Culture Jamming September 19, 2005

WIW PUBSPEAK: Culture Jamming
Monday, September 19, 7:30 p.m.

Irish Channel Restaurant and Pub
500 H St. NW
Corner of 5th and H St. in Chinatown
Washington, D.C.
202-216-0046

Web site: www.irishchannelpub.com
Metro Stop: Gallery Place on the Red line
Handicap Accessible.

Fifteen years of bringing artists, scholars, activists, and even religious personalities together to create music and other art forms becomes what Mark LeVine, author of Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil, calls ?culture jamming? and allows millions of people to break through the prejudices of centuries.

Join WIW on September 19 at the Irish Channel Restaurant and Pub to hear journalist, activist, historian and scholar LeVine discuss his latest book considered ?part history, part economic study and part travelogue?. In addition, LeVine will talk about the writing process?writing history as it is happening now. Having lived in the Middle East for the last decade, LeVine will also speak about writing in conflict zones.

LeVine is Associate Professor of modern Middle Eastern history, culture and Islamic Studies at UC Irvine. He is the author and editor of half a dozen books, including: Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil (Oneworld Publications), Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948 (UC Press), Religion, Social Practices and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies (Palgrave Press), Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation (Perceval Press), and An Impossible Peace: Oslo and the Burdens of History (Zed Books, forthcoming). He has written for the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, the Christian Science Monitor and numerous other publications, including as contributing editor at Tikkun magazine, and has traveled widely across the Middle East and North Africa, including regular trips to Israel/Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq. As a musician he has worked with Mick Jagger, Dr. John, Johnny Copeland, Hassan Hakmoun, and most recently on the Grammy-award winning album Street Signs by Ozomatli.

Check out Why They Don?t Hate Us at the following Web site: http://www.oneworld-publications.com/books/why-they-dont-hate-us.htm. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

For directions to the restaurant, go to www.irishchannelpub.com. The phone number is (202) 216-0046.

Order food and drinks from 7 p.m. LeVine will speak at 7:30 p.m.

Member cost is $5 with advance payment; $7 at the door. Nonmember cost is $10 with advance payment; $15 at the door.

Reservations are required. To RSVP, visit http://www.washwriter.org/pubspeak.html.