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Virtual Delegations to Visit Public Street Art Installations w/ Eyewitness Palestine
2021-10-16 | WA
Join us for a virtual delegation to visit public art installations in Palestine. During this delegation we will speak with artists and see the ways in which they use art as a resistance tool. Join Palestinian artists, from the US and Palestine!
This delegation is co-sponsored by the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival
EXACT DATES COMING SOON

ARCE PA: Revealing the Practice of Tattooing in Ancient Egypt
2021-10-16 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
About Lecture:
The practice of tattooing in ancient Egypt is rarely attested. Egyptologists have identified tattoos on only a handful of mummies spanning Pharaonic Egypt’s more than 3,000 year history. Textual evidence is virtually silent on the practice and art historical evidence is often ambiguous. In 2014, the mission of the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) made an incredible find–an extensively tattooed mummy from the necropolis at Deir el-Medina, the community of the workmen who cut and decorated the New Kingdom’s royal tombs. With over 30 tattoos, this woman completely redefined what we knew about tattooing in ancient Egypt. The extensive use of Hathoric imagery in these tattoos further showed us the incredible amount of religious agency women could hold during a time when the title “priestess of Hathor” was not even attested. Since then, we have used infrared imaging to identify dozens of new tattoos among the many unpublished human remains at the site. This talk presents the most recent findings from the bioarchaeological team of the 2019 and 2020 IFAO mission at Deir el-Medina. These additional tattoos indicate that many more individuals were likely tattooed at Deir el-Medina. Additionally, the designs and placement of tattoos varied broadly. Coalescing the physical and art historical evidence, this talk offers some of the most comprehensive evidence we have to date on the practice of tattooing in ancient Egypt.

Across Disciplines: Alia Ali & Tarek Yamani
2021-10-20 16:30 - 18:00 | WA
Virtual event
FREE with RSVP
Join multimedia artist Alia Ali and musician/composer Tarek Yamani as the two artists of different disciplines interview one another, discover unexpected connections, and discuss each of their newest projects commissioned by UMS and AANM.
Alia Ali (Arabic: عاليه علي // Sabean: ‎ 𐩲𐩱𐩡𐩺𐩲|𐩲𐩱𐩡) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-US multi-media artist. A child of migrant linguists, Ali has traveled to sixty-seven countries, lived in and between seven, and grown-up among five languages. Her migrations have led her to process the world through interactive experiences and the belief that the damage of translation and interpretation of written language has dis-served particular communities, resulting in the threat of their exclusion, rather than a means of understanding. As an artist who exists on the borders of identifying as West Asian, Eastern European, a United States citizen, queer, culturally Muslim yet spiritually independent, her work explores cultural binaries, challenges culturally sanctioned oppression, and confronts the dualistic barriers of conflicted notions of gender, politics, media, and citizenship. Through her practice, Ali critiques linguistics and inherited political structures and narratives, while simultaneously attempting to counter the polarization and miscommunication that imperils communities across the world, encouraging viewers to confront their own prejudices.
Tarek Yamani is an American-Lebanese New York-based composer and a self-taught jazz pianist dedicated to exploring relationships between African-American Jazz and Arabic rhythms/maqams. He is the recipient of awards such as the Givanas Foundation Grant, Huygens Scholarship, Andrea Elkenbracht Award, Prins Bernhard Culture Fund, Thelonious Monk Composers Competition Prize, Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency, New Dutch Composition Contest, and Composer’s Platform Commission by the Abu Dhabi Festival. Tarek has been recently commissioned by UMS (Ann Arbor) to write a new piece for the genre-bending Spektral Quartet to be premiered on October 27th, as part of the UMS Digital Artist Residency.

UW Public Lecture Series: Maysoon Zayid
2021-10-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Meany Performing Arts Center, 4040 George Washington Lane Northeast, Seattle, 98195, United States
Join comedian, disability advocate, and author Maysoon Zayid for “Survival of the Unfittest.” This one-hour talk will tackle everything from diversity to cats named Beyonce through Maysoon’s humorous lens.

Rendezvous with Madness Festival
2021-10-28 - 2021-11-07 | WA
Join Workman Arts and us for the virtual screening of As I Want, directed by Samaher Alqadi. This Rendezvous with Madness film program will be available for online viewing from October 29th to November 7th. As I Want documents the women’s rebellion in Egypt on the second anniversary of the revolution – along the way Alqadi re-examines societal constructs of her own childhood in Palestine and what it means to be a woman and mother in the Middle East.
FOR TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION
JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Q&A
Watch a pre-recorded Q&A with the director of As I Want, Samaher Alqadi and the director of
We Have Not Come Here to Die, Deepa Dhanraj. Conversation moderated by filmmaker and film
programmer Aisha Jamal and available at the same link as the film.

