July 13th: Rumi’s Caravan Returns to Oakland Unitarian Church, 685 14th Street, 7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:00) Recitation of World Poetry with Doug Von Koss, Barry and Maya Spector, Larry Robinson, Kay Crista and others. With musicians Christine Tulis and Cindy Albers and Sufi dancer Chelsea Rose TICKETS: $15.00/Advance, $30.00 at the door A Poetic [...]
Tuesday, September 22: 5pm PT/8pm ET Sign up for this special online event now! NAOMI SHIHAB NYE is a multiple-award-winning poet, songwriter, and novelist, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee. She says a visit to her grandmother in the West Bank village of Sinjil was a life-changing experience. Known for her warm and celebratory tone, her [...]
Poetry Readings and Conversation with Maya Abu Al-Hayyat & Special Guest Deema Shehabi “You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat directs the Palestine Writing Workshop. She'll read poems & be in conversation with poet Deema Shehabi SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 11am PT / 2pm ET Register now! $10 donation, benefit for [...]
Rumi says, “Ours is not a caravan of despair.” We are here to share the Oral Tradition and revive the Soul of the World! For twenty years, Rumi’s Caravan (www.rumiscaravan.com) has offered an improvised poetic conversation with music, quoting from Rumi, Hafiz, Mary Oliver, Kabir, Wendell Berry, Pablo Neruda, Nikki Giovanni, Robert Bly, W.B. Yeats, Naomi [...]
Direct from Gaza: Mosab Abu Toha Author, Poet, and Founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza Reading from his new book: FOREST of NOISE Date: Friday, 8 November Time: 6:30-8:30 pm PST Location: Berkeley City College Auditorium - 2050 Center Street Berkeley, CA 94704 Join MECA in welcoming back Palestinian educator, author and poet, [...]
DATE: February 7, 2025 TIME: 6:30 pm PST LOCATION: Middle East Children's Alliance, 1101 8th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710 Tickets: $10 from Eventbrite Poet, educator, and activist, Kathy Engel will read from her new book: Dear Inheritors and the anthology she co-edited with Kamal Boullata, We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon. Introduction by Aracelis Girmay, poet, children’s [...]