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SUMMARY:Seattle Liberation Calendar!
DESCRIPTION:In addition to these events\, please check out the amazing Seattle Liberation Calendar! You will find so many great events there!  I try to cross-reference but can’t always keep up\, so please take a peek there for additional events. \nhttps://seattleliberationcalendar.wordpress.com/#calendar
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-liberation-calendar/
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SUMMARY:May Ziadeh Salon and Book Pre-Launch
DESCRIPTION:Who was May Ziadeh (1886-1941) & why was she an important part of Arabic letters? An introduction to Ziadeh’s “Musings of a Young Woman.” \n\n\n\n\nCome for the first of our May Ziadeh salons and a book pre-launch celebration of Musings of a Young Woman (forthcoming\, ArabLit Books). \nJoin scholars\, translators\, editors\, & enthusiasts to learn more about May Ziadeh\, her writing\, and her importance to the early twentieth century literary scene. \nJoin Dana Al Shahbari\, a May Ziadeh scholar who wrote the introduction to the book; the book’s managing editor\, Ibtihal Mahmood; one of our translators\, the novelist Layla Alammar; and editor Mennan Salih. Emceed by ArabLit’s founding editor M Lynx Qualey. \nDana Al Shahbari is a PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge\, specializing in the Arab Renaissance (Nahda)\, its intellectual history\, and Arab women’s writing. Her research focuses on the recovery of May Ziadeh (1886–1941) through scholarship and archival work. She explores how Ziadeh’s writings that span journalistic essays\, poetry\, literary correspondence\, and experimental prose\, challenge dominant narratives of Arab modernity and offer new frameworks for understanding women’s intellectual production and rethinking questions of gender and literary authority. Dana holds both her undergraduate and master’s degrees from the American University of Beirut(AUB)\, where she also minored in Arabic and Near Eastern Languages. Her work has been published in both Arabic and English\, including co-authoring 101 Arab Women Writers(Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre\,2024) and contributing a chapter to Feminist Readings in Arab Intellectual History. Alongside her academic research\, Dana is also interested in translation and public humanities. \nIbtihal Rida Mahmood is a writer\, editor\, translator\, and poet. She is the translator and co-editor of Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short Stories from Jordan (2015) and the English translator of Yassin al-Haj Saleh’s The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy (2017). Her essays\, translations\, and criticism have appeared in The Markaz Review\, New Internationalist\, Qantara\, The Seattle Globalist\, and Women Writers\, Women’s Books. Her poetry and literary translations have been featured in international anthologies\, including The Art of Being Human (2013)\, Premio Mondiale di Poesia Nosside (2014)\, and Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf\, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (2025). She is a contributing editor at ArabLit. She also publishes the Substack newsletter Naked Shadows on a Black Wall. \nLayla Alammar is an Assistant Professor at the American University of Kuwait. She earned a PhD in Arab women’s literature and literary trauma theory from Lancaster University and an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. She is also a novelist and translator. Her debut novel\, The Pact We Made (2019)\, was nominated for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award while Silence is a Sense (2021) was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She has written for The Guardian\, LitHub\, the Times Literary Supplement\, ArabLit Quarterly\, The New Arab\, GQ Middle East\, NewLines Magazine\, and The Markaz Review. \nMennan Salih is a translator\, language consultant\, and editor; she is also the writer of The Arabic Pages. A PhD candidate at the University of Westminster\, she researches metaphors in Arabic literature through a psycholinguistic lens. Mennan—who is originally from Cyprus—has a keen interest in both modern and ancient languages\, and is currently studying the Old Babylonian variant of Akkadian. She holds a BA (Hons) in Arabic and Linguistics and an MA in Advanced Arabic. \nM Lynx Qualey is the founding editor of ArabLit.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/may-ziadeh-salon-and-book-pre-launch/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Hidden Burdens of Being an Arab
DESCRIPTION:An engaging online workshop designed to help name\, validate\, and navigate the unspoken pressures and expectations many in the Arab diaspora \n\n\n\n\nMany Arabs in the diaspora navigate identity across cultures while managing expectations from family\, community\, and society. This can create a quiet pressure to succeed\, represent well\, and earn a sense of belonging. \nAt the same time\, war and the global uncertainty add another layer of emotional weight that often feels personal\, even from a distance. \nTogether\, these experiences can feel isolating and hard to name\, leaving many carrying more than what is visible on the surface. \nYou don’t have to go through this alone. This workshop offers a space to make sense of these experiences\, connect with others who share similar realities\, and explore ways to feel more grounded.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/the-hidden-burdens-of-being-an-arab/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Potluck at the Pantry: Soomaaliya: Food\, Memory\, and Migration
DESCRIPTION:We don’t always need an instructor to show us how to sit around the table and eat a meal together! So we’re breaking out of the class format in this installment of our cookbook club potluck suppers\, where we’ll all explore a new cookbook together. This time around we’ll be cooking from “Soomaaliya: Food\, Memory\, and Migration”\, written by Ifrah F. Ahmed. You cook a recipe from the book\, and we’ll pour the wine (and do the dishes!). We’ll be in touch before the potluck so you can sign up for your favorite dish.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/potluck-at-the-pantry-soomaaliya-food-memory-and-migration/
LOCATION:the Pantry\, 1417 NW 70th Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98117
CATEGORIES:Cooking/Food
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