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DESCRIPTION:Cal Students for Justice in Palestine presents FROM BROOKLYN BEATS TO 
 BEIRUT STREETS a performance/lecture featuring Omar Offendum, Nizar Wittad, 
 and Mark Gonzales.\n\nOmar Offendum is a Syrian-American hip-hop artist and 
 architect, Mark Gonzales is a poet famous for his words "In a war on 
 terror, maybe testosterone is the real terrorist”, and Nizar Wittad is a 
 Palestinian hip-hop artist and film maker. Working with the Human Writes 
 Project, their performance/lecture is relevant to many themes and causes, 
 such as Hip-Hop / Immigration / Poetry / Film / Foreign Policy\n\nPoet and 
 Educator Mark Gonzales (an Alaskan-born Mexican-American) and hip-hop 
 artists Nizar Watad and Omar Chakaki (hailing from Palestine and Syria, 
 respectively) offer a unique examination of identity, pop culture, and 
 growing up as an ‘other’ in the United States.\n\nSparked by the 
 attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent worldwide demonization of Arabs and 
 Muslims, Chakaki and Wattan began performing hip-hop and spoken word across 
 the USA in an attempt to counter widespread media bias. They met Mr. 
 Gonzales at an awareness-raising benefit concert, and the three realized 
 that despite vast differences in their upbringings, they were united by a 
 particular world-view, informed by the emerging and rapidly evolving art 
 form known as Hip-Hop.\n\nAn energetic, informative and often startling 
 presentation in spoken-word and rhyme, ‘Brooklyn Beats to Beirut 
 Streets’ traces the artists’ development alongside the birth and growth 
 of Hip-Hop, then invites audience members to participate in a discussion of 
 (1) how an art form once considered to exist on the margins of society can 
 grow to become the most popular musical genre amongst youth around the 
 world; (2) what this means to those hip-hoppers who remain on the margins; 
 and (3) what problems and concerns face the rest of society in realizing 
 accepting and ultimately utilizing this shift.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/28/18678385.php
SUMMARY:From Brooklyn Beats to Beirut Streets
LOCATION:University of California, Berkeley. Dwinelle bldg Rm 145.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/28/18678385.php
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