[Indy Arts] Shaping SF Talks! Tonight: Arab San Francisco

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Folks;

Our friends at Shaping San Francisco have another great Talk session 
tonight at CounterPulse. Due to maxed-out volunteer staff, we at Indy 
Arts haven't been able to turn the latest Talks series into radio 
broadcasts, but they've been posting whole audio transcripts at 
archive.org. See below for details ...

Best wishes,

The Indy Arts Volunteers

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Subject: 	Talk tonight!
Date: 	Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:45:46 -0700
From: 	Chris Carlsson <carlsson.chris at gmail.com>


      Wednesday, March 12, 7:30 p.m. at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission at 9th

*Arab San Francisco*


        March 12

Peoples from the Arab World have been migrating to San Francisco for 
over a hundred years. The earliest were mostly from the Levant: Syria, 
Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine; and also Yemen. Most recent immigrants 
coming from North Africa's Magrib region (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) 
and Iraq since the first Gulf War. Why did they come here? How have they 
affected SF life? What are their ongoing connections to "homelands" 
across the world? San Francisco, being a liberal progressive oasis, 
attracts many gay and lesbian Arabs as a home away from home. This Talk 
will also examine the gay and lesbian struggle in the context of 
conservatism in the Arab World, showing how Arab conservatism was 
created, encouraged and spread as a result of western interference. 
*Monadel Herzallah* (Arab American Union Members Council) *Renda Dabit* 
(Palestinian American artist, activist, and business woman), *Maher 
Sabry*, (Egyptian human-rights activist and filmmaker)

March 19: Art & Politics: Favianna Rodriguez
March 26: Talk: Nature in the City: Twin Peaks Bioregon and the Natural 
Areas Program

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www.chriscarlsson.com <http://www.chriscarlsson.com>
Fall-Winter Talks 2007-08: www.counterpulse.org/fall-winter-talks.shtml 
<http://www.counterpulse.org/fall-winter-talks.shtml>
The Nowtopian (my blog): http://www.lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/
www.shapingsf.org <http://www.shapingsf.org>
www.processedworld.com <http://www.processedworld.com>
www.fullenjoymentbooks.com <http://www.fullenjoymentbooks.com>
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