On Sunday morning, March 21 at 9:00, the Middle East Forum will host the English-language premier of French documentary filmmaker Pierre Rehov's new film, "The Silent Refugees" at the West Newton Cinema on Route 16 in West Newton. Some French language has been retained, with English subtitles. This film deals with the brutal expulsion of Mizrachi Jews from Arab lands in the 40s and 50s. It has been selected for showing in Paris at the 2nd International Festival for Human Rights in late March. Bat Ye'or and David Littman will chair a Q&A session following the film. The cost is $10 and attendance is limited to 200. The theater is handicap accessible. An RSVP is essential (LGrodman@yahoo.com).

On Monday evening, March 22 the Middle East Forum at Brandeis (MEFAB) will present Bat Ye'or who will discuss the thesis from her new book Eurabia that today Europe is both consciously and unconsciously surrendering its Judeo-Christian roots and embracing new cultural and political identities in which Arab and Islamic traditions, including the tradition of dhimmitude (the subservience of non-Muslims to Islamic culture and expansionism), are its central unifying themes. She will describe the sociopolitical impact of this transformation as reflected in European anti-Semitism, vilification of Israel, and Anti-Americanism. The session will be held at 7:30 PM at The Atrium in the Shapiro Campus Center at Brandeis.