Directed by Susan Youssef, who has recently been named number 25 of the "100 Most Powerful Arab Women"

A poetic story of forbidden love, set in Gaza; a film that works towards universal human rights and challenges the stereotype of the oppressed Arab woman.

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Tickets $10, available at the door

Habibi just won the BEST FILM & BEST ACTRESS Awards at the Dubai Internatinonal Film Festival -- as well as the jury prize at Cinema Novo Festival in Belgium, the Camera Novo!

Media Today says "Youssef engraves the poetry of what makes a human a human, love."

The Arab Cultural and Community Center and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (UCB) Present:

Marcel Khalife:

Fall of The Moon-Hommage to The Poet Mahmoud
Darwish and a Salute to the Arab Spring

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The ACCC is proud to present Shabbal and Yassir Chadly as part of the outdoor music concert series, Jewels in the Square, which takes place every year in Downtown San Francisco's Union Square. 

Shabbal is a dance group dedicated to the expression, appreciation and preservation of Sudanese Dance, Music and Culture. The group consists of young Sudanese women and men who have been dancing together informally for a few years until the formation of Shabbal in 2009. It was then that they performed at the Celebrate Sudan Festival in Berkeley and since then have continued to share their culture at local events and for several non-profit organizations. Shabbal hopes to convey a message of diversity, peace and unity through the expression of culture.

Born in Casablanca, Morocco, Yassir Chadly has made the USA his home since 1977 and has been performing and recording Moroccan music here since that time. He is a gifted musician of many traditional Moroccan instruments including the oud, gimbri, karkabas, darbuka, fretless banjo, tarija and bendeer and is one of the first Moroccan artists to introduce his native music to an American audience. He has composed and performed Moroccan music for Alonzo King and Lines Ballet Company of San Francisco, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, The North Carolina Dance Theatre ,The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles TV show and in 2006 was a featured performer with Philip Glass and his ensemble at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco for the West Coast premiere of The Qatsi Trilogy.

Join us at the ACCC for a thought provoking presentation and discussion with Cornell University's research fellow, Nimat Hafez Barazangi on why Muslim/Arab Women are reinterpreting the Quran.

Summary: Muslim/Arab women have remained a passive force in changing the reality of the approximately 800 million Muslim/Arab women and the prevailing unjust practices in Islamic/Arabic thought. By reflecting on some historical reform movements, Nimat will use examples from contemporary events to argue that passive views and unjust practices concerning Muslim/Arab women remain because the premises and foundations of reform have not changed.

Nimat Hafez Barangi is a research fellow at Cornell University. Her forthcoming book: Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading (The University Press of Florida, December 2004) was labeled by one of the reviewers as "the most radical book in the last 14th centuries of Islam". She edited Islamic Identity and the Struggle for Justice (University Press of Florida 1996, 2000) translated into Arabic, Dar Al Fikr, 1999) in which she also contributed "Vicegerncey and Gender Justice, and has published about thirty articles, essays, and book reviews.