ArabishWay

(Virtual Class) Sewing & Mounting Basics
2020-08-29 09:00 - 10:30 UTC | WA
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Saturday, August 29, 2020 12:00 PM 1:30 PM EST/9:00 AM 10:30 AM PST

Tatreez Workshops and Lectures by Tatreez and Tea
2020-09-01 - 2020-12-31 | WA
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.
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https://www.tatreezandtea.com/events

Virtual Artist Talks - Setting Up Virtual Exhibits
2020-09-20 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Virtual Artist Talks – Setting Up Virtual Exhibits

Sunday, September 20, 2020
12:00 PM 1:00 PM EST

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Amman, Jordan-based Palestinian Artist Dalia Ali discusses her new virtual exhibit and what she had to do to get it up and running.

Conversation with Malak Mattar and Taqi Spateen
2020-10-02 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Join us for a conversation with Malak Mattar and Taqi Spateen, whose artwork for George Floyd and Iyad Al-Hallaq went viral on Instagram.

About this Event

Join us for our second event to celebrate our new virtual exhibit, “Intersections: Palestinian and African American Art for Social Justice” as we talk with two of our Palestinian artists for the exhibit, Malak Mattar and Taqi Spateen.
In a span of five days, Black American George Floyd was killed by a Minnesota police officer and Iyad al-Hallaq, an unarmed Palestinian man with autism, was fatally shot by two Israeli officers on his way to a school for the disabled. Their deaths inspired a wave of protests—and art—around the world. In this one-time event, Malak and Taqi will share their artwork, creative process, and perspectives on the relationship between art and activism.
Donations are welcome: We are very grateful for your partnership and support. The Museum of the Palestinian People is based in Washington DC and here to tell our stories, which encompass the rich history, vibrant arts, culture and spirit of a people who thrive even in the face of adversity.
Visit our website: mpp-dc.org/

Grand Opening of SCM Medical Missions Souk
2020-10-18 12:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | SCM Medical Mission Souk, 3806 Whitman Ave. N, Seattle, WA, United States
Our souk has moved from our former SCM office to the garage below, facing Bridge Way. This move allows more display space and more room to move around and see everything we have to offer. Please come see the new displays and know that your purchases all help our relief programs. Scarves, kaftans, refugee-made jewelry, embroidered purses, artwork, and much more will be available. Get a jump on your holiday shopping and do good at the same time!

The souk will have a schedule for the days it will be open and that will get posted on our website and Facebook page. Please come to our grand opening and try some tasty Arabic sweets, and mana’eesh will be available for purchase.

Please wear a mask, and we will be observing social distancing guidelines.

When: October 18, 2020 12pm to 3pm
Where: 3806 Whitman Ave. N, Seattle 98103

Hope to see you there!

Virtually Tour the Museum for Palestinian People
2020-12-01 - 2020-12-31 | WA
The Museum of the Palestinian People is here to tell our stories; stories that encompass the rich history, vibrant arts and culture, of a people who thrive even in the face of adversity. Our stories are many, our hearts are one.
Take a virtual tour today!

Palestine Writes Conference
2020-12-02 - 2020-12-06 | WA
This conference is 4 days packed full of poets, authors, artists, cooking, comedy and more!
Susan Abulhawa, Amer Zahr and his mother, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Lena Tuffaha, Randa Jarrar, Angela Davis, Isabella Hammad, Remi Kanazi, Acrafty Arab, Wafa Ghnaim and that’s not even the half of it.
You must check out the full program so that you don’t miss a thing!
www.palestinewrites.org/program
and be sure to register and support in advance:
www.palestinewrites.vfairs.com

Palestine Museum US Virtual Gala & Art Auction
2020-12-13 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Telling the Palestinian Story Through the Arts
Please join us to support the mission of the Palestine Museum US. A full program will be published shortly.
Please click here to register and purchase tickets for the Event.

Virtual Artist Talks - A Conversation with Mohammed Al Haj
2021-01-17 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
The Palestine Museum US will feature Mohammed Al Haj, a young Gazan artist in its artists’ talk series. Al Haj will share his unique sculptural technique and speak about his current solo exhibition. A student will speak about the sculpture workshops he began and teaches in a Gaza refugee camp. Audience discussion will follow.