We Will Remain: Street Art as Resistance from San Francisco to Palestine
2021-10-29 11:00 - 12:30 | WA
Oftentimes, we see Palestinian resistance through protests, advocacy campaigns, and speeches.
But there is such a long and rich history of Palestinian resistance – and joy – through art – stitched flags on a thobe when Israel banned the Palestinian flag from flying during the Second Intifada, to songs, to vast murals on the apartheid wall.
From San Francisco to Palestine, artists are using public spaces to showcase their powerful artwork and messages of resistance. Learn from Palestinian artists about their work, challenges they face in creating these public art pieces, and why they choose this powerful form of expression.

Virtual Conversation & Ud Playing with Palestinian Musician Nizar Rohana
2021-10-31 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
Sunday October 31,12:00 Noon US EDT; 7:00 PM Palestine time
Virtual Conversation & Ud Playing with Palestinian Musician Nizar Rohana
Please click here for more information and to register for this event.
Nizar Rohana is a Palestinian ud player based in the Netherlands, distinguished for combining virtuosity within fresh contemporary compositions while maintaining the ud’s authentic language.

Tatreez Workshops and Lectures by Tatreez and Tea - Ongoing
2021-11-01 - 2021-12-31 | 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.
Click here for upcoming events!
https://www.tatreezandtea.com/events

7.4 Dialogues on the Art of Arab Fashion: Architecture & Clothing (Case study Damascus)
2021-11-02 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
Event Description: Dr. Reem El Mutwalli in conversation with Dr. Salam Fakih, a Lebanese Professor, Researcher, and Interior Architect.
In addition to her 20 years’ experience in the field of design, and 14 years in educational teaching, Dr. Fakih is also a member and Head of specialized Technical Committee at General Directorate of Vocational and Technical Education in Lebanon, where she constructs and periodically updates the curriculum of the fashion design. They will be discussing Dr. Salam’s research on the correlation between Architecture & Clothing in Damascus.
Date: 2nd November 2021
Time: 12 pm (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.
Eventbrite link: (for info only – this is now live):

University Book Store Presents: Laila Lalami in conversation with Dr. Anu Taranath
2021-11-03 18:00 - 19:00 | WA
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging In America (Pantheon Books)
November 03, 2021, 6:00 PM (Pacific Time) Virtual
Free

University Book Store is proud to present author and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Laila Lalami for a discussion about her new book Conditional Citizens. Laila will be joined in conversation with Dr. Anu Taranath, Teaching Professor in the English and Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) departments at the University of Washington.
This is a free Zoom event but registration, through the link provided, is required to receive a Zoom code to join the Webinar. If you have any questions, please email events@ubookstore.com. See you there!
ABOUT THE BOOK
A New York Times Editors’ Choice • Finalist for the California Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, Los Angeles Times
In this brilliantly argued and deeply personal work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S.citizen, using her own story as a starting point for an exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth—such as national origin, race, and gender—that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today, poignantly illustrating how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation. Weaving together her experiences with an examination of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture, Lalami illuminates how conditional citizens are all those whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.

Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of four novels, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent work, The Other Americans, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, The Guardian, and The New York Times. Lalami is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles. www.lailalalami.com

Rabih Alameddine with Michael David Lukas and R.O. Kwon
2021-11-08 18:00 - 20:00 | WA
One of our favorite, and one of our most necessary literary writers at work today, Rabih Alameddine, makes this welcome Elliott Bay return in virtual form to read from and discuss his brilliant new novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Press). Here the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, as well The Hakawati, I, the Divine, and others, again tells the story of a singular woman.

