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Whisk: Spice Route: Kids Cooking Class
2025-07-07 - 2025-07-11 | Whisk, 10385 Main St, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
This 5-day camp is designed for kids 8 to 12 years old.

Class runs 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Monday through Friday
Have you ever wanted to take an international culinary journey through five countries without needing a passport? If so, join Chef Hend Yahya in this week long, hands-on, cooking series, where you will explore, cook and taste national foods from countries along the Spice Route. Throughout the week we will follow land and sea trails along the Spice Route with the intention of utilizing numerous spices as we create popular national dishes from each country. Every day you will practice knife skills and become more familiar with everyday kitchen equipment.
Monday – China
Chicken Bao Bun and Mapo Tofu
Tuesday – India
Butter Chicken and Naan Bread
Wednesday – Indonesia
Grilled Beef and Vegetable Satay, Homemade Lumpia Wrapper and Vegetable Lumpia
Thursday – Iran
Ground Meat Kabob, Shirazi Salad and Barbari Flatbread
Friday – Egypt
Falafel Sandwich, Pita Bread and Basbousa Cake

No prior cooking experience is required, just an interest to learn.
All classes taught by a culinary professional and 2 adult kitchen assistants.
For safety reasons, please tie long hair back and wear closed toed shoes.
Allergies or dietary restrictions may be accommodated – just let us know upon registration.

JULY 7, 2025 @ 10:00 AM – JULY 11, 2025 @ 12:00 PM

Seattle Arab Film Festival: Short Film Lineup
2025-07-11 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Cultural Stage
🎥 Short Film Lineup Announcement! 🌙
We’re kicking off our Summer Movie Festival on July 11 with a powerful lineup of short films from across the MENA region and its global diaspora—curated in collaboration with the @seattle_arab_film_festival 🇵🇸🇮🇷🇾🇪🇺🇸
✨ Featured Films:
Bethlehem 2001 (Palestine)
Fading Dream (Iran)
In the Long Run (Yemen)
Mariam (Palestine/US)
Join us for an evening of storytelling, culture, and community—free and outdoors!

Announcing: Resistance Arts, a Conversation with El-Funoun (Virtual)
2025-07-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Announcing: Resistance Arts, a Conversation with El-Funoun
Saturday, July 12 | 10AM Pacific, 1PM Eastern, 8PM Palestine
The struggle for Palestine lives in every form of resistance, including art. Widely considered the lead Palestinian dance company in Palestine and the diaspora, El-Funoun was established in 1979 by a small group of enthusiastic, creative and committed artists. The Troupe has developed an innovative style of dance deeply-rooted in Palestinian and Arab folklore and informed by elements of contemporary dance movement. A leading cultural institution in Palestine, El-Funoun has used dabke, music, and cultural work as tools to confront erasure and resist the zionist occupation, making them and their dancers a continuous target of imprisonment and repression by the zionist entity.
Join the PYM’s Resistance Arts Committee for a discussion with El-Funoun that is rooted in political clarity, history, and the realities we face now. We will be exploring:
– What do we mean by resistance arts in the Palestinian context?
– How did El-Funoun turn culture into a site of struggle, from choreography built inside prison walls to stages across the world?
– What does it mean to build and defend Palestinian cultural institutions today, both under occupation and in exile?
Link to register for the webinar: https://bit.ly/PYMxEl-FunounWebinar
You don’t want to miss this!

Arabic Storytime @ Lake City Branch / وقت القصص بالعربية في فرع ليك سيتي
2025-07-12 10:30 - 11:30 | Lake City – Seattle Public Library, 12501 28th Ave. N.E., Seattle, Washington, 98125, United States
At storytime, children from birth through elementary school and their families can enjoy stories, songs, and fun learning activities.
Event in English and Arabic.
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في وقت القصص، يمكن للأطفال الذين تتراوح أعمارهم من حديثي الولادة وحتى سن الخامسة وعائلاتهم الاستمتاع بالقصص والأغاني وأنشطة التعلُّم المرحة.
نرحب بالعائلات من جميع الأعمار.
يُعقد الحدث باللغة الإنجليزية والعربية.
Registration is not required.

