ArabishWay

What's next for the right to boycott in America?
2023-03-02 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Thursday, March 2 at 1:00 pm Eastern.
This virtual gathering, co-sponsored by the Institute for Middle East Understanding, Jewish Currents and Just Vision, will provide a unique opportunity to hear directly from Alan Leveritt, publisher of the Arkansas Times and protagonist in Boycott, together with his attorney, Brian Hauss, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). I will also be joined by Boycott protagonists Bahia Amawi, a speech therapist and plaintiff from Texas; Mikkel Jordahl, an attorney and plaintiff from Arizona; Dima Khalidi, a lawyer and the Executive Director of Palestine Legal; Lara Friedman, a researcher and the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace; and our very own, Julia Bacha, Just Vision‘s Creative Director and Director of Boycott.
This is an opportunity to be in community as we mark the worldwide online release of Boycott on the heels of the Supreme Court’s announcement earlier this week. We’re counting on you to bring your curiosities and questions, and to be part of the next phase of our campaign to bring attention to anti-boycott laws and their implications.
Please register here by Wednesday, March 1, and feel free to extend this invitation to your family, friends and community. Our shared work to protect the right to dissent continues, and we hope you can join us in this important conversation.

PANEL | Shocks & Aftershocks of the Turkey-Syria Earthquake
2023-03-02 18:00 - 20:00 | University of Washington – Thomson Hall, 1911 Skagit Lane, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
The Middle East Center invites you to an evening roundtable on:
STRATEGIC ‘HOLLOWING OUT’: BUREAUCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, CONSOLIDATION OF POWER, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISASTER – Asli Cansunar, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Washington
ONE MAN MANY DISASTERS: WHAT IS NEXT FOR TURKEY? – Resat Kasaba, Professor & former Director, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
WHY DID THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPEN AND WHY WAS IT SO DESTRUCTIVE: A GEOLOGIC PERSPECTIVE ON TURKEY’S MAJOR EARTHQUAKE ZONES – Scott L. Montgomery, Geoscientist and Lecturer, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Affiliate Faculty, Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
LIFE AMIDST CUMULATIVE DISASTERS: REFUGEES AFTER EARTHQUAKE IN GAZIANTEP – Ayda Apa Pomeshikov, Ph.D. Candidate, Interdisciplinary Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington
MODERATED BY – Selim S. Kuru, Associate Professor, Director of Ottoman & Turkish Studies (TOS), Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures, University of Washington
Thomson Hall – Rm 101

International Women's Day Artist Talk with Mary Hazboun
2023-03-08 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
March 8 is International Women’s Day, so join Museum of the Palestinian People in celebrating Palestinian women artists! This artist talk will feature Mary Hazboun, the Palestinian artist behind “The Art of Weeping,” a collection of 50+ original drawings currently on show at Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C.
About Mary:
Mary Hazboun is a multidisciplinary Chicago-based artist who practices “ The Art of Weeping” as an act of processing grief and somatic healing of bodies through drawing and singing. Mary’s work highlights the nuanced traumas of women and their resistance against different forms of oppression that is manifested in the military machine, patriarchal societies, and forced migrations. She uses art, ceremonies, and performance for emptying blocked emotions, opening internal space, and pouring in trauma-informed introspections as a form of healing. Mary was born and raised in the city of Bethlehem and moved to the U.S in 2004.
Tickets are by donation, and after reserving your spot you will receive a Zoom link to join the artist talk on March 8 at 12 p.m. Resilience Monthly Club members can use the code 1948 to attend this event for free.

Black SWANA Lit: Mizna Reading + DJ – An AWP Offsite Event [In-Person Only]
2023-03-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Northwest Film Forum and Mizna present an AWP offsite reading to mark the release of Mizna’s Black Takeover Issue, guest-edited by acclaimed poet Safia Elhillo. This collection of Black writing from the SWANA region and diaspora is a first-of-its-kind, and we’re celebrating its launch with a killer line-up of writers including Safia Elhillo and a DJ set by fab creative Ladin Awad.
This program is supported by National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, and Minnesota Center for Humanities.

