BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ArabishWay - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:ArabishWay X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://arabishway.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for ArabishWay REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T223000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250430T192507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T192549Z UID:10003058-1748032200-1748039400@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival: Everybody Loves Touda DESCRIPTION:Want a discount on your ticket? Use code ARABISH51 for $3 when purchasing tickets! \nIn the latest film from Nabil Ayouch (Horses of God\, SIFF 2014) co-written with his wife\, director Maryam Touzani (The Blue Caftan\, SIFF 2023)\, Touda dreams of being a sheikha\, or traditional Moroccan folk singer. More than that\, she is determined to be one\, which is fortunate because the road ahead is a rocky one. A single mother with a young son to support\, she sings at parties and in bars in her provincial town. But these opportunities are limited and fraught with risk\, as her male audience’s “love” often shades into something more proprietary and threatening. She sets her sights on Casablanca and\, leaving her son with her parents and ignoring the disapproval of her conservative brother\, she heads to the big city. There Touda meets an older musician\, a violinist who recognizes her ambition and her potential\, and becomes a sort of mentor. With his help\, she sets about to master the aita\, a Moroccan musical genre rooted in poetry about the many struggles of life\, from the personal to the political. As her singing improves\, she can command higher fees and a more elite audience. But in a culture where female performers are as often eroticized and stigmatized as venerated\, what does it really mean to be loved? URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-international-film-festival-touda-2/ LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\,\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Everybody-Loves-Touda_Fest25_Outreach_1080x1080.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)":MAILTO:info@siff.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250524T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250524T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250430T194716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T194919Z UID:10003066-1748116800-1748124000@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival: Coexistence\, My Ass! DESCRIPTION:Want a discount on your ticket? Use code ARABISH51 for $3 when purchasing tickets! \nComedy about Israel and Palestine is a high-wire act and perhaps never more so than now\, which is part of what makes this documentary about Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi so riveting. With an Iranian-Jewish mother and an Ashkenazi Romanian father\, Noam grew up in Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salam\, an intentional community where Arab and Jewish families live together by choice\, and where her left-wing parents moved the family in the early 1990s. \nA committed activist for equal rights for Palestinians and Jews—as she explains\, coexistence can only exist between equals—she studied International Relations at Brandeis before taking a job at the United Nations. When she was invited by Harvard to work on a peace project\, she chose to develop her one-woman show\, “Coexistence\, My Ass!” Shooting on the film began in 2020 and tracks the show’s progress through COVID and Noam’s growing fame\, as well as Noam’s own navigation of the attacks on October 7th\, their impact on her friends and family\, and the subsequent war on Gaza. \nConsistent through it all is Noam’s clear-eyed insight—sometimes funny\, sometimes deadly serious\, sometimes both at the same time. Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression. \nOther Showtimes: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUNDAY\, MAY 25\, 2025\, SIFF Cinema Uptown\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11:30 AM URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-international-film-festival-coexistence/ LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\,\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Coexistence-My-Ass_Fest25_Outreach_1080x1080.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)":MAILTO:info@siff.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250524T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250524T223000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250430T194448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T194623Z UID:10003065-1748118600-1748125800@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival: To A Land Unknown DESCRIPTION:Want a discount on your ticket? Use code ARABISH51 for $3 when purchasing tickets! \nMahdi Fleifel\, who made the great documentary A World Not Ours (SIFF 2013) about the Ein el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon\, where his parents were born\, returns to the Festival with his fiction debut\, To a Land Unknown. \nThe refugees in this story have made out of their camp and travelled to Athens\, where they are stranded en route to Germany. Chatila is clever and resourceful\, and it falls to him to come up with a plan; Reda\, his cousin\, is sweet but hapless\, owing in part to a weakness for drugs. To raise the money they need for fake passports\, they resort to increasingly desperate crimes: stealing\, sex work\, human trafficking. To sustain themselves\, they nurture the fantasy of the café they plan to open in Germany\, where Chatila’s wife will cook\, and they’ll make enough money to bring the rest of their family\, currently stuck in the camp. \nWhile films about refugees are not uncommon\, what sets this film apart is the way the director puts us squarely in Chatila and Reda’s shoes as they try to figure out how to reach their final destination\, how to keep themselves alive in the meanwhile\, and how to do it all without losing their humanity in the process. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-international-film-festival-to_a_land_unknown-2/ LOCATION:Shoreline Community College Theater\, 16101 Greenwood Avenue N. (Building 1600)\, Shoreline\, WA\, 98133 CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/To-a-Land-Unknown_Fest25_Outreach_1080x1080.