ArabishWay

Edmonds Center for the Arts presents Shesh Besh
2020-01-18 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Avenue North, Edmonds, WA, 98020, United States
Musicians from the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Israel’s Arab community form this Arab-Jewish ensemble searching for an elusive balance of East and West in music.

There will be a pre-show talk from 6:00 pm-6:40 pm.

A Winter's Evening of Music, Poetry and Storytelling: From Struggle to Survival: Creating Beauty Out of Tragedy
2020-01-20 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, 98122, United States
From Struggle to Survival: Creating Beauty Out of Tragedy
A Winter’s Evening of Music, Poetry and Storytelling with Claudia Castro Luna, Michelle Dodson, Hilary Field, Merna Ann Hecht & Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
Weaving together original music and poetry, classical guitarist and composer Hilary Field with poets Claudia Castro Luna and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha will share poems about struggle and their means to survive. Storyteller Merna Ann Hecht and cellist Michelle Dodson will offer stories and music with the theme of bringing hope forth in dark times with a selection little known traditional and contemporary stories. Through music and spoken word, these writers and musicians share the nuanced beauty and vulnerability that can be found in our hearts at times of sorrow and difficulty as in times of joy, this heightened taking place as it does on the day that commemorates the life, work, and example of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This event is supported by a generous grant from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.

Sudan Archives at Barboza
2020-02-24 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | the Barboza, 925 E Pike St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
PRESENTED BY KEXP
SUDAN ARCHIVES
VELVET NEGRONI

Marc Ribot and Gordon Grdina's Haram at Town Hall
2020-03-01 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States
Guitar legend Marc Ribot has released 25 albums over a 40-year career. As part of Town Hall’s Global Rhythms series, Ribot takes the stage alongside Vancouver’s culture-blending band Haram, whose work draws inspiration from legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthoum. Together they create a new sonically breathtaking view of time-tested repertoire.
Ribot is joined onstage by Haram, a Vancouver-based group led by Juno Award-winning oud virtuoso and guitarist Gordon Grdina. Haram filters Arabic music through the creative lens of improvisation, paying homage to the masters while still freely developing an original voice. Classics from Farid El Atrache, Oum Khalsoum, Iraqi folk songs, and 50’s Sudanese radio music all resonate and inspire the ensemble to dig deeper and give more freely. Listen in for a double-billed performance showcase as Ribot teams up with Haram to navigate Arabic musical traditions.

Lamiae Naki guest performing with Antonio Rey
2020-03-13 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | The Ballard Homestead, 6541 Jones Ave NW, Seattle, WA, 98117, United States
Antonio Rey, Flamenco Guitar Master from Spain
ANTONIO REY, Master Flamenco Guitarist from Spain
Antonio Rey is one of the of the leading flamenco guitarists of Spain today and will be performing in Seattle for one night only.
Presented By Nat Hulskamp
Antonio Rey- Flamenco guitar
Mara Rey- Flamenco dance and vocals
Guest artists:
Nat Hulskamp- flamenco guitar
Lamiae Naki- vocals
Antonio Rey’s career began at the age of ten. He was soon performing on international stages and winning prestigious awards for his incredible virtuosity, such as the Premio Nacional de Guitarra (also won by Paco de Lucia and Vicente Amigo), National Competition of the Art of Flamenco of Córdoba, Niño Ricardo National Competition of Flamenco Guitar, International Flamenco Guitar Competition of Jerez and others. He has performed with many of the most important flamenco artists, such as Paco de Lucia, Diego El Cigala, Antonio Canales, Diego del Morao, Richard Bona, Estrella Morente, Joaquín Cortés, Miguel Poveda, among others. Rey has performed in prestigious concert halls around the world including Tokyo, Moscow and across Latin America and Europe and Iran. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see one of the top living flamenco guitarists perform in Seattle!
Antonio Rey will be accompanied by renowned flamenco dancer and singer Mara Rey from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, flamenco guitarist Nat Hulskamp and guest vocalist Lamiae Naki (born in Morocco).

