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Salaam Cultural Museum
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The Salaam Cultural Museum wishes to honor the late Dr. Wadad Saba, a Founding Board Member who energized and inspired our early work.
Ms. Elizabeth Abu-Haydar
Dr. Jere Bacharach
Mrs. Najiba Badissy
Mr. Zein Badissy
Ms. Beryl Cheal
Ms.Randa Hilal
Dr. Fawzi Khouri
Ms. Rita Zawaideh
Mailing Address:
C/O Caravan-Serai Travel
3806 Whitman AVe N
Seattle, WA 98103 USA
Phone:
West Coast Business Hours)
Tel 206-545-1735
Fax 206-545-3607
Email:
Rita@salaamculturalmuseum.org
Rita@caravan-serai.com
Would you like to develop public education programs having to do with the Middle East and North Africa? Would you like to host Middle Eastern writers and scholars when they are visiting your city? Would you like to distribute greeting cards by Damascus political cartoonist Ali Farzat to help offset the cost of our public education activities? Would you like to serve as a volunteer for an online magazine devoted to fostering mutual understanding vis a vis the Middle East? Please contact our Program Director:
Scott C. Davis tel 206-789-7055 fax 206-782-1330.
The Salaam Cultural Museum (SCM) is a charitable non-profit organization formed in February 1996 to gather and publish information on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and to promote understanding of the people, cultures, languages, religions, and lands of this region.
The Salaam Cultural Museum is based in Seattle, Washington, USA. It's twin activities are to exhibit artifacts from the MENA region and to inform and engage the public about the MENA region through lectures, public events, and activities in schools.
In addition to providing exhibits of artifacts from the Middle East and North Africa, SCM has sponsored books and brought authors and other experts before the public in readings, seminars and lectures.SCM has presented movies by filmmakers from the MENA region and has sponsored folklore evenings.
The work of the Salaam Cultural Museum is focused on the effort to create peace in the MENA region. Over the centuries, the Middle East and North Africa have seen war and conflict, yet historians tell us that the region is noteworthy for long periods of peace, commerce, and collaboration among a wide variety of ethnic and religions groups.
One example is the collaboration of the Copts and Arabs in building Egypt, as well as in their common desire to achieve independence in the twentieth century. Another example is the safe harbor that Arab lands gave to Jews who fled the European Inquisition during the Middle Ages. A third example is the refuge extended to Armenian Christians by Syrian Arabs when they were driven from Turkey as part of the Armenian Massacres in 1915.
Salaam aims to bring lessons of fruitful collaboration and dialogue forward to the present day. We are working to study the past, to understand it, and to apply its lessons to the effort to heal modern day conflict in the MENA region.
- Permanent and visiting exhibits
- Public Speakers
- Workshops
- Classes
- Children’s Programs
- Concerts
- Lecture Series
- Resource Center
- Films
- Online Magazine
Projects
Current & Forthcoming Projects:
- Bridge Between the Cultures (BBTC): A program of cultural exchange that provides speakers, in particular authors with books on the Middle East & North Africa, for media interviews, public events, and activities in schools. (See Women Writers of the Arab World, below.) The object is to empower the reasonable middle in American society during these months when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Iraq War, and the War on Terror have reached critical turning points.
- Women Writers of the Arab World: In May 2005 SCM brought Arab women writers to Seattle to participate in various events including the Seattle Arts & Lecture Series and the Hedgebrook Writers Program.
- The Arab American Community Coalition: Following the 9-11 attacks, AACC conducted educational events for law enforcement and intervened to win freedom for Arabs detained by the INS under questionable circumstances. Currently it maintains a 24 hour hotline to offer assistance when individuals are detained under Homeland Security laws.
- DialogueSyria.com: An implementation of the "virtual civil society" concept applied to the country of Syria. Why not use the power of dialogue, research, and reason to improve government and solve development problems?
- Spark a fair, free, reasoned, balanced, and compassionate national dialogue about US foreign policy, the Arab world, and Israel.
- Acquire a permanent physical location for our exhibits.
The Salaam Cultural Museum is currently being funded solely by the tax-deductible donations of individuals interested in supporting the cultural diversity of the Puget Sound region and in contributing to projects that have national and international benefits.
In an effort to raise funds, the Salaam Cultural Museum has in the past offered a dinner and lecture series highlighting the cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. These lectures were presented by renowned experts from the MENA region. The Museum has also sponsored art exhibits, concerts, film festivals, slide shows and public lectures.
Please contact us if you would like us to design a program for your group.
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