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SUMMARY:Palestine Writes Conference (in Philadelphia)
DESCRIPTION:Palestine Writes is the only North American literature festival dedicated to celebrating and promoting cultural productions of Palestinian writers and artists. Born from the pervasive exclusion from or tokenization of Palestinian voices in mainstream literary institutions\, Palestine Writes brings Palestinian cultural workers from all parts of Historic Palestine and our exiled Diaspora together with peers from other marginalized groups in the United States.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/palestine-writes-conference-in-philadelphia/
CATEGORIES:Art,Book Reading,Education,Gathering,Poetry,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Family Dinner:  Palestinian Poetry Feast
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dinner where we do all the cooking! Each month we open the doors between our classrooms and seat 40 guests for a five-course family-style feast\, featuring all the ingredients we’re excited about. And this October we’re hosting another very special dinner\, with Nadia Tommalieh taking the lead. We’re excited to welcome local poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha to celebrate her new book “Kaan and Her Sisters” with a menu inspired by her writing. This book of poems is about grief\, survival\, displacement\, and intergenerational memory\, following a teacher of Arabic from her origins in Palestine to the cities of the Arab world. It’s a perfect pairing for Nadia’s cooking\, which is itself powerfully informed by memories of Palestine — we can’t wait to taste what comes from this conversation. Pricing includes tip\, a wine pairing with each savory course\, tea or coffee with dessert\, and a signed copy of “Kaan and Her Sisters”.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/family-dinner-palestinian-poetry-feast/
LOCATION:the Pantry\, 1417 NW 70th Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98117
CATEGORIES:Cooking/Food,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231028T210000
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SUMMARY:Family Dinner:  Palestinian Poetry Feast
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dinner where we do all the cooking! Each month we open the doors between our classrooms and seat 40 guests for a five-course family-style feast\, featuring all the ingredients we’re excited about. And this October we’re hosting another very special dinner\, with Nadia Tommalieh taking the lead. We’re excited to welcome local poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha to celebrate her new book “Kaan and Her Sisters” with a menu inspired by her writing. This book of poems is about grief\, survival\, displacement\, and intergenerational memory\, following a teacher of Arabic from her origins in Palestine to the cities of the Arab world. It’s a perfect pairing for Nadia’s cooking\, which is itself powerfully informed by memories of Palestine — we can’t wait to taste what comes from this conversation. Pricing includes tip\, a wine pairing with each savory course\, tea or coffee with dessert\, and a signed copy of “Kaan and Her Sisters”.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/family-dinner-palestinian-poetry-feast-2/
LOCATION:the Pantry\, 1417 NW 70th Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98117
CATEGORIES:Cooking/Food,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231030T143000
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SUMMARY:Poets for Palestine: Raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians
DESCRIPTION:An online evening of poetry\, raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/poets-for-palestine-raising-funds-for-medical-aid-for-palestinians/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Benefit/Fundraiser,Poetry
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231213T130000
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SUMMARY:Special online event with Mosab Abu Toha on Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, December 13 \nTime: 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern \nLocation: Zoom – registration required \n  \nJoin MECA for this special online event with poet Mosab Abu Toha. The event will honor two dear friends and colleagues Refaat Al-Areef & Doaa Al-Masri who were killed by Israeli attacks several days ago and feature poetry by Refaat as well as Mosab’s own work. \n  \nMosab is the founder of MECA partner the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza. Mosab will be joining us from Cairo to speak about his personal experiences living through seven weeks of Israel’s genocidal attacks. \n  \nRegister now
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/15618/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Social Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T200000
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SUMMARY:Art Reception & Vigil
DESCRIPTION:Art Reception & Vigil: Friday\, March 1st\, 5 – 8PM\nPoetry\, warm tea & comfort food will be served.\nSilent Vigil.\nThe future is dark. Is this darkness of the tomb – or of the womb? It is both. In all the death and destruction around us\, I believe we must find the audacity to lift our gaze and witness the emergence of the new – millions waking to our shared humanity\, coming together to grieve and imagine otherwise. In us\, I see glimpses of the world waiting to be born. I choose to labor for that world\, with you. Let’s last. \nTonight we breathe\, tomorrow we push. \n– Valerie Kaur
