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SUMMARY:Contemporary Translated Works Book Group: Sand-Catcher by Omar Khalifah\, Translated by Barbara Romaine
DESCRIPTION:Join the Contemporary Translated Works Book Group – Now Monthly! \nMechanics’ Institute\, in partnership with the Center for the Art of Translation and our new presenting partner\, Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum\, is thrilled to announce the expansion of the Contemporary Translated Works Book Group into a monthly\, member-led series! Beginning Spring 2025\, we will host lunchtime discussions (12:00–1:00 pm PT) online via Zoom on the third Wednesday of each month\, featuring thought-provoking literary selections from around the world. \nFour young\, Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are tasked\, on account of their heritage\, with profiling one of the last living witnesses of the Nakba\, the violent expulsion of native Palestinians by the nascent state of Israel in 1948. The old man has no desire to be interviewed\, no desire for his memories to be preserved\, no desire to serve as an inspiration for the youth of tomorrow. As threats from the team’s editor-in-chief put more and more pressure on the journalists\, they must decide just how far they’re willing to go to get the old man on the record. \nJoin us at 11:30 AM for a Q&A with the translator before the discussion at 12:00 PM. \nFree to Folio members.\nLearn more and get tickets >> \nOrder Sand-Catcher >> 
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SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival:  Khartoum
DESCRIPTION:Want a discount on your ticket? Use code ARABISH51 for $3 when purchasing tickets! \nWhat begins as a street-level documentary of five ordinary lives in Khartoum—a civil servant\, a tea vendor\, a resistance volunteer\, and two young bottle collectors—evolves into a radically inventive chronicle of a city at the edge of collapse. Shot on donated iPhones by four Sudanese filmmakers working alongside British director Phil Cox\, production was interrupted when war erupted in April 2023. The filmmakers fled Sudan and regrouped in Nairobi\, where they transformed the project using green screen re-enactments\, animation\, and dreamlike visual reconstructions. \nThe film’s five interwoven stories bear witness to lives disrupted by conflict but never reduced by it. A mother sings lullabies to shield her daughter; two boys flee militias on the back of an invisible lion; a government worker hides from a regime unraveling around him. Through surreal vignettes and raw detail\, Khartoum refuses the distancing lens of crisis coverage. \nSo while Khartoum began as a vérité documentary shot in Sudan\, it became a diasporic production: completed in exile\, shaped by displacement\, and creatively reassembled across borders. A collaborative act of remembrance and resistance\, it is not simply about a city under siege—it is made by those who fled it\, carrying its stories with them.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-international-film-festival-khartoum/
LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Movie
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SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival:  Happy Holidays
DESCRIPTION:Want a discount on your ticket? Use code ARABISH51 for $3 when purchasing tickets! \nOscar® winner Scandar Copti (Ajami) is back with a new film about a middle-class Arab family in Israel and the impact of the country’s divisions on every aspect of their lives\, mundane and momentous alike. \nFouad’s business is in trouble\, which has plunged him into debt. This has major implications for his wife\, Hanan\, a woman very invested in maintaining the family’s social position\, especially in anticipation of their elder daughter Leila’s upcoming wedding. Son Rami has a different kind of problem. His Jewish Israeli girlfriend is pregnant\, but how would they raise a child in a country where their relationship must be kept secret? This question takes on a new urgency when the couple become the object of mysterious threats. Meanwhile\, younger daughter Fifi has a secret of her own. After a minor car accident\, she ends up in the hospital where her medical records\, including her sexual history\, come to light\, causing further upheaval for the family and Fifi herself. \nThis ensemble of characters (mostly played by non-professional actors) and their stories create a rare portrait of Arab and Jewish lives in Israel and the effects of social\, political\, and religious divisions on every aspect of those lives\, mundane and momentous alike. \nOther Showtimes: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, MAY 22\, 2025 AMC Pacific Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1:00 PM
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-international-film-festival-happy-holidays/
LOCATION:SIFF Film Center\, 305 Harrison St\, Seattle\, 98109
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