Smithsonian Sampler Series: Tatreez
2021-01-29 12:00 - 14:00, 2021-02-26 12:00 - 14:00, 2021-03-12 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
For generations, Palestinian women have gathered with their daughters to work collectively on embroidery projects, bonding with one another over a cup of tea. Guided by Wafa Ghnaim, who began her training in embroidery with her mother at age 2, learn the basic Palestinian cross-stitch and how to create a tatreez sampler, using a standard size sheet of Aida cloth fabric and one that can incorporate numerous patterns and eventually become a wall-hanging.
If you have already begun a tatreez sampler, this workshop will teach you traditional patterns and stitching strategies to further develop your piece. You are not required to take all three workshops in this winter series (Jan. 29; Feb. 26; and March 12)—you may take one, or all. The purpose of the sampler series is to develop your stitching skills, introduce you to new patterns throughout the region’s history, as well as learn more about textiles produced in the Holy Land throughout the centuries.
Open to students of all skill levels, learn the history and meaning behind traditional Palestinian patterns, basics of transferring a pattern to fabric, threading a needle, various cross-stitching methodologies, how to keep the back of your cloth clean, color theory and design, project planning, and motif repetition. No experience is required.
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Samarkand Rosettes - Online Art Workshop
2021-01-30 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Samarkand is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia. Learn to draw and a 10-fold geometric rosette with beautiful biomorphic patterns.

Workshop includes illustrated handouts with step-by-step instructions and recording of class.
REGISTER HERE $35

Amina Quraishi is an artist and art educator based in Seattle, Washington. Her work is inspired by the beauty of traditional Islamic art and nature. She received an Honors Bachelors of Science majoring in Psychology and an Advanced Diploma in Art & Art History at the University of Toronto. With the focus mostly on European art movements she began to wonder what about art in other parts of the world. Going back to her roots as a Muslim, she felt a personal connection to the rich cultural and artistic history of the Islamic lands. She began studying and practicing Islamic art and architecture using traditional tools.
Amina has been teaching Islamic art since 2017. She hopes by sharing her love and fascination of Islamic art will work towards awareness and inclusion in art education.

To Palestine With Love - The poetry and art of Najwa Kawar Farah
2021-01-31 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
A reading of poems and a review of artwork by Palestinian writer, poet, and artist Najwa Kawar Farah, followed by audience discussion
Najwa Kawar Farah is a Palestinian writer who has contributed to Palestinian and Arabicliterature for several decades. The bulk of her publications are short stories, novels and poems. Najwa was born in Nazareth and lived in Haifa until 1965, and then in two West Bank cities, Jerusalem and Ramallah. Najwa also lived in Lebanon, the UK and Canada. She passed away in Canada in 2015.
Najwa’s life experiences in Palestine and the Middle East, provided her with the political, historical, and socio-cultural milieu from which she drew and developed her characters.
Most of her protagonists are Palestinians, mainly ’ordinary’ people especially refugees uprooted from their homes and homeland, who seek answers to their individual and collective historical predicament. Many of these protagonists are resilient women, who in addition to their political oppression encounter social discrimination. Her stories and novels come in eleven collections in Arabic. A number of these have been translated into English.
About the Readers/Moderators
Zeina Azzam is a Palestinian American poet, writer, editor, and community activist. Currently she works as publications editor at the think tank, Arab Center Washington DC. Her chapbook, Bayna Bayna, In-Between, will be published by The Poetry Box in 2021. Zeina’s poems appear/will appear in Pleiades, Passager, Sukoon Magazine, Mizna, Cordite Poetry Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Barzakh: A Literary Magazine, Infinite Rust, Heartwood Literary Magazine, Lunch Ticket, The Fourth River, Split This Rock, Voice Male, and the edited volumes Tales from Six Feet Apart (2021),Bettering American Poetry (2019), Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by and for Refugees (2019), The Poeming Pigeon (2017), Write Like You’re Alive 2017, Gaza Unsilenced (2015), and Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves (2008). She volunteers for organizations that promote Palestinian rights and the civil rights of vulnerable communities in Alexandria, Virginia, where she lives, and is a mentor for We Are Not Numbers, a writing program for youth in Gaza. Zeina holds an M.A. in Arabic literature from Georgetown University, an M.A. in sociology from George Mason University, and a B.A. in psychology from Vassar College.
Sahar Mustafah
Sahar Mustafah is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, an inheritance she explores in her fiction. Her first novel The Beauty of Your Face (W.W. Norton, 2020) was named a 2020 Notable Book and Editor’s Choice by New York Times Book Review, a Los Angeles Times United We Read selection, one of Marie Claire Magazine’s 2020 Best Fiction by Women, and a Great Group Reads for National Reading Group Month. It was long-listed for the Center for Fiction 2020 First Novel Prize, and was a finalist for Chicago Writers Association Best Book of the Year award and the Chicago Review of Books award. Her short story collection Code of the West was the winner of the 2016 Willow Books Fiction Award. Her stories have earned a Distinguished Story citation from Best American Short Stories 2016, First Place in Fiction from the Guild Literary Complex of Chicago, and three Pushcart Prize nominations, among other honors. Mustafah earned her MFA from Columbia College Chicago where she was the recipient of the David Friedman Award for Best Fiction. She writes and teaches outside of Chicago.