Forget Me Not: A Dance Floor Fundraiser (For Palestine)
2025-07-12 21:00 - 2025-07-13 01:00 | Asylum Collective, 108 South Jackson Street B, Seattle, WA, 98104
FORGET ME NOT – A Dance Floor Fundraiser | Doors at 9PM | 21+ (bar w ID)Name Your Price / Donation-Based Entry
No one turned away for lack of funds.
FORGET ME NOT is a dancefloor fundraiser dedicated to raising urgent aid for Palestine. All presale / RSVP will go directly to verified efforts featured by @fundsforgaza / linktr.ee/fundsforgaza .
Featuring DJ sets by:LSDFJ · ALDX · MOONBYT3 · BUM
visual installation by DANETTE
Booked by Seattle Tarot Syndicate / @seattle.tarot
Asylum Collective is funded in part by 4Culture @kc4culture
Masks available via @maskblocseattle / hard reduction supplies via @kcpubhealth
Free Palestine.

Seattle Arab Film Festival
2025-07-15 - 2025-07-17 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
The 6th Seattle Arab Film Festival will take place from August 15 to 17 at the @nwfilmforum.
More details and full line up coming soon!
#SAFF2025 #Seattle #ArabCinema

The Arab Grill
2025-07-17 18:00 - 21:00 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Think of Arab cuisine and the first thing that comes to mind is probably the characteristic blend of spices. But equally important is the char that you can only get by cooking with fire. In this class Nadia Tommalieh will introduce you to the perfect balance of smoke, spice, and citrus in a spread of dishes that celebrate the warmth of Arab hospitality. On the menu: shish tawook (grilled yogurt-marinated chicken with sumac and Aleppo); and reyash mashwieh (grllled lamb chops with pomegranate molasses and baharat spice). You’ll round out the meal with tabbouleh (Lebanese parsley and bulgur wheat salad); grilled muhammara with walnuts and breadcrumbs; and three flavors of toum (Arab-style garlic sauce).

Virtual Lecture: Regional Distinctions in Palestinian Dress
2025-07-18 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Late 19th/Early 20th Centuries

Date: Friday, July 18, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Location: Online, Zoom link will be emailed 24 hours prior to event
Instructor: Wafa Ghnaim, Dress Historian, Researcher & Educator
Registration Fee: Sliding scale
Description: Until the mid-twentieth century, the dress of the Palestinian people was descriptive of identity; first by societal segment (city dweller, villager or nomad), and then by the region in which the wearer came. Within each regional style, finer distinctions in women’s dress (thobe) were expressed that shared the maker’s life and the natural world around her. Palestinian women recorded their identity in their thobe with embroidery (tatreez) through a shared illustrative language of embroidered patterns, stitching techniques and thread colors. The thobe records unwritten stories and serves as a visual register of collective and individual identities, documenting a woman’s village, tribe or town, her marital status, her familial lineage, and the material impact of colonialism, occupation, war and exile. The regional identity of the woman defines the overall governing style of her thobe, and evidence of identity is largely through her embodiment of land.
This lecture will discuss the regional distinctions in dress in historical Palestine by city, village and tribe for at least six regions, to include Ramallah, Galilee, Gaza, Bir Saba, Al Khalil, and Bethlehem.
What You’ll Receive:

Live access to the 2-hour lecture
A recording for 7 days after the live session

Seattle International Film Festival: To A Land Unknown
2025-07-18 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-07-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-07-20 16:30 - 18:30, 2025-07-20 19:00 - 21:00 | SIFF Film Center, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, 98109
Mahdi Fleifel, who made the great documentary A World Not Ours (SIFF 2013) about the Ein el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon, where his parents were born, returns to the Festival with his fiction debut, To a Land Unknown.
The refugees in this story have made out of their camp and travelled to Athens, where they are stranded en route to Germany. Chatila is clever and resourceful, and it falls to him to come up with a plan; Reda, his cousin, is sweet but hapless, owing in part to a weakness for drugs. To raise the money they need for fake passports, they resort to increasingly desperate crimes: stealing, sex work, human trafficking. To sustain themselves, they nurture the fantasy of the café they plan to open in Germany, where Chatila’s wife will cook, and they’ll make enough money to bring the rest of their family, currently stuck in the camp.
While films about refugees are not uncommon, what sets this film apart is the way the director puts us squarely in Chatila and Reda’s shoes as they try to figure out how to reach their final destination, how to keep themselves alive in the meanwhile, and how to do it all without losing their humanity in the process.

Capitol Hill Block Party
2025-07-19 - 2025-07-20 | WA
Dua Saleh

Seattle Arab Festival 2025: Roots and Radiance
2025-07-19 11:00 - 19:00 | Seattle Center – Armory, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
This year, the Seattle Arab Festival shines a light on Syria through our theme: Roots & Radiance. We honor the spirit, resilience, and cultural richness of the Syrian people — and celebrate the enduring hope for freedom and renewal. Syria’s story, rooted in deep heritage and carried forward by those who dream of a better future, is the heartbeat of this year’s festival. While Syria takes center stage, our performances, cuisine, and marketplace proudly represent the diverse cultures of the entire Arab world.Join us in celebrating freedom, culture, and community through music, dance, food, and shared traditions.

Seattle Bands Stand with Gaza
2025-07-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Clock-Out Lounge, 4864 Beacon Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98108
CLOCK-OUT LOUNGE PRESENTS: BANDS STAND WITH GAZA W/ DAY SOUL EXQUISITE, SOMESURPRISES, FINONA MOONCHILD, PEG
WITH DAY SOUL EXQUISITE, SOMESURPRISES, FINONA MOONCHILD, PEG

Sat July 19, 2025Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 08:30 pm PDT

Ride for Palestine (Virtual Option Available)
2025-07-20 | Virtual
Ride Remotely – Wherever You Are!

Want to participate but can’t make it to the in-person Ride? No problem! Register as a Virtual Rider for $35, and be part of the movement to raise money for Palestinian children.
Participate in any way that suits you – whether it’s biking, walking, running, skating, swimming, baking, or even reading. Get creative and make an impact in your own way!
Get Started:

Choose your activity

Ride, walk, bake, read… whatever works for you!

Sign up & register

Purchase a Solo Ride from Anywhere ticket under Solo Riders when registering.
You’ll also receive a Ride T-shirt and water bottle.

Create your fundraising page

Make it fun and personalize it!

Invite friends & family

Invite others to join or support your fundraiser.

Need more fundraising ideas? Check out our fundraising toolkit, and don’t hesitate to reach out!

Seattle Arab Festival 2025: Roots and Radiance (Day Two)
2025-07-20 11:00 - 19:00 | Seattle Center – Armory, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States

Seffarine at the Royal Room
2025-07-21 08:00 - 17:00 | The Royal Room, 5000 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118
About this concert
Lamiae Naki – vocals Nat Hulskamp – flamenco guitar/oud Yosmel Montejo – bass Manuel Gutierrez – flamenco dance/cajón

Cookbook Author Talk: Sami Tamimi - Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine!
2025-07-21 18:30 - 20:00 | Book Larder, 4252 Fremont Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98103, United States
Book Larder is thrilled to welcome Sami Tamimi to celebrate his newest book, Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine! In this highly anticipated book, Sami—the award winning author of Falastin, Jerusalem and co-founder of Ottolenghi—celebrates the diverse cuisine of Palestine with plant-based and vegetarian recipes for festive meals, breads, desserts, and more. Sami will join us for an author talk and book signing on Monday, July 21st at 6:30pm, and there will be bites from the book to try! Sami will be in conversation with local cooking instructor and longtime friend of the shop Nadia Tommalieh.
Reservations are non-refundable and can include a signed copy of the $37.99 book. Applicable sales tax and a $0.75 transaction fee are also included, as well as a small surcharge towards food costs.
Can’t attend but still want a signed book? Order here for shipping or in-store pickup.
About the book: The first solo cookbook from Ottolenghi co-founder Sami Tamimi, Boustany is a homage to Palestinian food and culture. “Boustany” translates from Arabic as “my garden,” which reflects Sami’s signature style and approach to food: colourful and simple vegetable- and grain-led dishes. Bold, inspiring and ever-evolving, Boustany picks up where Falastin left off, with flavour-packed vegetable-based dishes, including pantry items, midweek easy meals and special to-be-shared dishes. It’s an approach that’s strongly present in Palestinian cuisine, from building your mooneh, or pantry, by preserving seasonal vegetables and herbs to lining the dinner table with a variety of salads and condiments reflective of a love for fresh and vibrant food.
This is how Sami grew up eating – platters of eggplant and chickpeas with a spicy green lemon sauce and fragrant lentil fatteh that always tasted better the next day. These are the 100 vegan and vegetarian dishes he has known, loved, cooked, and shared with friends, including:

Braised eggs with pita bread, tomatoes & za’atar
Smoky chickpeas with cilantro tahini
Crushed butter beans with orange & mint
Couscous fritters with preserved lemon yogurt
Jerusalem sesame bread
Pan-baked tahini, halva & coffee brownie
Labneh & pomegranate ice cream

Boustany is filled with vibrant and lively photographs of everyday meals that invite you into Sami’s home. With recipes for breads, dinner parties, fermenting your own vegetables, and more, Sami shares the cultural fabric of Palestine through his eyes.

FIELD TRIP: 4-DAY QUILLISASCUT FARM CAMP
2025-07-24 - 2025-07-27 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
This summer we’re teaming up with Quillisascut for another round of farm camp! Located in Rice, Washington, Quillisascut is a rural farmstead that includes livestock, a small orchard and extensive gardens that supply the ingredients that nourish the farmers and guests. Every summer they invite guests to the farm for culinary workshops, where you’ll spend your days milking goats, making goat cheese, feeding, slaughtering, and butchering chickens, gathering eggs, harvesting garden vegetables and herbs, and foraging. Out of your day’s adventures, you’ll create meals that will include wood-fired sourdough bread, fresh-made yogurt, fruit jam, wood-oven rotisserie chicken, herbal infusions, wood-fired pizza, and so much more. On top of that, you will learn how to improvise meals based on what you harvest each day from the farm and have additional options in the farm garden to learn about local flowers, crack walnuts from the renowned tree, or try your hand at fermentation projects in the back kitchen.
This 4-day camp led by Nadia Tommalieh and the Quillisascut family will take place July 24-27 and again on September 25 -28. Lodging is included and will be in either the farm’s clubhouse, the shepherds hut, or the glamping tent. There are four shared bathrooms with showers. Camping is also an option for those who want to sleep under the stars. Payment plans are an option, so please send an email to info@thepantryseattle.com if that works better for you.
Quillisascut Farm Camp is geared for adults. Young adults can sometimes be accommodated as an exception based on their age level and interest (as well as must be accompanied by a parent or guardian). Please email to check in with us first if you have anyone under the age of 18 in your party.

Solidarity Walk for Gaza
2025-07-26 07:30 - 19:30 | East Greenlake Beach, 7201 East Green Lake Dr N,, Seattle, WA, 98115
Bang the Pots and Pans!
Bring signs, flags, pots and pans!
Funds raised will go to Sameer Project!
Walking laps around Greenlake from
7:30am – 7:30pm
Show up for any or all of it!

Doves for Gaza
2025-07-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Olympia Timberland Library, 313 8th Avenue SE, Olympia, WA, 98501
Join the Rachel Corrie Foundation and volunteers to create dove-themed art activities, explore story time featuring Rifk Ebeid’s book, Kamal’s Key, learn about the legacy of the Al-Ghussein family from Gaza, and connect with art made by children in Gaza.

Film: Last May in Palestine (virtual)
2025-07-26 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Saturday, July 26 Film Screening:
Please Click Here to register to attend this event via Zoom.
Film screening will start at 12:00 PM US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe, UK 17:00; Running Time 20 minutes, 2024, English language with English subtitles. The film screening will be followed by Q&A discussions with film director Rabeea Eid..
About the Film
“After the assassination of Shireen Abu-Akleh on May 2022, I return from the UK to Palestine and open my archive of May 2021 upraising in Haifa. On this trip, I relive memories and places I left, but it did not leave me, and I ask questions about being a journalist during dangerous events,” Rabeea Eid, film director.

