ArabishWay

A Conversation with Khayari founder Areej Masoud
2025-09-24 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Register for Location
Areej Masoud, a Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem and the Executive Director of Khayari – a Women’s Empowerment organization in the Occupied West Bank, will share her insights about the realities of life in Palestine, her work with Khayari and how you can get involved.
This event will be co-hosted by Bethany Presbyterian Church and Quest Church.
Location provided via email after competion of registration.

SAFF Arab Film Club: Dreams of a City
2025-09-24 18:30 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
When his father dies, Dib, his younger brother and their mother move away from their hometown Quneitra to Damascus. The mother’s despotic father reluctantly takes them in and tries to force the mother to remarry. Overwhelmed by the magic of the city, Dib wants to discover everything and is full of dreams. His daily life is shaped by insults and punishments however. Dib grows up against a backdrop of the political upheavals of the 1950s (the end of the military dictatorship in Syria and the nationalization of the Suez Canal, Nasser’s taking of power in Cairo, Egyptian and Syrian unification in 1958) and loses his childish illusions in the face of such violence and brutality. The dreams of the city prove to be a nightmare. Mohammad Malas’ partly autobiographical debut film marked the transition to auteur cinema in Syria.

Seffarine - Moroccan Flamenco Fusion Live at The Firehouse Bellingham, WA
2025-09-23 18:30 - 20:30 | The Firehouse, 1314 Harris Ave, Bellingham, WA, 98225
“Seffarine’s music can melt the coldest hearts” -Chicago Reader
At a momentous first meeting at a coffee shop in Fez, Moroccan vocalist Lamiae Naki and multi-instrumentalist Nat Hulskamp composed their first song and decided to get married. Brought together by their deep knowledge of the music of both sides of the Straits of Gibraltar Spanish flamenco and Moroccan Arabic music, they created Seffarine.
Seffarine takes its name from the ancient metalworking square in Fez, which is famous for the complex rhythms that ring out from the blacksmiths’ hammers, and where Lamiae’s family is well known as masters of the tradition. Seffarine’s music embraces and extends Morocco’s musical collision between Arabic, Iberian, and West African cultures, forging vibrant original music deeply rooted in their backgrounds in flamenco guitar, oud, and Arab Andalusian music.

Seffarine at The Royal Room
2025-09-21 19:30 - 21:30 | The Royal Room, 5000 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118
Lamiae Naki – vocals Nat Hulskamp – flamenco guitar/oud Yosmel Montejo – bass Manuel Gutierrez – flamenco dance/cajón

Cookbook Club Potluck Supper: Boustany
2025-09-21 18:00 - 21:00 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
We don’t always need an instructor to show us how to sit around the table and eat a meal together! So we’re breaking out of the class format in this installment of our cookbook club potluck suppers, where we’ll all explore a new cookbook together. This time around we’ll be cooking from “Boustany”, written by the Sami Tamimi. You cook a recipe from the book, and we’ll pour the wine (and do the dishes!). We’ll be in touch before the potluck so you can sign up for your favorite dish.

Palestine Street Soccer Tournament
2025-09-21 10:30 - 18:30 | Judkins Park Soccer Courts, 1119 23rd Ave S, Seattle, WA
We’re so excited to announce the 2nd Annual Palestine Street Soccer Tournament is happening on Sunday, September 21st in Seattle!
Last year’s tournament was such an incredible day of soccer, Dabke, music, food, and community — and we can’t wait to do it all again, even bigger and better this year.

Event details:
Location: Judkins Park Futsal Courts
1119 23rd Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144
Date: Sunday, Sept 21, 2025
Time: 11am – 12:00pm (Kids Play) 12:30pm-7:00pm (Adult league, dinner and speakers).
This year, we’ll also have local vendors, amazing food, and a lineup of inspiring community speakers (details coming soon!).
Whether you played, cheered, or volunteered last year — you’re part of why the first tournament was so special. We’d love to see you back on the field and in the stands this fall.

Register your team or sign up today: Goals for Gaza ‘ 25
Thank you for being part of this movement with us. Together, we’ll make this year even more powerful for the game and for the cause.