Moorish Splendors - Online Art Workshop
2021-02-06 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
The Alhambra Palace is a remarkable work of architecture adorned with tiled geometric mosaics, biomorphic carving and calligraphy. Learn how to construct a geometric pattern using a compass and ruler and paint with watercolor.
Workshop includes illustrated handouts with step-by-step instructions and recording of class.
REGISTER HERE $35

Amina Quraishi is an artist and art educator based in Seattle, Washington. Her work is inspired by the beauty of traditional Islamic art and nature. She received an Honors Bachelors of Science majoring in Psychology and an Advanced Diploma in Art & Art History at the University of Toronto. With the focus mostly on European art movements she began to wonder what about art in other parts of the world. Going back to her roots as a Muslim, she felt a personal connection to the rich cultural and artistic history of the Islamic lands. She began studying and practicing Islamic art and architecture using traditional tools.
Amina has been teaching Islamic art since 2017. She hopes by sharing her love and fascination of Islamic art will work towards awareness and inclusion in art education.

A Virtual Celebration of the Life and Art of Rajie Cook 1930 - 2021
2021-02-14 09:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
It is with heavy heart and deep sadness that we report the passing of Palestinian artist Rajie Cook.
Please join us in celebrating Rajie’s life and decades of artistic excellence.
All times listed are in the Eastern US Time Zone.
Please click here to register for this event.

4.3 DIALOGUES ON THE ART OF ARAB FASHION: MY LIFE’S PASSION
2021-02-16 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
4.3 DIALOGUES ON THE ART OF ARAB FASHION: MY LIFE’S PASSION
Event Description: Widad Kawar is the founder of the Tiraz Centre in Amman, Jordan, home to the biggest collection of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Arab traditional dress in the world, and the author of Threads of Identity, a record of Palestinian dress and the women who made and wore it. With her childhood and youth spent in Bethlehem and Ramallah, Widad was surrounded by traditional Palestinian weaving and embroidery. The war and displacement in Palestine encouraged her to collect not only the items but the stories and legacies of the women who lost their homes and their culture. For Widad, each item in her collection is a reminder of a person, a place, and an event. Her knowledge stems from the personal stories of the women who made and worn these dresses.
Date: 16th February 2021
Time: 11 am NYC, 4 pm London, 8 pm Dubai
Tickets: Donation
Students: If you are a student or member of academia please register here to receive your complimentary registration links.
Registering will not only give you access to the live session but also a recorded version to catch up on in your own time.
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Virtual Artist Talks - A Conversation with Raghda Zaiton
2021-02-21 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
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Please join us for a conversation and an online art review with the Nablus (West Bank)-based Palestinian Artis and Al-Najah University art instructor Raghda Zaiton.

