A Utopian Stage, the interdisciplinary exhibit and brainchild of London-based curator Vali Mahlouji is slated to conclude at a celebration Saturday, March 30th at Asian Arts Initiative’s Vine Street gallery in Chinatown. It will feature Persian poetry readings, Balinese musical performances, a “cultural atlas debate,” with Mahlouji, and more.

One month after independent U.S. presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West joined a multi-faith coalition of more than 350 faith leaders, activists, and artists walking from Philadelphia’s Independence Hall to the White House in order to call for a Ceasefire in Gaza, the Pilgrimage for Peace is at it again.

This year, Philadelphia public school teachers and students have been facing an uphill battle when it comes to teaching and learning about Palestine. From schools in southwest to northeast, censorship has been on the rise. And some Philly teachers are fighting back.

Punk is coming (back) to Philly tomorrow, February 24th, as Lebanese-American New York City-based punk band Haram and Moroccan quintet Taqbir perform a concert at the First Unitarian Church. With the punk rock musical tradition trenched with raw, resistant, and even aggressive musical tonalities, how does the Arab punk rock underground appeal to and speak specifically to the diaspora?

After a tense fall semester in which Haverford College students urged the administration to speak out against the genocide in Gaza, Haverford College students have returned to campus this week, and some say they plan to continue to pressure the administration to call for a Gaza ceasefire. Founded by Quakers in 1833, the college is located 10 miles outside Philadelphia in Haverford, Pennsylvania..

For most Christian Philadelphians, Christmas is a fading memory, but tonight, January 19, Philadelphia’s Coptic Christians are slated to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany and officially close out the Christmas season. Many of the estimated 500 Coptic families living in the greater Philadelphia region will attend tonight’s evening mass at St. George Coptic Orthodox Church in Norristown, PA, where there will be a special water blessing prayer and liturgy followed by an anointing ritual.