Photography: Issues of culture and identity with Maha Alasaker
2023-03-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Join Maha Alasaker a visual artist and a photographer, based in Kuwait.
She will discuss how through her artwork, she tries to gain a deeper understanding of herself while attempting to engage issues of culture and identity. Her curiosity centers around how a woman’s upbringing affects identity and self-worth.
Maha’s projects have been displayed in numerous exhibitions in New York City, London, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. Magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Marie Claire and Rolling Stone have featured her work.
In 2019 , Maha published her first photo book,“ Women of Kuwait”, which was then acquired by the Getty Research Institute and The Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art .
Hosted by: Dr Becky Alexis Martin, Lecturer in Human Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University and an award-winning photographer.

**Please double check the start time on this event if you plan on attending. Thanks!

AWP Offsite: Glossing the Margins—A Bi-lingual Arabic-English Poetry Reading
2023-03-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, 98122, United States
AWP Offsite: Glossing the Margins—A Bi-lingual Arabic-English Poetry Reading
Friday Mar 10 2023 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Join us for an evening of poetry in which the borders between languages fall away and only poetry remains. Featuring poets Deema Shehabi, Fady Joudah, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Lubna Safi, and Zeina Hashem Beck.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of Water & Salt, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award. She is the translator and curator of the Poems from Palestine series at the Baffler magazine. She is the winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry, for her book Something About Living (U of Akron Press, 2024). Her second book of poems, Kaan & Her Sisters is forthcoming from Trio House Press in July, 2023.
Fady Joudah has published five collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu; a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and, most recently, Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received the Arab American Book Award, a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is an Editor-at-Large for Milkweed Editions. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.
Deema K. Shehabi is the author of Thirteen Departures From the Moon and co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, for which she received the Northern California Book Award’s NCBR Recognition Award. She is also co-author of Diaspo/Renga with Marilyn Hacker and the winner of the Nazim Hikmet poetry competition in 2018.
Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet and the author of, most recently, O, named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and The New York Public Library. She’s the co-creator and co-host of Maqsouda, a podcast about Arabic poetry produced by Sowt.
Lubna Safi is a poet, writer, and graduate student residing in California. Her poems and essays have been published in Guernica, The Journal, MIZNA, and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection, Your Blue and the Quiet Lament won the Walt McDonald First Book Prize in Poetry and is published by Texas Tech University Press

The Shape of Home Anthology Virtual Author Talk
2023-03-20 15:30 - 17:00 | Virtual
Join us to chat with several authors published within The Shape of Home anthology and learn how they came up with their story ideas, what their writing process is, and more!

Email rocyouth@clpvd.org for the Zoom link

Narrative w/ For Us, With Us, By Us - لنا، عنّا، معنا
2023-04-13 07:00 - 08:00 | Virtual
By For Us, With Us, By Us – لنا، عنّا، معنا
Farah, Nadia, Naïma and Nadia will be discussing how they interweave narratives from the SWANA region into their diverse practices.

Joan Maloof The Secrets of Trees at Town Hall
2023-04-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States
Standing in an old-growth forest, you can instinctively sense the ways it is different from forests shaped by humans. These ancient, undisturbed ecosystems are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood, but American environmentalist Joan Maloof knows these forests intimately and has been studying and writing about them for decades. In the newly revised and expanded edition of her book, Nature’s Temples: A Natural History of Old-Growth Forests, she continues to deepen our understanding of these extraordinary ecosystems.
Maloof brings together the scientific data we have about old-growth forests, drawing on diverse fields of study to explain the ecological differences among forests of various ages. She describes the life forms and relationships that make old-growth forests unique — from salamanders and micro-snails to plants that communicate through fungi — and reveals why human attempts to manage forests can never replicate nature’s sublime handiwork. She also sheds new light on the special role forests play in removing carbon from the atmosphere and shares what we know about the interplay between wildfires and ancient forests.
Joan Maloof, Ph.D., is a powerful spokesperson for our nation’s forests — sharing information about their extent and condition and encouraging their preservation. Maloof is the author of Nature’s Temples: A Natural History of Old-Growth Forests. She also founded the Old-Growth Forest Network, an organization that is creating a network of protected forests across the U.S. Maloof is a professor emeritus at Salisbury University where she taught Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies. She is the author and four books in addition to Nature’s Temples: Treepedia; The Living Forest; Among the Ancients; and Teaching the Trees.

*I’m guessing she’s Arab due to her last name but I could not confirm.

Inclusion Talk Series: How Does It Feel To Be A Problem
2023-04-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Join Compass Family Services as we honor and commemorate Arab American Heritage Month (AAHM) with a seminar from author Moustafa Bayoumi.
Moustafa is the author of the critically acclaimed How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin), which won an American Book Award and the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction.

An Evening Celebrating Arab American Authors
2023-04-27 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Join us on Thursday, April 27 at 6 p.m. ET on Zoom as we celebrate the vibrant Arab American creative community during Arab American Heritage Month with a panel of three phenomenal authors: Reem Assil, author of Arabiyya; Sarah Cypher, author of The Skin and Its Girl; and Malaka Gharib, author of It Won’t Always Be Like This.

The conversation will be moderated by Lana Barkawi, Executive & Artistic Director of Mizna, a critical platform for contemporary literature, film, art, and cultural production centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. Assil, Cypher, and Gharib will discuss their books—a cookbook, a novel, and a memoir—the ways we celebrate heritage, grappling with perception and misperception, and the varied homages to lineage, love, and resilience from across the diaspora.

When you register for your free ticket to this conversation, you will also have the option to buy any of the featured authors’ books from our independent bookstore partner, Moon Palace Books, based in Minneapolis, MN.

Sign up to reserve your spot today. We can’t wait to see you there.

A Two-Part Virtual Symposium Hosted by the Palestinian Feminist Collective
2023-04-29 - 2023-04-30 | Virtual
The PFC invites all our communities to a two-day virtual symposium honoring Palestinian Political Prisoners. The symposium centers the Palestinian concept and practice of sumoud.

Part I will address the historic and contemporary enactment of sumoud in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement with a special focus on organizing among Palestinian women prisoners featuring Milena Ansari, Dr. Lena Meari and Dr. Samah Saleh.

Part II features former Palestinian women prisoners who will provide live testimony that details the dehumanization of the Zionist settler-colonial and carceral structure and the various ways sumoud animated their resistance, resilience, and survival. The discussion features Dareen Tatour, Muna Qaddan, Shatha Odeh, Anagheem Awad, Elya Abuhijleh, Rasmea Odeh, and Nida Abubaker.

Register at: bit.ly/PFCPrisonersSymposium

This event is co-sponsored by:

Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association, AROC: Arab Resource & Organizing Center, Black Women Radicals, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Critical Resistance, Freedom Archives, International League of Peoples’ Struggle – ILPS US, Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)- حركة الشباب الفلسطيني, Right to Education Campaign – Palestine حملة الحق في التعليم, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, @Solidarity Across Borders, and US Palestinian Community Network

The “Abraham Accords”: Implications for Human Rights, a Just Peace, and US Policy: online
2023-05-02 06:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
The “Abraham Accords”: Implications for Human Rights, a Just Peace, and US Policy
Tuesday May 2, 2023
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET
With the normalization of relations between Israel and some Arab countries moving at a relatively fast pace, and with the Abraham Accords having taken over a significant proportion of US policy conversations and priorities for the region, there is a great need to provide a detailed and objective assessment of this new policy direction and its potential impacts and implications.
Arab Center Washington DC (ACW) and the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) are hosting a half-day conference to discuss the implications of these agreements for human rights and democracy across the region, as well as for US policies and priorities, regional and global alliances, and the future of both peace and Palestinian human rights. The conference panels will also include an examination of the diplomatic, economic, military, and technological components of these newly established relations, the motivations of each of the countries involved, and an overall assessment of the future of the Abraham Accords.

Reconstructing the Ancient Nile and Human Interactions with the River: Zoom
2023-05-06 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
While many efforts to reconstruct the ancient Nile drainage system have been conducted in previous years, they have been confined primarily to small study areas, producing maps of fragmented sections of the ancient river. The position and dynamic nature of the entire river channel system remains undiscovered.
Such a poor understanding of the Nile history not only inhibits our ability to map archaeological sites accurately, but also to understand their significance within the wider landscape.
Using remote sensing, geophysical methodologies for ground truthing, and Egyptological research, our team has begun the process of mapping the ancient Nile south of Cairo.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Suzanne Onstine is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Memphis. She received her B.A in anthropology at the University of Arizona and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern civilizations at the University of Toronto.