Doors open at 7:30pm

Tamino with Matt Holubowski at Barboza
2020-03-15 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | the Barboza, 925 E Pike St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Tamino with Matt Holubowski

Tamino Biography:
Of Belgian, Egyptian and Lebanese heritage the 21-year-old musician has written and shaped an album of startling, visceral, sit-up-and-listen power. “Amir” features a handful of tracks from his debut EP, “Habibi” including Indigo Night which features Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood on bass guitar. Although the majority of the playing heard on “Amir” is Tamino himself, he is joined by a collective of Arabic musicians based in Brussels called “Nagham Zikrayat”. The Firka (orchestra) is predominantly made up of professional musicians from the Middle East, most of which have refugee status having predominantly fled from Iraq and Syria.
Over the course of “Amir”, Tamino captures a range of emotions from romance to desolation, and almost everything in between. It’s mood music, painted in a number of different shades.
Tamino: “Some of the songs on “Amir” are more on the romantic side, whilst others are more on the apathetic side. In my own life, I can look at the world and at life in both ways depending on my state of being. The conflict creates an imbalance. “Amir” is about balance”

Age Restrictions: 21 and over only
Important Notice: All tickets are nonrefundable and nontransferable with the exception of event cancellation. Support acts are subject to change.

Cancelled: Love Beyond Borders: Seattle Men's Chorus Mission Partnership
2020-03-20 20:00 - 21:30, 2020-03-21 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium – Benaroya Hall, 200 University Street, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!
What would you do for love? Would you cross oceans and boundaries, leave behind your past for a future of freedom and possibility?
Inspiring musical stories of escape and hope are joined by pop songs made famous by LGBTQ artists from across the globe including Freddie Mercury, Ricky Martin and k.d. lang.
Featuring a world premiere commission inspired by the lives of LGBTQ refugees who experienced incredible adversity in their efforts to seek safety and leave behind the home countries that did not accept them. With music from Caldwell and Ivory, Lyn Rye, Michael Bussewitz-Quarm, and Bonnie McKee.

Tickets can be found here:
https://flyinghouse.secure.force.com/ticket/?fbclid=IwAR0QIqJcA–Twn5fn77JIpcZDp2295Ua1-8lFS5yYZN2fgtI15lS4gl3-i4#/events/a0S1S000007A95ZUAS

Cancelled: Crescendo at SIFF
2020-03-25 20:30 - 22:15 UTC | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
This event has been cancelled!
As part of a peace summit, a world-famous German conductor (Peter Simonischek; THE INTERPRETER, SJFF 2019) creates an orchestra of specially chosen Israeli and Palestinian youth musicians. But can music overcome the feelings of mistrust and suspicion striking chords and shrill notes onstage and off? It takes all the conductor’s skill and resources—and divulging his own tragic story—to overcome the discord and teach them how to achieve harmony, leading to a tense and emotional finale.
Academy Award-nominated director Dror Zahavi has united an impressive supporting cast of Israeli and Palestinian non-actors playing the students into a convincing ensemble, who fight, argue, laugh, and make music together in this dramatic, humanist hymn about forgiveness, reconciliation, and the astounding power of music.
Winner of the 2019 Audience Prize at the Festival of German Film.
Dror Zahavi | Drama | Germany, Israel, Italy | 2019 | English, German w/English subtitles | 112m
Rating: PG-13
Special Guest Intro and performance by Bram Schenck, principal clarinetist for Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra and member of the National Youth Orchestra

Arabic Online Karaoke Party
2020-04-03 18:00 - 21:00 UTC
Make sure to have your Zoom app on mobile phone or tablet installed, it is free. Or, install Zoom player on your desktop.
Find your karaoke music on YouTube and add the link on the Facebook event.

Silkroad Home Sessions with Kinan Azmeh
2020-04-19 12:00 - 12:30 UTC
Silkroad Home Sessions with Kinan Azmeh

Sunday, April 19, 2020
3:00 PM 3:30 PM

Bringing you music from our homes to yours. ❤️ #songsofcomfort
Location: Facebook
Date: Sunday, April 19
Time: 3:00pm EDT / 12:00pm PDT
Artist: Kinan Azmeh
Repertoire: TBA
Please note, this session will not be saved following the LIVE transmission.

Postponed: New Is Old Is New with Rahim Alhaj
2020-04-25 14:00 - 16:00, 2020-04-26 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | The KEXP Gathering Space, 472 1st Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
IN COLLABORATION WITH RAHIM ALHAJ
“One of the top oud players in the world” – San Francisco Chronicle
Felix Mendelssohn – Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde Overture
Rahim Alhaj – Letters from Iraq
Rahim Alhaj – Concerto for Oud and Orchestra
Rahim Alhaj, Oud
Nick Baker, Cajón & Riq

Silkroad Home Sessions with Hadi Eldebek
2020-05-04 09:00 - 09:30 UTC
Silkroad Home Sessions with Hadi Eldebek

Monday, May 4, 2020
12:00 PM 12:30 PM

Bringing you music from our homes to yours. ❤️ #songsofcomfort
Location: Facebook
Date: Monday, May 4
Time: 12:00pm EDT / 9:00am PDT
Artist: Hadi Eldebek
Repertoire: Solo Arabic Music

Justice Beats
2020-05-30 10:00 - 16:00 UTC
JUSTICE BEATS

SCHEDULE / EASTERN STANDARD TIME!