Whisk Cooking Class: Street Foods of the World
2025-07-26 17:30 - 20:00 | Whisk, 10385 Main St, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
Want to expand your culinary passport? Are you looking for a new dish to spice up your repertoire? Do you dream of tasty treats on foreign streets, but haven’t been able to get away? If the answer is yes, this class is for you! Join Chef Drew Flanders in this hands-on class where you will prepare simple but flavor-packed dishes inspired by foods sold in the markets, festivals, and by street vendors from around the world. From Morocco to Japan, Mexico to Senegal, in this class you will prepare and enjoy a variety of flavors and textures from the simple perfection of the taco, the warm comfort of “Japanese pizza”, to the glory of two different types of grilled-meat-on-a-stick!
Make, eat and enjoy street foods from

Morocco – Chermoula Chicken
West Africa – Spicy Peanut-Dusted Beef Skewers
Japan – Okonomiyaki – Seafood Pancakes
Mexico – Alambres, Steak and Bacon Tacos with Salsa Verde

Participants will have the option of enjoying wine or beer as street food is always best with a beverage!

Films 4 Falastin
2025-07-26 18:00 - 21:00 | Common Good Tacoma, 621 Tacoma Ave S, Tacoma, WA, 98402
Scan the QR code or go to the link in my bio to buy tickets, $5-25 sliding scale, NOTAFLOF
Tickets will be available at the door
bit.ly/Films4Falastin

Raffle items, tattoos, photoshoots, custom pet portraits, tarot readings and so much more!

Book Launch Event: "Gaza I Spy," by Feda Shtia
2025-07-27 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Gaza I Spy is a powerful and poignant photography book in a luxurious coffee table book style, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of children in Gaza amid the ongoing Israel war. Through over 200 striking images, captured from October 2023 to the present, this book documents the resilience, innocence, and strength of Gaza’s youngest residents as they navigate life among the rubble.

Sunday, July 27 Madafeh Program: Book Launch Event: “Gaza I Spy,” by Feda Shtia
Program starts at 12:00 PM US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe, UK 17:00.
Please Click Here to register to attend this event via Zoom.

Solidarity Stand in Gaza
2025-07-27 14:30 - 17:00 | WA
We invite everyone to join us for a solidarity stand with our brothers and sisters in Gaza.

This is part of a global “Pot Banging Movement” raising our voices to denounce injustice and symbolically help break the siege.

Redmond Downtown (16101 Redmond Way, Redmond, WA 98052)
Bring signs!

Chef Hend Yahya at Capitol Hill Farmers Market
2025-07-28 00:00 | WA
Chef Hend Yahya

Hend is amazing at simultaneously crafting delicious food and captivating a crowd of market goers with her knowledge. She is a true pro and PCC Markets and Whisk Bellevue Instructor and will always delight with her fresh and unique, often culturally inspired, choices. Don’t miss chatting with her. She is an excellent resource.
You can learn more about Hend on Instagram @yayacooksandtravels.
She will also be at the following Farmers Markets:

June 26 at Lake City
Chef Hend Yahya

July 4 at Phinney
Chef Hend Yahya
July 23 at Columbia City
Chef Hend Yahya
August 16 at University District
Chef Hend Yahya

September 6 at Magnolia
Chef Hend Yahya
September 25 Lake City
Chef Hend Yahya

Living Heritage: Traditional Egyptian Crafts between Disappearance and Innovation
2025-07-29 16:00 - 17:30 | Virtual
This panel explores Egypt’s living heritage through its traditional crafts, each one carrying centuries of cultural memory and identity. Despite facing economic and social pressures, many of these crafts are being revived through creative entrepreneurship, digital innovation, and sustainable design. We highlight the voices and experiences of artisans, examining how their work can be preserved, reimagined, and celebrated both in Egypt and around the world.

This virtual lecture will be in English! Event link will be provided 30 minutes before the start of the session.

Virtual Delegation to Al-Makhrour
2025-07-30 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
In Beit Jala, Occupied Bethlehem, Palestinians who were forcibly evicted from their homes by IOF-backed settlers have been battling to return.
Join us on a virtual delegation with Alice Kisiya, Palestinian Christian activist fighting land dispossession in Bethlehem, to learn about al-Makhrour and how you can support
