Lebanese Film Festival November 3, 10 & April 17 - This fall the Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies is organizing and hosting a Lebanese film festival. The festival aims to highlight the rich cultural production coming out of the new cinema in Lebanon. This year's selections are focused on contemporary social and political issues ranging from concepts of justice and law, to a look at efforts to return to South Lebanon a sense of normalcy and safety after years of devastating war, and finally to an effort to come to terms with the sublimated memories of the Lebanese civil war. For more information click here.

Public Lecture - "What kind of Liberation: Women in Iraq Today," Wednesday November 30, 12 noon. Professor Nadja al-Ali (Professor of Gender Studies at the Centre for Gender Studies, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London) will deliver a public talk on the lives of Iraqi women under dictatorship and after the topple of Saddam Hussein. Co-sponsored with the NCSU Women and Gender Studies Program.

Oral History of Lebanese in North Carolina - The Middle East Studies program at NCSU is pleased to announce that Dr. Moise Khayrallah has provided a major grant to fund a 4-year project to research, document, preserve and publicize the history of the Lebanese community in North Carolina from its earliest days in the 1890s and until now. For more information please visit the project's website at: http://lac.chass.ncsu.edu