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2009


19 March | 6:30 pm | The Jerusalem Fund                     ACCESS:
                                                                                 Press TV news story
here.
                                                                                
Dan Walsh's PowerPoint outline here.
                                                                                 Video of Presentation here.
                                         
"Answering Obama’s Call: An Open Conversation About The Palestinian-Zionist Conflict"
with
Dan Walsh

In February of 2008 then-candidate Barack Obama said:
“…one of the things that struck me when I went to Israel was how much more open the debate was…I think the U.S. pro-Israel community is sometimes a little more protective or concerned about opening up that conversation…I'm saying though that actually, ultimately, should be our goal...”  Source.

Dan Walsh will present parts of a new high school curriculum specifically designed to open up the conversation President Obama alluded to in 2008. This new curriculum titled: Teaching the Formative History of Political Zionism (1897-1947) through Poster Art: A Plain Language/Language Rights Curriculum Model for American High School Educators uses historical
poster art to engage American students and teachers in a more open, natural conversation about the Palestinian-Zionist conflict. It differs from existing high school teaching resources that cover the conflict in a number of ways including that it is dedicated to the concept of “civic competence”. This approach puts the students needs for jargon-free language foremost and evaluates its usefulness based on whether or not the students can carry on a civil and historically holistic discussion about the conflict. All lessons include opportunities for students to analyze the content of Zionist and/or Palestinian nationalist posters—symbols, colors, texts, styles—allowing them to engage their own critical faculties.

Dan Walsh is a graduate student at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. He was first introduced to the Palestine poster genre as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco in the mid-1970’s. While there he collected several hundred Palestine posters. Over the years he has continued to acquire Palestine poster art and he now curates what many specialists believe to be the largest such archives in the world, containing approximately three thousand original posters.

12 February | 6:30 pm | The Jerusalem Fund

The Jerusalem Fund Gallery and The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University present

Halim Barakat                                                                    VIDEO
reading from his novel
The Crane

translated by Bassam Frangieh and Roger Allen


First published in Arabic as Ta'ir al-Hawm, The Crane is the story of a Syrian immigrant to the United States who looks back on his childhood in a small village in Syria, and in particular to an image of one wounded crane, as a continuing symbol of his emotions toward the past and its impact upon his life.
Published by American University in Cairo Press, 2008.

Halim Barakat is a novelist, critic, and scholar of sociology, who recently retired from a long career as a Professor of Society and Culture at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University.  Among his works in English are the novels Days of Dust and Six Days, and the scholarly works Visions of Society: Reality in the Contemporary Arab Novel and The Arab World: Society, Culture and the State.



7,9,14,16 January | 6:30 pm | The Goethe Institut

The Jerusalem Fund and The Goethe Institut present...

Matabb

MATABB (Arabic for ‘Speed Bump’) is an all-new Palestinian TV-serial. The title of the series is derived from the notorious speed bumps on Palestinian streets. The title metaphorically refers to the ups and downs in the life of its protagonists.  All 10 episodes will be consecutively screened. 

Producer Fareed Majari will be present on Jan7th.  Following the January 16th screening there will be a panel discussion with Halim Barakat and Adila Laidi-Hanieh.



2008


Saturday| 6 December | 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.|The Jerusalem Fund

Annual Souk and Olive Harvest Celebration

Experience the ambiance of a Middle Eastern souk (market) right here in Washington, DC. Enjoy an afternoon of music, coffee, food, henna painting, and the sales of textiles, pottery, jewelry and gifts from North Africa and the Middle East. Celebrate the annual olive harvest in Palestine and support Palestinian farmers by purchasing bottles of fair trade extra virgin olive oil and olive oil soap imported from Palestine. Bring your family and friends to this fun and vibrant event! 

This event is free and open to the public.

Wednesday| 26 November | 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.| The Jerusalem Fund

"Mountain Against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture"
Lecture and book signing with Salim Tamari

This groundbreaking book on modern Palestinian culture goes beyond the usual focal point of the 1948 war to address the earlier, formative years. Drawing on previously unavailable biographies of Palestinians (including Palestinian Jews), Salim Tamari offers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the momentous first half of the twentieth century. He brings to light the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intellectuals whose lives spanned (and defined) the period of 1918-1948: a musician, a teacher, a former aristocrat, a doctor, a Bolshevik revolutionary, and a Jewish novelist. Published by University of California Press, 2008.

