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October 3rd, 2006
Margaret Mayhew (mayhem) from Art and Mayhem blog reviewed T’fouh earlier this week. Unfortunately, if you’re reading this now and haven’t been to the exhibition then you’ve missed out. T’fouh closed last weekend.
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September 27th, 2006
The 3rd Sydney Arab Film Festival will be staged over a month 22 February – 18 March 2007, at Riverside Theatres, Parramatta and will also have a gallery season of films at Liverpool Regional Museum.
To find out more and get film entry forms go to the SAFF website.
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September 23rd, 2006
Pressure Points: Lectures and Films
Arabic Perspectives on Tradition and the City
Jalal Toufic and Ghassan Hage
Saturday 23 September 2006
Max Webber Library, Civic Plaza, Flushcombe Rd, Blacktown.
Car Parking available under the Library building entry via Alpha Street.
Lectures: 3.00pm—5.30pm
Speakers: Jalal Toufic, & Ghassan Hage
Films: 6.00 – 9.00pm by Jalal Toufic
Entry: Free
Refreshments and catering provided
Following the postponement of the first Pressure Points forum due to the recent war in Lebanon, philosopher, film theorist and video artist Jalal Toufic is finally able to leave Lebanon to visit Sydney. He will present the inaugural lecture of the Pressure Points series titled ‘The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster’ followed by a response from writer and cultural theorist Ghassan Hage.
Jalal Toufic is the author of Distracted (1991), (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (1993), Over-Sensitivity (1996), Forthcoming (2000) and Undying Love, or Love Dies (2002). His videos and mixed media works have been presented in North America, Brazil, the Middle East and Europe. Toufic
has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, USC, and, in Amsterdam, DasArts and the Rijksakademie. He is currently head of MA program in Film and Video Studies at the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Holy Spirit University, Beirut.
“Toufic is one of the most active and ambitious figures in the Arab world who - book by book - has endeavored to sculpt a critical, theoretical language of the Arab world.” The Daily Star, Lebanon.
http://www.jalaltoufic.com/
Ghassan Hage is the author of Against Paranoid Nationalism (2003, 2006), What Would You Die For? (2004), White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society (1998, 2000, 2003), Editor of Arab-Australians Today: Citizenship and Belonging (2002), with Rowanne Couch The Future of Multiculturalism, (1999). He has given numerous national and international keynote lectures in Europe, the Middle East and America and he is the Winner of the 2004 NSW Premier’s literary prize and award (Community Relations). He is currently Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney.
http://www-personal.arts.usyd.edu.au/ghahagea/
For more information please visit:
http://www.casulapowerhouse.com/pages/current.php
http://www.ice.org.au/
Please RSVP for catering purposes
Casula Powerhouse Tel: 02 9824 1121 or The Writing and Society Research Group, writing@uws.edu.au or Mireille Astore, mireille@astore.id.au
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September 14th, 2006

T’FOUH… raw responses from arab artists a multimedia exhibition
Event: Thur 14 Sept 2006
Film Fundraiser
5 contemporary Arabic short films (with English subtitles)
6pm - 9pm
$15 / $10 donation
Download PDF Brochure.
Where:
Mori Gallery
168 Day Street, Sydney
Exhibition is onfrom 6 to 30 Sept 2006
Gallery hours: Wed - Sat, 11am-6pm
(From Sydney Town Hall, down Bathurst St, left into Day St)
Presented by Auburn Community Development Network, Information and Cultural Exchange, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and Mori Gallery
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September 13th, 2006
The SMH published an article by Jamie Pandaram on the 12th of September.
Here’s an excerpt:
A provocative Arabic art exhibition organised in response to the conflict in Lebanon last month, includes a painting of Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, with a skewer through his head.
The work, titled Ehud Olmert Kebab, which has four images of the Israeli leader’s head skewered with capsicum, has outraged Sydney’s Jewish community, which says it has “overstepped the mark of decency”.
But its creator, the young Lebanon-born, South Korea-based artist Habib Zeitouneh, retorts: “Paintings do not leave families destitute, fathers without wives or children, children without fathers or mothers. I have a right to express my anger over the deaths of over 1000 Lebanese, as do the Israelis mourning the deaths of their own. I’m using satire, not bombs.”
read full article .
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September 12th, 2006

Artist: Alissar Gazal, Sydney.
Work Tittle: Sping - Too many martyrs in Paradise.
This work is part of The Exhibition T’fouh…which is currently showing at Mori Gallery in Sydney. Visit our Flickr gallery to see more work…
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September 12th, 2006