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/art-reception-vigil/
LOCATION:Suzanne Zahr\, Art & Architecture\, 2441 76th Ave SE\, Ste 160\, Mercer Island\, WA\, 98040\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240531T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240531T210000
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SUMMARY:Narratives of Pain
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce our next community event with Narratives of Pain! \nPlease join Narratives of Pain and Baladna for an evening of healing through the telling and witnessing of stories. Narratives of pain is a unique showcase highlighting the value of collecting gathering and communal witnessing. The Narratives of Pain structure honors both storytellers and witnesses (i.e the audience) with stories that range in subject matter and form\, focused on the needs of each person. \nIt is important that the Palestinian community can come together in a safe\, shared space to feel free to open up with the intention to heal individually and collectively. We must take care of ourselves as much as we show up for our community in order to sustain the resistance we are all engaging in daily. \nIf you are interested in signing up as a storyteller\, please contact Zain Shamoon via email at zain.shamoon87@gmail.com \n  \nSeattle\, WA\nFriday\, May 31st\n7-9\nDoors open at 6:30 \n*This event will take place in Seattle WA\, with the exact location being shared the week of the event.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/narratives-of-pain/
LOCATION:Contact for Location\, See above for contact
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Social Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240606T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240606T173000
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SUMMARY:Words for Palestine: Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Online via livestream\nFree with RSVP \nJoin our monthly online series “Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers include leena aboutaleb\, Summer Awad\, Sarah Aziza and Noor Hindi. \n“Words For Palestine” is co-sponsored by Mizna\, Palestine Writes and RAWI\, and is free with RSVP. We encourage you to make a donation to support the work of Palestine Legal and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Palestine Legal is an organization dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. PCRF is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine\, providing crucial and life-saving relief and humanitarian aid in Gaza. \nFor questions\, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@accesscommunity.org \nleena aboutaleb is an Egyptian and Palestinian writer\, asking you to commit to the Palestinian liberation struggle. Read her work at www.leenaboutaleb.onl \n  \n  \n  \nSummer Awad is a multi-genre writer with roots in Knoxville\, Tennessee\, and Nablus\, Palestine. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University. In 2023\, she was awarded a de Groot Foundation LANDO grant in immigration\, migration\, and refugee writing for her essay collection in progress about her work in refugee resettlement.  Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in Adi Magazine\, J Journal\, About Place Journal\, Chapter 16 and others\, with poems forthcoming in The Rising Phoenix Review. Her play\, Walls\, A Play for Palestine\, was produced in 2016 at The New York International Fringe Festival. \n  \nSarah Aziza is a Palestinian American writer and translator. Her essays\, journalism\, poetry\, and creative nonfiction have appeared in the New Yorker\, the Baffler\, Harper’s Magazine\, Mizna\, Jewish Currents\, Lux Magazine\, the Intercept\, NPR\, and the Nation\, among others. She is the recipient of numerous grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting\, a 2022 resident at Tin House Books and a 2023 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Her book\, forthcoming in Spring 2025\, is a hybrid work of memoir\, lyricism\, and oral history exploring the intertwined legacies of diaspora\, colonialism\, and the American dream. \n  \nNoor Hindi (she/her/hers) is calling on you to join the global fight for the survival and liberation of Palestinians and all oppressed people. Anywhere and everywhere you are\, you can disrupt\, advocate\, speak out and refuse in small and big ways. Revolution until freedom. Hindi is a Palestinian-American poet. Her debut collection of poems\, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow (Haymarket Books 2022)\, was an honorable mention for the Arab American Book Award. She is currently editing a Palestinian poetry anthology with George Abraham (Haymarket Books\, 2025). Follow her on Instagram @NoorKHindi
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/words-for-palestine-virtual/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240710T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240710T180000
