My Name is the People of Palestine
2020-10-24 - 2020-10-25 | WA
“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.

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My Name is the People of Palestine: cultural event
2020-10-24 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
“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 | WA
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 | WA
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 | WA
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) | WA
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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Free Virtual Screening of the Film "Recollection" by Palestinian Director Kamal Aljafari
2021-02-27 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | WA
To register for this event please click here.
To view the film trailer please click here.
The following description is by Shimrit Lee writing for Warscapes.com
About the Film

Kamal Aljafari remembers when Jaffa was transformed into civil war-torn Beirut. Under the direction of Menachem Golan, the production team of The Delta Force (1986) created urban mayhem, arranging for the explosion of real buildings in the staging of a fictional battle. Aljafari recalls standing on the side of the road with a group of other children, eagerly awaiting a glimpse of Chuck Norris racing by in a van with the name of their school, “St. Joseph,” printed on the door. Years later, while flipping through television channels in a hotel room in London, Aljafari was shocked to recognize this scene. He sat on the bed mesmerized, not by the action shots but by the background: a clear documentation of the Jaffa of his childhood, a city which has since been destroyed, renovated, gentrified and rebuilt beyond recognition.
Aljafari’s latest film Recollection is composed entirely of footage from Israeli and American fiction features shot in Jaffa from the 1960s to the 1990s, primarily of the so-called bourekas genre that dramatized tense romantic relationships between Mizrahi male “thugs” and Ashkenazi female elites. Jaffa provided the perfect setting to construct new Israeli narratives on top of emptied Palestinian ruins. As Aljafari explains, Palestinians were effectively “uprooted in reality and in fiction.” In Recollection, Aljafari removes the Israeli actors to give the stage to the people who appear by chance in the background of these shots, including both Palestinians and Iraqi Jews who were settled in the city, enacting what he describes as “cinematic justice.”
Aljafari was born in neighboring Ramle in 1972 and later emigrated to Germany to attend film school. His previous films include The Roof (2006), which follows him on a return visit to the homes of his parents and grandmother in Palestine, and Port of Memory (2009), which traces the eviction of his mother’s family from their home in Ajami. Aljafari’s dark humor and silent communication style liken his work to that of Palestinian filmmakers Elia Sulieman and Michel Khleifi.
Unlike his previous films, Recollection has no central protagonist. Aljafari moves through the found-footage, creating the illusion of a dreamer sleep-walking through the city with a handheld camera. While Aljafari sometimes describes this unseen cameraman as himself, each excavated memory is shared, belonging to his grandfather, his mother, his neighbors, and others who cannot return. Each footstep holds a certain urgency; as Aljafari explains, “I walk everywhere, sometimes hesitant and sometimes lost. I wander through the city; I wander through the memories. I film everything I encounter because I know it no longer exists. I return to a lost time.”

Opera Singer Zeina Barhoum in Virtual Concert at Palestine Museum US
2021-03-21 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Please click here to register for this event.
Please click here to hear Zeina’s trailer.
Renowned opera singer Zeina Barhoum will perform in a virtual concert at Palestine Museum US. She will sing in Arabic and other languages, including the songs “Sanarjeo Yawman سنرجع يوما”, “Jerusalem زهرة المدائن”، “Oh mio babbino caro” and several others.

Boston Stave Sessions: Festival Night 2: Meklit and Kinan Azmeh City Band
2021-04-22 16:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Kinan Azmeh, clarinetist and composer, has gained international recognition for his rich sound and distinctive compositional voice across diverse musical genres. A native of Syria and a graduate of New York’s Julliard School, Azmeh has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Qatar Philharmonic and the Syrian Sympony Orchestra among others.

Meklit is an Ethio-American vocalist, songwriter, composer, and cultural activist, making music that sways between cultures and continents. Known for her electic stage presence, innovative take on Ethio-Jazz, and her emotive live shows, Meklit has rocked stages from Addis Ababa to San Francisco, to NYC, London, Montreal, Nairobi, Rome, Zurich, Helsinki, Rio, Cairo, and more.

