The International Festival 2011 will be held on the grounds of the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo in Perrysburg, Ohio, Saturday, Sept 17, 2011, from 11 am – 9 pm and Sunday, Sept 18, 2011, from 12 pm – 6 pm. The festival will feature foods from Lebanon, Pakistan, Egypt, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Turkey, and more. There are games and rides for the children along with a petting zoo and camel rides. There are vendors of ethnic clothing and religious books and other vendor booths. Tours of the Center are conducted and are finished off with a visit to the Cultural Display area. Parking is $3 per car and this includes a program book.
When: September 17 – 18, 2011
Time: 11 am – 6 pm
Where: Islamic Center of Greater Toledo,
25877 Scheider Road, Perrysburg, OH
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This three-part film exhibition aims to map a largely unknown heritage of personal, artistic, and sometimes experimental cinema from the Arab world. The program highlights kinships in sensibilities and approaches and explores connections and potential conversations between films. The works selected for this second edition of Mapping Subjectivity hail from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Qatar, and the UAE. They reflect a diversity and richness of voices and of imaginative visual languages.
When: October 5–23, 2011
Where: The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019
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With the outbreak of massive pro-democracy uprisings that have swept the Arab World since December 2010, the term “Arab Spring” has acquired a whole new meaning; one that holds far more positive connotations for Arabs across the world than it did when it was first coined in 2005 to suggest the benefits Arabs were to reap shortly after, and as a direct result of, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
During these six years, between the first patronizing usage of this term and the recent storm of independent people-led Arab revolutionary waves that led to its reemergence in a new context, several filmmakers across Arab countries have been actively and innovatively depicting, questioning and challenging the status quo, employing a variety of approaches that ranged from analytical to highly critical ... 
