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1997 MAY A lecture by Dr. Nazmi Ju’beh from Bir-Zeit University on the historical architectural development of the City of Hebron. The lecture was co-sponsored by Riwaq. A poetry reading by poet Faycal Qarqati, reading from his latest, & third poetry collection: Sajdat el Hinna’, (Henna Prostration) . Khaled Hourani exhibit. Screening of the 1984 film version of the Opera Carmen Screening of a documentary on the hand made Japanese Washi paper. Singer-composer Mustapha Kurd and his ensemble of Palestinian and German musicians, in a concert of Palestinian poetry put to music by M. Kurd. A lecture by visiting Texas University archeology professor, Dr. Denise Schmandt-Besserat on her discoveries of the origins of writing in the Sumerian civilization.
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