Category: LOCAL NEWS

A 1966 Tibetan School Class Photo Finds Itself in a 2021 Film with Bishop Desmond Tutu and The Dalai Lama by BNimri Aziz By chance I picked a copy of A Fearless Heart while browsing at my upstate Roscoe library. I find it’s a memoir that also explains the teaching of mindfulness for which its ...

1. Line in the Sand The story of drawing the Middle East in the rooms of French British bickering. 2. Shakespeare and Company The story of Sylvia Beach, the founder of the most famous book store in the world, that published the most famous novel in the world, Ulysses, in the most creative age of ...

Please join the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston and the UH Staff Council Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 12:00 pm CT (10:00 am Los Angeles / 1:00 pm New York / 6:00 pm London / 8:00 pm Jerusalem) for a virtual celebration ...

This year, the Arabian Sights Film Festival will be presented in conjunction with the 36th annual Washington, DC International Film Festival (also known as Filmfest DC) to take place April 21 through May 1, 2022. This year’s festival will be hybrid, with films presented both in a live theatre (Landmark’s E Street Cinema) and virtually. ...

Bang, Bang, Bang—Terrifying Here; Heroic Over There by B Nimri Aziz April 12, 2022 New Yorkers and many Americans across the country are staggered by today’s subway shootings. It’s like a film, or a news item from the new European ‘theater of war’. Am I alone in seeing the connection between the urging of Americans ...

Dear friends, I hope you have enjoyed a bit of our early spring weather warmth! As a predominately women-led community nonprofit, March is a special time as Women’s History Month, and it is my honor to work with so many women who make significant contributions to our communities and break down barriers each day. Please ...