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)":MAILTO:info@siff.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250430T194926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T195005Z UID:10003067-1748172600-1748179800@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival: Coexistence\, My Ass! DESCRIPTION:Want a discount on your ticket? Use code ARABISH51 for $3 when purchasing tickets! \nComedy about Israel and Palestine is a high-wire act and perhaps never more so than now\, which is part of what makes this documentary about Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi so riveting. With an Iranian-Jewish mother and an Ashkenazi Romanian father\, Noam grew up in Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salam\, an intentional community where Arab and Jewish families live together by choice\, and where her left-wing parents moved the family in the early 1990s. \nA committed activist for equal rights for Palestinians and Jews—as she explains\, coexistence can only exist between equals—she studied International Relations at Brandeis before taking a job at the United Nations. When she was invited by Harvard to work on a peace project\, she chose to develop her one-woman show\, “Coexistence\, My Ass!” Shooting on the film began in 2020 and tracks the show’s progress through COVID and Noam’s growing fame\, as well as Noam’s own navigation of the attacks on October 7th\, their impact on her friends and family\, and the subsequent war on Gaza. \nConsistent through it all is Noam’s clear-eyed insight—sometimes funny\, sometimes deadly serious\, sometimes both at the same time. Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-international-film-festival-coexistence-2/ LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\,\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Coexistence-My-Ass_Fest25_Outreach_1080x1080.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)":MAILTO:info@siff.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250426T064129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250426T064208Z UID:10003010-1748199600-1748206800@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Free Film Screening: Israelism DESCRIPTION:Two young American Jews travel to Israel seeking a deeper understanding of the country they were raised to love. What they encounter profoundly impacts them\, leading them to join a growing movement to redefine their community’s relationship with Israel in this challenging and emotional journey. Join us for the free screening of this film. \nAbout the film\nTwo young American Jews – Simone Zimmerman and Eitan – are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs. Eitan joins the Israeli military. Simone supports Israel on ‘the other battlefield:’ America’s college campuses. When they witness Israel‘s mistreatment of the Palestinian people with their own eyes\, they are horrified and heartbroken.\nThey join the movement of young American Jews battling the old guard over Israel’s centrality in American Judaism\, and demanding freedom for the Palestinian people. Their stories reveal a generational divide in the American Jewish community as more young Jews question the narratives their synagogues and Hebrew school teachers fed them as children. \nThe film also features voices like Jacqui\, a Jewish educator who says “Judaism is Israel and Israel is Judaism”\, and former Anti-Defamation League President Abe Foxman\, who claims voices like Simone and Eitan’s represent a small minority. Thought leaders like Peter Beinart\, Jeremy Ben-Ami\, Noura Erakat\, Cornel West\, and Noam Chomsky also weigh in. \nDirected by two first-time Jewish filmmakers who share a similar story to the film’s protagonists\, Israelism is produced by Peabody-winner and 4-time Emmy-nominee Daniel J. Chalfen (Loudmouth\, Boycott)\, executive produced by two-time Emmy-winner Brian A. Kates (Marvelous Ms. Maisel\, Succession) and edited by Emmy-winner Tony Hale (The Story of Plastic)\, Israelism uniquely explores how Jewish attitudes towards Israel are changing dramatically\, with massive consequences for the region and for Judaism itself. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/israelism-a/ LOCATION:Vashon Theater\, 17723 Vashon Highway SW\, Vashon\, WA\, 98070 CATEGORIES:Lecture/Panel Discussion,Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/israelism.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T173000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250426T064240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250531T064559Z UID:10003132-1748709000-1748712600@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Kitsap Solidarity Presents: One Family in Gaza DESCRIPTION:An original play by Crystal Zevon \nBased on texts from Yasser in Gaza \nIn November 2023\, Crystal Zevon\, a longtime activist for Palestine\, began a text conversation with a young 33 year old Palestinian man in Gaza. Yasser is a civil engineer\, a husband and the father of three young children under the age of seven. For more than a year\, and continuing\, Yasser and Crystal have exchanged texts\, photos and videos on almost a daily basis. These  unedited texts create the basis for telling the poignant\, terrifying\, and sometimes joyful story of one family’s struggle to survive through a genocide. Yasser’s texts are juxtaposed against news items of corresponding dates\, and the thoughts and feelings of someone living in comfort and safety oceans away. \nOne Family in Gaza is a play about simply that – One Family in Gaza . \nThe objective for creating this play is three-fold: \n\n\nTo offer a play that is profound in its reliance on the truths disclosed through a relationship grounded in the reality of two distant and distinct realities\, yet a play so simple that anyone can perform it anywhere – from a dining room table reading to a staged performance. \n\n\nTo humanize Palestinians by creating a relationship with one family whose loves\, fears\, hopes and dreams are not unlike yours. \n\n\nTo motivate those who see the play to continue the discussion\, to delve beneath the media’s glossing over of a genocide and take action to expose it. \nIt is through identification with the  basic human truths revealed in the daily life of one family that we can and must create change. \n\n\nMore information to come (please check website) URL:https://arabishway.com/event/olympic-peninsula-presents-one-family-in-gaza-2/ LOCATION:Bainbridge Island Senior/Community Center\, 370 Brien Dr. SE\, Bainbridge Island\, WA\, 98110 CATEGORIES:Movie,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-05-28-at-2.42.23 PM-e1748673824342.