Tatreez Workshops and Lectures by Tatreez and Tea - Ongoing
2021-03-01 - 2021-03-02 | WA

4.4 DIALOGUES ON THE ART OF ARAB FASHION: WHAT EGYPTIAN DRESS TELLS US ABOUT SYMBOLS
2021-03-02 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
4.4 DIALOGUES ON THE ART OF ARAB FASHION: WHAT EGYPTIAN DRESS TELLS US ABOUT SYMBOLS
Event Description: This conversation with anthropologist and author, Dr Andrea Rugh, is based upon Andrea’s book “Reveal and Conceal”, which studies the complex cultural expressions of clothes and dress in Egypt. Dr Andrea analyses contemporary social meanings found in the symbols of dress and shows the way groups and individuals use the symbols like a language to reveal or conceal significant aspects of their identities.
Date: 2nd March 2021
Time: 11 am NYC, 4 pm London, 8 pm Dubai
Tickets: Donation
Students: If you are a student, or member of academia please register here to receive your complimentary registration links.
Registering will not only give you access to the live session, but also a recorded version to catch up on in your own time.

Part of Creating Art with Islamic Patterns Series
2021-03-06 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Ages 12 and older.
Presented by Amina Quraishi.
Arabesque art is one of the main components of Islamic art and consist of rhythmic linear motifs with floral and vegetal foliage. Learn to draw an arabesque pattern with step-by-step instructions and paint with watercolor.
Supplies needed: Pencil, ruler, printed handout (this will be emailed to you).
Optional supplies: Tracing paper, tape, art or watercolor paper, watercolors or coloring medium of choice.
Please register. You will be sent a Zoom link.

Virtual Art Exhibition: Legacy Trilogy: Past Edition
2021-03-07 - 2021-03-08 | WA
ArteEast is proud to present the Legacy Trilogy series of exhibitions celebrating the organization’s legacy as a forum for contemporary art practices from the Middle East North Africa region. This fundraising exhibition consists of three parts: Past, Present, and Future.

Middle Eastern Galleries Now
2021-03-15 - 2021-03-31 | WA
This March, Artsy celebrates artists and galleries who are based in or identify with countries in the Middle East and North Africa. We will showcase online exhibitions and gallery shows to highlight artworks that are both innovative and timely. This is a chance for collectors to discover and support the work of these important artists.

https://www.artsy.net/fair/middle-eastern-galleries-now

Live from Damascus - A Conversation with Palestinian Artist Khair Alah Salim
2021-03-28 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Sunday, March 28, 2021

12:00 PM 1:00 PM

All times are based on the US ET Time Zone
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Bi-lingual Arabic/English event with simultaneous translation
Please join us for a conversation with Damascus, Syria-based Palestinian artist Khair Alah Salim, followed by a virtual exhibition of his artwork.

5.2 Dialogues on the Art of Arab Fashion: Story of A Dress
2021-03-30 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Event Description: Dr. Reem El Mutwalli in conversation with Nisreen and Nermeen Abudail from Naqsh Collective on “Story of a Dress”
Date: 30th March 2021
Time: 12 pm NYC, 5 pm London, 8 pm Dubai
Tickets: Donation
Students: If you are a student, or member of academia please register here to receive your complimentary registration links.
Registering will not only give you access to the live session, but also a recorded version to catch up on in your own time.

Arabic Calligraphy
2021-03-31 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Arabic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy based on the Arabic alphabet.
Hajj Wafaa of Kufa, Iraq, is a freelance professional Islamic calligraphist. He has been teaching Islamic calligraphy classes in Boston since 2004. Haff Wafaa will join us on Wednesday, March 31 to teach our Arabic calligraphy workshop.
25 students will receive a free Arabic calligraphy set. You must be able to attend the Wednesday, March 31 calligraphy workshop. If you cannot attend the workshop, please do not register.
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Arabic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy based on the Arabic alphabet.

