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Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows Corona Park
directions: http://www.queensmuseum.org/information/directions.htm

MUSIC: Rachid Halihal Ensemble will play traditional music from the North African repertoire. A native of Fez, Rachid is a world-class musician who plays multiple styles of Moroccan music including Andalus, Gnawa, Sha'abi, and Jahjouka, in addition to classical Egyptian and Lebanese Debke. Followed by set from DJ Alias. DJ Alias spins spinning the best Arabic & Moroccan Hip Hop. He has monthly sets at such Brooklyn venues as Ripple, Soda, and Moe's.

DANCE: Evie is dancer and poet who performs with her students as Dance of the Word. They have been performing belly dancing, the ancient dance art of the Near and Mid-East, regularly since 2004, both to poetry as well as to the dance's traditional music.

FILM: I Love Hip Hop in Morocco
(Jennifer Needleman, Joshua Asen, United States/Morocco, 2007, 90 min, Moroccan... Read more

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To mark the 2nd anniversary of Israel's brutal war on the people of
Lebanon, Alwan for the Arts and Deep Dish TV present four evenings of films from Deep Dish TV's new eight part television series NOTHING IS SAFE. The screenings are on consecutive Wednesdays July 23, July 30, Aug 6, and Aug 13.

July 30, 2008 Program

Free and Open to the Public

A sneak preview of Jawad Metni's new feature documentary "Lebanon Cluster Bomb"

ABOUT THE FILM

LEBANON CLUSTER BOMB

**Sneak preview** (2008, Jawad Metni, 90 min)

LEBANON CLUSTER BOMB follows the men and women of South Lebanon who were hired and trained to clear unexploded cluster munitions after the July 2006 war. The Israeli Defense Forces dropped nearly 1 million of these dangerous weapons across 40 million square meters of South Lebanon. Hundreds of thousands failed to explode, and continue to kill and maim civilians 2 years after the war. The film is a primer on the c... Read more

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AUG 6th Program

33 DAYS by Mai Masri preceded by

LETTERS FROM BEIRUT by Big Noise Films

FREE!

33 DAYS(Mai Masri, 2007, 70min)

Filmed during the massive Israeli war on Lebanon in the summer of 2006, 33 Days follows the real-life stories of four people: A theatre director working with children, an aid worker who coordinated emergency relief effors, a journalist for an unerground television station, and a mother trying to cope with her new-born baby. About the Filmmaker

Mai Masri is a Palestinian filmmaker with a Bachelor's degree in film from San Francisco State University. She has directed, photographed and edited several award-winning ... Read more