010-09-25T23:16:02.000Z

When: Sun Oct 24, 2010

Where: Writers Guild of America Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: 11:30am Little Town of Bethlehem / Chicken Heads 1:30pm 12 Angry Lebanese / Fiasco 4:00pm Heliopolis 6:30pm The Man Who Sold the World 9:00pm Tale of Existence / The String --------- http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=784 http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=757 http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=950 http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=786 http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=956 http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=964 http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=978 http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=962

Books, Wonder, and Exchange: American Protestants in 19th-Century Iran - UCLA

2010-10-26T18:25:35.000Z

When: Mon Nov 29, 2010 4pm to 6pm PST

Where: UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: This presentation compares the 1834 arrival in Iran of Justin Perkins, who led the ABCFM mission in Urmia, Iran, for thirty five years, with a trip Perkins made back to the United States in 1842. On his visit home, Perkins brought with him Mar Yohannan, the Bishop of Urmia, and the two spent over a year in the US before returning to Persia. On his first tour of Iran, Perkins distributed printed Classical Syriac books and in doing so disrupted the prior economy and culture of books that had existed among Christians in the region. Because of his Calvinism, Perkins misrecognized the process of gift exchange in which he was engaged with his Nestorian/East-Syrian hosts. This episode illuminates the relationships between media and language ideology, between systems of gift-exchange and the theology of the free gift, and between gratitude and a sense of wonder. Ultimately, this paper shows how Protestant religious reform stimulated a secular understanding, and thus a further reification, of religion. Cost: Free an...

Lebanon - Israel Film Festival

2010-10-25T07:03:22.000Z

When: Tue Nov 2, 2010 7:30pm to 9:30pm PDT

Where: Laemmle's Sunset 5, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: About the Film: June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratrooper’s platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot contain. Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose themselves in the chaos of war. Director: Samuel Maoz Screenplay: Samuel Maoz Producers: Uri Sabag, Einat Bikel, Mosche Edery, Leon Edery, David Silber, Benjamina Mirnik, Ilann Girard Director of Photography: Glora Bejach Music: Alex Claude Editor: Arik Lahav Leibovich Country: Israel Running Time: 94 min. Format: 35mm Year: 2009 Genre: Feature Awards/Other Festivals: Winner - Golden Lion 2009 Venice Film Festival; Official Selection - 2009 Toronto Film Festival; Official Selection - 2009 New York Film Festival; Tribeca Film Festival 2010 http://www.israelfilmfestival.com/films-and-tickets/lebanon

Shari’ah Watch: A View from the Inside - UCLA

2010-10-26T18:22:38.000Z

When: Wed Nov 3, 2010 4:30pm to Wed Nov 3, 2010 6pm PDT

Where: UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Lecture and Extended Q&A with Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl, Moderated by Professor Asli Bali Wednesday, November 03, 2010 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM School of Law, Room 1357 UCLA Please join us for an Informed Discussion about Shariah and its impact and relevance in the West. Co-sponsored by: Critical Race Studies (CRS) UCLA Islamic Studies Interdepartmental Program The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) The Journal for Islamic and Near Eastern Law (JINEL) Cost: Free and open to the public For more information please contact Johanna Romero, Center for Near Easter Studies Tel: 310-825-1455 cnes@international.ucla.edu www.international.ucla.edu/cnes

Taxonomies, Minorities, and Boundaries: The League of Nations and the Interwar Middle East - UCLA

2010-10-26T18:23:11.000Z

When: Tue Nov 9, 2010 3pm to Tue Nov 9, 2010 5pm PST

Where: UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A lecture by Sarah Shields, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tuesday, November 09, 2010 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM 10383 Bunche Hall UCLA When I began my study of the 1930’s conflict between Turkey and France over the province of Alexandretta, I set out to examine the League of Nations’ implementation of their ideology of “self-determination of peoples” in the interwar Middle East. I had planned to study the League’s mediation among established collectives in the disputed provinces of Alexandretta and Mosul, and to document and analyze the claims of competing nationalist groups. I found, to my surprise, that the people of Alexandretta and Mosul did not exist in exclusive, self-contained identity groups vying for resources and recognition. On the contrary, their affiliations were fluid and ambiguous, and issues largely unrelated to their “essential” identities took predominance in their politics and their worldviews. Instead of the project I had planned--a study of internation...

