JUNE
Aswat, the Bay Area’s Arabic choir, will perform music from Iraq and Palestine on June 18, 2005, at St. Bonifice Church in San Francisco. The concert is a benefit fundraiser for Devi-Ja Croll, Aswat’s violinist, who is battling cancer. For details, see http://www.zawaya.org
Tunisian comic Rachid Mendjeli will conduct mime shows for Arab-American youth at various schools and recreation centers during June. To arrange for a performance, contact info@zawaya.org
AUGUST
Saudi poet Nimah Nawwab, author of The Unfurling, will be the guest of Zawaya in August. Arab-American, Muslim, and poetry/art organizations are invited to co-sponsor the tour and/or to provide locations for appearances. Contact nabila@sbcglobal.net
OCTOBER
An evening of Arab proverbs will be held in October 2005. Up to 30 participants will compete in capping proverbs according to categories (animals, love, children, women) and country of origin (Egyptian, Palestinian, Syrian, etc.) Each proverb may be used only once during the evening’s competition.
The fifth annual Tenderloin Iftar will be held on October 26, 2005. This celebrates the feast following the Muslim month of fasting (Ramadan); it is put on by the local Muslim community for the Muslim community in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Those who wish to donate or volunteer, contact nabila@zawaya.org
Aswat, the Bay Area’s Arabic community choir, will perform in concert at Mills College on November 19, 2005. This event is sponsored by the Mills College Department of music. Please Contact Mills for ticket information.
FUTURE PROJECT:
ARAB AMERICAN THEATER
An original Arab-American play will be produced by Zawaya, featuring the lives, perceptions, and personal stories of Arab-Americans in the Bay Area. Vignettes featuring dreams, successes, kids, biases and prejudices, weddings, music, and the discrimination we encounter will be scripted and directed by Denmo Ibrahim. Those interested in submitting narratives, performing in the play, or volunteering in any way should contact info@zawaya.org . The play will be performed in the Bay Area in early 2006.
STAY TUNED:
ART BENEFIT FOR ASWAT
To keep the Aswat choir alive and singing, an art sale is planned to raise funds. Nabila Mango, the founder of Aswat, is donating most of her collection of Arabic art collected during 40 years of travel throughout the Arab world. These items include paintings from Yemen; prints from Yemen, Palestine and Egypt; Roberts prints; and miniatures of Maqamat al-Hariri. All pieces are framed and ready to hang. Donation of additional valuable art works to be sold may be arranged by contacting nabila@sbcglobal.net . Serious collectors (seeking items worth more than $150) may arrange a preview by contacting nabila@sbcglobal.net . Date and place for the public sale is not yet determined.
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A celebration of Palestinian arts will be held during Spring 2006 (date and place to be determined). This event is in the planning stages. It will include art, dance, music, wedding scenes, costumes, poetry, films, and more. If you have something to exhibit, if you want to participate in Dabke, in singing, in the fashion show, or the wedding scene, or if you have ideas to propose, contact info@zawaya.org.
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ZAWAYA Events:
In April, Zawaya was honored to host translator and author Dr. Saleh Jallad on a three-day book tour in the Bay Area. Dr. Jallad recently translated “The Fables of Kalilah and Dimnah” from the Arabic manuscript written by Ibn al-Muqaffa’ in the middle of the eighth century. The fables originated in India and arrived in the Arab World via a Persian translation. They were later translated into Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and from there into European languages. Dr. Jallad’s translation is the first complete English translation of the Ibn al-Muqaffa’ script. His project started as a personal quest to make the fables more accessible to his children. He then launched into a research project into the origins and cross-cultural impact of the animal stories about good governance, friendship, deceit, honesty, which led to the 2002 publication of Kalilah and Dimnah, and the first reprint edition in 2004. Dr. Jallad arrived in San Francisco on April 25, when he met with members and friends of Zawaya. During the next three days, he spoke with college audiences at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley and Stanford. His animated, engaging and informed presentations led to lively discussions with the students of Arabic, Islamic Arts and Philosophy courses. Students were very interested in the processes of translation, the impact of these stories on Western literature and Western imagination, as well as the stories themselves. Dr. Jallad was repeatedly asked to tell his (or his children’s) favorite fables from the book, and he gladly obliged. After publishing his book with Melisinde Press, London, Dr. Jallad is now working on a children’s book edition as well as an animation of the fables. Copies of the book are available from Zawaya, for the reduced price of $25.00.
Arab American National Museum
On May 5, the Arab American community celebrated the grand opening of the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. This is the first museum of its kind in the United States that is dedicated to Arab Americans, their culture and contributions to American society. The museum is a project of Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), the largest community organization in the United States.
The Arab American National Museum (AANM) is a 38,500-square-foot, three-story museum that contains hundreds of artifacts the document and celebrates the life and contributions of Arab Americans in many fields. The main floor of the museum contains three sections:
Coming to America: Documents and showcases Arab immigrants to America from the year 1528 when some of them were brought here as slaves to present time. Includes living quarter of Naji Daifullah, Yemeni immigrant who was killed while leading a farm-workers protest in 1973 in the fields of California.
Living in America: Celebrates the lives of ordinary Arab Americans: rich and poor. It includes installations of different professions of Arab Americans
Making an Impact: Celebrates notable Arab Americans who made an impact on shaping the United States: political, scientific, literature and arts.
CURRENT EXHIBIT:
In / Visible art exhibition runs May 19th – Oct. 30th. This is the first museum exhibition of contemporary art by first and second generation Americans of Arab heritage. Zawaya board members congratulate the Arab American National Museum on this historic achievement.
Zawaya board member Fayeq Oweis designed the Museum Entrance and the inside of the dome. For more information, check his web site at www.oweis.com