The Peace Poets / 1 pm. (10am PST)
DJ Sarouna / 1:15pm (10:15am PST)
Clarissa Bitar / 1:50pm (10:50am PST
Ty Defoe / 2:15pm (11:15am PST)
John Scott-Richardson / 2:35pm (11:35am PST)
Dakota Camacho / 2:50pm (11:50am PST)
Rebel Betty / 3:15pm (12:15pm PST)
Emmanual Candelario / Peace Poets / 3:55pm (12:55pm PST)
Yadira De La Riva / 4:05pm (1:05pm PST)
Tef Poe / 4:20pm (1:20pm PST)
Agile One / 5:05pm (2:05pm PST)
Pacia Elaine / 5:35pm (2:35pm PST)
Makeda Kravitz / 5:45pm (2:45pm PST)
Frantz Jerome / Peace Poets / 6:20pm (3:20pm PST)
MarshaMayI? / 6:25pm (3:25pm PST)
Lyriq Tye / 6:55pm (3:55pm PST)

https://www.justicebeats.com/lineup

Queen Naija at Marymoor Park
2020-06-06 19:00 UTC | Marymoor Park, 6046 West Lake Sammamish Parkway NE, Redmond, WA, 98052, United States
As a little girl growing up outside Detroit, Queen Naija started singing in church at the age of three and writing her own songs in third grade. Although she kept up with her singing and songwriting as she got older—and even cut a few records in a local studio—her focus shifted when she and her former husband found fame online with their wildly popular YouTube channel. But when their marriage fell apart last year, Queen returned to her lifelong passion and released a powerfully unapologetic single that shares her side of the story.

Arabs Nightlife (Sahra Arabia)
2020-06-25 20:00 - 21:00 UTC
Join our board member Oussama and his friends for Arabs Nightlife (Sahra Arabia). We will have our local artist Marwa singing Fairouz during our live streaming on Facebook.

Community Meeting with Bassam Saba
2020-06-29 09:00 - 10:00 UTC
Silkroad’s Global Musician Workshop Faculty Artist Bassam Saba will present a solo performance/discussion live on Facebook, providing a general overview of her style/culture/instrument, and sharing her own personal and artistic story. The presentation will also feature live musical selections and an interactive Q&A.
Visit facebook.com/silkroadproject to watch.

Monday, June 29, 2020
12:00 PM 1:00 PM (EST) – 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (PST)

Seffarine: Edmonds City Park Concert
2020-08-16 17:00 - 18:00 UTC | Edmonds City Park, 600 3rd Ave S, Edmonds, WA, 98020, United States
Seffarine’s international blend of sounds features soulful Moroccan singer Lamiae Naki and flamenco guitarist Nat Hulskamp. Their music embraces and extends Naki’s rich heritage, which spans from Moorish Spain to the Sahara, by mixing Arabic Andalusi music with Manuel Gutierrez’s explosive flamenco footwork, the grooves of acclaimed bassist Damian Erskine and the exotic instrumentation of Persian master multi-instrumentalist Bobak Salehi. These diverse backgrounds meld into an intoxicating blend of ancient and modern that Bass Player Magazine describes as a “gorgeous intersection of Spanish flamenco, Arabic and Andalusian music, Persian classical, and jazz”.

Seffarine takes its name from the ancient metalworking square in Lamiae’s home city of Fes, Morocco. Her family is well known in the Seffarine as master metalworkers continuing the tradition today. The square dates back to the 9th century and is famous for the complex rhythms that can be heard from the blacksmiths’ hammers.

Amal Murkus Accompanied by Fadi Deeb, in Virtual Concert
2020-09-13 09:00 - 11:00 UTC
Amal Murkus Accompanied by Fadi Deeb, in Virtual Concert

Sunday, September 13, 2020
12:00 PM 2:00 PM EST (9:00 AM 11:AM PST)

Please click here to register for the concert.