Intisaar + others at the Rabbit Box Theater
2025-09-20 20:00 - 23:00 | The Rabbit Box, 94 Pike St, Unit 11, Seattle, WA, 98101
An elegant evening awaits at The Rabbit Box Theatre with Sam & Matt, Intisaar, and Leeni. 📅 Sep 20, 2025, 8:00 PM doors, 8:30 PM show. 📍 94 Pike St, Unit 11, Seattle, WA. Secure your tickets for a refined musical experience! #TheRabbitBox #seattlearts

Community at Ya Hala
2025-09-19 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-09-05 18:00 - 21:00 | Suzanne Zahr, Art & Architecture, 2441 76th Ave SE, Ste 160, Mercer Island, WA, 98040, United States
Games, Music, Cafe
Remember, Ya Hala’s café and retail space is open to all
More details about each weekend’s events will drop on the Monday before. 👀

Palestinian Kitchen: Fatayer
2025-09-18 18:00 - 21:00 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
The universal practicality of packing deliciousness into a portable dough package ranges from Cornish pasties to empanadas to fatayer, a type of savory pie eaten throughout the Arab world.. In this class, Nadia Tommalieh will teach you how to make Palestinian-style pastries, as you learn how to knead, stuff, and fold fatayer in the traditional way to get perfectly soft and fluffy golden brown pies every time. You’ll make shorabet adas bil hamid (vegetable and lentil soup with lemon and pomegranate molasses); fatayer sabanekh (triangle-shaped spinach-stuffed pies); fatayer jebneh (boat-shaped savory cheese and herb pies); sfeeha (open-faced seasoned beef pies), and dagga gazawyieh (spicy Gaza-style sauce with tomatoes, garlic, jalapeno, dill, and lemon).

وقت القصة باللغة العربية / Arabic Story Time - KCLS (online)
2025-09-18 17:00 - 17:30, 2025-09-11 17:00 - 17:30 | Virtual
Enjoy stories, music, movement and rhymes in Arabic that develop your child’s early literacy skills, then stay to play, have fun and make new friends.
All ages welcome with adult.

Amna's Supper Club
2025-09-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Register for Location
Back for our last supper club of the season!! Can’t wait to highlight the late summer produce and enjoy fresh bites and a rich meal. See you at the table! Tickets coming soon 🥰

Mutual Aid Market - Seattle
2025-09-13 12:00 - 16:00 | 210 Seattle, 210 S Washington St, Seattle, WA, 98104
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Join us September 13, 12-4 pm at @210seattle for a pop-up market full of gently loved clothes, handmade art, & small treasures—all in support of emergency food relief in Gaza 🍉🕊️
100% of proceeds will be donated to Anera, a trusted humanitarian organization delivering food and aid to displaced families in Gaza.

venmo.com/u/Mutual-Aid-Market

Palestine Will Live Forever Festival
2025-09-13 | Volunteer Park, 1247 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA, 98112
This year, we are bringing together our communities to celebrate culture, art, and resistance through various lenses. Together we will uplift the voices of Palestinian’s, immigrants, Migrants, Black & Indigenous People, Congolese, Sudanese, our Queer & Trans Siblings, and all the people who come together around our shared struggle for collective liberation! This year, we are standing in solidarity in new and bigger ways with each other, and we are proclaiming All of Us or None of Us!
Tickets available now!

Whisk Cooking Class: Street Foods of the World
2025-09-12 18:00 - 20:30 | 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!

Peace Vigils [Olympia]
2025-09-12 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-09-05 16:30 - 18:00 | Percival Landing, 217 Thurston Ave NW, Olympia, WA, 98501
4:30-6:00 PM
Percival Landing in Downtown Olympia
4th &Water Street

Join us every Friday in downtown Olympia as we continue to gather to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, an end to occupation, saving Gaza’s children, and for peace.

Thanks to the Olympia Fellowship Of Reconciliation for supporting and joining our efforts to demand a permanent peace in Gaza. Thank you to everyone for continuing to respect the peaceful and welcoming atmosphere that the Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) has maintained at these weekly vigils for so many years.

AANM: Arab Film Series Online
2025-09-12 - 2025-09-21 | Virtual
Films available for ten days each month listed
Arab Film Series Online
Free Online Stream | Suggested $5 Donation – Register
The Arab American National Museum (AANM), Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI), and ArteEast proudly present the Arab Film Series, a monthly curated online program of contemporary and classic films, followed by discussions with Arab, Arab American, and diasporic filmmakers, connecting a worldwide community through film, dialogue, and activism. More information about each film program can be found at arabfilmseries.org
Upcoming Dates

September 12-21
December 12-21

Movie: A State of Passion
2025-09-11 19:30 - 21:30 | SIFF Film Center, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, 98109
After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance. With news footage of him pale and shell-shocked reverberating around the world, he spoke of a catalogue of horrors from amputations without anesthetics to orphaned children with no surviving family, and the deliberate targeting of medics and hospital facilities.
This was the sixth and most horrific Gaza “war” during which Ghassan had traveled to provide critical medical aid. Why does he do it? Where does he find the strength to face it again and again? How does it impact his family? How do they process the risks he takes? The answer lies simply in their shared passion: Palestine; a passion they articulate through their support of his perilous humanitarian work.
In Arabic with English subtitles.
A portion of the proceeds from this screening will be donated to The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund, providing medical attention to the children who need it the most and helping to relieve the medical sector in Gaza and Lebanon.
“…an important piece of work… Some of what it has to say will echo for decades, and nobody who watches it will forget what they have seen.” Jennie Kermode, Eye For Film