Music Madness: Arabic Music Through Generations
2021-11-09 10:00 - 11:00 | WA
Join us to listen to music from different generations and genres across the Arab region and engage with our guests about their playlists.
Featuring, Prof. Atef Said, Sara Hattab, and Fathi Mahmoud, who will share stories, memories, and melodies.
RSVP for the zoom link
For questions or accessibility, email us at arabamcc@uic.edu

Arab Costume Collections: Sustaining Legacies Symposium
2021-11-14 05:00 - 07:00 | WA
SYMPOSIUM – SAVE THE DATE
Arab Costume Collections: Sustaining Legacies Symposium
The Past, Present & Future
Date: Sunday 14th November 2021
Timings: 1 pm – 3 pm (London) / 5 pm – 7 pm (Dubai) / 8 am – 10 am (NYC)
Description: With the world beginning to open up we are delighted to announce that our online forthcoming ‘Arab Costume Collections: Sustaining Legacies Symposium – The Past, Present & Future ‘will be taking place on Sunday, 14th November. This will be a 2-hour online session with 2 panel sessions, the first focusing on the importance of Arab dress & culture with key collectors and speakers from around the globe and the second on the role and relevance of heritage contemporary brands.
Further details and registration coming soon!

In Conversation: On Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
2021-11-16 09:00 - 10:00 | WA
Livestreamed

In Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of American rights, liberties, and the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture. Moderated by author Marie Arana.

If you are interested in this event, please double check time!

Unlearn to Relearn: Shifting Attitudes for Arabs with Disabilities
2021-11-16 10:00 - 11:00 | WA
Nadwa (Public Conversation)
November 16, 2021

Virtual via Zoom

Disability? Disabled? Special Needs? What language and framework do/should we use in the Arab Community? Join us for a discussion on disability in the Arab/American community!
Historically and traditionally, people with disabilities across the globe have been systematically excluded and marginalized from all aspects of society. Although perspectives and attitudes about disability have changed in recent decades, people with disabilities of color continue to face systemic and cultural barriers that deprive this community of accessing quality education and resources that will enable them to become valued members of society. In particular, people with disabilities among Arab communities, by large, continue to face persistent and blatant oppression and barriers from living quality and humane lives. This webinar is the first of its kind. We will explicitly address long-term disability issues that have impacted Arab communities in the United States and the Middle East. The webinar aims to ignite new ways of thinking about disability and how all of us—both disabled and non-disabled alike—can begin to create a better society that promotes the basic principles of independence, respect and dignity for Arabs with physical, intellectual, and mental health disabilities.
Facilitators:

Adnan Alaboudi, International Disability Self Advocate, Jordan
Marina Salman, Access Living Chicago
Randa Abdelrahim, PhD Candidate Disability Studies, UIC

Real-time live captioning will be provided. For questions, additional information, and/or accessibility contact us at arabamcc@uic.edu
Event is co-organized by the Arab American Cultural Center and the Disability Cultural Center
Speaker bios:
Adnan Alaboudi is a person with disabilities (dual bottom amputation above and under the knee). Adnan is the Executive Director of the Landmines Survivors Network from 1999-2008 and a member of the Committee for Drafting of the International Convention on Human Rights with Disability in the United Nations. He is an activist and coach in the field of persons with disabilities and a professional sport in power games, table tennis, swimming and water skiing, and participating in global, Olympic, and Arab sports. Adnan is the coordinator of awareness and promotion programs in the Supreme Council for People with Disabilities in Jordan 2009 – 2017.
Marina Salman serves as the SOAR case manager for the Colbert Transition Program at Access Living Chicago where she helps individuals living in long-term care facilities reintegrate back into their communities after their recovery. She is also involved in numerous advocacy efforts that focus on the intersectionality of race and disability, which includes healthcare and criminal justice reform. Marina completed her Master’s in Counseling Psychology with a focus in Sport and Health Psychology from Adler University in Chicago. She is an Arab American woman with multiple disabilities who looks to empower Arabs with disabilities to live meaningful lives through the power of education and experience.
Randa Abdelrahim is a visiting research specialist at the department of disability and human development, University of Illinois Chicago and a PhD candidate of disability studies. As an Arab American immigrant, Randa is interested in examining contextual factors of disability across immigrants and minority groups. Her research focuses on how multiple personal and social factors such as gender, culture, race, and income contribute to disparities in accessing health care and disability services for people with disabilities and their caregivers. Her advocacy work includes supporting people with disabilities with a focus on those who identify as Arab. She is currently a member of the Disability and Immigration Taskforce of Illinois.

Conversation with Arab American Filmmaker, Mike Mosallam
2021-11-16 15:00 - 17:00 | WA
Please join us for a conversation with Arab American Producer and Actor, Mike Mosallam. His latest film is “Breaking Fast” which had its World Premiere in March 2020 and garnered major awards. In addition, he is the creator and co-Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed “All American Muslim.”

Register for the event here.