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SUMMARY:Words for Palestine – July
DESCRIPTION:Join our monthly online series “Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers include Zein El-Amine\, Summer Farah\, Zeina Hashem Beck and Kamelya Omayma Youssef. Poet Leena Aboutaleb will be moderating this July
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/17231/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240807T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240807T180000
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SUMMARY:Words for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Join our monthly online series “Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers include Abdelrahman ElGendy\, Jessica Abughattas and Hind Shoufani. Summer Awad will be moderating this August iteration. \n“Words For Palestine” is co-sponsored by Al Nadwa Freethinking Society\, Mizna\, Palestine Writes and RAWI\, and is free with RSVP. We encourage you to make a donation to support the work of Palestine Legal and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Palestine Legal is an organization dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. PCRF is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine\, providing crucial and life-saving relief and humanitarian aid in Gaza. \nMeet the Readers \nAbdelrahman ElGendy is an Egyptian writer\, translator and activist from Cairo based in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. A former six-year political prisoner in Egypt\, ElGendy writes about counter-narratives\, state-manufactured archival silences and abolishing empathy as an extension of colonial violence. His writing appears in the Washington Post\, Foreign Policy\, Guernica\, AGNI\, Mizna\, The Markaz Review\, Truthout\, Mada Masr and elsewhere. ElGendy is a 2024-25 Steinbeck fellow at San Jose State University\, a 2022 Dietrich fellow at the University of Pittsburgh’s Nonfiction Writing MFA\, and a Heinz fellow at Pitt’s Global Studies Center. His work has received awards or scholarships from Logan Nonfiction Program\, Tin House Workshop\, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and Community of Writers Workshop. He is the winner of the 2024 Courage to Write award by the de Groot Foundation\, the 2024 Turow-Kinder Award in Fiction\, and was a finalist for the 2021 and 2023 Margolis Award for Social Justice Journalism. \nJessica Abughattas’ debut book Strip won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and was published in October 2020. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in POETRY\, The Kenyon Review\, The Nation\, The Yale Review\, and elsewhere. \nHind Shoufani is a multidisciplinary Palestinian filmmaker & writer\, who grew up in the Leftist communities in the liberation movement. Hind once lived all across the Arab world and is now exploring Brooklyn\, again. Her film work has garnered a BAFTA win and an Oscar nomination for the film The Present and her latest documentary\, Heavy Metal\, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2023. Her award-winning first feature film Trip Along Exodus has screened in over 30 countries. Hind has published creative essays\, prose and poetry in international journals\, magazines and anthologies\, and has been a director\, producer and editor of documentaries for over 25 years\, globally. She is currently attempting a Coming-Of-Middle-Age hybrid-genre lust and politics memoir\, her second feature film\, and some semblance of purpose and meaning in the zeitgeist. \nFor questions\, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@accesscommunity.org
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/words-for-palestine/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Books/Literature/Writing,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T180000
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SUMMARY:Words for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Join our monthly online series “Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers TBA. \n“Words For Palestine” is co-sponsored by Al Nadwa Freethinking Society\, Mizna\, Palestine Writes and RAWI\, and is free with RSVP. We encourage you to make a donation to support the work of Palestine Legal and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Palestine Legal is an organization dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. PCRF is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine\, providing crucial and life-saving relief and humanitarian aid in Gaza. \nFor questions\, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@accesscommunity.org
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/words-for-palestine-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Books/Literature/Writing,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241018T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241018T180000
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SUMMARY:Palestine on Paper
DESCRIPTION:5:30-9 p.m. ET Friday\, October 18\, 2024\nPalestine on Paper\nFree with RSVP\nRegister for in-person event; Register for livestream \nJoin Visualizing Palestine as they launch their debut book via a panel and one-day exhibit\, coupled with the late Rajie Cook’s exhibition\, Waiting for Peace\, at AANM. More details to come!