Sam Kigar and Rokiatou Soumaré, “Translation as Territorialization: Language and Belonging in Modern Africa” | A Translation Studies Hub Colloquium
2023-05-16 11:30 - 13:00 | University of Washington – Communications Building, UW Campus, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
“Against Translation as Metaphor: Sultanic Languages of Sovereignty in Late 19th Century Morocco”
Sam Kigar (Islamic Studies, Department of Religion, University of Puget Sound) challenges a scholarly tradition of describing religions as languages that can be translated into one another. He examines the translation of two letters by Sultan Hassan I (r. 1873-1894) about his journeys to the Sūs region of southern Morocco. The Sultan was not translating forms of Islamic sovereignty into “foreign” territorial terms, instead, he was participating in the territorialization of the Sūs.
“Decentering French to re-center Wolof: Translation as a Nationalist Performance in Boubacar Boris Diop’s Work”
Rokiatou Soumaré (French and Francophone Studies, University of Puget Sound) proposes that Senegalese novelist Boubacar Boris Diop positions himself in his work as a nationalist linguistic activist by writing in Wolof instead of French, Senegal’s lingua franca. For Diop, translating these essential pieces initiated an ambitious political project that aligns with his nationalistic views, and his rejection of French hegemony.

EVENT INTERVAL
Single day event

CAMPUS LOCATION
Communications Building (CMU)

CAMPUS ROOM
202

EVENT TYPES
Lectures/Seminars

EVENT SPONSORS
Simpson Center for the Humanities, humanities@uw.edu, 206.543.3920
Department of French and Italian Studies

Kahlil Gibran ~ In Search of a Prophet
2023-05-17 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual
This event commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the publication of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet.
Join Paul-Gordon Chandler in conversation with Q&A about his new book, In Search of a Prophet: A Spiritual Journey with Kahlil Gibran, exploring the all-embracing spirituality of Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese born Arab-American poet-artist, mystic and best-selling author of The Prophet.
In Search of a Prophet is a fascinating journey through the spiritual life of Kahlil Gibran. Paul-Gordon Chandler explores this beloved writer and artist, a mystic who sought to build bridges and tear down walls.
In Search of a Prophet is not a traditional biography, but a compelling spiritual journey through Gibran’s writings, art, and the places he lived. From his birthplace village high in the snowy mountains of Lebanon, Chandler leads us through his emigration to Boston, art training in Paris, career in New York, and to the far reaching places of influence his writings and art have traveled, from Cairo to Mexico City.

SUPER-UW Conversation: how to discuss Palestine with different audiences and age groups
2023-05-18 18:00 - 19:30 | UW-Seattle
Join SUPER-UW for a conversation with Laila Taji, Dr. Alice Rothchild, and Prof. Nada Elia on the ways in which we discuss Palestine with different audiences and age groups.

UW Electrical & Computer Engineering, Room 037
from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Voices from the Holy Land: Online Film Salon
2023-05-21 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Two documentary films, Voices across the Divide and Born in Deir Yassin, pull back the carefully constructed curtain of “a land without people for a people without a land.” Since 1948, a monumental effort has been made to promote a romantic mythology of Israel’s creation and to hide the brutal violence. But firsthand accounts by both the oppressor and the oppressed, the expeller and the exiled, reveal the ongoing wounds. Nothing is resolved by dialogue alone, yet nothing will be resolved without it. Any hope of coexistence begins when the historical truth is rediscovered and acknowledged. It begins here.
Watch the film for free at your convenience; then join the Q&A Discussion with:
Alice Rothchild: Author, filmmaker, and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School (Retd.)
Emad Moussa: Palestinian-British journalist, researcher, and human rights activist
Huda Giddens: Palestinian American educator, Nakba survivor
Ahlam Muhtaseb (moderator): Author, filmmaker, and Professor of Media Studies at CSUSB
You must register to join the discussion & receive access to the film: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-May2023
Watch the Trailers: 1) vimeo.com/818747654 2) vimeo.com/818744242
How this will work:
1 – Register here for the Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon:
Tinyurl.com/VFHL-May2023
2 – Once you register, you will get a confirmation email from Zoom with a link to the meeting and a link with to watch the film. (Save this confirmation letter as the meeting link is unique to your email and you must have this to participate.)
3 – Watch the film at your convenience before the event. Then join us with your thoughts and questions for our speakers at the Q&A Discussion on Sunday May 21, 2023 at 3 pm ET/ 12 noon PT.