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250607T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250607T110000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250531T081415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250531T081449Z UID:10003153-1749286800-1749294000@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Virtual Movie Screenings: Every Saturday with Palestine Museum US DESCRIPTION:Check website: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/events for current showings and for registration links! \nOften the screening ends with a Q&A with the director! \n  URL:https://arabishway.com/event/virtual-movie-screenings-every-saturday-with-palestine-museum-us-june-2025/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/palestine-museum.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250620T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250620T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250528T215652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250528T223250Z UID:10003134-1750440600-1750451400@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Ground Zero DESCRIPTION:FREE MOVIE SCREENING in OAK HARBOR! \nExperience a night of powerful storytelling and community spirit in support of one Palestinian family. Be in community and watch “From Ground Zero” on Friday\, June 20th (doors open 5:30pm) at First United Methodist Church in Oak Harbor\, WA. \nFree entry and refreshments! RSVP for tickets using the link in bio 🍉 URL:https://arabishway.com/event/ground-zero/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church (Oak Harbor)\, 1050 SE Ireland St\, Oak Harbor\, WA\, 98277 CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-28-at-2.53.32 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250622T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250622T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250531T080418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250531T080635Z UID:10003150-1750611600-1750618800@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Movie: The Teacher DESCRIPTION:The destruction of a Palestinian home by Israeli edict and the murder of a youth at the hands of an Israeli settler set the stage for even more shocks to come in THE TEACHER. Saleh Bakri is Basem\, an amiable educator who tries to steer the deceased boy’s younger brother Adam (Muhammad Abed Elrahman) from seeking revenge. At the same time\, Basem ignores his own advice\, maintaining ties with the resistance and involving himself in a hostage situation. He tries to keep his activities secret from Adam and his British girlfriend Lisa (Imogen Poots) but it becomes harder to maintain his silence when Israeli troops show up at his door. \nTHE TEACHER\, set and shot with difficulty in occupied territory\, is the feature debut of Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning British-Palestinian writer-director Farah Nabulsi. Inspired by true events and led by a commanding and wounded performance from Bakri\, the film probes the desperate actions of those who feel they have no recourse for justice. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/movie-the-teacher-6/ LOCATION:The Beacon\, 4405 Rainier Ave S\, Seattle\, WA\, 98118\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-2.37.21 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250623T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250623T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250531T080817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250531T080936Z UID:10003151-1750707000-1750712400@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Movie: The Teacher DESCRIPTION:The destruction of a Palestinian home by Israeli edict and the murder of a youth at the hands of an Israeli settler set the stage for even more shocks to come in THE TEACHER. Saleh Bakri is Basem\, an amiable educator who tries to steer the deceased boy’s younger brother Adam (Muhammad Abed Elrahman) from seeking revenge. At the same time\, Basem ignores his own advice\, maintaining ties with the resistance and involving himself in a hostage situation. He tries to keep his activities secret from Adam and his British girlfriend Lisa (Imogen Poots) but it becomes harder to maintain his silence when Israeli troops show up at his door. \nTHE TEACHER\, set and shot with difficulty in occupied territory\, is the feature debut of Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning British-Palestinian writer-director Farah Nabulsi. Inspired by true events and led by a commanding and wounded performance from Bakri\, the film probes the desperate actions of those who feel they have no recourse for justice. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/movie-the-teacher-7/ LOCATION:The Beacon\, 4405 Rainier Ave S\, Seattle\, WA\, 98118\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-2.37.21 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250624T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250624T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250531T080946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250531T081150Z UID:10003152-1750782600-1750791600@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Movie: The Teacher DESCRIPTION:The destruction of a Palestinian home by Israeli edict and the murder of a youth at the hands of an Israeli settler set the stage for even more shocks to come in THE TEACHER. Saleh Bakri is Basem\, an amiable educator who tries to steer the deceased boy’s younger brother Adam (Muhammad Abed Elrahman) from seeking revenge. At the same time\, Basem ignores his own advice\, maintaining ties with the resistance and involving himself in a hostage situation. He tries to keep his activities secret from Adam and his British girlfriend Lisa (Imogen Poots) but it becomes harder to maintain his silence when Israeli troops show up at his door. \nTHE TEACHER\, set and shot with difficulty in occupied territory\, is the feature debut of Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning British-Palestinian writer-director Farah Nabulsi. Inspired by true events and led by a commanding and wounded performance from Bakri\, the film probes the desperate actions of those who feel they have no recourse for justice. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/movie-the-teacher-8/ LOCATION:The Beacon\, 4405 Rainier Ave S\, Seattle\, WA\, 98118\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-2.37.21 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250625T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250625T213000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250531T063533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250531T063533Z UID:10003147-1750876200-1750887000@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Arab Film Club: Alexandria... Why? [In-Person Only] DESCRIPTION:(Youssef Chahine\, 1979\, Egypt\, 133 min\, in Egyptian Arabic with English subtitles)\n\nAlexandria during World War II. Yehia\, a young man in his final year of school who loves movies and music\, dreams of making it to Hollywood. But like most of Egypt’s middle class\, the war has left his parents in a tight financial situation. Through Yehia’s endeavors\, his Christian family and his diverse group of friends\, we are exposed to different segments of Alexandrian society: from Egyptian and British soldiers\, communist workers and patriotic aristocrats to social climbers and war profiteers. A rich\, dynamic portrait of the director’s beloved city during a seminal moment in its long and layered history. \nAn Egyptian classic\, Alexandria…Why? won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival in 1979. \nAbout Youssef Chahine: \nBorn in Alexandria in 1926 to a middle-class family of Greek and Lebanese origin\, Chahine came into the world between the wars in the heart of the region’s most cosmopolitan city. From an early age he developed a passion for theater\, cinema\, and Shakespeare. After spending a year at the University of Alexandria\, he decided to study acting at California’s Pasadena Playhouse\, only to quickly turn to directing. Chahine’s reputation as an international auteur was established early on; his sophomore effort Son of the Nile (Ibn el Nil\, 1951) was nominated for Cannes’ Grand Prix of the Festival in 1952. \n– Bio by Joseph Fahim URL:https://arabishway.com/event/arab-film-club-alexandria-why-in-person-only/ LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, 2\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-30-at-3.29.10 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250625T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250625T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250618T225505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250618T225541Z UID:10003160-1750876200-1750888800@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Arab Film Club: Alexandria... Why? [In-Person Only] DESCRIPTION:(Youssef Chahine\, 1979\, Egypt\, 133 min\, in Egyptian Arabic with English subtitles) \nAlexandria during World War II. Yehia\, a young man in his final year of school who loves movies and music\, dreams of making it to Hollywood. But like most of Egypt’s middle class\, the war has left his parents in a tight financial situation. Through Yehia’s endeavors\, his Christian family and his diverse group of friends\, we are exposed to different segments of Alexandrian society: from Egyptian and British soldiers\, communist workers and patriotic aristocrats to social climbers and war profiteers. A rich\, dynamic portrait of the director’s beloved city during a seminal moment in its long and layered history. \nAn Egyptian classic\, Alexandria…Why? won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival in 1979. \nAbout Youssef Chahine: \nBorn in Alexandria in 1926 to a middle-class family of Greek and Lebanese origin\, Chahine came into the world between the wars in the heart of the region’s most cosmopolitan city. From an early age he developed a passion for theater\, cinema\, and Shakespeare. After spending a year at the University of Alexandria\, he decided to study acting at California’s Pasadena Playhouse\, only to quickly turn to directing. Chahine’s reputation as an international auteur was established early on; his sophomore effort Son of the Nile (Ibn el Nil\, 1951) was nominated for Cannes’ Grand Prix of the Festival in 1952. \n– Bio by Joseph Fahim\nWed Jun 25: 6.30pm PDT \nGET TICKETS HERE! URL:https://arabishway.com/event/arab-film-club-alexandria-why-in-person-only-2/ LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, 2\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-18-at-3.50.00 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250711T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250711T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250712T030332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250712T030436Z UID:10003197-1752256800-1752271200@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Seattle Arab Film Festival: Short Film Lineup DESCRIPTION:🎥 Short Film Lineup Announcement! 🌙\nWe’re kicking off our Summer Movie Festival on July 11 with a powerful lineup of short films from across the MENA region and its global diaspora—curated in collaboration with the @seattle_arab_film_festival 🇵🇸🇮🇷🇾🇪🇺🇸 \n✨ Featured Films:\nBethlehem 2001 (Palestine)\nFading Dream (Iran)\nIn the Long Run (Yemen)\nMariam (Palestine/US) \nJoin us for an evening of storytelling\, culture\, and community—free and outdoors! URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-arab-film-festival-short-film-lineup/ LOCATION:The Cultural Stage CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-11-at-7.59.22 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250715 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250718 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250712T025748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250712T025748Z UID:10003196-1752537600-1752796799@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Seattle Arab Film Festival DESCRIPTION:The 6th Seattle Arab Film Festival will take place from August 15 to 17 at the @nwfilmforum. \nMore details and full line up coming soon! \n#SAFF2025 #Seattle #ArabCinema URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-arab-film-festival-2/ LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, 2\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-11-at-7.56.09 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250718T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250718T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250630T060213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T060344Z