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/words-for-palestine-sept-copy/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Books/Literature/Writing,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144001
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SUMMARY:Words for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Join our monthly online series “Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers TBA. \n“Words For Palestine” is co-sponsored by Al Nadwa Freethinking Society\, Mizna\, Palestine Writes and RAWI\, and is free with RSVP. We encourage you to make a donation to support the work of Palestine Legal and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Palestine Legal is an organization dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. PCRF is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine\, providing crucial and life-saving relief and humanitarian aid in Gaza. \nFor questions\, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@accesscommunity.org
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/words-for-palestine-nov/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Books/Literature/Writing,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144001
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SUMMARY:National Book Award Winner: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
DESCRIPTION:Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reads from Something About Living\, her National Book Award-winning third poetry collection.\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Please help us plan for audience size by RSVPing here. \nIt’s nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time\, but Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s gorgeous and wide-ranging new collection Something About Living does just that. Her poems interweave Palestine’s historic suffering\, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will\, and the gentle delights we embrace to survive that violence. Khalaf Tuffaha’s elegant poems sing the fractured songs of Diaspora while remaining clear-eyed to the cause of the fracturing: the multinational hubris of colonialism and greed. \nThis collection is her witness to our collective unraveling\, vowel by vowel\, syllable by syllable. “Let the plural be a return of us” the speaker of “On the Thirtieth Friday We Consider Plurals” says and this plurality is our tenuous humanity and the deep need to hang on to kindness in our communities. In these poems Khalaf Tuffaha reminds us that love isn’t an idea; it is a radical act. Especially for those who\, like this poet\, travel through the world vigilantly\, but steadfastly remain heart first. —Adrian Matejka\, author of Somebody Else Sold the World \nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet\, essayist and translator. She is the author of Water & Salt (Red Hen)\, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award\, Kaan & Her Sisters (Trio House Press)\, finalist for the Firecracker Award\, and Something About Living (UAkron\, 2024)\, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award and winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry. Her writing has been published in journals including Los Angeles Review of Books\, Michigan Quarterly Revie\, the Nation\, Poets.org\, and Prairie Schooner and in anthologies including The Long Devotion and We Call to the Eye and the Night. She was the translator and curator of the 2022 series “Poems from Palestine” at the Baffler magazine. She is currently curating a year-long subscription of Palestinian poetry books with Open Books\, Seattle’s poetry-only bookstore. For more about her work\, visit www.lenakhalaftuffaha.com
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/national-book-award-winner-lena-khalaf-tuffaha/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241212T180000
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SUMMARY:Words for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Join our monthly online series “Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers TBA. \n“Words For Palestine” is co-sponsored by Al Nadwa Freethinking Society\, Mizna\, Palestine Writes and RAWI\, and is free with RSVP. We encourage you to make a donation to support the work of Palestine Legal and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Palestine Legal is an organization dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. PCRF is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine\, providing crucial and life-saving relief and humanitarian aid in Gaza. \nFor questions\, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@accesscommunity.org
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/words-for-palestine-dec/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Books/Literature/Writing,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250214T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144001
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SUMMARY:Love Letters in the Slanted Season — A Celebration of Palestinian Poetry
