Events
January 17th, 2010
Running for the Houston Palestine Film Festival
Support Sary Joudah’s marathon run for HPFF
"Amreeka" a film by Cherien Dabis (director in attendance!)
Presented by:
Museum of Fine Arts Houston & Houston Palestine Film Festival
DATE: September 12, 2009
LOCATION: Museum of Fine Arts Houston
1001 Bissonnet St.
Houston, TX 77005
Click Here to Watch the Trailer! MFAH Films: Interview with director Cherien Dabis
For more details!
April 16, 2009
Suheir Hammad
Thursday April 16th, 7 PM
El Dorado Ballroom
2310 Elgin, Houston, TX
Buy Tickets Online!
VBB presents
Cultural Narrative: Imran Aslam
Sunday, March 29, 2009, 6:00 pm
Station Museum, 1502 Alabama, Houston 77004
$ Free
VBB, in partnership with the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, brings to Houston Imran Aslam, a senior journalist and playwright, who currently serves as the president of GEO TV Network, the largest independent (alternative) television broadcast company in Pakistan. According to The New York Times, Geo become a channel that ‘changed the media landscape in Pakistan’ after it cut past the government-run TV station and started broadcasting through Dubai in 2002. With Pakistan making weekly worldwide headline news, Aslam will share insights on recent developments in Swat, the northern areas, and Pakistan’s relationship with India, South Asia as well as the US. The evening will include Geo footage and many more surprises. Imran himself is known for resisting censorship, and during his student days was incarcerated and subjected to torture in Balochistan. Aslam will also be giving a talk on March 30, at 4:30 pm at University of Houston (Roy E Cullen Building, Room 102). This event is cosponsored by the English Department at the University of Houston, KPFT Pacifica Radio 90.1 FM, Houston Palestine Film Festival, Houston Institute for Culture, Border Crossings, Artist Rescue Mission, Words Without Borders, and Station Museum. Special thanks to Jim Harithas and Houstoun Endowment.
March 15th, 2009
May 9th, 2008
April 28, 2008
The Menil Collection & Inprint
cordially invite you to a
reading and book signing
by prize-winning poet and translator
Fady Joudah
Monday, April 28, 2008
7:30 p.m.
The Menil Collection
1515 Sul Ross Houston, Texas
Fady Joudah is the winner of the prestigious 2007 Yale Younger
Poets Award for his first book The Earth in The Attic. A Palestinian-
American medical doctor and field member since 2001 of Doctors
Without Borders, he lives in Houston. Joudah's translation of
Mahmoud Darwish's poems, The Butterfly's Burden, has just been
short-listed for the 2008 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
Following the reading, books by the author
will be available for purchase and signing.
Free and open to the public
For more information, visit our website
www.menil.org or call 713-525-9400
Free parking in our lot
on West Alabama, east of Mandell
April 26, 2008
March 21st, 2008
March 16th, 2008
We are proud to announce the Anti-apartheid and Palestinian non-violence movement speaking tour that will begin in New York on March 3rd 2008 and will end on the west coast in Seattle on March 20th. Director and cinematographer, Shai Carmeli Pollak, and non-violence trainer and activist, Mansour Mansour, will be addressing audiences in 13 cities across the country about the movement in Palestine and Israel against the Israeli occupation, wall and apartheid. In addition, in most cities Shai's movie will be screened, "Bil'in Habibati", about one village's non-violent protest against the apartheid wall and the relationship that the Israeli filmmaker (Shai) develops with villagers.
The Movement Against Apartheid in Palestine
US 2008 National Speaking Tour & Film Screening
Palestinian activist, Mansour Mansour, and Israeli filmmaker, Shai Carmeli Pollak will be touring the United States with Shai's movie "Bil'in Habibti" during March 2008.
Our speaking tour is designed to create an opportunity to for the speakers to address questions and discuss with an audience about nonviolence movements in Palestine against the Israeli occupation and apartheid, joint struggles between Israelis and Palestinians, responding to military violence using nonviolent techniques, and others.
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Feburary 5th, 2008
A memorial Ceremony will be held to remember the Palestinian leader, Dr. George Habash by the family and friends on February 10, 2008 at the ACC (Arab Cultural & Community Center) on 10555 Stancliff Rd, Houston, Tx. 77099 ( 832)3513366.
Food and Beverage will be provided.
Time: 6 pm.
Please spread the word.
For those of you not familiar with George Habash, please familiarize yourself with the following articles:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3E4F1FD5-CB24-407F-AC7C-94C4AF97E293.htm
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9266.shtml
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9274.shtml