Arab Film Festival - Writers Guild of America Theater

2010-09-25T23:15:45.000Z

When: Sat Oct 23, 2010

Where: Writers Guild of America Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: 11:00am The Butcher / Fragments of a Lost Palestine 1:00pm Cinecitta 3:30pm The Wedding Song 6:30pm Marina of the Zabbaleen 9:00pm Every Day is a Holiday ______ http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=723 http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=670 http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=963 http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=957 http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=960 http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/film_detail.php?id=952

Budrus - Laemmle's Music Hall 3

2010-10-25T07:00:45.000Z

When: Fri Oct 22, 2010 to Thu Oct 28, 2010

Where: 9036 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, 90211
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Budrus 82 Minutes | Not Rated | Documentary Color | Blu-Ray Disc Distributor: Just Vision c/o Earthways BUDRUS director Julia Bacha will participate in Q&A’s at the Music Hall after the 7:20 screening on Friday, October 22 and after the 5 o’clock and 7:20 screenings on Saturday October 23. Film Summary Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat. The movie is directed by award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha (co-writer and editor of Control Room and co-director Encounter Point), and produced by Bacha, Palestinian journalist Rula Salameh, and filmmaker and human rights advocate Ronit Avni (formerly of WITNESS, Director of Encounter Point). Follow the film on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/JustVision?ref=ts New York Times calls Budrus "this year's must-see documentary." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/opinion/11kristof.html?ref=nicholasdkristof Winner Audience Award, 2nd Prize, Berlin International Film Festival 2010 Winner Special Jury Mention, Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Winner Special Jury Mention, Jerusalem Film Festival 2010 Winner Special Jury Mention, Documenta Madrid 2010 Winner Witness Award, SilverDocs Film Festival 2010 Winner Amnesty Award Italia, Film Festival 2010

Art of Change-Making: Philanthropy at its Best - UCLA

2010-10-26T18:24:37.000Z

When: Sun Nov 14, 2010 5pm to 8pm PST

Where: UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Screening of the documentary film "Lady of the Roses," followed by a bilingual (English/Persian) panel discussion Sunday, November 14, 2010 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM 147 Dodd Hall UCLA Directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb(2008, Iran),"Lady of the Roses" is the name given to late Shahindokht Sanati, a woman who went to Lalehzaar region of Kerman before the Islamic revolution, and replaced poppies fields with roses gardens and opium with rosewater and took this so far as transforming the agricultural destiny of a whole region. The story is told by Homayoun Sanati, Shahindokht's spouse and three years after her death. He is the founder of "Franklin Publishing," "Offset printing house," "Pars Paper Co.," etc. and who, as a whole, is considered a one-of-kind figure in Iran's culture, industry and entrepreneurship. Cost: Free and Open to the Public For more information please contact Johanna Romero Tel: (310) 825-1455 romero@international.ucla.edu www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/

Free Palestine Walk 2010 - Los Angeles

2010-10-26T14:36:03.000Z

When: Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:30am to Sat Oct 30, 2010 11:55pm PDT

Where: Federal Building - 11000 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles CA -
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: DESCRIPTION The Free Palestine Walks are silent marches to take place in October on behalf of an equitable U.S. policy toward Palestine that advances freedom and equality for the Palestinian people. The Free Palestine Walks have two major goals: First, to raise awareness about the situation in Palestine among Americans who will take part in, sponsor and observe the walks, including your family members, friends, neighbors and community members. And second, to raise funds for a powerful AAPER advertising campaign to be launched in the cities where the Walks took place. Like AIDS Walks, Breast Cancer Walks, and Freedom Walks during the Civil Rights Movement, the Free Palestine Walks can have a major impact across the United States as we work to advance an equitable U.S. policy toward Palestine that finally advances freedom for the Palestinian people! REGISTRATION FEES Before October 20: $15 After October 20: $20 FREE PALESTINE WALK RULES The Free Palestine Walks are meant to convey only one very simple, clea...