DESCRIPTION:“the way love takes you inside its slanted season” — Nathalie Khankan \nWe can’t stop thinking about the books from last year’s Palestinian poetry subscription\, so we decided to have a reading to celebrate them together! On Valentine’s Day\, join us to share the love\, to read from twelve months-worth of exquisite poems with the series curator Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and Tatreez artist Hala Saleh. And because love is a verb\, there will be an opportunity to raise funds for people in Gaza as well.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/open-books-poetry-event/
LOCATION:Open Books\, 108 Cherry Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Angela Davis: Collective Struggle in Critical Time
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Corrie Foundation\, Olympia Film Society\, Jewish Voice for Peace Tacoma\, Evergreen Tacoma\, Jewish Voice for Peace Olympia\, and Palestine Action South Sound present:\nA Conversation with Angela Davis:\nCollective Struggle in Critical Times\nFeaturing spoken word by Terrance Turner\, aka C.A.U.T.I.O.N.\nGA $28.25 & OFS $23.25 (available online and at the door)\n$13.25 Student (available for purchase at the door only)\nAll Prices Include Service Fees\n6pm doors / 7pm show\n \nFrom prison abolition to Palestine liberation\, Angela Davis has been at the forefront of radical intellectual work and political activism for decades. Her public rise in the Black Power and Women of Color movements made her an outspoken advocate for racial\, gender\, and economic justice. She is the author of many books\, and a founding member of Critical Resistance\, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/conversation-with-angela-davis-collective-struggle-in-critical-time/
LOCATION:Olympia Capitol Theater\, 206 5th Avenue SE\, Olympia\, WA\, 98501\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Community Book Reading with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening with poet and essayist Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\, as she reads from her acclaimed collection\, Something About Living\, on Friday\, February 28\, at 6 PM on the UW Seattle Campus. Something About Living\, which chronicles the history and experiences of Palestinian diaspora\, was awarded the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry. The event is open to all Seattle-area students\, staff\, and community members. Food is provided\, and more information on location will be sent after RSVPing at bit.ly/LenaTuffahaReading 📚✨
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/community-book-reading-with-lena-khalaf-tuffaha/
LOCATION:Register for Location
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250327T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250327T171500
DTSTAMP:20260403T144001
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SUMMARY:Words for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Join our monthly online series “Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers TBA. \n“Words For Palestine” is co-sponsored by Al Nadwa Freethinking Society\, Mizna\, Palestine Writes and RAWI\, and is free with RSVP. We encourage you to make a donation to support the work of Palestine Legal and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Palestine Legal is an organization dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. PCRF is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine\, providing crucial and life-saving relief and humanitarian aid in Gaza. \nFor questions\, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@accesscommunity.org
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/words-for-palestine-march/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Books/Literature/Writing,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250424T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250424T171500
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SUMMARY:Words for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Join our monthly online series “Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers TBA. \n“Words For Palestine” is co-sponsored by Al Nadwa Freethinking Society\, Mizna\, Palestine Writes and RAWI\, and is free with RSVP. We encourage you to make a donation to support the work of Palestine Legal and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Palestine Legal is an organization dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. PCRF is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine\, providing crucial and life-saving relief and humanitarian aid in Gaza. \nFor questions\, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@accesscommunity.org
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/words-for-palestine-april/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Books/Literature/Writing,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250512T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250512T210000
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SUMMARY:Lena Khalaf Tuffaha with Gabrielle Bates — 'Something About Living: Poems'