Simon Shaheen & Naomi Shihab Nye in Concert + Talkback
2020-09-18 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
7:30 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 18, 2020
Simon Shaheen & Naomi Shihab Nye in Concert + Talkback
Free with RSVP; $10 suggested donation
RSVP for streaming link
Let music and poetry end your week on a sweet note with a night of exclusive performances by world renowned artists, musician Simon Shaheen and writer/poet Naomi Shihab Nye, followed by a live talkback!
Simon Shaheen dazzles his listeners as he deftly leaps from traditional Arabic sounds to jazz and Western classical styles. His soaring technique, melodic ingenuity, and unparalleled grace have earned him international acclaim as a virtuoso on the ‘oud and violin. As a composer, Shaheen has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, the Jerome Foundation, Continental Harmony, and Yellow Springs Institute. In addition to performing with his two bands, Qantara and the Near Eastern Music Ensemble, Shaheen tours as a solo artist internationally and as a lecturer throughout the academic world promoting awareness to Arab music through numerous lectures and workshop presentations. Shaheen is currently an instructor at Berklee School of Music, and directs the Arabic Music Retreat each summer at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father was a Palestinian refugee and her mother an American of German and Swiss descent, and Nye spent her adolescence in both Jerusalem and San Antonio, Texas. Nye is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for her work, including the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Book Critics Circle and the Paterson Poetry Prize, among others. The Poetry Foundation named Nye the Young People’s Poet Laureate for 2019 to 2021, making her the first Arab American to earn this honor. Known for poetry that lends a fresh perspective to ordinary events, people, and objects, Nye’s experience of both cultural difference and different cultures has influenced much of her work. Nye is also considered one of the leading female poets of the American Southwest. In addition to poetry, Nye has written fiction for children, poetry and song recordings, and poetry translations. She has also published a book of essays and edited several anthologies.

Lost In Translation — Album Launch Party + Talkback with Omar Offendum & Thanks Joey
2020-09-24 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
8 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020
Lost In Translation — Album Launch Party + Talkback with Omar Offendum & Thanks Joey
Free with RSVP; $10 suggested donation
RSVP for streaming link
AANM is excited to host the launch party for new album Lost In Translation by Omar Offendum and Thanks Joey — tune in and jam out with us to live performance of the album by Omar and Joey + talkback hosted by Arij Mikati!
Journey through the Syrian-Pacific with your own personal dragoman Omar Offendum, along with his partner-in-thyme Thanks Joey. This Shamreeki sonic saga is equal parts nostalgic and futuristic. Featuring samples from some iconic Syrian films, and a dizzying dose of Damascene bilingualism, Lost In Translation is a celebratory love-letter to this very merry and hairy Arabian way of life in the California Califate of Los Shamgeles.
Lyrics by Omar Offendum | Music by Thanks Joey

Virtual Artist Talks - Amal Ziad Kaawash
2020-10-11 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Please click here to register for this event.
Please join us for a new episode of virtual Artist Talks featuring Palestinian visual artist, vocalist and songwriter, Amal Kaawash on Sunday October 11, at 12:00 Noon US EST; 7:00 PM Palestine Time. Amal will talk about her life growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, her art and musical careers, a selection of which will be presented during the program. The event will be hosted on Zoom. Registration is required. To register for the event please go to the Palestine Museum US website (link in bio) and navigate to events.

Qalam wa Kalima – a virtual celebration!
2020-10-17 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us on Saturday, October 17 for Qalam wa Kalima – a virtual celebration! 2pm EST
Qalam wa Kalima pays tribute to the enduring legacy of al-Rabita’s members through a dynamic program, including:

Readings of al-Rabita members’ work by some of the most well-known Arab American writers and scholars
A special musical performance by Michael Ibrahim
An exclusive tour of our new digital exhibition featuring a number of rare original printings of books and other materials by al-Rabita members

Tickets are $100. All proceeds will support AANM’s ongoing mission to preserve and uplift Arab American cultural heritage.

Featuring:

Diana Abu Jaber is the award-winning author of Origin, Crescent, Arabian Jazz and The Language of Baklava. Her writing has appeared in Good Housekeeping, Ms., Salon, Vogue, Gourmet, The New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.

Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi-born poet, novelist, scholar and translator. He has published two collections of poetry and four novels, which have been translated in fourteen languages. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times and many pan-Arab newspapers and journals. In 2003, Antoon co-produced About Baghdad, a documentary about the lives of Iraqis under occupation. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya and associate professor at NYU.