Layale Chaker, violin/composer Featuring her quintet and special guest Kinan Azmeh
2021-04-29 16:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Online

PRESENTED BY

HANCHER

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$5 admission – donations appreciated

Thursday, April 29, 2021, 7:30 pm

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Layale Chaker was a winner of the Silkroad Seeds inaugural 2020 award—the latest in an impressive series of honors. She and her husband, Kinan Azmeh, are familiar to Hancher audiences from their participation in the Embracing Complexity programing. In this performance created for Hancher, Chaker and her ensemble will perform music from her critically acclaimed Inner Rhyme album as well as new music from the forthcoming Bards project—a celebration of musicianship and musicians beyond the borders of confinement and geography—performed here for the first time.

Virtual Pride Concert feat. INDKNA | + talkback
2021-06-26 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
4 p.m. PDT/7 p.m. EDT Saturday, Jun. 26, 2021
Online Livestream
FREE with RSVP
Closing out Pride Month, AANM and YallaPunk are excited to present a debut virtual concert by INDKNA, a Yemeni and Yemeni American band of immigrant and gender nonconforming women. Following the performance, join the band for a talkback moderated by YallaPunk founder Rana Fayez.
INDKNA is a group of Yemeni and Yemeni-American artists and songwriters who offer alternative and empowering narratives for Yemeni women and minorities. As a band of immigrant and gender nonconforming women, INDKNA’s music centers a radical feminist approach in its songwriting practice, as it tackles issues of bodily censorship, political unrest in Yemen and personal struggles. INDKNA uses song to reclaim the Yemeni dialect, and innovates Yemeni music through introducing experimental genres inspired by electronic music, jazz, hip-hop and classical Arabic sounds.

Musicians For Harmony: 20th Anniversary “Concert for Peace”
2021-09-11 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Musicians For Harmony returns to Merkin Hall to celebrate its 20th Anniversary with an online and in-person concert. This special event aims to elevate musical voices in the service of peace, health and equity to commemorate the victims of 9/11, Covid-19 and social injustice. The concert will feature performances by the Juilliard String Quartet, Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh with his CityBand, ETHEL and Musique Sans Frontières.

JAM3A: A Virtual Music Festival
2021-09-23 - 2021-09-26 | WA
JAM3A: A Virtual Music Festival
Thursday, Sept. 23 – Sunday, Sept. 26
AANM is excited to announce the lineup for JAM3A, a 4-day virtual music festival celebrating Arab art, talent and identity. The lineup includes audience favorites as well as names new to the AANM (virtual) stage.
Performing at JAM3A will be:

47SOUL
Alsarah & The Nubatones
Emel
Hello Psychaleppo
Medusa TN
Oddisee
Ramy Essam
REMOooOTE: Detroit-Palestine (A Poetic Societies production)

Originally planned as an in-person festival, JAM3A (Arabic for “gathering”) has moved to a virtual platform to maintain the safety of audience members during COVID-19, while also increasing accessibility to the amazing Arab artists presented as many of them are internationally based and unable to travel at this time.
Entirely free, the festival will be livestreamed across various platforms on September 23-26, 2021. In addition to musical performances, the festival will include artist talkbacks and workshops, featuring the musical and artistic talent of the Arab and Arab American community.
This event is presented in partnership with Arab.AMP, East Downtown Dearborn Development Authority, UMS and YallaPunk.

Mdou Moctar at the Crocodile
2021-09-24 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Crocodile, 2505 1st Ave, Seattle, WA, 98033, United States
Mdou Moctar immediately stands out as one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Saharan music. His unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar and have pushed him to the forefront of a crowded scene. Back home, he’s celebrated for his original compositions and verbose poetry, an original creator in a genre defined by cover bands. In the exterior, where Saharan rock has become one of the continents biggest musical exports, he’s earned a name for himself with his guitar moves. Mdou shreds with a relentless and frenetic energy that puts his contemporaries to shame.