The Nakba and its Generational Impact on Palestinian lives: Memory, Identity, and a Future rooted in Justice
2021-11-18 07:30 - 08:45 | WA
The Foundation for Middle East Peace & Project48 invite you to join
The Nakba and its Generational Impact on Palestinian lives: Memory, Identity, and a Future rooted in Justice
Friday, November 19th, 2021
10:30am – 11:45am ET
Featuring Palestinians who lived through the 1948 Nakba and their descendants:
Nida El-Muti, Dina El-Muti, and Hasan Hammami
In conversation with Peter Beinart (FMEP Non-resident fellow)
RSVP here
The Nakba, the displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland from 1947-49, is among the root causes of the conflict in Palestine-Israel and critical to understanding the failure of the decades-long “peace-process,” and the level of justice and reparations required to achieve a sustainable future. We will hear the personal stories of those who survived the ethnic cleansing of their cities and villages, and learn from them and their descendants how the trauma of the Nakba and Israel’s ongoing policies of erasure have shaped their lives. We’ll also ask about their visions for the future, what justice looks like, and how they sustain connections to their homeland from the diaspora.
Participants:
Nida El-Muti: Born in Jericho to Fatima Radwan, a survivor of the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre, Nida was raised in Ramallah and at sixteen immigrated to New Jersey with her mother. Nida put herself through school at Rutgers University, earned a masters in human physiology and worked at Robert Wood Johnson in the department of microbiology, and at Rutgers medical school as a senior technologist in the IVF program. For fifteen years, Nida taught anatomy and physiology at Eastern Illinois university. She is currently retired and living in Chicago.
Dina El-Muti: Born in Denton, TX, Dina grew up in a small town in East Central Illinois, and is now a recent transplant back to Texas, specifically, Houston. The granddaughter of Fatima Radwan, who lived through the 1948 Nakba, Dina is the mother of two little boys and a trauma clinician who has worked for organizations including Defence for Children International, Palestine (DCI-P), the Treatment & Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture (TRC), and various social service organizations serving children who have experienced early childhood trauma. Dina attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for undergrad and earned a masters in social work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dina grew up on the hyphen: both Palestinian and American, on a steady diet of Edward Said, Malcolm X, and her grandmother Fatima’s timeless stories that fundamentally changed the trajectory of her life and work.
Hasan Hammami: Born in Jaffa, Palestine in 1932, Hasan was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Jaffa until he was forced to flee on a cargo sailboat at age 15, with 3000 people, during the Nakba. At 18, after 3 years at the National College of Choueifat and the American University of Beirut, Hasan had to abandon his education to help support his family by working for the oil company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, where he lived in a desert labor camp. He completed his engineering education at the University of Nottingham, England and joined Procter and Gamble where he launched manufacturing operations in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and with increasing responsibilities led large projects in several parts of the world. Father to three daughters and a step-son living on 4 continents, Hasan has served organizations such as the Arab American Association and the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, among others, focusing on civil and human rights for all, advancement of Arab Americans and Interfaith work. A US citizen for 37 years, a citizen of the world for nearly 70, and with 25 country moves behind him, Hasan, now 89, continues to grow & share as a retiree in Florida.
Peter Beinart is Non-Resident Fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He is also a Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York, a Contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, an Editor-at-Large at Jewish Currents, and a CNN Political Commentator. He tweets @PeterBeinart and publishes on peterbeinart.substack.com

Virtual Delegations About Palestinian Political Prisoners w/ Eye Witness Palestine
2021-12-01 | WA
Join us for a virtual tour with Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution. Addameer works to support Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons and this tour will focus on the prison system Palestinians are subjected to and hearing directly from former political prisoners about their experiences.
(All tour times are listed in Eastern Time – USA)

EXACT DATES COMING SOON!

NAAWA Speakers Panel: Arab-American Women Authors Reflect on Roles, Identities, and Contributions
2021-12-05 16:00 - 17:00 | WA
Join NAAWA speakers’ panel virtual event on Sunday December 5th. at 7P EST. We hope you will be able to attend and listen to our wonderful speakers discussion. Follow the link to attend.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvf-yspzksGNOQe3gFtTLfsj_956K4rzFz?fbclid=IwAR0cXPkRI9kl0qlVPYusIrLaBi3uvR_RCfg7pr2YWBaKcf__uYJqbYUAxMg

