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UPCOMING EVENTS - All events at CCB location unless otherwise noted.
September 12, 2010 - October 31, 2010 (Sundays) @ 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Language Lessons: Arabic for Youth
This course is designed to teach basic Arabic to youth (ages 12 through 18). It will cover the Arabic alphabets, common words, reading, writing and basic conversation. There is no previous experience required for this 8 session course. Students will need a notebook and pencil. One Arabic textbook will be provided to all students free of charge.
Instructor: Rafil Jumaa (native Arabic speaker)
Dates: Sundays, 9/12//2010 - 10/31/2010 (8-week course)
Fee: $110.00 ($90 for additional sibling)
September 12, 2010 - October 31, 2010 (Sundays) @ 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Language Lessons: Arabic for Adults
This course is designed to teach basic Arabic to adults. It will cover the Arabic alphabets, common words, reading, writing and basic conversation. There is no previous experience required for this 8 session course. Students will need a notebook and pencil. One Arabic textbook will be provided to all students free of charge.
Instructor: Rafil Jumaa (native Arabic speaker)
Dates: Sunday 9/12/2010 through 10/31/2010 (8-week course)
Fee: $120.00
September 22, 2010 - October 31, 2010 (Wednesdays) @ 7:00 - 8:30 PM
CCB at Chester County Night School
Islam and the Middle East: Faith, Culture and Conquerors
Jeffery Heim and Dr. Mazhar Rishi, instructors
Historically, the Middle East has been our most important source of widespread human culture. Islam's Arabian emergence, in the 7th century, began an extended process of cultural expansion that has no parallel in its speed and breadth. Uniquely, Islam enhanced the role of women as well as providing new opportunities for men. Due to its location, the world of Islam created ideas that influenced the known world for seven centuries. Then, suddenly, the new ideas stopped! This course examines the reasons for Islam's appeal to both men and women, and why the Middle East ceased being culturally central. Further, the course examines the arrival of European influence, and the fragmentation of a once vibrant society by looking at the origins of current world issues such as the Arab/Israeli Dilemma and the roles of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Fee $90.00
September 23, 2010 (Thursday) @ 6:30 - 8:00PM
Book Club: Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
From the Publisher:
A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel—an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics—their passion for the same woman—that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him—nearly destroying him—Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.
An unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.
September 26, 2010 - 4:00 PM
Meditation Workshop for Teens
Instructor: Nancy Bourdie
Fee: $10.00
Location: The Spirit of Yoga, 525 East Gay Street, West Chester, PA
TBD
Warm Caps for Babies Workshop:
Bring #6 and #8 OR #8 and #10 needles.
Beginners welcome!