DESCRIPTION:Tuffaha’s poems interweave Palestine’s historic suffering\, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will\, and the gentle delights we embrace to survive that violence\nThird Place Books is honored to welcome Lena Khalaf Tuffaha to our Lake Forest Park store for a reading and discussion about Something About Living\, winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry. \nTuffaha will be joined in conversation by poet Gabrielle Bates\, author of Judas Goat. This event is free and open to the public. \n“Something About Living opens with a single bird and ends in a dazzling meteor shower\, and in between lies something of a marvel—an electric and sobering song crackling with possibilities for a homeland fractured and besieged by Empire. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha writes\, ‘Love is paying attention\,’ and this impressive collection serves as a powerful exemplar of devotion—brilliantly rendered in surprising forms—and profoundly teaches us ‘a million ways to love.’”\n—Judges’ citation\, National Book Award for Poetry \nFor important updates\, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book! \nThis event is in partnership with MENA Heritage Month. Join us in coming together with the Middle Eastern & North Africa community to celebrate and share our various cultures\, in April 2025 and beyond \nHaving trouble accessing Eventbrite? Click here.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/lena-khalaf-tuffaha-with-gabrielle-bates-something-about-living-poems/
LOCATION:Third Place Books – Lake Forest Park\, 17171 Bothell Way NE #A101\, Lake Forest Park\, WA\, 98155\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250524T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T010000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144001
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T055834Z
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SUMMARY:Radio Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Get ready to get down for a cause!\n@intisaarband presents: RADIO GAZA — a disco-fueled benefit for Palestine!\nOne week from Saturday — May 24th\, 7PM–1AM — at @mosswoodloft! \nLive grooves from @bijoux_seattle & @intisaarband\nDancefloor heat courtesy of @i.s.h_dj\nSoulful vibes with poetry & Tatreez art by @halasalehtatreez\nHenna magic from @ineedasandwich\nPalestine merch by @sweetmalson \nAll proceeds go to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund @thepcrf\nFlyer by the brilliant @ryanjgill_gillco \n$20 at the door or in advance — scan that QR and show up loud\, proud\, and ready to move.\nSee you under the mirrorball!
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/radio-gaza/
LOCATION:Mosswood Loft\, 932 12th Avenue\, Upper\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
CATEGORIES:Benefit/Fundraiser,Music,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T171500
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SUMMARY:Words for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Join our monthly online series “Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers TBA. \n“Words For Palestine” is co-sponsored by Al Nadwa Freethinking Society\, Mizna\, Palestine Writes and RAWI\, and is free with RSVP. We encourage you to make a donation to support the work of Palestine Legal and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Palestine Legal is an organization dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. PCRF is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine\, providing crucial and life-saving relief and humanitarian aid in Gaza. \nFor questions\, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@accesscommunity.org
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/words-for-palestine-may/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Books/Literature/Writing,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250604T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250604T200000
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CREATED:20250528T231829Z
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SUMMARY:A Night with Mx. Yaffa: Conversation // Reading // Book Signing 
DESCRIPTION: (Open to all\, no registration required) \nJoin us in celebrating the release of Yaffa’s latest book\, Sage. Sage is a poetry collection that acknowledges all transphobia is systemic but the pain of everyday interpersonal violence is still felt in our bones. A collection that highlights challenges and joy within interpersonal relationships from the perspective of a queer and trans Palestinian living at the margins of displacement\, disability\, immigration & ongoing genocide. Sage is a beacon of light\, shedding light to wounds that have festered and rotted\, and finding the paths forward as fascism claims more of who we are. \nAvailable now in ebook and print! \nThe CSPP Library will be open! Get a library card\, check out + return a book\, and support the only community run SWANA Library. \nBooks will be for sale along with prints\, shirts + herbal medicine from the community. \nAll proceeds go to Trans folks most affected by ongoing gen0cides. \nMasks provided and required at @swanarosepdx – community care is a verb
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/a-night-with-mx-yaffa-conversation-reading-book-signing/
LOCATION:SWANA Rose Culture + Community Center\, 2942 NE MLK Jr. Boulevard\, Portland\, OR\, 97203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books/Literature/Writing,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250621T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250621T200000
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SUMMARY:Six MENA poets at Elliott Bay Book Company
