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Comedian Dina Hashem in Seattle
2022-12-09 21:30 - 23:00, 2022-12-09 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Laughs Comedy Club, 5220 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Dina Hashem exploded onto the New York comedy scene after winning her first appearance on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle. With her deadpan delivery and dark observations, Dina’s stand-up addresses her difficult Islamic upbringing. She was named one of Team Coco/TBS’s “Comics to Watch” at the New York Comedy Festival and made her late-night TV debut on CONAN. She has also appeared on Night Train with Wyatt Cenac (Starz), This Week at the Cellar (Comedy Central), 2 Dope Queens (WNYC), Danny’s House (Viceland), and CC: STAND UP (Comedy Central), where her set currently has almost 3 million views. Dina has performed all over the world, including at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Glasgow Comedy Festival, Bridgetown, Boston Comedy Festival, Limestone, and Comedy Central’s Clusterfest in San Francisco. Dina has participated in the prestigious Sundance Episodic Lab and was a writer on BJ Novak’s anthology series The Premise, for FX. She also writes for SEX LIVES.

Arabic Chat Hour
2022-12-08 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-01 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual
Whether you’re a native speaker or learner, this is a great chance to practice listening and speaking in Arabic!
Zoom room number provided upon registeration.

Arab Holiday Feast at the Pantry
2022-12-07 18:00 - 21:30 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Holiday tables around the globe are packed with friends, family, traditions, and hearty soulful dishes. Join NADIA TOMMALIEH as she shares the warmth of the Arab holiday feast around our table. On the menu: lahmet kharouf bi dips el romman (slow-cooked lamb shanks with pomegranate molasses and herbs) served on top of ouzi rice (seasoned basmati rice, roasted vegetables, and fried nuts); fattoush betinjan (roasted eggplant fattoush salad); labneh bil joz ((labneh, walnuts, and onion dip); and warbat bil qashta (creamy filo parcels with orange blossom syrup and pistachio).

UNRWA: My Big Fat Palestinian Christmas
2022-12-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Since we can’t all be in Palestine for Christmas, we’re bringing Palestine to you, accept a *free* virtual seat at My BIG Fat Palestinian Christmas (RSVP for the link)!
Your favorite foodies are gathering next week, from Jerusalem to DC, to inject some joy and spice into our lives, and bring a month of food to 100 refugee families in Gaza! This fun and heartwarming cooking demo will be livestreamed Wednesday, December 7 at 5 pm EST.
From sahlab to mahshi, chefs Maha Kailani, Izzeldin Bukhari, Mai Kakish, Marcelle Afram, Suzanne Husseini, and Johnny Dubbaneh will walk us through how to make their favorite Palestinian dishes.
Palestinian pianist Nahed Elrayes will also dazzle us with jazzy Arab versions of your favorite Christmas tunes.

Cooking Class: Arabic Holiday Cookies
2022-12-05 18:30 - 21:00 | Book Larder, 4252 Fremont Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98103, United States
Join Nadia Tommalieh as she shares with you her family holiday traditions and guides you through making festive Arabic-style cookies. Perfect as an everyday treat with coffee or tea, these cookies might also become a staple of your holiday table for years to come.

In this hands-on class, you will learn how to make traditional Ka’ak Asawer (Palestinian-stuffed date cookies that are kneaded in olive oil and seasoned with cardamom and anise seeds); Ghraybeh (shortbread cookies with orange blossom water); and Barazek (roasted sesame and pistachio thins infused with mastic).
Class is limited to 11 people and is hands-on. Includes generous samples of cookies prepared in class (with enough to bring home!), plus a light snack, coffee or tea.

Students will be required to wear masks during the non-eating portions of class. Please note that event registration is non-refundable.

Online Ticket—Poetry Reading—Out of the Ordinary Conference
2022-12-04 22:00 - 23:00 | Virtual
This public poetry reading forms part of the programme of Out of the Ordinary: On Poetry and the World, a three day conference on poetry’s relationship to the extraordinary. This carbon-neutral event will be held at the University of Canberra over December 5th, 6th and 7th 2022. For all further info: https://www.ucpoetry2022.info/
READERS:, Paul Collis, Olena Kalytiak Davis and Omar Sakr
Omar Sakr is a poet and writer born in Western Sydney to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants. He is the author of These Wild Houses (Cordite Books, 2017), and The Lost Arabs (University of Queensland Press, 2019), which won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is the first Arab-Australian Muslim to win this prestigious award. The Lost Arabs was also shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the John Bray Poetry Award, the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Literary Award, and the Colin Roderick Award; it has been released in the US and worldwide through Andrews McMeel Universal. In 2019, Omar was the recipient of the Edward Stanley Award for Poetry, and in 2020, the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Poetry. His poems have been published in English, Arabic, and Spanish. Omar’s debut novel, Son of Sin (Affirm Press), was published in 2022.
http://omarsakr.com/

Heygo: The Presidential Palace - Abu Dhabi
2022-12-03 04:00 - 05:00 | Virtual
The Presidential Palace of Abu Dhabi also known as Qasr Al Watan is more than just a palace. It is an unique testament to the spirit of the United Arab Emirates’ people and its leaders. The Palace invites the world to share in our culture, knowledge and inspiring journey. It is an enriching interactive journey in a contemporary setting that reveals and reflects on governance, knowledge and craftsmanship.