T’FOUH… raw responses from arab artists a multimedia exhibition
Event: Thur 14 Sept 2006
Film Fundraiser
5 contemporary Arabic short films (with English subtitles)
6pm - 9pm
$15 / $10 donation
Download PDF Brochure.
Where:
Mori Gallery
168 Day Street, Sydney
Exhibition is onfrom 6 to 30 Sept 2006
Gallery hours: Wed - Sat, 11am-6pm
(From Sydney Town Hall, down Bathurst St, left into Day St)
Presented by Auburn Community Development Network, Information and Cultural Exchange, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and Mori Gallery
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September 12th, 2006
Pressure Points: Lectures and Films
Arabic Perspectives on Tradition and the City
Jalal Toufic and Ghassan Hage
Saturday 23 September 2006
Max Webber Library, Civic Plaza, Flushcombe Rd, Blacktown.
Car Parking available under the Library building entry via Alpha Street.
Lectures: 3.00pm—5.30pm
Speakers: Jalal Toufic, & Ghassan Hage
Films: 6.00 – 9.00pm by Jalal Toufic
Entry: Free
Refreshments and catering provided
Following the postponement of the first Pressure Points forum due to the recent war in Lebanon, philosopher, film theorist and video artist Jalal Toufic is finally able to leave Lebanon to visit Sydney. He will present the inaugural lecture of the Pressure Points series titled ‘The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster’ followed by a response from writer and cultural theorist Ghassan Hage.
Jalal Toufic is the author of Distracted (1991), (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (1993), Over-Sensitivity (1996), Forthcoming (2000) and Undying Love, or Love Dies (2002). His videos and mixed media works have been presented in North America, Brazil, the Middle East and Europe. Toufic
has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, USC, and, in Amsterdam, DasArts and the Rijksakademie. He is currently head of MA program in Film and Video Studies at the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Holy Spirit University, Beirut.
“Toufic is one of the most active and ambitious figures in the Arab world who - book by book - has endeavored to sculpt a critical, theoretical language of the Arab world.” The Daily Star, Lebanon.
http://www.jalaltoufic.com/
Ghassan Hage is the author of Against Paranoid Nationalism (2003, 2006), What Would You Die For? (2004), White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society (1998, 2000, 2003), Editor of Arab-Australians Today: Citizenship and Belonging (2002), with Rowanne Couch The Future of Multiculturalism, (1999). He has given numerous national and international keynote lectures in Europe, the Middle East and America and he is the Winner of the 2004 NSW Premier’s literary prize and award (Community Relations). He is currently Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney.
http://www-personal.arts.usyd.edu.au/ghahagea/
For more information please visit:
http://www.casulapowerhouse.com/pages/current.php
http://www.ice.org.au/
Please RSVP for catering purposes
Casula Powerhouse Tel: 02 9824 1121 or The Writing and Society Research Group, writing@uws.edu.au or Mireille Astore, mireille@astore.id.au
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September 6th, 2006
T’FOUH… A MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITION
6 September, 6-8pm, Mori Gallery

T’fouh…
a multimedia exhibition expressing anger & ultimate disgust resistance & steadfastness spitting on wars, occupation & racism
Mori Gallery, 168 Day Street, Sydney
OPENING - Wednesday, 6 September, 6pm - 8pm
EXHIBITION - 6 - 30 September, 2006
FILM FUNDRAISER - Thursday, 14 September, 2006, 6-9pm
Gallery Opening Hours Wed - Sat, 11am - 6pm or by appointment
More info contact Alissar on 9649 5559 / 0405 206 617
or Mouna on 02 9897 5744 ext 2 or email artfiles@ice.org.au
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August 28th, 2006
Dear friends,
Thank you for your continued support towards the relief efforts in Lebanon. 5A and Beit el Hob would like to thank you for your generosity and remind you of the up coming art exhibition in Sydney.
Thank you to everyone who came to the Film and Falafel Fundraiser at the Sidetrack Theatre in Marrickville last Sunday evening and to those who continue to donate via friends and via our bank account.
Your generosity means that we could transfer $4302.75AUD to Samidoun - The Sanayeh Relief Centre. The money will be used directly to assist those people who have been displaced by the invasion. Thank you again.
If you would like to make a donation to the fund via our bank account please refer to the information below;
ACCOUNT NAME: BEIT EL HOB
ACCOUNT NO.: 693829
BSB: 032-044
BK/BRANCH: Westpac Banking Corporation 275 GEORGE ST, SYDNEY
The next fundraising event (FILM FUNDRAISER, THUR 14 SEPT, 6-9PM) is part of the up coming exhibition;
T ’ F O U H . . .
Raw responses from Arab artists
expressing anger & ultimate disgust
resistance & steadfastness
spitting on wars, occupation and racism
6 – 30 September 2006
Mori Gallery, 168 Day St Sydney
Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat 11am – 6pm or by appointment
OPENING WED 6 SEPT, 6-8PM
FILM FUNDRAISER, THUR 14 SEPT, 6-9PM
A partnership between Mori Gallery, Auburn Community Development Network (ACDN) and Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE)
If you have any questions or comments, please email us. Also, check for updates on our website http://5-a.org/
We thank you again and look forward to seeing you at T’FOUH…
With love & peace, Hob wa salam,
5a and Beit El Hob
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