Online Class (series of 3): Literature of Rafik Schami With Heba F. El-Shazli
2022-01-24 10:00 - 12:00 | WA
This is a three series class starting on January 24.
Join me on this tumultuous, passionate, and heart rendering voyage back to Syria for this most interesting Syrian-German author.
Through three novels we will travel to Syria and read about a passionate love story of a Muslim woman and a Christian man and learn about the art of Arabic calligraphy. We will journey to Damascus in 1959 and read about the most famous storyteller and in the final novel to read and discuss in this series of classes, Sophia or the Beginning of All Tales, Schami ventures to the land of his childhood, where he is now unable to safely return.
Three bi-weekly Mondays: January 24, February 7 and 21, from 1 to 3 p.m. EST Online
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

Virtual Event: Maggie P Chang, Mika Song, Dan Abdo, and Jason Patterson present graphica for early readers
2022-01-26 18:00 - 19:30 | WA
This is a virtual event taking place via Zoom Webinar.
Third Place Books welcomes Maggie P Chang, Mika Song, Dan Abdo, and Jason Patterson for a fun-filled, action-packed presentation on their graphic novels for early readers!
This event will be broadcast live on Zoom. Registering will provide you with a unique access link in an email. During the event, you can ask questions using the Q&A feature, or chat with fellow attendees. A recording of the event will be made available and emailed to all who register.
This author talk is free! You can sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book.

Restoring our Environment: The struggle to heal a land degraded by occupation and colonization with Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, live from Palestine.
2022-01-29 10:00 - 14:00 | WA
Location: Online
Cost: Free! Sign up now
In this webinar, Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh will describe the catastrophic environmental impact of Israeli settler colonialism on the land of Palestine. He will also share how Palestinian civil society organizations are working to research, educate about and conserve Palestine’s natural world, culture and heritage in the face of the Israeli state’s human rights and environmental abuses. The talk will be followed by a Q&A.
This webinar will be held online, over Zoom. Register for the webinar here: bit.ly/DrMazin.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/634736881307457

ARCE NY: Diving the Pyramids at Nuri, Sudan
2022-01-30 08:00 - 10:00 | WA
Supported by grants from the National Geographic Society, excavations of Nastasen’s pyramid and tomb represent the first attempt to conduct underwater archaeology in Sudan. While not yet completed, significant discoveries were made and will be discussed within the framework of Nuri as a whole and the site’s great potential to inform us about the people of Nuri through the generations and environments in which they lived.
Dr. Pearce Paul Creasman is an archaeologist in the fields of Egyptology, maritime archaeology, and dendrochronology who holds a PhD in nautical archaeology from Texas A&M University. He is currently director of the American Center in Research located in Amman, Jordan.

Powell's Books Presents Simon Jacobs in Conversation With Mona Awad (Zoom)
2022-02-01 17:00 - 19:00 | WA
Eerie, hypnotic, and shot through with dark comedy, Simon Jacobs’s String Follow (MCD x FSG) is a razor-sharp suburban Gothic that cuts deep, exposing the sweating, bleeding truth of how kids become adults in 21st-century America. In spellbinding, incisive prose, Jacobs blends the startlingly original and the uncannily familiar, revealing the dark chaos that lurks under the surface of Midwestern suburbia.

Jacobs will be joined in conversation by Mona Awad, author of All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl.

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Dialogues on the Art of Arab Fashion: MESOPOTAMIA: The Art of Jewellery
2022-02-08 08:00 - 10:00 | WA
Event Description: Dr Reem El Mutwalli in conversation with Hajer Ghani, Iraqi Jewellery Designer.
Hajer Ghani is an Iraqi jewelry designer who believes that jewellery is more than a mere accessory, but a work of art rich in history and significance. Every piece she creates always has a story behind it. Hajer began her journey by designing gold and silver jewellery inspired by the work of her father, the late Iraqi sculptor Mohammed Ghani Hekmat, also known as “Sheikh of Sculptors”, who in turn captured the Babylonian, Assyrian, and Sumerian civilizations of Iraq in his work. Hajer then moved on to design different types of jewellery inspired by the tales and history of Mesopotamia.