Salim Tamari is the Director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies and Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University.  Recent publications include: Jerusalem 1948 (2001); Al Quds Al Uthmaniyya (Ottoman Jerusalem) (2002) Mandate Jerusalem in the Memoirs of Wasif Jawahariyyeh (with Issam Nassar, 2005) al Jabal didd al Bahar, Muwatin,  2005); Biography and Social History of Bilad al Sham (edited,  with I. Nassar,  2007, Beirut IPS);and Year of the Locust: Palestine and Syria during WWI (forthcoming UC Press, 2009).

Friday| 21 November | The Jerusalem Fund
Teaching Teachers about Palestine

American teachers and educators from Maryland, West Virginia and other states visited the Jerusalem Fund on Wednesday to learn about Palestinian culture.

Robyn Davis, the Cultural Coordinator, organized lessons in Arabic music, Palestinian embroidery, poetry, art and literature. She was helped by Fuad Foty, a DC-based musician, as well as two dancers from the Hurriyah Dabkeh troupe. They gave a short instructional dance lesson.

The group of more than 60 K-College educators also received a useful curriculum to help them teach Palestinian history.

Thursday| 30 October | 6:30 - 8:00 p.m .

The Jerusalem Fund Gallery and The Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, Georgetown University present

Fady Joudah
reading from his new collection of poetry
The Earth in the Attic
and from his translation of Mahmoud Darwish's recent poetry
The Butterfly's Burden

Fady Joudah was the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for The Earth in the Attic.  In his poems Joudah explores big themes--identity, war, religion, what we hold in common--while never losing sight of the quotidian, the specific. Contest judge Louise Gluck describes the poet in her Foreword as "that strange animal, the lyric poet in whom circumstance and profession...have compelled obsession with large social contexts and grave national dilemmas." She finds in his poetry an incantatory quality and concludes, "These are small poems, many of them, but the grandeur of conception is inescapable. The Earth in the Attic is varied, coherent, fierce, tender; impossible to put down, impossible to forget."  Published by Yale University Press, April 2008.

Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American doctor and has been a member of Doctors Without Borders since 2001.  His translation of Mahmoud Darwish's recent poetry, The Butterfly's Burden, received the 2008 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.  He currently resides in Houston, Texas.

Saturday|13 September | 8:00 p.m.|Georgetown University 

The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development and The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University proudly present

Selections from the ReOrient Festival:
An Evening of Palestinian Plays

Featuring plays by Fateh Azzam, Yussef El Guindi, Edward Mast, Hanna Eady & Betty Shamieh, produced by Torange Yeghiazarian


Each year the ReOrient Festival brings innovative and thought-provoking theatre from and about the Middle East to San Francisco.  Now, for the first time, selections from the Festival will be presented to a D.C. audience. 

The featured selections are:
     -Baggage by Fateh Azzam
       A traveler is unable to let go of his baggage in the surreal airport of life.
     -The Monologist Suffers Her Monologue by Yussef El Guindi

       A Palestinian-American explores her identity in this comedic monologue. In the dialogue of  
       nations, do you ever get the feeling that Palestine is just a whiny monologue?
     -Sahmata by Edward Mast & Hanna Eady
       A grandfather and grandson travel back to the time of the destruction of their family village.
     -Tamam by Betty Shamieh
       Her name is Tamam.  It means 'enough'.

For more information, visit http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/reorientfestival.html .

Thursday| 4 September | 6:30 p.m.| The Jerusalem Fund

"A Silver Legend: The Story of the Maria Theresa Thaler"
with Clara Semple

This first comprehensive account of the Maria Theresa thaler in English covers every aspect of the thaler's use, and explains how this coin came to be accepted as the universal currency for trade in the Middle East and beyond. The role of the coin in silver jewelry making is also thoroughly examined in this splendidly illustrated account.  Published by Barzan Publishing, June 2007.

Clara Semple worked for twenty years as an archaeological artist in Egypt and Sudan where she was employed by the Oriental Institute of Chicago University, the American Research Centre in Egypt, and the French Institute, amongst others. It was while living in Sudan in the 1970’s that she developed an abiding interest in the ritual ornament and jewelry of that country. She spent several years travelling and researching in remote areas of the Sudan, and went on to live in Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and the Yemen where she continued to pursue her interest in archaeology as well as her passion for traditional jewelry.