DESCRIPTION:menaheritagemonth\n\n\n\n\nJoin us at Elliott Bay Book Co as six poets from the local MENA (Middle Eastern & North African) community read selections from their own selected work followed by a talkback panel and Q&A session. Featuring Shaudi Bianca Vahdat\, Parisa Akhbari\, Sahar Fathi\, Jamal Gabobe\, Raanah Amjadi\, Samar Abulhassan. \nSaturday\, June 21\n7 – 8 PM\nDownstairs
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/19176/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250626T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250626T171500
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SUMMARY:Words for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Join our monthly online series “Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers TBA. \n“Words For Palestine” is co-sponsored by Al Nadwa Freethinking Society\, Mizna\, Palestine Writes and RAWI\, and is free with RSVP. We encourage you to make a donation to support the work of Palestine Legal and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Palestine Legal is an organization dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. PCRF is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine\, providing crucial and life-saving relief and humanitarian aid in Gaza. \nFor questions\, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@accesscommunity.org
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/words-for-palestine-june/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Books/Literature/Writing,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251004T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251004T120000
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SUMMARY:Workshops 4 Gaza: Cryptids and Creatures: Mythology in Poetry
DESCRIPTION:What role do cryptids and creatures like the Minotaur\, the Mapinguari\, or the Little Mermaid play in a poem? What do they allow writers to communicate about the myriad costs of being in this world characterized by colonial violence and slavery? \nThis workshop engages works by poets like Traci Brimhall\, Natalie Diaz\, and Summer Farah\, whose mythical creatures unsettle understandings of loneliness\, intimacy\, sacrifice\, and our relationships between past and present. \nThis will be an interactive space\, where participants will write and share poems as cryptozoologists\, architects\, and memory workers. This workshop benefits the Sameer Project’s North Gaza campaign. \nMaya Salameh is the author of HOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICROWAVE (University of Arkansas Press\, 2022)\, winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\, and the chapbook rooh (Paper Nautilus Press\, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Offing\, Poetry\, Gulf Coast\, The Rumpus\, AGNI\, Mizna\, and the LA Times\, among others. She can be found at @mayaslmh or mayasalameh.com.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/workshops-4-gaza-cryptids-and-creatures-mythology-in-poetry/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144001
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SUMMARY:She Stands With Gaza:  Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:She Stands With Gaza \nWest coast (Turtle Island) feminist activists welcome you to join us as we hold a poetry reading and solidarity event with Gaza. \nIndigenous two-spirit poet Chrystos will be reading her poems from visiting in Palestine. \nWe will present the work of Nima Hasan\, the Gazan poet whose new collection I Bequeath Life to You\, for We Die without Life Knowing Us: Nima Hasan Writing from the Ends of the Homeland has recently been translated into English. \nSeba Abudaqa & Tom Kellner will speak about the material needs of women in Gaza. and the work that Clean Shelter is doing. to provide water and sanitary solutions to thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza. \nLast but not least\, Dominique Christina will join us virtually to read some of her work. \nWe would love to have you joining us for a day of beautiful poetry as we come together to show our solidarity with the people of Palestine. \nI Bequeath Life to You\, for We Die without Life Knowing Us: Nima Hasan Writing from the Ends of the Homeland. Compiled and edited by Rania Jawad\, translated by Malaka Shwaikh\, Published by Arablit\, july 2025 \nCosponsors: Fertile Ground\, Communities that Protect and Resist (CPR)\, Blue Earth Defense (BED) and Vancouver Women In Black for Justice & Peace (WIB YVR)
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/she-stands-with-gaza-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Douglas Truth – Seattle Public Library\, 2300 E. Yesler Way\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251212T200000
