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Karim Nagi Concert Showcase

ARABIQA by Karim Nagi – Arab Music, Dance & Culture Showcase

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Turbo Tabla by Karim Nagi

Date:   Friday, September 27, 2013

Time:   7:30 pm

Tickets:   $20 general admission    $10 student tickets

Location:  Cambridge YMCA Theater, 820 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139

To order tickets for this event, please click HERE.

Karim Nagi has recorded 11 CDs and performed on 5 continents. His Arabiqa program has been performed in hundreds of schools across America. Now Karim brings this program to a general audience, open to all ages and families. These showcases illustrate Arab culture in a jovial, dynamic and uplifting way, via the performing arts. Karim Nagi describes and performs on a collection of traditional Arab instruments. Each instrument has an anecdote, as Karim uses humorous and intelligent storytelling to present each instrument and song. This event serves to reveal the humanity and creative excitement of the Arab people. 

Karim Nagi Dance Workshops

Arab Dance Workshops with Karim Nagi

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Folk Dance Workshops by Karim Nagi

Date:  Sunday, September 22, 2013

Dabke workshop:  11am- 1pm

Saidi workshop:  1:30 pm- 3:30 pm

Tickets:  $20/ workshop

Location: Center for Arabic Culture, 191 Highland Avenue, 6B,  Somerville, MA

To order tickets for either of these workshops, please click HERE.

The Arab Folk Dance Workshop will present:

-DABKE, meaning “Stomp” in Arabic, is a group line and circle dance for women and men. It is found in the Eastern Arab countries, at events ranging from weddings to social protests.

–SAIDI, refers to the South of Egypt, and the Saidi dance is typical for women and men. It uses sticks and canes, spinning and flipping, to replicate acts of village life and self-defense.

Karim Nagi is a native Egyptian drummer, DJ, composer, folk dancer and the creator of Turbo Tabla. He has recorded 11 CDs and performed on 5 continents. His Arabiqa program has been performed in hundreds of schools across America.

Mayflower Arab, Carol Rae Bradford

"Mayflower Arab" Book Reading & Signing 9/28/13

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The Center for Arabic Culture Presents:

Mayflower Arab

A Memoir By Carol Rae Bradford

Book Reading and Signing

Date: Saturday September 28, 2013
Time: 5.00 pm- 7.00pm
Location: Center for Arabic Culture
191 Highland Avenue, 6B
Somerville, MA
Tickets: Free and Open to the Public

Carol Rae Bradford has been somewhat exposed to the literary world. Her long-term research and voracious reading habits, along with her bicultural background, had led her to create works that show a strong preference of writings on diversity. The Book is about Carol’s Arab American dual Heritage. Besides talking about her family experience, the book illustrates the history of that group of Damascenes, old timers, who settled in what is now Chinatown, Boston and stories about their food and customs. Most of them still belong to the same church and are inter-related.
For more information contact us at info@cacboston.org or 877-222-9740

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The Language of Baklava
Diana Abu-Jaber
Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked repasts, complete with recipes, in turn illuminate the two cultures of Diana’s childhood–American and Jordanian–while helping to paint a loving and complex portrait of her impractical, displaced immigrant father who, like many an immigrant before him, cooked to remember the place he came from and to pass that connection on to his children. The Language of Baklava irresistably invites us to sit down at the table with Diana’s family, sharing unforgettable meals that turn out to be as much about “grace, difference, faith, love” as they are about food.