Wednesday, February 16, 2011

HAPPENINGS


Project Palestine Presents
FROM  EGYPT TO  PALESTINE 
The Impact of Poetry on Middle Eastern Revolutions

For 18 days in Tahrir Square, people performed poetry 
to crystallize a momentous time and to keep the spirits of the protesters alive.

This is just the latest instance of a long history of revolutionary poetry in the Middle East.



Featuring:
Tahani Salah,
Spoken Word Artist, Def Poetry Jam


Muhsin al-Musawi,
Arabic Literature Professor, Columbia University



Sponsored by: The New School’s GPIA
(Graduate Program in International Affairs)



Tuesday    
Feb 22, 2011 
    
8:15 pm

The New School, 66 West 12th Street, Room 510

TO BE SERVED: Homemade fatayer, an arabic pie pastry stuffed with either spinach or cheese
 
Project Palestine is a student organization at The New School aimed at illustrating the Palestinian condition through films, music, literature, poetry and art.  www.projectpalestine.org

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