5.4 Dialogues on the Art of Arab Fashion: Dress & Identity: Cultural, Economic and Political Implications
2021-04-27 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
5.4 Dialogues on the Art of Arab Fashion: Dress & Identity: Cultural, Economic and Political Implications

Event Description: Dr. Reem El Mutwalli in conversation with Shahira Mehrez, Creative Advisor to the Zay Initiative, Researcher, Collector & Promoter of Traditional Arts & Crafts
Date: 27th April 2021
Time: 12 pm NYC, 5 pm London, 8 pm Dubai
Tickets: Donation
Students: If you are a student, or member of academia please register here to receive your complimentary registration links.
Registering will not only give you access to the live session, but also a recorded version to catch up on in your own time.

Smithsonian: ntroduction to Palestinian Thobe Embroidery: Panel Design
2021-05-11 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
For generations, Palestinian women have gathered with their daughters to work collectively on embroidery projects, bonding with one another over a cup of tea. Guided by Wafa Ghnaim, who began her training in embroidery with her mother at age 2, learn the history of the traditional Palestinian thobe, as well as the basic cross-stitch on waste canvas.
The skirt of a Palestinian thobe typically features heavily embroidered panels that give the skirt a mural-like quality. The panels can be heavily ornamented for special occasions.
Students of all skill levels are introduced to panel patterns and learn how to stitch them onto denim using waste canvas. Waste canvas allows artisans to adorn any piece of cloth or clothing and is an important skill to master in order to create traditional Palestinian embroidered garments.
This class combines detailed instruction on how to complete a small panel segment using the Cleopatra design on waste canvas with discussion of the pattern’s meaning and history.

Palestine Art Week
2021-05-15 - 2021-05-21 | WA
Join us for a seven-day celebration of Palestinian Arts as we hold over 30 online events this month. Palestine Art Week will run through May 15-21 hosting film screenings, poetry and literature readings, artist conversations and other events featuring Nabil Anani, Sliman Mansour, Mariam Tamari, and others. Palestine Writes joins this celebratory week in presenting the work of Palestinian poets and writers. Register once, link in bio.
palestinemuseum.us/paw
Click here for the full schedule: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/program
شاركونا الاحتفال بالفنون الفلسطينية هذا الشهر على مدى ٧ أيام متواصلة وأكثر من ٣٠ حدث عبر الانترنت. سيجري أسبوع فن فلسطين من أيار ١٥-٢١ حيث سنقيم عروض أفلام، قراءات شعرية وأدبية، ومحادثات مع فنانين بالإضافة إلى فعاليات أخرى تستضيف بها نبيل عناني، سليمان منصور، مريم تماري، وغيرهم. تشاركنا “فلسطين تكتب” بتقديم أعمال لشعراء وكتّاب فلسطينيون. سجلّوا مرة واحدة واحضروا أي فعالية:
palestinemuseum.us/paw
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ترقبوا الجدول كاملًا قريبًا!

Amir Zaki "Empty Vessel" - Online Exhibition
2021-05-18 - 2021-07-07 | WA
James Harris Gallery is pleased to present our seventh exhibition by California artist Amir Zaki. Comprised of two bodies of work, collectively entitled, “Empty Vessel,” the series features striking colorful photographs of both skateboard parks and broken ceramic vases. Together, these images open a discussion of the history and future of photography and duplicitous version of truth in the modern world. In his work, Zaki strives to disrupt common notions of authenticity, monumentality, and documentation through a hybridization of techniques. The two disparate series are connected through real and fictive space illuminating the truth between the everyday and the ideal. The gallery will mount virtual exhibitions until the next location of our physical space is announced in the fall of 2021.
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WORKS IN SHOW
ABOUT THE ARTIST

Amir Zaki
A firm believer in the transformative power of the photographic image, Zaki images are rooted in the history of the medium and uses it to shed light on the means of representation. Over the last 16 years, Zaki has pushed the physicality of the photograph’s two dimensional construct, allowing it to exist on its own and also exploring its own object-ness. In order to capture and record the original site, Zaki’s representations depict the complexity of place in terms of interactive evolving experience, an ongoing ecological intervention. The artist responds to the shifting contemporary landscape where nothing is permanent, constructing his own visual language to illustrate an entire mythology of place.
Amir Zaki lives and works in Southern California. He received his MFA from UCLA in 1999 and has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since graduating. He is a full professor at the University of California at Riverside. His work is included in many museum collections including the Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.