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SUMMARY:Seattle Arts & Lectures Youth Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebratory poetry reading featuring SAL’s talented Youth Poetry Fellows. This reading marks the end of the program\, and you are invited to come celebrate their genius with us!\n\n\nRegistration is not required\, but helps us anticipate audience size. If you’d like to RSVP\, please do so here! \nAbout SAL’s Youth Poetry Fellowship (YPF): \nThe Youth Poetry Fellowship serves a cohort of young writers committed to poetry\, performance\, civic and community engagement\, education\, and equity across the Puget Sound region. Over the course of the school year\, fellows meet regularly for workshops with the Youth Poetry Fellowship mentors. Fellows also have numerous public opportunities to share their voices\, leadership\, and love of Seattle throughout the course of the year. One of the fellows serves as the Youth Poet Laureate and writes a poetry collection published by Poetry NW Editions. \nAhsenti Alfedil (she/her) is a first-generation American of Ethio-Sudanese descent and a student at the Bush School. A multidisciplinary Piscean\, she moves fluidly between poetry\, acrylic/oil painting\, and movement—always led by curiosity and feeling. When not overwhelmed by her academic workload\, she finds joy in braiding hair\, spending hours adorning herself and loved ones in henna\, skating to her favorite playlists\, and research as a leisure activity. As a writer\, Ahsenti turns most often to poetry. Her work shows resistance to categorization because she follows her intrigue; the fleeting moments that spark inspiration to create. Through her writing\, she hopes to make space for those navigating layered identities\, vulnerability\, and for stories that make people feel seen in their most intricate and unspoken parts. \nNadia Najam is a senior at Liberty High School in Renton\, Washington. She finds joy in reading any good book she can get her hands on and spending time in nature. Through YPF\, Nadia hopes to grow more confident in sharing her writing with the world and to challenge herself to explore new themes and styles in her poetry. \nand more. \n 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-arts-lectures-youth-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260402T200000
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SUMMARY:Singing Seattle: A Reading and Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Singing Seattle: A Reading and Celebration \nThree authors read poetry and creative nonfiction that speaks to our moment\, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Samina Najmi reads from her debut memoir-in-essays Sing Me A Circle: Love\, Loss\, and a Home in Time\, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha from her award-winning poetry collection Something About Living\, and Kalehua Kim from her debut poetry collection Mele. The readings will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. \nFree admission to this event is made possible with support from 4Culture. \n\n\n\n\n\nSamina Najmi\nSamina Najmi is a professor of English at California State University\, Fresno. Her memoir-in-essays\, Sing Me a Circle: Love\, Loss\, and a Home in Time\, won the Aurora Polaris Award in Creative Nonfiction and was published Oct 1 by Trio House Press. It has received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and is featured among Poets & Writers’ five creative nonfiction debuts of the year. Samina is enrolled part-time in Fresno State’s MFA program in creative nonfiction\, and this is keeping her humble. Daughter of multiple migrations\, Samina has lived in Fresno since 2006 and watched with wonder her children\, her students\, and her citrus grow. \n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nLena Khalaf Tuffaha\nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet\, essayist and translator. Her most recent book\, Something About Living (UAkron\, 2024)\, was listed as a 2025 notable book by the American Library Association\, and was winner of the 2024 National Book Award\, the 2025 Washington State Book Award\, and the 2025 Arab American Book Award. Something About Living will be published by the 87Press in the UK and Ireland\, where it is a finalist for the PEN Heaney Prize. She is also the author of Kaan and Her Sisters (Trio House\, 2023)\, finalist for the Firecracker Prize\, and Water & Salt (Red Hen\, 2017)\, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award. Tuffaha’s writing has been published in journals including Los Angeles Review of Books\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, the Nation\, Poets.org\, and Prairie Schooner and in anthologies including The Long Devotion and We Call to the Eye and the Night. She was the translator and curator of the 2022 series “Poems from Palestine” at the Baffler magazine. In 2024\, she was a guest editor for Words Without Borders where she curated the series Against Silence. For more about her work\, visit www.lenakhalaftuffaha.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKalehua Kim\nKalehua Kim is a poet living in the Pacific Northwest. Born of Hawaiian\, Chinese\, Filipino and Portuguese descent\, her multicultural background informs much of her work. A 2023 winner of the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets\, her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest\, Denver Quarterly\, Calyx\, and ‘Ōiwi\, A Native Hawaiian Journal. As a recipient of the 2024 Trio House Press Editor’s Choice Prize\, her first collection of poems\, Mele\, was released byTrio House in 2025.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/singing-seattle-a-reading-and-celebration/
LOCATION:Hugo House\, 1634 11th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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