UID:10003171-1752865200-1752872400@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival: To A Land Unknown DESCRIPTION:Mahdi Fleifel\, who made the great documentary A World Not Ours (SIFF 2013) about the Ein el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon\, where his parents were born\, returns to the Festival with his fiction debut\, To a Land Unknown. \nThe refugees in this story have made out of their camp and travelled to Athens\, where they are stranded en route to Germany. Chatila is clever and resourceful\, and it falls to him to come up with a plan; Reda\, his cousin\, is sweet but hapless\, owing in part to a weakness for drugs. To raise the money they need for fake passports\, they resort to increasingly desperate crimes: stealing\, sex work\, human trafficking. To sustain themselves\, they nurture the fantasy of the café they plan to open in Germany\, where Chatila’s wife will cook\, and they’ll make enough money to bring the rest of their family\, currently stuck in the camp. \nWhile films about refugees are not uncommon\, what sets this film apart is the way the director puts us squarely in Chatila and Reda’s shoes as they try to figure out how to reach their final destination\, how to keep themselves alive in the meanwhile\, and how to do it all without losing their humanity in the process. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-international-film-festival-to_a_land_unknown-3/ LOCATION:SIFF Film Center\, 305 Harrison St\, Seattle\, 98109 CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/To-a-Land-Unknown_Fest25_Outreach_1080x1080.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)":MAILTO:info@siff.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250719T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250719T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250630T060908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T060940Z UID:10003172-1752951600-1752958800@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival: To A Land Unknown DESCRIPTION:Mahdi Fleifel\, who made the great documentary A World Not Ours (SIFF 2013) about the Ein el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon\, where his parents were born\, returns to the Festival with his fiction debut\, To a Land Unknown. \nThe refugees in this story have made out of their camp and travelled to Athens\, where they are stranded en route to Germany. Chatila is clever and resourceful\, and it falls to him to come up with a plan; Reda\, his cousin\, is sweet but hapless\, owing in part to a weakness for drugs. To raise the money they need for fake passports\, they resort to increasingly desperate crimes: stealing\, sex work\, human trafficking. To sustain themselves\, they nurture the fantasy of the café they plan to open in Germany\, where Chatila’s wife will cook\, and they’ll make enough money to bring the rest of their family\, currently stuck in the camp. \nWhile films about refugees are not uncommon\, what sets this film apart is the way the director puts us squarely in Chatila and Reda’s shoes as they try to figure out how to reach their final destination\, how to keep themselves alive in the meanwhile\, and how to do it all without losing their humanity in the process. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-international-film-festival-to_a_land_unknown-4/ LOCATION:SIFF Film Center\, 305 Harrison St\, Seattle\, 98109 CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/To-a-Land-Unknown_Fest25_Outreach_1080x1080.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)":MAILTO:info@siff.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250720T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250720T183000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250630T061041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T061119Z UID:10003174-1753029000-1753036200@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival: To A Land Unknown DESCRIPTION:Mahdi Fleifel\, who made the great documentary A World Not Ours (SIFF 2013) about the Ein el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon\, where his parents were born\, returns to the Festival with his fiction debut\, To a Land Unknown. \nThe refugees in this story have made out of their camp and travelled to Athens\, where they are stranded en route to Germany. Chatila is clever and resourceful\, and it falls to him to come up with a plan; Reda\, his cousin\, is sweet but hapless\, owing in part to a weakness for drugs. To raise the money they need for fake passports\, they resort to increasingly desperate crimes: stealing\, sex work\, human trafficking. To sustain themselves\, they nurture the fantasy of the café they plan to open in Germany\, where Chatila’s wife will cook\, and they’ll make enough money to bring the rest of their family\, currently stuck in the camp. \nWhile films about refugees are not uncommon\, what sets this film apart is the way the director puts us squarely in Chatila and Reda’s shoes as they try to figure out how to reach their final destination\, how to keep themselves alive in the meanwhile\, and how to do it all without losing their humanity in the process. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/a_land_unknown-5/ LOCATION:SIFF Film Center\, 305 Harrison St\, Seattle\, 98109 CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/To-a-Land-Unknown_Fest25_Outreach_1080x1080.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)":MAILTO:info@siff.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250720T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250720T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250630T060954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T061032Z UID:10003173-1753038000-1753045200@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival: To A Land Unknown DESCRIPTION:Mahdi Fleifel\, who made the great documentary A World Not Ours (SIFF 2013) about the Ein el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon\, where his parents were born\, returns to the Festival with his fiction debut\, To a Land Unknown. \nThe refugees in this story have made out of their camp and travelled to Athens\, where they are stranded en route to Germany. Chatila is clever and resourceful\, and it falls to him to come up with a plan; Reda\, his cousin\, is sweet but hapless\, owing in part to a weakness for drugs. To raise the money they need for fake passports\, they resort to increasingly desperate crimes: stealing\, sex work\, human trafficking. To sustain themselves\, they nurture the fantasy of the café they plan to open in Germany\, where Chatila’s wife will cook\, and they’ll make enough money to bring the rest of their family\, currently stuck in the camp. \nWhile films about refugees are not uncommon\, what sets this film apart is the way the director puts us squarely in Chatila and Reda’s shoes as they try to figure out how to reach their final destination\, how to keep themselves alive in the meanwhile\, and how to do it all without losing their humanity in the process. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/a_land_unknown-4/ LOCATION:SIFF Film Center\, 305 Harrison St\, Seattle\, 98109 CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/To-a-Land-Unknown_Fest25_Outreach_1080x1080.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)":MAILTO:info@siff.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T110000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250724T182449Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250724T182449Z UID:10003204-1753520400-1753527600@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Film: Last May in Palestine (virtual) DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 26 Film Screening: \nPlease Click Here to register to attend this event via Zoom. \nFilm screening will start at 12:00 PM US EDT; 19:00 Palestine\, 18:00 Europe\, UK 17:00; Running Time 20 minutes\, 2024\, English language with English subtitles. The film screening will be followed by Q&A discussions with film director Rabeea Eid.. \nAbout the Film \n“After the assassination of Shireen Abu-Akleh on May 2022\, I return from the UK to Palestine and open my archive of May 2021 upraising in Haifa. On this trip\, I relive memories and places I left\, but it did not leave me\, and I ask questions about being a journalist during dangerous events\,” Rabeea Eid\, film director. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/film-last-may-in-palestine-virtual/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/palestine-museum.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250730T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250730T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250729T030113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T030113Z UID:10003226-1753902000-1753909200@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Diaries of Lebanon DESCRIPTION:🎞️ Diaries From Lebanon by Myriam El Hajj\n🗓️ Wednesday\, July 30\, 7PM PDT at the @nwfilmforum \n“War\, politics\, or revolution. These are the choices of Georges\, Joumana\, and Perla Joe. Three destinies tied to a desire to change a sick country. How can we continue to dream when the world around us is collapsing?” \n#DiariesFromLebanon #Beirut #Lebanon #ArabCinema #Seattle#Washington\n#NWFF URL:https://arabishway.com/event/diaries-of-lebanon/ LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, 2\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-7.56.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250802T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250802T110000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250729T191240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T191317Z UID:10003244-1754125200-1754132400@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Virtual Movie Screenings: Every Saturday with Palestine Museum US DESCRIPTION:Check website: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/events for current showings and for registration links! \nOften the screening ends with a Q&A with the director! \n  URL:https://arabishway.com/event/virtual-movie-screenings-every-saturday-with-palestine-museum-us-aug-2025/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/palestine-museum.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250813T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250813T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250724T165516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250724T165712Z UID:10003202-1755109800-1755115200@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Movie: Severed + Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Severed (produced by Donkeysaddle Projects\, +972 Magazine and The Nation\, in partnership with Just Vision) tells the story of Mohamad Saleh\, an 18-year-old from Gaza who has lived through five major assaults. In those attacks\, he lost his home\, family members\, his best friends\, and\, at the age of 12\, his leg. Mohamad was able to evacuate to Egypt after surviving seven months of genocide and remains in exile there\, struggling to piece together the shattered fragments of his life. Through his eyes\, the pain and trauma endured by thousands in Gaza are laid bare\, alongside their remarkable strength\, resilience\, and determination to live. \nTickets are sliding scale\, and a portion of the proceeds benefits Gaza families.  (If comps are needed\, please contact cole@nwfilmforum.org.) \n  \nAbout the panelists/co-sponsors: \nZahyr Lauren [moderator] (they/them)\, also known as The Artist L.Haz\, is the founder of the arts\, education\, and advocacy company Koro Rules The Sun LLC. Koro Rules The Sun is an art-based company that creates visual work in service of justice movements and has generated thousands in donations for organizations like the Center for Constitutional Rights. The company uses creative expression to Activate\, Elevate\, and Support messages and movements for freedom and global solidarity. \nDiana Fakhoury [panelist] is a multidisciplinary designer\, artist\, and co-founder of Washington for Peace and Justice (WA4PJ). WA4PJ is a Palestinian-led advocacy group working to transform US policy on Palestine through political action in Washington state. While centering Palestinian voices\, they build people’s power to advocate for communities locally and in historic Palestine\, in pursuit of justice and collective liberation. \nRufina Reyes [panelist] is the director of La Resistencia\, a grassroots organization led by undocumented immigrants and people of color who have been oppressed by the immigration enforcement system. The organization supports and engages with people detained at the Northwest Detention Center who organize for their own survival and protest against the detention and deportation