Rainbow Story Time (online) w/ Lindz Amer
2025-09-10 11:30 - 12:00 | Virtual
Join Lindz Amer, the award-winning LGBTQ+ activist, author and co-host of the beloved indie web series, Queer Kid Stuff, for songs and stories that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community all-year-round.
All ages welcome with adult.
Please register:
https://kcls.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdOuqpzssGtC5XlvnFdvIAD2bwlBzP-RA

Flavors of Somalia: Cooking Class
2025-09-07 18:00 - 21:00 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Located in the horn with the longest coastline in mainland Africa, Somalia was a powerhouse in the spice trade for centuries and a common stopping point for sailing vessels from all over the world. This allowed indigenous Somali cuisine to expand and incorporate the influence of Indian, East African, Italian, and Middle Eastern flavors, leading to a delicious and unique culinary tradition. Join local chef Ifrah Ahmed in class, where she will teach you about the cuisine of Somalia and how to make some of her favorite classic dishes. On the menu: suqaar digaag (spiced chicken and pepper saute); bariis (Somali rice); sambuus (fried triangular dumplings filled with beef and vegetables); and basbaas (Somali-style hot sauce).

Kids for Palestine (Olympia)
2025-09-07 | Woodruff Park, 1500 Harrison Ave NW, Olympia, WA, 98502
Gather with other families at Woodruff Park, in West Olympia (near the tennis and pickleball courts) every Sunday, 1-4 pm, to support Palestine through conversation and art in a kid-friendly event.

Pre PWLF Festival Event
2025-09-06 16:00 - 19:00 | Hometeam Gallery, 300 Occidental Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98104
We are always looking for ways to get more folks involved and more ways to create spaces for community to come together.
In that vein, join us at @hometeam_gallery on 9/6 from 4-7. It will be the first (and easiest) opportunity to cop the official festival tee.
Pull up and have a cup of coffee from @yahalaseattle and vibe with a few festival performers along with a few local artists who you will only see here.
@jamilsuleman @intisaarband @p.e.n @prometheusbrown@dsrtflwrblm and @sammyshiblaq will all drop a track or two with @dapsography spinnin.
@zahyrlauren will also be there as the genius behind the artwork.
Cop a tee, have a cup of coffee and share time and space with us as we all try and navigate and process what we are seeing everyday.
Shirt sizes range from S to XXXL and are limited to 550 at this event. We are hoping to have more at the festival but not guaranteed.
Shirts are $45 with all proceeds going to the festival beneficiaries.
Come support community and let community support you. See you there.
Shout to the @h.o.m.e.t.e.a.m squad for providing the space. 🙏🏽
Palestine Will Live Forever
All of Us or None of Us

Film Screening: Gaza: Journalists Under Fire
2025-09-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Green Lake – Seattle Public Library, 7364 East Green Lake Dr N, Seattle, WA, 98115
Join Poppies for Palestine on Saturday, September 6th, at 4pm in the Green Lake Library meeting room on the 1st floor for a screening of “Gaza: Journalists Under Fire”.
Together, we will honor the journalists who have given everything to show us the truth, who document a holocaust that they are vicims of themselves.
We will have art and other items for sale and 100% of the funds raised will go to families in Gaza who are in need of food, water, shelter, medication, and more as they navigate genocide and displacement.

Chef Hend Yahya at Magnolia Farmers Market
2025-09-06 10:00 - 14:00 | Magnolia Farmers Market, W McGraw Street & 33rd Ave W in the Magnolia Village, Seattle, WA
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:

September 25 Lake City
Chef Hend Yahya

Virtual Movie Screenings: Every Saturday with Palestine Museum US
2025-09-06 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Check website: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/events for current showings and for registration links!
Often the screening ends with a Q&A with the director!

Sacred Echoes: Healing Hearts In Gaza, Sudan & Syria
2025-09-05 18:30 - 21:30 | Muslim Assocation of Puget Sounds (MAPS), 17550 NE 67th Ct, Redmond, WA, 98052, United States
Join us for a special evening dedicated to supporting the people of Gaza, Sudan & Syria

Little Women the Musical at the Renton Civic Theater
2025-09-05 - 2025-09-21 | Renton Civic Theatre, 507 S 3rd St, Renton, WA, 98057
You might ask, how is Little Women an Arab event?!

The answer is that you can see the talented Rayan Atallah playing the male lead Mr. John Brooke.

Various dates/times available – check website for details

Arabs Who Art
2025-09-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Seattle Art Museum, 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, WA, 98101
Let’s explore Seattle’s art museum together! The museum has free programming the first Thursday of every month and it’s always a good time.