Riz La Vie at Barboza, Seattle
2021-10-14 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | the Barboza, 925 E Pike St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
The soul-baring RIZ LA VIE, a Lebanese-American artist originally from New Jersey and based in New York, has a vocal approach that ranges from a consoling croon to a fervent howl. His artful, grainy, and occasionally bluesy hybrid of R&B, hip-hop, and pop was showcased throughout 2020 in songs like “Tesla” and “She Said”, culminating and world-expanding in the EP “Feed.” & its’ deluxe. Over the last several years, Riz has built an increasingly growing following through a heatmaking string of singles and EPs, drawing from musical influences ranging from the underground to Billboard’s Hot 100. From his unique genre-blending sonic approach to his thoughtful lyricism, fans of Riz can expect exciting new music and visuals throughout 2021, including collaborations on 6 Dogs’ posthumous album (March) and a debut album.
Check out his music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZC9Fw6bb6E
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Tinariwen at the Showbox
2021-10-22 21:00 - 23:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Showbox, 1426 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States
The best Tinariwen album hasn’t been recorded yet. Perhaps it never will be. Because the best Tinariwen music isn’t the music they perform in front of microphones. It’s the music they play at night around the fire, back in their own country, amongst themselves and at their own pace. Having eaten, and drunk their tea, the men bring out their guitars, chat, remember old songs and let the music come. In those moments, the music can become like the fire, free, magical and impossible to stuff into a box. It rises up like a shower of sparks or a state of grace, without premeditation; the momentary manifestation of a friendship, a community, an environment, a history; the revelatory connection with something that belongs only to them, and goes beyond them. Their discography stretching out over the last 17 years, all the tours and the international recognition have changed nothing: Tinariwen are still a desert band, only certain aspects of which the western music industry can ever hope to capture and present. Tinariwen existed long before any of their albums were recorded, and they still exist quite distinct from their discographic dimension. So, the best Tinariwen album doesn’t exist. But it’s still worth trying to go and find it.

Digital World Premiere: Tarek Yamani & Spektral Quartet
2021-10-27 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Online Livestream
FREE with RSVP
As the culmination of their 2020/21 UMS Digital Artist Residency, the Spektral Quartet performs the world premiere of a new four-movement suite composed by Tarek Yamani.
Program
Works by Tarek Yamani:
Berytus (world premiere for string quartet)
Skylines Ahead (for string quartet and Lebanese percussion)
For questions, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski at KGrabowski@accesscommunity.org.

Tarek Yamani, born and raised in Beirut, is a Lebanese American award-winning composer and pianist who taught himself jazz at the age of 19. Since the release of his debut album “Ashur” in 2012, he has been reinventing classical Arab music within the framework of Black American Music in a genre often dubbed “Afro-Tarab.” He has composed the works on this program for the Spektral Quartet, a Grammy-nominated string quartet based in Chicago that actively creates musical conversations between traditional repertoire and new works. Tarek currently resides in Berlin.

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

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

Queen Naija: The Butterfly Tour (Portland)
2021-11-21 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St, Portland, Oregon, 97212, United States
With the recent arrival of her debut album missunderstood, Atlanta-based singer/songwriter Queen Naija has cemented her status as one of R&B’s most compelling young stars. Hailed as “the first soul star of the social media generation” by The New York Times, the 25-year-old Detroit native has amassed over three billion combined global streams to date, each song showcasing the powerful vocal skills she first developed by singing in church. Although she initially found fame through a YouTube channel launched with her former husband, Queen struck out on her own with her breakthrough single “Medicine”: a January 2018 release that debuted at No. 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 (a nearly-unheard-of achievement for an unsigned artist), and quickly landed her a deal with Capitol Records. By summer 2018, she’d delivered a critically acclaimed self-titled EP, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart and earned major recognition in the 2019 awards season (including nominations for Top R&B Artist at the Billboard Music Awards and Best New Artist at the BET Awards, in addition to three nods at the iHeartRadio Music Awards).

Queen Naija: The Butterfly Tour at the Showbox
2021-11-22 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Showbox, 1426 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States

Antonio Rey - Flamenco Guitar Master from Spain with Seffarine
2021-12-03 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Flamenco Guitar virtuoso from Spain, Antonio Rey makes his Seattle debut after winning the 2020 Latin Grammy for best flamenco album
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.

Intisaar, Kathy Moore, and Nick Bigelow at Sunset Tavern
2022-02-26 21:00 - 23:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave NW, Seattle, WA, 98107, United States
Seattle vocal powerhouse Intisaar will play songs with support from the prog-rock outfit Kathy Moore and electronic artist Nick Bigelow.