regime. La Resistencia is working to end the detention of immigrants and stop deportations. \nMohamad Saleh [filmmaker] is the protagonist and co-producer of Severed. He is 19 years old and lived his entire life in Jabaliya\, northern Gaza\, until escaping the genocide in May 2024. Mohamad just completed his high school matriculation exams and plans to study nursing. He is an intern at Donkeysaddle Projects. Mohamad will participate via Zoom from Cairo\, Egypt. \nJen Marlowe [filmmaker] is the director of Severed\, and the founder of Donkeysaddle Projects\, an organization that integrates storytelling\, political education and activism in the fight to build a world liberated from state violence in all its manifestations. She serves on the boards of Black Lives Matter-WA and the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice\, and is a founding company member of Dunya Productions-Seattle. Jen is also a Consulting Producer for Just Vision. \nAdditional Co-sponsors Include:\nMultitude Films is an independent production company dedicated to transformative culture change through nonfiction storytelling. They are committed to care at every stage of our work and aim to shift norms across our industry — with a vision of a film industry that values and rewards projects directed and crewed by teams of color\, LGBTQ filmmakers\, filmmakers with disabilities\, working class filmmakers\, and women. \nBlack Lives Matter-WA‘s mission is to dismantle anti-black systems\, policies\, and outcomes that lead to the oppression\, torture\, and death of black and brown people. BLM-WA is intentional about building collective power by ensuring that those most affected are not just participants\, but the architects of our movement for change. BLM-WA’s leadership prioritizes the inclusion of queer\, and trans individuals\, as well as those with disabilities\, reflecting the communities BLM-WA serves. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/movie-severed/ LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum\, 1515 12th Ave\, 2\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-24-at-9.53.21-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250816 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250817 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250624T223421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250624T223805Z UID:10003166-1755302400-1755388799@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Palestine Narrates: Movie: Foragers DESCRIPTION:Elderly Palestinians are caught between their right to forage their own land and the harsh restrictions imposed by their occupiers on the basis of preservation. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/palestine-narrates-movie-ghost-hunting/ LOCATION:TBA CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/TB_FORAGERS-e1711492163236.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250817T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250817T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250630T061701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T061716Z UID:10003176-1755450000-1755457200@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Movie: Sudan\, Remember Us DESCRIPTION:In April 2019\, filmmaker Hind Meddeb travelled to Sudan’s capital\, Khartoum\, at a jubilant moment in the country’s history. The long-time dictator Omar Al-Bashir had recently been overthrown after a 30-year regime marked by genocidal violence in Darfur. Meddeb began filming with young activists rallying for a citizen’s government by staging sit-ins\, making music\, reciting poetry\, and painting murals. Their hopes are expressed in signs that read “Sudan free from tribalism” and “religious pluralism.” \nFor Meddeb\, who has family roots in Tunisia\, Morocco\, and Algeria\, the movement brings to mind the aspirations of her late father: “the dream of an Arab country with its customs shaken up by a feminist revolution.” She captures demonstrations going late into the night with a celebratory atmosphere. The activists are defiant against backlash. “Bullets don’t kill\,” says one young man. “What kills is people’s silence.” \nSUDAN\, REMEMBER US enshrines this moment\, but also documents the descent into war that followed. Today\, Sudan is engulfed in violence between internal factions in collusion with external arms suppliers driven to gain control over the country’s wealth of minerals. The war has displaced more than 8 million people and killed over 14\,000\, but is largely ignored by international news. No single film can explain a nation’s complex history or politics. Instead\, Meddeb simply bears witness to courageous people receiving scant coverage. Meddeb is always attuned to the power of language—dictators may come and go\, but as one activist asserts\, “poems are eternal.” URL:https://arabishway.com/event/movie-sudan-remember-us/ LOCATION:The Beacon\, 4405 Rainier Ave S\, Seattle\, WA\, 98118\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/TB_SUDANREMEMBERUS.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250818T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250818T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250630T061736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T061832Z UID:10003177-1755545400-1755550800@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Movie: Sudan\, Remember Us DESCRIPTION:In April 2019\, filmmaker Hind Meddeb travelled to Sudan’s capital\, Khartoum\, at a jubilant moment in the country’s history. The long-time dictator Omar Al-Bashir had recently been overthrown after a 30-year regime marked by genocidal violence in Darfur. Meddeb began filming with young activists rallying for a citizen’s government by staging sit-ins\, making music\, reciting poetry\, and painting murals. Their hopes are expressed in signs that read “Sudan free from tribalism” and “religious pluralism.” \nFor Meddeb\, who has family roots in Tunisia\, Morocco\, and Algeria\, the movement brings to mind the aspirations of her late father: “the dream of an Arab country with its customs shaken up by a feminist revolution.” She captures demonstrations going late into the night with a celebratory atmosphere. The activists are defiant against backlash. “Bullets don’t kill\,” says one young man. “What kills is people’s silence.” \nSUDAN\, REMEMBER US enshrines this moment\, but also documents the descent into war that followed. Today\, Sudan is engulfed in violence between internal factions in collusion with external arms suppliers driven to gain control over the country’s wealth of minerals. The war has displaced more than 8 million people and killed over 14\,000\, but is largely ignored by international news. No single film can explain a nation’s complex history or politics. Instead\, Meddeb simply bears witness to courageous people receiving scant coverage. Meddeb is always attuned to the power of language—dictators may come and go\, but as one activist asserts\, “poems are eternal.” URL:https://arabishway.com/event/movie-sudan-remember-us-2/ LOCATION:The Beacon\, 4405 Rainier Ave S\, Seattle\, WA\, 98118\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/TB_SUDANREMEMBERUS.