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Upcoming Events, Deadlines and Announcements, & Obituary
—Compiled by Adam Chamy
Upcoming Events
A day of action and outreach will precede the National March on Washington, DC on March 20, the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. People from all over the country are mobilizing to converge on Washington, to demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan and Iraq, and freedom for Palestinians. There will be coinciding mass marches on March 20 in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Protesters will call for money for healthcare, jobs and education, not war. For more information visit the ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition Web site, <answerCoalition.org>, or <march20.org>.
An International Day of Action Promoting the Use of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) on Israel will be held on Palestinian Land Day, March 30, in communities around the world. The date was agreed upon at the 2009 World Social Forum in Brazil and is part of a new global initiative to pressure Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian lands. For more information, visit <www.bdsmovement.net>.
“Hueman,” an exhibition by Adnan Charara, will be on view through April 2 at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery, 2425 Virginia Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20037. The exhibit, which features paintings and sculpture in Charara’s signature "cartoon” imagery, is free and open to the public Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and by appointment. For more information, call (202) 338-1958 or visit <www.thejerusalemfund.org>.
The 2010 Islamic Games—the largest Muslim sports and athletic event in the United States—will take place in South Brunswick, NJ during Memorial Day weekend, May 29 and 30. For more information visit , call 1-800-670-7901, or e-mail < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. >.
This year’s 35th Annual Islamic Circle of North America-MAS Convention will be held in Hartford, CT over Memorial Day weekend. This year’s theme is “Save Family Save Society.” For more information, visit <http://www.icnaconvention.org>.
The Siraj Centre, a Beit Sahour NGO, is sponsoring Bike Palestine, one-week bicycle tours of Palestine from Jenin to Bethlehem and Jerusalem. In addition to visiting cultural, historic and religious sites, cyclists will pass the infamous Israeli wall, visit one of many refugee camps and hear at first hand the experiences of those who for so long have lived under Israeli occupation. Tour dates are April 18-25 and Sept. 26-Oct. 3, 2010. Cost for the all-inclusive 7-day, 6-night tour (except for airfare) is $1,900. For complete information visit or e-mail George Snow at < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. >.
Deadlines and Announcements
The Project for American Civic Engagement (PACE) and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Research Institute (ADCRI) announce a Summer Congressional Internship Program. Deadline for all applications is March 15, 2010. Those interested in applying for the PACE/ADCRI Summer Internship Program are invited to visit the ADC Web site, where all necessary information as well as the application form is posted. For additional information or inquiries contact ADC director of government relations Tom Albert at < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. >.
The 2010 Jack G. Shaheen Mass Communications Scholarship is open to Arab-American junior, senior, and graduate students who excel in media studies. Deadline to apply for the scholarship, which provides $1,000 toward tuition costs, is April 1, 2010. For more information visit <www.adc.org> or call ADC at 202-244-2990.
The Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) is now accepting entries for the festival’s 3rd year, to be held Oct. 2-8, 2010. TPFF accepts films of all genres made by Canadian, Palestinian and international filmmakers on subject matters related to Palestine. Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2010. For a submission form and more information visit <www.tpff.ca>.
The deadline to submit entries to the 14th annual Arab Film Festival (AFF) is May 15, 2010. For guidelines and submission form visit <www.arabfilmfestival.org>.
The Summer 2010 Summer Institute for Intensive Arabic Language and Culture at Lebanese American University is a multifaceted language and cultural immersion program that welcomes students from all over the world. For complete information visit or contact Megan Geissler at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations at < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > or 202-293-6466. Radio talk show hosts Laila alhusinni in Dearborn and Ray Hanania in Chicago will be combining their weekday radio shows to create one simulcast every Friday to link audiences in both cities and regions. The focus of the programs will be Arab, Muslim and Middle East issues, alhusinni said. Listeners will be encouraged to call in to either the Dearborn studio, at 248-557-3300, or the Chicago studio, at 708-493-1530. The program will air at 7 a.m. in Chicago and 8 a.m. in Dearborn. For more information on alhusinni, Hanania or Radio Baladi, or to listen to the live broadcast on the Internet, visit.
Obituary
Writer, historian and activist Howard Zinn, 87, died Jan. 28 of a heart attack in Los Angeles. Zinn was born to a Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn. Eager to fight Fascism, he joined the Army Air Force during World War II and was assigned as a bombardier in the 490th Bombardment Group, bombing targets in Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Hungary—experiences which informed, in part, his later anti-war stance. Zinn became a key intellectual in the 1950s and ”˜60s civil rights movement and wrote extensively about racism and equal rights. He also wrote one of the earliest academic works calling for withdrawal from Vietnam in 1967. More recently, the author of A People’s History of the United States was perhaps better known as an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. A founding member of Jewish Voice of Peace, Zinn supported the civil disobedience of Israeli peace activists and spoke out on behalf of human rights everywhere.
