We invite you to explore our Fall Cultural Courses!
CAC Fall cultural classes will begin the week of September 19th. We’re excited to offer  the following Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic, Levantine Arabic Colloquial and Moroccan Arabic Colloquial
Youth Enrichment: Creative Youth Expression, “Inta wa Ana”-  Arabic Immersion (Session 1) and “Inta wa Ana”- Arabic Immersion (Session 2) Art : Arabic Calligraphy and Music: Introduction to Oud and Rhythms of the East.

For detailed course descriptions and to register please click on the respected course listing above or click, HERE.

If you have any problems registering or if you have any questions, please feel free to call or email CAC at 877.CAC.0740 x 702 or  at: info@cacboston.org

Rhythms of the East
Take a journey through Eastern rhythms through the tabla (drum). This class will expose students to distinct Middle Eastern and African rhythms, instruments and musical stylings. Students will also gain great insight to the history and cultural relevance of the songs, instruments and style of music.
Time: Saturdays, 2-4pm, 9/24-10/22 (No Class on 10/8)
Location: 191 Highland Ave, 6B, Somerville, Ma 02143
Tuition: $145
Additional information: Students must bring their own instruments. Information about renting instruments available upon request, info@cacboston.org
To Register click, here.

This course will provide basics skills for playing the Oud, including: history of the Oud, holding the Oud, music theory (notation and rhythm), Arabic tuning, playing open strings and right hand plucking techniques, left hand fingers and positions and basic Arabic Maqam theory. Students must bring their own instruments. Information about renting instruments available upon request.
This course is open to adults and young adults.

Time: Wednesdays, 8-9:30pm
Teacher: Kareem Azab
Dates:  1/18-2/22
Tuition: $150
Additional costs: Students are responsible for renting or buying their own Oud. If you need assistance in finding an oud please contact us at, info@cacboston.org
To Register click, here

In four sessions we will engage in the questions: Who Do I Think I am? Who Do They Think I Am? Who Do They Say I Am ? Through playful explorations of how people ‘see’ each other and how we ‘see’ ourselves. Using free writing, drawing, improv comedy, theater and storytelling exercises we will find material from our life experiences to create poetry, monologues, dialogues, and tell stories using the oral tradition to locate ourselves in the world and help us start to answer the question: “Who do I say I am?”
Time:  Fridays, 4:30-5:30pm, 10/7-10/28
Location: 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143
Age Group: 12-15 years old
Instructor: Norah Dooley, Author and Storyteller
Tuition: $60
To Register click, here

Levantine Colloquial Arabic
Our colloquial language courses are taught in three sessions to progressively move students from no knowledge of the Arabic language to being able to deal with a variety of real life
situations such as directing a taxi, answering the phone, dealing with groceries, speaking on the phone, etc. This class will focus on the Levant dialect, which is spoken in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine.
Students will also be exposed to very basic reading and writing skills such as road signs, Arabic numbers, restaurant menus, bills and signing your name and phone number in Arabic.
In addition to in class instruction, students are invited to attend a weekly conversational night with native speakers at the center to practice what they are learning in class.

Time: Saturday, 9:30am-11:30am 1/20 – 3/31 (No class 2/19)
Instructor: Nezha Almahi – LeBrasseur
Tuition: $350
Location: Center for Arabic Culture located at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, 6B, Somerville
To Register click, here.

On July 26th, AIC invites you to their Intercultural Mixer for an amazing elegant night at the Liberty Hotel.   This is a great opportunity to socialize and network.  It will be held at The Yard Lounge’s patio outside from (6:30pm- 9:00pm).

Please note, the Lounge has a dress code which is casual chic.

If you are interested to join, please RSVP to events@aicongress.org

For Location & Photos: http://www.libertyhotel.com/

Egypt: Towards a Vibrant Civil Society (A Panel featuring Wael Ghonim)

Monday, May 23 · 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Location:
MIT Campus, Building 34 room 101
50 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA

Join us for an engaging conversation on the role that the civil society can play in transforming Egypt post-revolution with speakers:

Wael Ghonim:

Wael is an activist, former Google Middle East Marketing Executive, and creator of the facebook page that helped spark the Egyptian revolution. Wael was a central figure in the pro-democracy movement in Egypt and was a subject of secret incarceration by Egyptian police during the revo…lution. He is among the TIME magazine’s list of 100 most influential people of 2011 and is the 2011 recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award (in the name of the people of Egypt).

Mona Mowafi:

Mona is a research Fellow and Doctoral Candidate in Social Epidemiology in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health working on health inequities and burden of chronic diseases in Egypt and the Arab world. Mona is also developing a new program at Harvard on Social Enterprise and Transformative Philanthropy in the Arab world. She has lived and worked in Egypt and Lebanon.

Moderator:
Aly El Tayeb:
Aly is a graduate of Cairo University, where he worked on a number of initiatives in the areas of university independence and elections monitoring. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Chemical Engineering and an MBA at MIT, and is interested in utilizing technology for development.

The panel will discuss:
The role of civil society and grass roots organizing in Egypt Post-revolution, the role of the Egyptian diaspora in Egypt post-revolution and using IT as a tool for development and social change.

This event is sponsored  by the Egyptian community at Harvard and the Egyptian club at MIT.