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Event Information for "Excuse my French "
Screening Date and time: 3/29 4:00PM
Location: McConomy Auditorium CMU campus
**Reception and conversation with the DIRECTOR, AMR SALAMA, after the film screening

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When you're twelve, the end of the world comes in many different forms: it's missing the ball, fighting with your best friend or, for Hany Abdullah Peter Soussa, transferring from a private school to a public one. After a childhood of security and privilege, Hany's idyllic world is disrupted when his father suddenly dies. To cut back from spending more than they could afford, Hany and his mother decide to transfer him from a private school to a public one, where he fits in as comfortably as a sailor does in a desert.

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ARABIC FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION
(Summer 1 May 18th to june 25th - 6 UNITS equivalent to 2 CREDITS) - 3 meetings a week for 1hr 20 minutes each - tentatively MWF 11:00-12:20 or can be arranged with instructor (nabrah@andrew.cmu.edu)

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Perspectives on Iranian Culture and Society

Iran boasts one of the globe’s oldest civilizations. Persia is simultaneously a
unique culture and the crossroads of many linguistic, confessional, and ethnic groups. American media view Iran almost exclusively through a political lens; how would we talk about Iran if we were not to focus on politics?

Anahita Firouz Radjy
Writer and lecturer; former producer, National Iranian Television; author of In the Walled Garden.

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Iran boasts one of the globe’s oldest civilizations. Persia is simultaneously a
unique culture and the crossroads of many linguistic, confessional, and ethnic groups. American media view Iran almost exclusively through a political lens; how would we talk about Iran if we were not to focus on politics?

Anahita Firouz Radjy
Writer and lecturer; former producer, National Iranian Television; author of In the Walled Garden.

Dr. Ali Masalehdan
CEO of Masimex, a Pittsburgh medical and laboratory equipment and supplies firm

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Celebrating the 1st Anniversary of Muslims Women's Guest House/Shelter Project, 2015 Fundraising Event

Raising Awareness about Basic Human Needs: Food, Shelter, Clothing and Love

$20.00 at the Door

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Tuesday March 24th at 6:45pm Dr. Tara Deubel, of the University of South Florida, will speak about her field research in Algeria, Morocco and the Western Sahara from 2006-2009. Deubel's talk will highlight the central role of Sahrawi women in the social and political life of the refugee camps and the ongoing struggle for self-determination in the Western Sahara. Since the onset of the conflict, women have emerged as key leaders in the camps and the Western Sahara independence movement with the work of activists such as Aminetou Haidar, recipient of the 2008 Robert F.

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April 9-10, 2015

15th Annual Policy Conference

Twentieth Century Club, 4201 Bigelow Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Faculty Organizer: Prof. Michael Kenney (GSPIA)

*Registration is required. To register, please visit: tinyurl.com/kxteapk

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STILL TIME TO REGISTER, deadline: March 16

5pm Friday March 20, 2015 to 1pm Sunday, March 22, 2015 (Hamburg Hall Room 1000, H. John Heinz III College, 4800 Forbes Ave., Carnegie Mellon University)

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Azar Nafisi, Humanities & the Future of Democracies

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