Date: 8th February 2022
Time: 11 am (NYC), 4 pm (London), 8 pm (Dubai)

Gaza 101 A mini-course in four parts: History, Politics, Culture & Economics: Part 1: The Culture of Gaza
2022-02-10 09:30 - 11:00 | WA
Gaza 101 A mini-course in four parts: History, Politics, Culture & Economics

February 10 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West all too often neglect to include Gaza and the voices of Palestinians there, seemingly because the situation is seen to be too overwhelming or challenging to take-on. This program will openly and honestly present the reality of the siege, the occupation, and political leadership as well as include ways participants can advocate with their elected officials to encourage U.S. policies that will help end the siege of Gaza and advance human rights and security for all.
This series is co-organized by Churches for Middle East Peace, Arab American Institute, and American Friends of Combatants for Peace. Each 90-minute session will present on one of the four aspects of Gaza:
1. History & Historical Significance
2. Politics
3. Culture
4. Economics
Part 1
The Culture of Gaza
February 10

Moderated by Maya Berry, Executive Director, The Arab American Institute
with Alaa Hammouda and Omar Ghraieb

Gaza 101 A mini-course in four parts: History, Politics, Culture & Economics: Part 2: History & Historical Significance of Gaza
2022-02-17 09:30 - 11:00 | WA
Gaza 101 A mini-course in four parts: History, Politics, Culture & Economics

Discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West all too often neglect to include Gaza and the voices of Palestinians there, seemingly because the situation is seen to be too overwhelming or challenging to take-on. This program will openly and honestly present the reality of the siege, the occupation, and political leadership as well as include ways participants can advocate with their elected officials to encourage U.S. policies that will help end the siege of Gaza and advance human rights and security for all.
This series is co-organized by Churches for Middle East Peace, Arab American Institute, and American Friends of Combatants for Peace. Each 90-minute session will present on one of the four aspects of Gaza:
1. History & Historical Significance
2. Politics
3. Culture
4. Economics
Part 2
The History & Historical Significance of Gaza
February 17
Moderated by Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon, Executive Director, Churches for Middle East Peace
with Speakers TBA

Virtual Event: Olga Tokarczuk and Jennifer Croft with Rabih Alameddine — The Books of Jacob
2022-02-19 10:00 - 13:00 | WA
Third Place Books is proud to partner with Community Bookstore and the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith to welcome Nobel Prize–winner Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft for a discussion of their latest book, The Books of Jacob—the astonishing, 900-page volume from Poland’s most well-regarded novelist. Tokarczuk and Croft will be joined by Rabih Alameddine, National Book Award finalist and the author, most recently, of The Wrong End of the Telescope.
This event will be broadcast live on Brookline Booksmith’s Zoom platform. Registering will provide you with a unique access link in an email within 48 hours of the event. During the event, you can ask questions using the Q&A feature, or chat with fellow attendees. A recording of the event will be made available and emailed to all who register.
This author talk is free! You can sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book. Order a book-bundled ticket at the link below to received a signed bookplate by the author. Supply is limited.

ARCE Chicago: A Solar-Ship Voyage: The Ancient Egyptian Religion as Inspiration in the Life and Music of Sun Ra and birth of Afrofuturism
2022-02-19 15:00 - 17:00 | WA
Presenting himself as an alien coming from Saturn, Sun Ra has been considered a pioneer of Afrofuturism whose music and live performances with his Arkestra are nowadays a classic in African American jazz music, theater, and poetry. Egypt has been a central source of inspiration for this polyhedric artist; this paper will analyze in particular how Sun Ra used and re-interpreted elements of the ancient Egyptian religious culture and its deities in his work and how much contents relate to the development of the Afrofuturistic philosophy within the American climate of political unrest during which he lived and performed.

Rita Lucarelli studied at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” Italy, where she received her MA degree in Classical Languages and Egyptology. She holds her Ph.D. from Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her Ph.D. thesis was published as the Book of the Dead of Gatseshen: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Religion in the 10th Century BC.

Gaza 101 A mini-course in four parts: History, Politics, Culture & Economics: Part 3: The Politics of Gaza
2022-02-24 09:30 - 11:00 | WA
Gaza 101 A mini-course in four parts: History, Politics, Culture & Economics

Discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West all too often neglect to include Gaza and the voices of Palestinians there, seemingly because the situation is seen to be too overwhelming or challenging to take-on. This program will openly and honestly present the reality of the siege, the occupation, and political leadership as well as include ways participants can advocate with their elected officials to encourage U.S. policies that will help end the siege of Gaza and advance human rights and security for all.
This series is co-organized by Churches for Middle East Peace, Arab American Institute, and American Friends of Combatants for Peace. Each 90-minute session will present on one of the four aspects of Gaza:
1. History & Historical Significance
2. Politics
3. Culture
4. Economics
Part 3
The Politics of Gaza
Moderated by Aziz Abu Sarah, Founder, MEJDI Tours with Jehad Abusalim
February 24
