ArabishWay

Whatcom Families for Justice: Bookshare Fundraiser
2025-09-28 13:30 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bellingham Central Public Library, 210 Central Ave, Bellingham, WA, 98225
THIS SUNDAY, SEPT 28TH 📚

We are happy to announce we’ll be hosting another Bookshare & Give-Away fundraising event at the Bellingham Public Library this weekend on Sunday, September 28, 2025.Books, Zines, and other media will be available to be shared and given away as encouragement and incentive to those who will make donations to families in Gaza.
Palestine has been renowned for years as having one of the highest literacy rates in the world, and as being a place where education and reading are valued, supported, and highly esteemed. Education is integrated into Palestinian culture, heritage, and identity. Which is why Israel (with the support of the United States government) has always targeted it.
This Bookshare fundraiser is in homage to those whose libraries and book collections have been targeted and destroyed by Israel.
This event is not sponsored by the Bellingham Public Library.
We hope to see you on Sunday to further connect and stand in solidarity with Palestinians.

Symposium | Gender, Translation, and the Short Form in the Eurasian Periodical
2025-10-10 09:00 - 15:00 | University of Washington – Thomson Hall, 1911 Skagit Lane, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Literary modernity did not always appear in book form, but as a periodical! Throughout the 20th century, literary and cultural production across much of Central, Western, and South Asia reached readers through the pages of periodicals. These periodicals–newspapers, magazines, and journals–housed a variety of literary forms ranging from serialized novels, to poetry, to short stories, alongside advertisements, comics, and photography. This symposium features emerging literary scholarship that investigates short form fiction as it appears in the rhizomatic 20th century periodical, and its intersections with translation and gender. How does fiction move across and between languages in 20th century periodical cultures of Eurasia? What does an explicit and intentional consideration of gender in these translingual (and frequently transnational, or transhistorical) literary movements illuminate? In exploring such questions, this symposium foregrounds gender, translation, and the short form in the growing field of Periodical Studies, and brings together scholars working on texts from across Eurasia, in Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Russian, and Turkish
Thomson Hall : Rm 317

Virtual Conversation with Wasim Said
2025-12-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Join the People’s Center for Palestine on Saturday, December 6th at 10am PT/1pm ET for a virtual conversation with Wasim Said, speaking from Gaza, whose book Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide was written after multiple displacements from his home in Beit Hanoun. His testimony offers an urgent account of life in Gaza under ongoing bombardment—an essential narrative for understanding the realities on the ground and the stakes of documenting genocide in real time. The translation was recently published in October 2025 by 1804 Books, in collaboration with the People’s Center for Palestine and Liberated Texts.

The event will also feature reflections from Thiago Ávila, Fady Joudah, Mousa Alsadah, and Danya Al-Saleh, who will discuss the book’s literary, political, and historical significance and the vital role of witnessing for long-term struggle.

Book Fair
2025-12-13 12:00 - 18:00 | Washington Preparatory School, 18323 Bothell Everett Hwy, Suite 220, Bothell, WA, 98012
Albayan Science Academy & Cordoba AcademyIn collaboration with Allamaho Albayan Book StoreWe’re so excited to host a fun and family-friendly Islamic Book Fair that brings everyone together for learning, culture, and lots of smiles! A huge selection of Islamic and Arabic books along with fun educational games and puzzles

Highlights of Saturday the 13th:

Bake Sales & local vendors.
Puppet show & Storytime for children.

Saturday 13th 12:00 to 6:00 pm
Monday 14th – Thursday 18th
10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Book Fair
2025-12-14 10:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-15 10:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-16 10:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-17 10:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-18 10:00 - 15:00 | Washington Preparatory School, 18323 Bothell Everett Hwy, Suite 220, Bothell, WA, 98012
Albayan Science Academy & Cordoba AcademyIn collaboration with Allamaho Albayan Book StoreWe’re so excited to host a fun and family-friendly Islamic Book Fair that brings everyone together for learning, culture, and lots of smiles! A huge selection of Islamic and Arabic books along with fun educational games and puzzles

Highlights of Saturday the 13th:

Bake Sales & local vendors.
Puppet show & Storytime for children.

Monday 14th – Thursday 18th
10:00 am to 3:00 pm
