Daily Arab Movie Streams - Aflamuna
2020-07-28 - 2020-12-31 | WA
about aflamuna
aflamuna (our films) is an initiative launched by a group of arab filmmakers and film institutions, led by Beirut DC. During these hard times – and hopefully long after they’ve passed – we will be bringing you some of the best, most thought-provoking and independently-minded works of contemporary Arab cinema to enjoy for free on this website for a limited time. A new issue will be released (at least) every 15 days.
Check their website for currently running films!

Tatreez Workshops and Lectures by Tatreez and Tea
2020-09-01 - 2020-12-31
Your instructor is author and scholar Wafa Ghnaim, founder of Tatreez & Tea!
Tatreez & Tea’s mission is to preserve Palestinian embroidery and storytelling traditions in the diaspora. Tatreez & Tea is the first of it’s kind. When Wafa first founded Tatreez & Tea in 2016, she was the only educator solely focused on Palestinian embroidery, traveling the US and the world. Now, new local initiatives, culture bearers, “tatreez circles”, and mentors are emerging from communities around the world like never before. The tatreez revolution has gained a beautiful momentum and now is the time to join.
Wafa’s goal in her educational classes are three-fold: educate students from art history and oral history perspectives that preserve the meanings, stories and symbolism of traditional Palestinian embroidery motifs; teach versatile skills that allow students to eventually produce large independent projects; encourage students to become creative and grow beyond simply abiding by traditional embroidery principles.
Click here for upcoming events!
https://www.tatreezandtea.com/events

Shuruq 4.5: Olympia Arab Festival
2020-10-05 - 2020-10-30
The first online Olympia Arab Festival!
This free, month-long festival celebrates the arts and cultures of the Arabic-speaking region and diaspora.

Conditional Citizens: Laila Lalami in conversation with Alexander Key
2020-10-08 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth–such as national origin, race, or gender–that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today. Throughout the book, she poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation, with the result that a caste system is maintained, keeping the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens, she argues, are all the people whom America embraces with one arm, and pushes away with the other. Brilliantly argued and deeply personal, Conditional Citizens weaves together the author’s own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture.

Graywolf Literary Salon: Conversations from Home, feat. Khaled Mattawa
2020-10-08 17:30 - 18:30
Enjoy an evening of intimate conversations about home, language, and imagining a better world
Step inside the world of books and get a view straight from the desks of our authors and editors. Join Graywolf Press and four of our outstanding writers as they welcome us into their homes for an evening of conversations about place and imagination during this unprecedented moment in history.
The Graywolf Literary Salon will feature Natalie Diaz (Postcolonial Love Poem), Roy G. Guzmán (Catrachos), Khaled Mattawa (Fugitive Atlas), and Kevin Young (Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts & Fake News).
Admission is free, but we encourage you to give a donation of $25 or more to support Graywolf Press. All proceeds benefit Graywolf’s New Chapter Campaign, a $3 million initiative to strengthen our publishing program through investments in editorial, marketing, audience development, engagement, and infrastructure.
Register here: https://graywolfpress.salsalabs.org/2020salon/index.html
7:30pm CT
About the Authors
NATALIE DIAZ is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem, a finalist for the Forward Prize, and When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award. She has received many honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship, and a United States Artists Fellowship. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe.
ROY G. GUZMÁN is the author of Catrachos, and has received a 2019 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Raised in Miami, they live in Minneapolis.
KHALED MATTAWA is the author of five collections of poetry and is the translator of eleven books of contemporary Arabic poetry. He has been awarded several Pushcart Prizes and the PEN Award for Literary Translation, as well as a Guggenheim and a MacArthur fellowship. His forthcoming collection, Fugitive Atlas, will be published in October 2020. (and he’s Libyan)
KEVIN YOUNG is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, including The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, and Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts & Fake News, longlisted for the National Book Award. He is also the editor of African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, appearing September. Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and poetry editor of the New Yorker, he was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020.

Palestinian Feast: Cooking Class at the Pantry
2020-10-08 18:00 - 20:00
Maqlouba means “upside-down” in Arabic, and in this class NADIA TOMMALIEH will guide you as you construct this feat of culinary engineering- a meal in one pot, flipped over to make a savory feast! You’ll make chicken maqlouba with roasted eggplant, cauliflower, rice pilaf, and fried nuts, and salatet bil tahini (vegetable, herb, and tahini salad).
This is a live, hands-on cooking class held in your kitchen via Zoom. Class is meant to be as interactive as it would be at our table, with the instructor teaching you how to prepare each recipe. Each class ticket is for one kitchen, and we welcome group cooking on the same screen. All recipes are designed for four servings.