Wednesdays| 25 June - 13 August | 6:30 pm | The Jerusalem Fund

The Jerusalem Fund and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University are pleased to present    

Voices of Palestine: Summer 2008 Film Series





This annual summer film series highlights recent documentary and feature films from and about Palestine that explore the social, cultural and political complexities of Palestinian life and identity.


For a complete listing of the films and their descriptions, please go to http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/filmseries.php .


Friday | 25 April 2008 | 7:30 p.m. | The Jerusalem Fund

"Songs from the Gulf"
with Souhail Kaspar
and Rachid Halihal

                      

Grammy nominee Souhail Kaspar and internationally acclaimed musician Rachid Halihal team up to present a performance of popular songs from the Gulf.  Kaspar is a master percussionist trained at the Conservatory of Traditional Arabic Music in Aleppo and Halihal is a multi-talented oud/violin player and vocalist trained at the Conservatory of Music in Fez.  Kaspar has performed with Sabah, Fairuz, Cheb Mami and Kathem al-Saher, among others.  In 2002 he partnered with Naser Musa to record Khaliji, a collection of popular songs from the Gulf which garnered critical acclaim.  Halihal has performed with the Andalus Orchestra of Fez as well as with the beloved Gulf singers Mohamed Abdu, Abdel Mageed Abdallah, and Rachid el Maajid.


Saturday| 1 March 2008 | 7:30 p.m. | Gaston Hall, Georgetown University

The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development and
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University proudly present

The Arabesque Music Ensemble


Zahi Khamis painting    

The Arabesque Music Ensemble revives the golden age of Egyptian music through the production of The Music of the Three Musketeers, (al-Fursan at-Talatha). The collection features the compositions of Zakariyya Ahmad, Muhammad al-Qasabji and Riyad al-Sunbati, who together wrote a large majority of pieces performed by the Arab world's legendary singer, Umm Kulthum of Egypt.


Performing in Washington, DC as part of their national tour to promote the new release, the eight-piece ensemble has garnered critical acclaim, with praise for its "precise rhythms and perfect intonation" (Washington Post) as well as its "rich textures and musical versatility" (Los Angeles Times). The ensemble's 2006 release, The Songs of Sheikh Sayyed Darweesh: Soul of a People, was named one of the top-ten world music recordings by The Boston Globe.

 





2007 Events


The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development and
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University proudly presented

"Marcel Khalife and the Mayadine Ensemble"

with the support of the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC)
and the Washington, DC Chapter of the Network of Arab-American Professionals (NAAP-DC)

November 1 and 2, 2007
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Terrace Theater

Named UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2005, Lebanese composer, oud master and singer Marcel Khalife is one of the world's leading Arab musicians. Performing his critically acclaimed new work "Taqasim" (Improvisations) as well as works from his old and new lyrical repertoire, Khalife is accompanied by Rami Khalife on piano, Peter Herbert on bass and Bachar Khalife on percussion.

In his association with great contemporary Arab poets, particularly Palestinian poet par excellence Mahmoud Darwish, Khalife seeks to renew the character of the Arabic song, to break its stereotypes and to advance the culture of the society that surrounds it. On his journey, Marcel Khalife invents and creates original music, a novel world of sounds, freed of all established rules. This language elevates him to the level of an ambassador of his own culture and to the vanguard of Near Eastern music innovators.





2006 Events



Saturday| 9 December 2006 | 11
:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Annual Souk and Olive Harvest Celebration

Experience the ambience of a Middle Eastern souk (market) right here in Washington, DC! Enjoy an afternoon of live music, coffee, sweets, henna painting, and the sales of textiles, pottery, jewelry and gifts from North Africa and the Middle East. Celebrate the annual olive harvest in Palestine and support Palestinian farmers by purchasing bottles of olive oil imported from Palestine. Bring your family and friends to this fun and vibrant event.

Thursday | 30 November 2006 | 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Karim Kadiri and Najeeb
Performing
M'Oud Swing Original Compositions



Karim Kadiri and Najeeb of M'Oud Swing will be performing some of their band's original pieces composed by Karim. Karim blends traditional Arabic, Egyptian, Moroccan and Berber modes with jazz. Najeeb is a world class drummer who has performed all over the globe with giants such as Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock, Gary Burton and others. He will be performing on his new instrument, the dumbek.