Book Talk with Dr. Jenny Lynn Kelly
2023-05-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
We are writing to invite you to a special virtual event and ask you to mark your calendar to join us on May 22, 2023, at 7:00PM EST for a book talk with Dr. Jenny Lynn Kelly. Dr. Kelly is a former Eyewitness Palestine delegate, faculty member at the University of California Santa Cruz, and author of the recently-released Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine. The event will be hosted via Zoom and donors of an eligible amount will receive a signed copy of Dr. Kelly’s book, so keep an eye out for the registration link coming soon!

Honoring Palestinian Fathers with PFC
2023-06-17 11:00 - 13:00
Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) warmly invites you to join us for our June 2023 Feminist Futures Program. This month we are honoring Palestinian fathers with a virtual event meant to create space for, honor and recognize the complex lived experiences and realities of Palestinian fathers. We will be hosting two incredible speakers: Raja Shehadeh, author of the memoir We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I, and Abeer Otman, postdoctoral scholar, who will unpack how Zionist settler colonialism impinges on Palestinian fatherhood, as well as how fathers defy settler colonialism by showing love, care, and protection for their families and homes. As Palestinian feminists, we will conceptualize: What are the experiences of Palestinian fathers – diverse and complicated? How do we tell these stories of fatherhood? How can we continue to hold them and make space for them in our pursuit of Palestinian liberation?

Abeer Otman’s postdoctoral research investigates father-child connectivity under the settler-colonial context. She has a doctorate in social work from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her doctoral research focused on fathers and fatherhood in a settler colonial context: the case of occupied East Jerusalem (OEJ). As a community and social worker in East Jerusalem for more than ten years, she engages in local activities concerning fulfillment of socio-economic rights, improving physical spaces, developing social and educational services.
Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian lawyer, human rights activist, and writer. He co-founded the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq in 1979. He is the author of several books, including Palestinian Walks, which he won the Orwell Prize in 2008. In addition to his legal work, Shehadeh has written a number of books about Palestine through the lens of his life, including Strangers in the House (2002), Occupation Diaries (2012), and his latest, We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir (2022).

Online Class: Spotlight on Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad With Heba F. El-Shazli
2023-06-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Isabella Hammad’s new novel, Enter Ghost, features an actor’s return to Palestine via the staging of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the West Bank which reflects the turmoil within Palestinian society. If you enjoyed her first debut novel, The Parisian, then please join us on another journey into Palestinian society and a quest for self-healing, political knowledge, and a painful awakening. One Tuesday, June 20th, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EDT
Online

SWANA Style Series: Thobe Fabric Identification (1900-1948)
2023-08-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
Date/Time: August 3, 7pm EST
Format: Virtual Event
Fee: Sliding Scale $10 or $25
The SWANA Style Series is a lecture series focused on exploring the traditional dress of cultural communities living in SWANA (Southwest Asia & North Africa). The aim of this series is to bring awareness to styles that have generally been left out of the historical record, however have great historical origination stories. Our cultural memory must preserve this knowledge for the next generation.
In this lecture, the instructor will discuss the main fabrics produced and used for dresses across historic Palestine. Learn how to identify al Majdal royal fabric to Syrian silks in this informative lecture by Wafa!
Note: This lecture is recorded. You are welcome to register for the lecture and watch the recording at a later time. The recording is sent 48 hours after the event.

ONLINE CLASS: Spotlight on Newly Translated Memoirs of an Arabian Princess
2023-09-14 15:30 - 17:30 | Virtual
Price:

$50 Per Person (10% off for members)

Lecture and Discussion. This live class will be recorded and available for later viewing.
Beyond the fairy tales and exotic images, Zanzibar and Oman are real destinations, each with its own history, culture and proud people – people like Sayyida Salme, Princess of Oman and Zanzibar. After becoming Emily Ruete, she would be the first Arab woman to publish a book. The class will focus on her great-great-granddaughter Andrea Emily Stumpf’s newest and most accurate translation of these Memoirs, to be discussed with all their striking drama, bright moments and dark truths.
This class will be taught in conversation with Andrea Emily Stumpf.
One Thursday: September 14 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET Online

Required Book:
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess, translated by Andrea Emily Stumpf (9781732397538) Book is non-returnable.

