October 20 - Arab Voices of Resistance to "The New Middle East"
Discussion on Arab Voices of Resistance to “The New Middle East”
plus screening of the documentaryA Summer Not to Forget
Presented by Left Turn Magazine
Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
The Upstairs at Skewers/Cafe Luna, 1633 P St, NW, Washington, DC
More info: leftturn-dc@onebox.com
The full impact and significance of Israel’s war on Lebanon during the summer of 2006 has yet to be fully understood.
The nearly year long stand off between the US backed Lebanese government and the Hezbollah led opposition as well as a several month standoff between the military and Fatah al Islam, a Salafi islamist group sympathetic to Al-Qaeda, at the Nahr al Bared Palestinian refugee camp, are related to the war. These and other crises have contributed to sectarian tensions and a feeling that the country is on the brink of another civil war.
On the positive side, had Israel’s invasion not been repelled, the Lebanese government would’ve become another building block in the US’s efforts to construct a “New Middle East”, the fate of Palestinian refugees in Lebanese camps would’ve been precarious, and an attack on Iran more imminent.
Come hear Bilal El-Amine and Samah Idriss – two Lebanese writers and activists who helped get the truth out about the war and challenge many of the distortions about the resistance to it – discuss what’s happening in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq and what the US’s vision of a New Middle East means for the people of the Middle East.
There will also be a screening of Lebanese film maker Carol Mansour’s short documentary on the war, A Summer Not to Forget
October 19th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Great thread! I will be there. G’town did not go so well this evening. A woman was hit in the head with a brick. Hopefully the cops will not go postal on us tomorrow.