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250830T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250830T103000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250829T232651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T232651Z UID:10003261-1756544400-1756549800@arabishway.com SUMMARY:What exactly happened in 1948? An animated map by Palestinian architect Nisreen Zahda DESCRIPTION:This Saturday\, August 30\, 2025 Virtual Programming via Zoom: \nWhat exactly happened in 1948? An animated map by Palestinian architect Nisreen Zahda.\nPlease Click Here to register to attend this event via Zoom. \nScreening will start at 12:00 PM US EDT; 19:00 Palestine\, 18:00 Europe\, UK 17:00; Running Time 12 minutes\, 2023\, English language. The screening will be followed by Q&A discussions with the audience. \nAbout the Topic\nThe 1948 Nakba—Israel calls it the War of Independence and claims it fended off and conquered the invasion of several Arab armies from surrounding countries. Nothing could be further from the truth. \nAs the genocide in Gaza continues to unfold\, it’s crucial to put the events of 1948 into perspective and examine the similarities and differences. There’s a stark contrast between the misinformation and lack of media coverage in 1948 versus the live-streamed coverage of the current genocide on people’s mobile devices and screens worldwide. Was what happened in 1948 as tragic and horrific as what’s happening in Gaza now\, just unknown to the world? URL:https://arabishway.com/event/what-exactly-happened-in-1948-an-animated-map-by-palestinian-architect-nisreen-zahda/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Lecture/Panel Discussion,Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-29-at-4.23.09-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250906T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250906T110000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250830T223432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250830T223505Z UID:10003282-1757149200-1757156400@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Virtual Movie Screenings: Every Saturday with Palestine Museum US DESCRIPTION:Check website: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/events for current showings and for registration links! \nOften the screening ends with a Q&A with the director! \n  URL:https://arabishway.com/event/virtual-movie-screenings-every-saturday-with-palestine-museum-us-sept-2025/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/palestine-museum.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250906T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250906T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250830T161303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250830T161337Z UID:10003269-1757174400-1757181600@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Film Screening: Gaza: Journalists Under Fire DESCRIPTION:Join Poppies for Palestine on Saturday\, September 6th\, at 4pm in the Green Lake Library meeting room on the 1st floor for a screening of “Gaza: Journalists Under Fire”. \nTogether\, we will honor the journalists who have given everything to show us the truth\, who document a holocaust that they are vicims of themselves. \nWe will have art and other items for sale and 100% of the funds raised will go to families in Gaza who are in need of food\, water\, shelter\, medication\, and more as they navigate genocide and displacement. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/film-screening-gaza-journalists-under-fire/ LOCATION:Green Lake – Seattle Public Library\, 7364 East Green Lake Dr N\, Seattle\, WA\, 98115 CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-30-at-9.09.29-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250911T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250911T213000 DTSTAMP:20260404T054658 CREATED:20250911T141951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T143952Z UID:10003306-1757619000-1757626200@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Movie: A State of Passion DESCRIPTION:After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals\, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon\, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah\, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance. With news footage of him pale and shell-shocked reverberating around the world\, he spoke of a catalogue of horrors from amputations without anesthetics to orphaned children with no surviving family\, and the deliberate targeting of medics and hospital facilities. \nThis was the sixth and most horrific Gaza “war” during which Ghassan had traveled to provide critical medical aid. Why does he do it? Where does he find the strength to face it again and again? How does it impact his family? How do they process the risks he takes? The answer lies simply in their shared passion: Palestine; a passion they articulate through their support of his perilous humanitarian work. \nIn Arabic with English subtitles. \nA portion of the proceeds from this screening will be donated to The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund\, providing medical attention to the children who need it the most and helping to relieve the medical sector in Gaza and Lebanon. \n“…an important piece of work… Some of what it has to say will echo for decades\, and nobody who watches it will forget what they have seen.” Jennie Kermode\, Eye For Film URL:https://arabishway.com/event/movie-a-state-of-passion/ LOCATION:SIFF Film Center\, 305 Harrison St\, Seattle\, 98109 CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-7.17.58-AM.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR