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Omar El Akkad in Conversation With Roy Scranton
2021-07-20 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From Omar El Akkad, the widely acclaimed author of American War, comes What Strange Paradise (Knopf), a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving new novel that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child’s eyes. More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of Vänna: a teenage girl, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though she and the boy are complete strangers, though they don’t speak a common language, she determines to do whatever it takes to save him. In alternating chapters, we learn the story of the boy’s life and of how he came to be on the boat; and we follow the girl and boy as they make their way toward a vision of safety. But as the novel unfurls we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world, it is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair — and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or guide us to a better one. El Akkad will be joined in conversation by Roy Scranton, author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene and We’re Doomed. Now What?.
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The Art Historical Timeline of Palestinian Embroidery
2021-08-01
Class Type: Lecture Series
Difficulty Level: All Levels
Prerequisite: None
“The Art Historical Timeline of Palestinian Embroidery” is a six-module lecture-based course that combines existing art historical scholarship with Wafa Ghnaim’s most current, peer-reviewed research to explore and expand the traceable origins of traditional Palestinian textiles throughout the centuries.
Class Dates & Times:
The modules will be released on August 1, 2021. Optional live class discussions are scheduled for students to join with the instructor, ask questions, and share their thoughts with the community.
Modules:

Module 1: Traceable Origins of Traditional Palestinian Costume (2 hr)
Module 2: English and European Holy Land Portraiture (2 hr)
Module 3: Photography of the Holy Land (2 hr)
Module 4: Regional Distinctions of the Modern Period 1850 -1948 (2 hr)
Module 5: Exile & Dispossession in the Late Modern Period, 1950s – 1970s (2 hr)
Module 6: Palestinian Revivalism & The Avant-Garde, 1980s – current (2 hr)
Module 7: Live Class Discussion (2 hr)

Where
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$200 for 3 month access to all content.

Landback U: Palestine and Indigenous solidarity
2021-08-14 13:00 - 14:30
Join us to ground yourself in Palestinian history and resistance through stories and first hand accounts. Led by our own Sandra Tamari and Lenna Zahran Nasr of the Palestinian Youth Movement.
The Right of Return and the Right to Remain, that’s our demand and that’s what we’ll be discussing Saturday, August 14th for LANDBACK U’s session on Palestine & indigenous solidarity. LANDBACK U is a free, comprehensive, online learning platform to engage in political education and discussions on topics critical to the Indigenous movement to reclaim land and relationship to land.
We are grateful to our relatives at NDN Collective for hosting this session and for their unwavering solidarity.

STORYTELLING THROUGH SPORTS
2021-08-21 10:00 - 11:00
Saturday, August 21st from 1 pm to 2 pm
The panel will feature three different Palestinian sportswomen and men who will share their stories around the importance of sports in their life. They will speak to how they are navigating everyday life under occupation to excel and create sport opportunities for themselves and their local community.
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Arab Film Series Online: The Lebanese Rocket Society
2021-08-28 - 2021-08-29
Arab Film Series Online: The Lebanese Rocket Society
Film available 12 a.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 28 to 11:59 p.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 29
Free with RSVP
In partnership with ArteEast and AFMI, AANM’s Arab Film Series Online this month presents the feature-length documentary Lebanese Rocket Society directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, which unravels the strange tale of the Lebanese space adventure forgotten from personal and collective memory. The film will be accompanied by a discussion with the artists. MORE INFO

Academic Freedom in Palestine: A Conversation with Imad Barghouthi
2021-08-28 09:00 - 11:00
Please join Scientists for Palestine, in conversation with Imad Barghouthi, renowned Palestinian astrophysicist, father of five and Professor of Plasma Physics at Al Quds university (West Bank).
After already spending many weeks in administrative detention, he was eventually charged on the basis of his Facebook posts. Prof. Barghouthi then spent the next several months in administrative detention, away from his students and family, awaiting trial.Prof. Imad Barghouthi was recently released after nearly a year of administrative detention. After his arrest on July 22nd 2020, he was held in jail for several weeks without charges.
Prof. Barghouthi’s arrest came at great cost to him personally, and academically. Happening mere weeks before the semester started, many students were left without a teacher and/or mentor.
Scientists for Palestine’s international campaign demanding Prof. Barghouthi’s release was joined by thousands of scholars worldwide, including Nobel laureates and Fields medalists.
We now have the privilege of hosting Prof. Barghouthi’s first interview after his finally being freed. Join us to hear first hand about what it is like to be a professor in Palestine, the infringements of the Israeli occupation on academic freedom and the enduring determination of Palestinian academics to overcome them.
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Discussion/Q&A on Palestinian human rights and resistance, moderated by Free Palestine HFX
2021-08-28 16:00 - 17:00
Join us for a discussion/Q&A on Palestinian human rights and resistance, moderated by Free Palestine HFX this Saturday @ 7PM (AST).

Please register before the event via Zoom with the link provided in our bio.

This phenomenal lineup of speakers pictured up above will be joining us!

1) Miko Peled: author of the General’s Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine and Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation. He is a long time advocate for justice in Palestine, and has spoken around the world about the detrimental effects that have resulted from Zionism.

2) Dimitri Lascaris: a lawyer, activist and journalist living in Montreal, Quebec. Dimitri is a long time Palestinian rights activist, and in 2020, he ran for the Green Party of Canada.

3) Mohamad El Attar: an accountant, activist, and Youtuber by the name of That Muslim Guy. He is a Palestinian Canadian, and spends most of his time after work making comedy and educational videos about Islam, politics, and Palestine.

4) Judy Haiven: a member of Independent Jewish Voices and a writer and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Judy is the founder of Equity Watch, a human rights organization dedicated to fighting bullying and discrimination in the workplace.

Arab Film Series Online: Eleven Reflections on September
2021-09-09 - 2021-09-16
Film available Thursday, Sept. 9 – Thursday, Sept. 16
Online Stream – Register for Free
Join the Arab Film Series Online for a special program Eleven Reflections on September by Andrea Assaf: A poetry, music, movement and digital media exploration of Arab American experience, Wars on/of Terror, and “the constant, quiet rain of death amidst beauty” that each autumn brings in a post-9/11 world. The program will be accompanied by a discussion with the artist Andrea Assaf as well as Lubana Al Qantar, moderated by Leila Buck, available Sept. 13-16.
Based on a series of poems Andrea Assaf has written since 2001, Eleven Reflections spans the fall of the Twin Towers, the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the global rise of anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia, and the revolutions and uprisings that have swept through the Arab world in the last decade. Aesthetically, the poems explore the disintegration of language in the face of violence, prejudice, and unspeakable horror, as they progress from lyrical to abstract and broken.
The annual witnessing of autumn leaves becomes a metaphor for the fallen…as we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11, this ever-evolving tour de force finds new relevance and urgency. As an experimental work that lives at the intersection of live performance and digital media, Eleven Reflections on September is beautiful, haunting, and truly genre-shattering.
104 minutes / 2021 / United States / Experimental / English and Arabic with English subtitles
Presented in partnership with Arab Film and Media Institute and ArteEast
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ARCE Chicago: The Egyptian Game of Senet, from the New Kingdom to Roman Time: Funerary Destiny, Astronomy, and Medicine
2021-09-11 10:00 - 11:00
Lecture Information:
The game of senet is one of the most famous board games of Egyptian Antiquity. Attested from the 4th millennium BC, it is characterized by its thirty squares. It was played by 2 players, each one having 5 to 7 playing pieces, whose progress obviously depends on fate—by the throwing of sticks or a pair of knucklebones—but also on strategy. This talk will re-evaluate the role usually attributed to senet in the funerary sphere in the New Kingdom, and will discuss the evolution of the game during the first millennium, when it seems more related to astronomical practices, calculating time, and perhaps, medicine for the eyes.

(Please double check that I have the time right when you register!)

Virtual screening of the documentary film "Lost Cities of Palestine" directed by Ramez Kazmouz
2021-09-18 09:00 - 11:00
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About the Film
An extraordinary insight into Palestinian life in the city before 1948, revealing the loss of a culture and lifestyle.
The film, directed by Ramez Kazmouz, is 49 minutes.
Rarely seen archival footage accompanies memories and accounts of forgotten Palestinian cities and the catastrophic effect the creation of Israel in 1948 had on them.
Haifa, Nazareth, and Jaffa have all been overshadowed by Tel Aviv, but in their day each of the Palestinian cities had magnificent commercial and cultural ability.
Made for Al Jazeera in 2011, “Lost cities of Palestine” provides a rare opportunity to see Palestine as it was in the 30s and 40s and learn about the everyday life and culture of urban Palestine before 1948.

ARCE PA: Reconstructing Egypt's East Frontier Defense Network in the New Kingdom
2021-09-18 12:30 - 14:00
About Lecture:
Excavations in North Sinai beginning in the 1980s and the work at Tell el-Borg from 1999-2008 has uncovered a series of forts that were on the “Ways of Horus” and served as part of the defensive network of Egypt’s east frontier in the New Kingdom. Geological work has revealed the paleo-environment and ancient landscape that influenced the arrangement of the defensive system. Thanks to the new data, new maps can be drawn to reveal how the east frontier defense network operated throughout the New Kingdom and how it thwarted the Sea Peoples invasion in Ramesses III’s reign.

Virtual: Building for Hope with Marwa al-Sabouni
2021-09-25 10:00 - 12:00
We can’t begin to say how delighted, how grateful, how honored we are to finally be able to present a program with author, thinker, architect, Marwa al-Sabouni. If all goes well (In sh’Allah), she will be joining us at this special hour, virtually and ‘live’ from her home in Homs, Syria to discuss her extraordinary new book, Building for Hope: Towards an Architecture of Belonging (Thames & Hudson). Building for Hope comes five years after Marwa al-Sabouni’s first book, The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria, introduced the larger world to a writer uniquely adept at using words to convey ideas from books, book-study, life being fully lived (and wars survived) and from the physical spaces of buildings, streets, land-use patterns that do so much to shape how we live as individuals and as communities and countries.

“Ambitious… Building for Hope is expansive, abstract, and at times extraordinarily idealistic… Al-Sabouni argues that architecture is a necessary agent for any kind of peace, any possibility of belonging in our modern, extremely polarized world… It’s especially enlightening to read about Western cities through the lens of an architect specialized in Islamic traditions… Building for Hope is dense and daring. Readers will finish with a list of people and places to investigate, as well as with a firm belief that a better future lies in valuing community over ostentation, coherence and decency over luxury, truly livable cities over places designed purely for profit.” – World-Architects.com.
“A gifted writer and illustrator, al-Sabouni’s visionary ideas will inspire architects, designers and urban planners across the world.” – Shahina Piyarali , Shelf Awareness.
Yes, the illustrations, that language, too. This is one not to be missed.
Saturday, September 25, 2021 – 10:00am

ARCE Georgia: A New Look at the Treasures of Tutankhamun’s Tomb
2021-10-02 13:00 - 14:30
When Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered in 1922, the objects in it created a sensation. For decades the objects have dazzled the world and been the centerpiece of the Cairo Museum. Even so, the circumstances of Tutankhamun’s death and burial have always raised questions. The construction of new museums in Egypt, and the relocation of these objects, has created a new opportunity for study of many of these objects.
In a lecture titled A New Look at the Treasures of Tutankhamun’s Tomb, Dr. Robert Bianchi, chief curator at the Ancient Egyptian Museum Shibuya [Tokyo] will focus on the reevaluation of objects from this most famous of tombs.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Atlanta Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt and the Carlos Museum.

HWAYITAH WA KHAMIYSA WA GHREEN: INTRODUCTION TO LIBYAN DRESS & ADORNMENT
2021-10-05 09:00 - 11:00
Event Description: Dr. Reem El Mutwalli in conversation with Najlaa El-Ageli, Founder of Noon Arts Projects, a small private arts foundation, with a mission to bring the best of contemporary Libyan art, from both emerging and established artists, and expose it to the world stage, discussing her recent jewelery exhibition and providing our audience with an introduction to Libyan dress and adornment.
New Date: 5th October 2021
Time:12pm (NYC), 5pm (London), 8pm (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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Webinar: Arab American Theater
2021-10-07 15:30 - 17:00
Join us for a rich and engaging conversation with Arab American playwrights, theater actors, and producers: Kathryn Haddadm Jamil Khoury, Lameece Issaq, and Malek Najjar. This panel discussion and conversation will be moderated by Catherine Coray, a Professor of Theater at NYU.

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Virtual Book Event - Conversation with Rania Matar about her book "SHE | RANIA MATAR"
2021-10-10 09:00 - 10:30
Virtual Book Event – Conversation with Rania Matar about her book “SHE | RANIA MATAR”

Sunday, October 10, 2021
12:00 PM 1:30 PM
Palestine Museum US (map)

Please click here to register for this event.
All times are based on US EDT – 12 Noon, 7:00 PM in Palestine.
Join us for a coversation with Rania Mata about her new photography book. Rania is a Lebanese/Palestinian/American documentary, portrait and fine art photographer. She photographs the daily lives of girls and women in the Middle East and in the United States.

Solidarity Town Hall: Imagining Decolonized Futures
2021-10-14 15:00 - 16:30
Online Livestream
FREE with RSVP
Join us for our annual Solidarity Town Hall program, an anchor discussion as part of AANM’s theme for Fall 2021 – Spring 2022: Istiqbal al Mustaqbal (Welcoming the Future). This year, the Town Hall is themed Imagining Decolonized Futures, highlighting futurist and sci-fi narratives as we imagine a world without colonial concepts. The Town Hall will feature keynote speaker: Anishinaabe academic and author Grace Dillon; and panelists: multidisciplinary Afrofuturist artist Bryce Detroit, Canadian and Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson, and British Palestinian fiction writer Selma Dabbagh; with moderator Hina Baloch, leader of the Research & Analytics team at GM. This is a virtual event taking place via Zoom.

Virtual Delegations to Visit Public Street Art Installations w/ Eyewitness Palestine
2021-10-16
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
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ARCE PA: Revealing the Practice of Tattooing in Ancient Egypt
2021-10-16 12:30 - 14:00
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