Wednesday, 14 June 2006
Betty Shamieh
Palestinian playwright, author, screenwriter and actor

Shamieh, the first Palestinian-American playwright to have a play premiere off-Broadway, will be presenting excerpts of her critically acclaimed play Chocolate in Heat and her forthcoming novel.  Her play Roar had its off-Broadway premiere at The New Group under the direction of Tony-nominated Marion McClinton and starred Annabella Sciorra and Sarita Choudhury.  Roar was selected as a New York Times Critic's Pick for its entire extended run.  Her play The Black Eyed premiered at the Magic Theatre in 2005.  Trinity Repertory Theatre commissioned and optioned her play Territories.  Shamieh performed in her play of monologues Chocolate in Heat - Growing Up Arab in America, which had three sold out and critically acclaimed off-off-Broadway runs and subsequently toured over twenty venues across the United States.  She has been awarded an NEA grant, Sundance Theatre residency, New Dramatists Van Lier Fellowship, a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study & Conference Center, an Arts International grant, a Yaddo residency, and a New York Foundation for the Arts playwriting award. She was selected as a 2004-2005 Harvard University Clifton Visiting Artist and is currently serving on the New York Foundation for the Arts playwriting advisory board.  Her life and work have been profiled in American Theatre Magazine, Time Out, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times.  A graduate of Harvard University and the Yale School of Drama, she was selected as a 2005-2006 Playwriting Fellow at Harvard/Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.  Shamieh is currently working on a Time Warner commission from Second Stage Theatre.

Other 2006 Events
"Improvisation" Film screening and conversation with the director, Raed Andoni. (1/9)
Mosaic Arts workshop with mosaic artist Valerie Theberge



2005 Events


 Saturday| 10 December | 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.|The Jerusalem Fund
The Annual Souk and Olive Harvest Celebration

 02 December | The Lincoln Theater
El-Funoun Folkloric Dance Troupe



25 October | The Jerusalem Fund
Middle Eastern Jazz Night with Shusmo

22 September | The Jerusalem Fund
Nathalie Handal: Readings from "The Lives of Rain"


08 August | The Jerusalem Fund

The Jerusalem Fund Gallery and The Embassy of Syria present

A performancy by Syrian violinist

Aban Zirikly


Mr. Zirikly was born in Damascus, Syria in 1952.  He began studying violin and piano at the age of ten.  He has studied orchestra and choir conducting in Russia and Western Europe since 1970. He was the leader of “The Syrian Group for Chamber Music” from 1986 to 1991.  Currently, he teaches at The High Institute for Music and The Solhi Wadi Institute for Music in Damascus.  Mr. Zirikly will perform a selection of classical Western and Middle Eastern pieces.

25 July | The Jerusalem Fund
Balata Art and Film Exhibit

23 July | The Jerusalem Fund
Mosaic Arts Workshop

Voices of Palestine: Summer 2005 Film Series
22 July - 10 August 2005



Special Film Screenings | The Jerusalem Fund

"Women in Struggle"
Film screening and conversation with director Buthina Canaan Khoury 16 March

"About Baghdad"
Film screening and conversation with film crew member Adam Shapiro 18 March


"Another Road Home"
Film screening and conversation with director Danae Elon 6 May


"Rachel Corrie: An American Conscience"
Film screening and conversation with director Yahya Barakat 11 May




2004-2002 Events


2004
 

Summer 2004 Film Series 
Shawkat Sayyad, oudist. Performance February 2004

2003

Kathryn Leila Buck, playwright. Performance of Isite, January 2003.
Wasma Chorbachy, art historian. Lecture, May 2003.
Rajie Cook, sculptor. Sculptural assemblage, November 2003.
Ibdaa, folkore troupe from Palestine. Performance, July 2003. 
Ghada Al-Medkisi, musician. Iraqi cultural evening, May 2003.
Dunya Mikhail, poet. Iraqi cultural evening, May 2003.
Michel Moushabeck, editor and publisher of Interlink Books. Lecture, March 2003.


2002

Nadja Groux, photojournalist. Photography exhibit, October 2002.
Dagmar Painter, curator. Lecture on hand iconography, September 2002.
Daniel Quinn, volunteer. Slide show, October 2002. 

Other names have included Helen Thomas, Leila Kubba, and Simone Bittone.


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