Celebrate Mahmoud Darwish in Glendale, August 30, 2008

Palestine Aid Society

Invites you to a

Celebration of the Life and Works

of

Palestinian Poet and Hero

Mahmoud Darwish

1941 – 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2:00 p.m.

Glendale Public Library Auditorium

222 E. Harvard St., Glendale 2nd Floor

Dr. Nabil Azzam will premier his new composition

"Elegy for Mahmoud Darwish"

Comments by:

Historian Dr. Mahmood Ibrahim, Cal Poly Pomona

Professor Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA

Professor Hamoud Salhi, CSUD

Professor Bice Harris, Occidental College

Rev. Darrel Meyers

Donald Bustany of KPFK's "Middle East In Focus"

and many more

Poetry Readings by:

Egyptian-American actor/activist Nasser Faris

Hip-Hop stars Nizar ("Ragtop") Wattad

and Omar ("Offendum") Chakaki

Program in English

Admission Free