Karen Leggett Abouraya is a journalist and children’s author, winning the 2013 Arab American Book Award and other honors for Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books. She is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Egypt, and with her Egyptian-born husband, chairs the Baltimore Luxor Alexandria Sister City Committee and the Friends of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) Maryland, Virginia, D.C. Together they also produce the podcast American Egyptian Women of Influence. Karen facilitates online conversations between Egyptian and American children and co-hosted a conference on informal education at the BA in 2015. She reviewed children’s books for the New York Times, is a past president of the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, D.C. and has served as a judge for children’s writing contests in Egypt and Montgomery County. She earned her B.A. in international relations from Brown University.

Art Under Occupation - Virtual Panel
2023-09-21 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
Eyewitness Palestine is back with the next Zoom event in our monthly series, “Art Under Occupation,” which features several globally-recognized Palestinian artists, including Saleh Bakri, Sliman Mansour, Dareen Tatour, Kher Fody, & Yazid Sadi. Saleh Bakri is a Palestinian actor who has starred in films like “The Present” (2020) and “Salt of this Sea” (2008). Sliman Mansour is the painter responsible for the one of the most iconic Palestinian artworks, “Camel of Hardships” and “Woman with Jerusalem.” Dareen Tatour is the internationally recognized poet who was jailed by Israel for one of her poems. While she was incarcerated, she spoke out about abuse she’d experienced as a child, and, by doing so, empowered Palestinian women from all over to tell their own stories. Kher Foudy is a multi-talented artist who paints pictures using Arabic calligraphy and is also the frontman of the iconic Palestinian band “Walaat,” whose music of resistance showcase the resilience of the Palestinians of occupied Akka. Yazid Sadi, embodying the Akkawi spirit, balances being a talent manager and the owner of an art gallery & cafe in the Old City of Akka, Nawaya Gallery and We look forward to hearing from these artists about the beauty and struggle of their work under occupation and hope that you’ll join us in welcoming them on September 21st at 12pm Noon ET/9am PT.
It is our goal to raise as much funding as possible. However, we do not want price to be a barrier to entry. If you do not have the capacity to donate, but would still like to attend, please email us at info@eyewitnesspalestine.org with the subject “Art Under Occupation” to receive the event link.

Conflict, Hope, Peace, and Public Health in Palestine - Lecture
2023-10-05 10:00 - 11:30 | University of Washington – Hans Rosling Center, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Join the DGH DEI Committee for a discussion with Professor Izzeldin Abuelaish on conflict, hope, peace, and public health in Palestine.
Thursday, October 5, 2023 | 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Hans Rosling Center Room 101
Prof. Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian Canadian physician and an internationally recognized human rights and peace activist devoted to advancing health and education opportunities for women and girls in the Middle East. Born and raised in Jabalia Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip, he is the first Palestinian doctor to receive an appointment in Medicine at an Israeli hospital. Through his work, he has experienced firsthand the impacts of conflict in many countries. His experience working as both an insider and outsider to conflict has led him to believe that doctors are particularly well-poised to serve as peacemakers, based on the moral doctrine of their profession. His work as both a healthcare practitioner and a peace advocate builds on this philosophy of health as a tool for peace. Prof. Abuelaish has been nominated five times for Nobel Peace Prize.

Dr. Abuelaish’s book, I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey, an autobiography inspired by the loss of his three daughters to Israeli shelling, has achieved critical acclaim and has been translated into 23 languages. It is available as an e-book from the UW library and the Seattle Public Library.

Interlaced Communities: The Language of Palestinian Embroidery with Wafa Ghnaim [Portland]
2023-10-28 12:00 - 16:00 | Textile Hive, Textile Hive 133 Southwest 2nd Avenue Suite 203, Portland, Oregon, 97204
Palestinian researcher, author and teacher Wafa Ghnaim will be presenting a history of storytelling in Palestinian embroidery, including a cross-stitching master class and stitching circle where participants can learn, practice, and discuss the art to connect with their heritage and preserve the craft for future generations.
Also, on display as part of the event, there will be historic Palestinian textiles from the Textile Hive Andrea Aranow collection, along with textiles from Wafa’s personal collection, to honor the important traditions that will be carried forward through this community gathering.
Schedule
12:00-1:30pm: Lecture: Palestinian Embodiment Through Adornment & Dress, Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
1:30-1:45pm: Break for questions and discussion
1:45-3:00pm: Master Class (registration required through this link) Palestinian Fellahi Embroidery Technique
3:00-4:00pm: Stitching Circle and Discussion, Reflections, Creations

Providing the Palestinian Perspective on the Current Events in Gaza [Virtual]
2023-10-29 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Please click the above underlined title of the event to go to the registration page.