Habibi with Plastic Cactus: Concert
2022-03-11 20:00 - 23:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Alma – Tacoma, 1322 Fawcett Ave, Tacoma, WA, 98402, United States
“Rock out with psychedelic Iranian rock band Habibi and Portland’s own desert-inspired surf rock band Plastic Cactus March 11th at ALMA!” (Promo Copy)

Barboza Presents: Habibi
2022-03-12 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | the Barboza, 925 E Pike St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
As the world starts to re-emerge and awaken, the summer of 2021 proved to be a hot one and Habibi is ready to dance. After being coined by the New Yorker as having “the Colgate white glisten of sixties girl group pop combined with an uncensored edge” for their acclaimed debut album, Habibi broke boundaries by introducing Farsi-sung tunes on their EP ‘Cardamom Garden’ that “shed rigid definitions of what constitutes American music” (Pitchfork). In 2020, a month before the world drastically changed, ‘Anywhere But Here’, the group’s prophetic sophomore album was released which led NPR’s Robin Hilton to call them a “noir girl-group.”
This fall, Habibi will release a two-song EP of original compositions, titled ‘Somewhere’ to inaugurate their signing to the legendary label Kill Rock Stars. The EP will move the unique four- piece’s sound into the escapism of disco club era New York City, an expansion upon their Detroit-bred garage roots. Habibi knows it’s time to cut loose and take you to the dance floor, enlisting producer Mike Stroud from Ratatat and Heba Kadry (Egyptian) as mastering engineer. Fans of the Tom Tom Club and ESG will find here plenty to love.

Nassif Zeytoun at the Hyatt Seattle (21+)
2022-03-26 08:00 - 2022-03-27 01:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hyatt Regency (Seattle), 808 Howell Street, Seattle, WA, 98101
Nassif Zeytoun will be performing near you at Hyatt Regency on Saturday 26 March 2022 as part of their tour, and are scheduled to play 4 concerts across 1 country in 2022-2023.

Bakar: live at the Neptune
2022-04-27 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Neptune, 1303 Northeast 45th Street, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Musical influences cited by Bakar include Madlib and Foals.[19][11] He has described his music as “schizophrenic”, and said that he attempts to “bridge the gap” between different music genres.[19] Ones to Watch described his style as a “melting pot of indie, rap, rock, and punk”.[44]
https://www.facebook.com/yeaabk
EVENT NOTES

Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Doors at 7:00 pm
Show at 8:00 pm
General Admission
All Ages / Bar w/ Valid ID
$23.00 in advance
$28.00 day of show
(not including fees)
Proof of COVID vaccination required for entry. Patrons unable to be vaccinated can show proof of negative COVID PCR test. Click here for details.

Bakar is of Yemeni and Tanzanian descent

Morocco Night with Casablanca Band
2022-05-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
A night of Moroccan food and music!
Empire Banquet Hall
21222 30th Drive SE, Suite 110
Bothell, WA 98021
No kids, no VIP tables.
Call Majid Lamaazi for details: 425-829-3687

Blackwater Holylight at Chop Suey
2022-06-10 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Fri Jun 10, 7 pm

Chop Suey Capitol Hill (Seattle)
This is an in-person event

$15
21+

*I’m making the guess that the lead vocalist Allison Sunny Faris has origins in Syria/Lebanon.

Donia Jarrar + Friends wsg Huda Asfour
2022-06-25 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Donia Jarrar + Friends wsg Huda Asfour
8 p.m. ET Saturday, June 25, 2022
In-person at The Annex @ AANM OR Virtual Livestream
$12 Museum Members | $10 Students | $15 General Public | $5 Livestream
Join artist-in-residence Donia Jarrar for the premiere of her new evening-length work, BUTCHER, produced during her residency, and featuring poet and writer Yasmine Rukia, and dancers Ava Ansari and Zaza. Huda Asfour will open the concert with her signature solo oud improvisations. There will also be a talkback with the artists after the show.
BUTCHER is a loosely autobiographical concept album based on Jarrar’s own experiences with domestic and intimate partner violence and sexual assault, in which she takes on the persona of a vigilante and antihero doling out punishments through the power wielded to her via a sonic cleaver. Jarrar is not interested in playing nice. Rather, she aims to explore what is possible when women, non-binary people and queers of all genders defy, disrupt and destroy the patriarchy through violent means and without mercy, drawing inspiration from horror, science-fiction and the erotic.
CONTENT WARNING: This performance includes sensitive content on domestic violence, sexual assault, physical violence, identity-based racial discrimination and harassment. There will also be the use of prop swords, knives and cleavers and other edged and bladed weapons. While this performance is meant to be a healing space for survivors, the artist acknowledges that this content may be difficult for some audience members.
