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Food, Dance Join Mideast Cultures
March 09, 2004Comments (0) | Add | E-mail this to a friendMiddle Eastern cultures united on students' plates, and before students' eyes, on Thursday at Noyes Community Center. With Basmati pilaf, Israeli salad and belly dancers, the members of Hillel, the Sephardi and Mizrahi Association at Cornell and the Iranian Students Association brought together over 100 guests at Sephardi-Persian Culture Night.
The event, funded by the above groups and the Kolker Saxon Hallock Grant, was intended to be a kickoff event for the new SMAC, but it also served to unite multiple Middle-Eastern culture groups on campus.
"We wanted to have a night where we'd have food and dancing, and teach people about some Middle-Eastern culture in between," said Lily Hakim '07, event organizer and one of the three founding members of SMAC.
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