This is a Hybrid Event, meaning you can attend virtually via Zoom or, in-person at the Palestine Museum US, 1764 Litchfield Turnpike, Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA. The program begins at 2:00 PM US EDT; 20:00 Europe; 21:00 Palestine Time.
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese will participate in the Palestine Museum US Open House Event providing insight into the legal implications of Israeli actions in Gaza.
Palestine Museum US Open House
Providing the Palestinian Perspective on the Current Events in Gaza
We would like to announce that Palestine Museum US will be hosting an open house event to shed light on the current events in Gaza. In light of the Western media’s biased coverage and one-sided narrative that often favors Israel, it is crucial to provide an alternative perspective that delves into the historical context and Israel’s actions over the past 75 years that have contributed to the current situation. Our aim is to present a comprehensive understanding of the complex dynamics at play and offer an opportunity for visitors to uncover the true facts. By joining us at the open house, attendees will have the chance to learn about the rich historical background of Palestine and gain valuable insights that are often omitted from mainstream narratives. We invite all interested individuals to come and engage in meaningful conversations that have the potential to broaden horizons and foster a more comprehensive understanding of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice.

Information Professionals and Academic Freedom in a Time of Cultural Terrorism.
2023-11-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Open House – Week 5
This Sunday November 5, 2023, 12:00 Noon US EST; 19:00 Palestine; 18:00 Europe.
Our Topic:
Information Professionals and Academic Freedom in a Time of Cultural Terrorism.
Please click here to register for this event.
Information Professionals and Academic Freedom in a Time of Cultural Terrorism .
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on the pressing issue of academic freedom and the role of information professionals in today’s climate of cultural terrorism.

No Tech For Apartheid: Panel
2023-11-27 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual
Join us in a series of discussions with an amazing group of scholars, journalists and activists to learn about tech enabled Israeli apartheid, the history of tech workers in both enabling and dismantling apartheid, and what you can do to support Palestinians.

***Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the live-streamed video on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and captioning will be provided.***
Speakers:
Caroline Hunter co-founded the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement.
Marwa Fatafta leads Access Now’s policy & advocacy work on digital rights in MENA region.
Mona Shtaya is Campaigns & Partnerships Manager (MENA) and Corporate Engagement Lead at Digital Action. She was also advocacy & communications manager at 7amleh.
Ariel Koren was pushed out of Google for advocacy on the #NoTechForAparthied and Drop Nimbus campaigns.
Antony Loewenstein is the author of The Palestine Laboratory.
Matt Mahmoudi is Researcher/Adviser on Artificial Intelligence & Human Rights at Amnesty Tech, and co-author of Digital Witness. He is a professor at University of Cambridge.
Timnit Gebru (moderator) is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace, where she was serving as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team.
Alex Hanna (moderator) is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). A sociologist by training, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial, gender, and class inequality.
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This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and is part of Until Liberation: A Series for Palestine by Haymarket Books cosponsored by Palestinian American Organizations Network, Mondoweiss, Spectre, Dissenters, Tempest, Palestine Deep Dive, The New Arab, and more. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. A portion of the proceeds from this event will be donated to Palestine Legal and Respond Crisis Translation

The Legacies of Edward W Said: Academic Praxis and the Question of Palestine: online panel discussion
2023-11-29 07:30 - 09:00 | Virtual
Sijal Institute invites you to join the upcoming online panel discussion in partnership with TWAILR entitled “The Legacies of Edward W Said: Academic Praxis and the Question of Palestine.”
Register via the link in our bio
يدعوكم معهد سجال لحضور حلقة نقاشية باللغة الإنجليزية عبر الإنترنت بالتعاون مع Third World Approaches to International Law Review (TWAILR) عنوانها“The Legacies of Edward W Said: Academic Praxis and the Question of Palestine”.
نرجو التسجيل لمن يرغب بالحضور عبر هذا الرابط (يمكن إيجاده على صفحتنا الرئيسية أيضًا):
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