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POETRY PERFORMANCE AND MUSIC
Golden Thread Productions Presents:
An Evening of Poetry, Performance and Music
Featuring Palestinian and Lebanese Poets and Performance Artists
Deema K. Shehabi
Fady Joudah
Elmaz Abinader
Tony Khalife
Monday, November 17th, 8 pm
At New Langton Arts, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco
in conjunction with ReOrient 2003 Fifth Annual Festival
of Short Plays Exploring the Middle East
Hosted by Donna Khorsheed
Free Admission
Please join us for an inspiring evening.
Donna Khorsheed hosts an evening of poetry and a story-telling
performance
with music featuring Palestinian and Lebanese poets and performance
artists.
Deema K. Shehabi and Fady Joudah will read from their works which
encompass
subjects such as cultural identity, displacement and exile, and the
various
manifestations of one's love for family, land, and people. Arab
American
author and performance artist Elmaz Abinader, accompanied by Tony
Khalife,
will perform her piece entitled 32 Mohameds, which looks intimately
at the
death of young Mohamed Al-Durra. Through the experiences of the
playwright,
connections between name, country, and love are made across borders
and
political terrains.
Deema K. Shehabi is a Palestinian who grew up in Kuwait. She
completed a
Masters in Journalism from Boston University in 1992 and has worked in
editing and writing for magazines and book publishers. She has
traveled
extensively throughout the Middle East, North America, and Europe,
and her
travels are often an inspiration for her poetry. Her poems have
appeared in
the Atlanta Review, The Flyway Literary Review, and in several
anthologies
including the Poetry of Arab Women, The Space Between our Footsteps,
and The
Body Eclectic. She resides in the Bay Area with her husband and son.
Born to Palestinian refugees, Fady Joudah lived in Libya and Saudi
Arabia
before coming to the United States to study medicine. He is a doctor
of
internal medicine, practicing in Houston, TX. As member of Medicine
Sans
Frontiers, he served in a refugee settlement in Zambia for 6 months
last
year. He is currently pursuing his MFA in Warren Wilson's creative
writing
program. His poems have appeared in Hayden's Ferry review and Passages
North.
Elmaz Abinader is an Arab American author, poet and performer whose
books
include Children of the Roojme, A Family's Journey from Lebanon, a
collection of poetry, In the Country of My Dreams. and 3 plays, in the
Country of Origin Series. She is faculty and board president
of the Voices of our Nations Arts foundation , which organizes
workshops for writers-of-color. She lives in Oakland and teaches at
Mills
College.
Tony Khalife is a well-known musician, composer and teacher who
originates
from Lebanon and now lives in Palo Alto. He has two CDs including
Fish Out
of Sea and Livinia's Dream. His compositions for the play, Country of
Origin, won him two Drammies (Oregon's Drama Award) and he is the
Director
of the Country of Origin Band. Tony has been featured in Guitar Player
Magazine, Bam Magazine, San Jose Mercury News, Palo Alto Weekly and
Times
Tribune as well as numerous other SF Bay Area publications and
television
spotlights in Lebanon.
Posted by ahmad () at November 17, 2003 8:00 PM
