Welcome to CAC

Welcome back to a new season of CAC and its Arabic School!

Registration for the 2008-2009 school year is now in progress.
Please fill out this registration form and send it to our mailing address before August 2008.

The Center for Arabic Culture [CAC] is a non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating Arabic language, culture, art, history, and Arab-American cultural experience.

Learn Arabic! Our Arabic School is currently located at Mt Ida College in Newton; click here for directions and parking information.

To enroll for the coming school year, see 2008-2009 school year.

If you are interested in our school and want to help us decide what days and times are best for classes, please fill in this survey. Did you attend our Spring 07 semester? If you did, we'd love to have your feedback. 

Wrapping up 2007: an update on our achievements.

Spotlight on:

Tafaddalu Annual Picnic - Saturday August 23rd, 2008

Come join the Arab American community of Boston for our 7th annual picnic!  As always, don't forget to bring your own board games, soccer balls, shisha (argheela), playing cards and blankets. And most importantly, your family and friends!

Kids of all ages will have a great time in the park's playground and water sprinkler area. We are also planning some fun surprises!

Saturday, August 23rd, 1-6 pm

Domenik Filippelo Park/Playground
103-124 Arlington St
Watertown, MA
(Parking available on Berkeley and Clarendon Sts, off Arlington St)

$10 per adult
$5 per child under 10
Ticket includes a delicious plate of Arabic food and pastry (drinks additional)

For full details, click n the image to download the poster (pdf file).
Map available at google maps.

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Annual Arabic  Music Retreat - August 9-16, 2008

Discover Arabic Music with Simon Shaheen, Dr. A. J. Racy and the Master Instructors at the 12th Annual Arabic  Music Retreat. The Arabic Music Retreat is  well established, very successful and popular. It is  the only mechanism for learning classical Arabic music by the "masters". 

Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA

For full details, click on the image to download the poster (pdf file).

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Al-Kindi Ensemble & the Whirling Derviches - September 20th, 2008 

At Sanders Theatre in Cambridge. Download the pdf file here.

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