Carol W. N. Fadda grew up in Beirut, Lebanon where she earned her B.A. and M.A. from AUB, and later her Ph.D. from Purdue University. Her first book, Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging (NYU Press, 2014) contests negative representations of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. She serves as the editor of the Critical Arab American Studies book series at Syracuse University Press.

Khaled Mattawa, poet born and raised in Benghazi, Libya, relocated to the U.S. as a teenager in 1979. Mattawa has been awarded several Pushcart Prizes and the PEN Award for Literary Translation, in addition to a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University and a MacArthur fellowship. He is currently on faculty at the University of Michigan.

Omar Offendum is a Syrian American hip-hop artist, designer, poet and peace activist. He was born in Saudi Arabia, raised in Washington, D.C., and now lives in Los Angeles, California.

My Name is the People of Palestine
2020-10-24 - 2020-10-25
“My Name is the People of Palestine” cultural event will take place on October 24-25 at 10:00am PST featuring Palestinian music and culture.

About this Event

Join us for a free online concert on Oct 24th-25th, 2020 at 10am PST/ 8pm Jerusalem to globally celebrate Palestinian music and culture together.
Music director Saleheddine Bedoui will be leading Aswat Ensemble with these featured artists:

Amal Murkus
Boutros Rouhana
Charbel Rouhana
Shadia Mansour
Reem Talhami
George Bisharat

Featured Poets:

Mourid Barghouti
Tamim Barghouti
Anis Chouehene

Two new songs by Boutros and Charbel Rouhana will premier at the concert.
This event will be streamed live on Facebook, Zoom, and Youtube, reserve your front-row seat and please share.
Translation will emailed to you and made available at Zawaya.org.
This concert is sponsored by: Zawaya, Middle East Children’s Alliance, and Palestinian Youth Movement.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-name-is-the-people-of-palestine-oct-24th-oct-25th-tickets-117583843441

My Name is the People of Palestine: cultural event
2020-10-24 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
“My Name is the People of Palestine” cultural event will take place on October 24-25 at 10:00am PST featuring Palestinian music and culture.

About this Event

Join us for a free online concert on Oct 24th-25th, 2020 at 10am PST/ 8pm Jerusalem to globally celebrate Palestinian music and culture together.
Music director Saleheddine Bedoui will be leading Aswat Ensemble with these featured artists:

Amal Murkus
Boutros Rouhana
Charbel Rouhana
Shadia Mansour
Reem Talhami
George Bisharat

Featured Poets:

Mourid Barghouti
Tamim Barghouti
Anis Chouehene

Two new songs by Boutros and Charbel Rouhana will premier at the concert.
This event will be streamed live on Facebook, Zoom, and Youtube, reserve your front-row seat and please share.
Translation will emailed to you and made available at Zawaya.org.
This concert is sponsored by: Zawaya, Middle East Children’s Alliance, and Palestinian Youth Movement.

Oud Taqaseem Against Lung Cancer
2020-11-01 - 2020-11-02
Raise money for Project Equity, whose mission is “to bring together a multidisciplinary research team and community stakeholders to understand and develop strategies for addressing the underlying factors and mechanisms of lung cancer disparities among Black Americans,” by tuning in to daily concerts with classical musician Oud Taqaseem on Facebook Live.
Learn more about Project Equity here.
Daily at 10pm every day in November!

Amal Murkus Accompanied by Fadi Deeb, in Virtual Concert: Restreamed
2020-11-08 09:00 - 11:00 UTC
Re-Streaming of Amal Murkus Accompanied by Fadi Deeb, in Virtual Concert

Sunday, November 8, 2020
12:00 PM 1:00 PM EST

Please click here to register for the concert.

Details TBA: Kinan Azmeh
2020-11-18
New York, November 18 @SUNY Downstate Medical Center in duo with Guitarist Ayman Fanous , details TBA.

Celebration of Life: A Tribute to Michel Merhej and Bassam Saba
2021-01-31 11:00 - 12:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for a Celebration of Life honoring the lives and achievements Michel Merhej (1928-2020) and Bassam Saba (1958-2020), master musicians and faculty members of the Arabic Music Retreat. Both lost their lives to COVID-19 in 2020. Simon Shaheen is curating the program to salute and honor them both. The event will be on-line on Zoom.
The event will take place at 2:00PM Eastern Daylight Time (New York time).

Please RSVP for the Zoom event using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/161…/WN_LDe4wMJTS4-jRL1fpS1JNw

Photo credits: Bassam Saba photo by Hanan Debwania (2016). Michel Merhej photo by Eric Crawford (2019)
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