Afikra: Chef Joudie Kalla [Matbakh]
2022-12-02 07:00 - 08:00 | Virtual
“Palestine on a Plate”
Joudie Kalla is a Palestinian-British chef. She is the author of two prizewinning cookbooks. Although she identifies the food in her cookbooks as Palestinian, some of the recipes reflect British influences, such as her za’tar scones.

The Olive Oil Harvest with Nadia Tommalieh at the Pantry
2022-11-30 18:00 - 21:00, 2022-11-21 18:00 - 21:00 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Join NADIA TOMMALIEH as she shares the beauty, importance, and tradition of the olive harvest and olive oil pressing across the Arab world. Olive oil is a staple in most culinary cultures, and in this class you’ll learn about the different flavor profiles of olive oil, the best temperatures for cooking, and how to repurpose flavor-infused oils. You’’ll cook an array of dishes traditional to celebrate the olive harvest season, before sitting down to feast on shorabet freekeh bil hamid w zeit al-zaytoon (citrusy freekeh and olive oil soup); musakhan (roasted Cornish hens with olive oil, caramelized onions, and sumac); salatet bandora bil a’ashab (tomatoes and herbs tossed in olive oil and sumac), as well as salset laban w na’ana (garlicky yogurt, mint, olive oil sauce). Yansoonnieh, an aromatic anise and olive oil sticky cake drenched in orange blossom syrup, will close out our meal, and our love letter to the majestic olive.

Instant Pot - Tastes of Africa (online)
2022-11-30 17:00 - 18:15 | Virtual
Travel to different parts of Africa in this global cooking adventure. Learn how to use new spices and other ingredients typically found in this country’s cuisine. In this vegan cooking class, we will create deliciously fragrant salads and soups using the instant pot. Rachel will share her instant pot tips and tricks to make any meal a success.

Moroccan beet salad
15 minute North African red lentil soup
West African peanut soup with chickpeas and sweet potatoes

Kahoot! Trivia: Mythology with KCLS
2022-11-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM6:00 PM to 7:00 PM | Tuesday, November 29on November 29, 2022

Online event

Play Kahoot! Trivia featuring mythology based on various backgrounds including Greek, Egyptian and much more!
Please register. You will be emailed a link no later than one hour before the program start time. If you do not see an email, check…

Register for Kahoot! Trivia: Mythology on 11-29-2022Registration closes November 29 at 3:00pm (74 spots remaining)Register for event

Authors: Peter Cole and Iman Mersal (Virtual)
2022-11-29 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
If only this evening could be staged in the same room, as we range around a good part of the world in hosting three poets – Peter Cole and Iman Mersal virtually at 5 p.m. – and another, Naveen Kishore in store at 7 p.m. Between them, the U.S., Israel/Palestine, Egypt, Canada, and India, with their poetic and literary concerns extending beyond whatever borders those nationalities might pose. This 5 p.m virtual program returns poet/translator/editor Peter Cole to Elliott Bay to read from his newest collection, Draw Me After (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and it helps introduce an overdue major collection of one of the world’s major poets, Iman Mersal with her new book, The Threshold (translated from the Arabic by Robyn Creswell / Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
Peter Cole’s Draw Me After very much has ‘drawing’ in it, with work by Terry Winters, which he dares from, so to speak.
“‘Waking the letters from their slumber’: that’s Peter Cole’s mad, sublime task in these phantasmagoric poems. Every line of this book breaks the literal—the letters—into visionary scenes where sorrow marries joy and blessings almost rhyme with curse. A revelation.” —Rosanna Warren.
“Peter Cole shows himself in Draw Me After to be our great master of ekphrasis. Visually, sonically, rhythmically, semantically, his are some of the most inventive, witty, profound, and genuinely beautiful lyric poems of our moment.” —Marjorie Perloff.
Peter Cole has written several previous books of poems, including Hymns & Qualms and Rift, and he has also translated widely from Hebrew and Arabic works—both medieval and modern. With Adina Hoffman, he has co-written Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza and also published books as Ibis Editions. He is the recipient of many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, a National Jewish Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.
Joining us, we believe, from Edmonton, where she is a professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Alberta is Iman Mersal. The Threshold, translated by Robyn Creswell, draws from several of her noted earlier books of poetry ranging back nearly thirty years and coming up to the present – A Dark Alley Suitable for Dance Lessons, Walking as Long as Possible, Alternative Geography, and Until I Give Up the Idea of Home. Her most recent book, the prose work Traces of Enayat (all of these, we’re giving translated titles), received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature in 2021.
“The publication of Iman Mersal’s The Threshold is a major literary event. Long recognized throughout the Arab world and in Europe, Mersal is one of the strongest confessional (or postconfessional) poets we now have, in any language: her poems are fueled by a mordant wit, sensual vibrancy, and feminist brio. Impatient with pieties—whether political, erotic, or poetic—she writes, like Louise Glück, with emotional intensity and analytic coolness. This is poetry of earned and perfect pitch: the notations of an impassioned mind. I read The Threshold straight through; it will become a permanent companion.” —Maureen N. McLane. “Undeceived, ironic, daring, Iman Mersal’s poems are animated by a singular sensibility. They deal candidly with real life—migration, dying parents, emotional entanglements—and discover general truths among the fine particulars. Robyn Creswell’s translation is deft and subtle, and the Anglophone world is lucky to have it.” —Nick Laird.

Peter Cole and Iman MersalTuesday Nov 29 2022 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Virtually Hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company.
Registration/Information

Iraqi Book Club | Fifteen Iraqi Poets: Dunya Mikhail
2022-11-29 10:30 - 12:00 | Virtual
We are a community group of people who have a relationship with Iraq. Some of us were born there, some of our parents were born there, some have lived and worked there and some are just curious.
Together, we aim to share our ✨ stories about Iraq and meet new people in a supportive environment. We do this by talking about books.
We talk about books written by Iraqi authors, both 📚 non-fiction and fiction. We like to read traditionally 💪 minority voices, like those of women, religious minorities and people who are queer. We do this so we can get the full picture of what it means to live in 🇮🇶 Iraq.
We meet every other month online to learn and get to know new people. Every so often we have a get-together in person somewhere in the UK. All sessions are appropriate for anyone with an open mind and heart, of any ethnicity and background!

Super UW: Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
2022-11-29 09:00 - 14:00 | UW – HUB, 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
Join SUPER-UW on Tuesday, November 29th for an exhibit on the state-backed repression of Palestine activists! This Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, SUPER UW will be in the HUB first floor study area from 9am until 2pm learning about the repression of Palestine activism and Palestinian activists, celebrating Palestinian resistance, and making it clear that we will continue to stand against Zionism and for a free and unified Palestine. Stay tuned for a statement from SUPER about the ADL terror-tagging us earlier this fall.Wear a keffiyeh and show up, or take a photo of you in your keffiyeh and tag us in it @super_uw! If you don’t have one, order an authentic Palestinian keffiyeh from Hirbawi, made in al-Khalil, Palestine!

Netflix Film: The Swimmers
2022-11-23
THE SWIMMERS
A Netflix film directed and written by Sally El Hosaini

Based on a true story, THE SWIMMERS follows the journey from war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics. Two young sisters embark on a harrowing journey as refugees, putting both their hearts and champion swimming skills to heroic use.
Catch it at the Arab Film Festival before it streams!
The Swimmers will be on Netflix November 23

Whisk: Street Foods of the World
2022-11-19 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
Mexico – Alambres, Steak and Bacon Tacos with Salsa Verde
West Africa – Spicy Peanut-Dusted Beef Skewers
Japan – Okonomiyaki – Seafood Pancakes

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

LASS Annual Meeting
2022-11-19 13:00 - 15:00 | King County Library System – Renton, 100 Mill Ave S, Renton, WA, 98057, United States
Lebanese American Society of Seattle (LASS) board is hosting the annual event for planning, community discussion, and possible new board recruitment.
Date: November 19th
Time: 1-3 pm tentatively.
King County Library: Renton, Large Meeting Room
Please make an effort to make. LASS is depending on you.

Community Write-In with Zain Shamoon
2022-11-17 17:30 - 18:30 | Virtual
Join writers from around the world every Thursday evening for a healthy dose of inspiration. With discussions and writing prompts facilitated by our best teachers, and the opportunity to connect with other writers.

"Feeding People is not Enough:" Local Humanitarianism in the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Jordan
2022-11-14 12:30 - 14:00 | UW-Seattle
Please join us on Nov. 14, 2022, 12:30 p.m. (PDT) in Thomson Hall Room 317 for “Feeding People is not Enough:” Local Humanitarianism in the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Jordan, with Gozde Burcu Ege, Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary PH.D. Program in Near & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington. For more details see, https://jsis.washington.edu/mideast/events/…

Thompson Hall Room 317

16th Annual Arab American Book Awards Ceremony (Live and Virtual)
2022-11-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
FREE with RSVP
Register for in-person attendance OR Register for virtual attendance
Join the 2022 Arab American Book Award winners and honorable mentions, featuring awardees Eman Quotah, Mansoor Adayfe, Zainab Saleh, Threa Almontaser, Safia Elhillo, Michael W. Suleiman, Suad Joseph, Louise Cainkar and Eli Tareq Bechelany-Lynch for a celebratory reading of the winning books. The event will also be livestreamed.
Stick around after the ceremony for a community open mic! Sign up to perform here.
For questions, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski-Khairullah, Curator of Public Programming, at KGrabowski@accesscommunity.org.

Screening of the documentary film "Blanche's Homeland," directed by Maryse Gargour
2022-11-12 09:00 - 11:00
Saturday November 12, 2022 – 12:00 Noon US EST; 7:00 PM Palestine Time.
Screening of the documentary film “Blanche’s Homeland,” directed by Maryse Gargour
30 Minutes; English subtitles; post-screening Q&A and discussion with audience.
Please click here to register for this event

About the Film
This intimate film, evocative and poetic, follows the steps of an elderly woman in the years between 1988 and 2001. Blanche was born in Jaffa, Palestine, where her parents were landowners, and was exiled in the 1948 war.

26th Arab Film Festival Shorts: Queer Lens
2022-11-12 - 2022-11-19 | Virtual
AFMI’s annual Queer Lens program celebrates the multi-dimensional formations of Arab queerness in stories that so urgently need to be told, especially in today’s polarized media climate that leaves issues of visibility lost in the haze, or, worse: cast in a one-size-fits-all “Western Queer Narrative” that ignores the many complexities and nuances faced by LGBTQ+ persons in the Arab World and beyond.
This year’s program theme is Diaspora & Displacement and features 5 award-winning short films that highlight the experiences of Queer Arabs around the globe. The characters in these stories all find themselves at the intersection of their identities. Some must reconcile the reality of their sexuality with a family who loves but does not understand, others work towards a life lived authentically in a society that does not accept them and a few explore leaving a place that is not safe even though it means letting go of those they care about. In this collection, audiences will find stories that may be unique in their details but are deeply relatable at their core and despite the difficulties, celebrate honesty and love.
Join us after the screening for Arab + Queer + Film: between here and there a conversation with four of the filmmakers in the Queer Lens program.
This program includes the following films:
Habib & the Thief (Sweden) dir. Naures Sager
The Window (Lebanon) dir. Sarah Kaskas
Faraway (Canada) dir. Aziz Zoromba
Dress Up (United States) dir. Karina Dandashi
Warsha (Lebanon) dir. Dania Bdeir

Author Danny Ramadan at Elliott Bay Book Company
2022-11-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, 98122, United States
Down from his Vancouver home where, in addition to writing, Danny Ramadan has been an activist and advocate, in particular for LGBTQ+ refugees from Syria and the Middle East. The author of an award-winning Canadian children’s book, Salma the Syrian Chef, and a debut novel that was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, The Clothesline Swing, he is here tonight with his new novel, The Foghorn Echoes (Canongate Books). Set between a Damascus riven by war and Vancouver, with time spanning a decade, this is an extraordinary book of hard-sought love between two young men.
”The Foghorn Echoes is a deeply moving book about conflict both internal and external, the ways in which cold accidents – of birth, of place, of time – can leave a human being at war with their own desires, their own sense of self. Danny Ramadan is a gifted, sensitive excavator of the things that break people and put them back together, the past as weight and lightness. In this novel he has created a world of immense sensory and emotional precision, at once true in its living details and yet electric with the presence of ghosts.” – Omar El Akkad.
”The Foghorn Echoes bristles. It burns bright. It shouts into the dark with a voice that hovers between a melody and a lamentation. Danny Ramadan writes in these pages with a spellbinding urgency, stripping bare some of the most painful and fundamental truths about displacement and grief, about rage and betrayal. In the process, he reminds us again and again that even the worst of memories contain redemptive powers. This novel is a tender and impassioned love story for a country, for a people, and for all those who refuse to disappear quietly into the land of the forgotten.” – Maaza Mengiste.
Danny RamadanFriday Nov 11 2022 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Live/In-Person at Elliott Bay Book Company.
1521 10th Ave. Seattle, WA 98122

DRONE – Work-in-Progress: Testimonies & Music (live and virtual)
2022-11-11 17:00 - 19:00
$10 Museum Members | $12 Students/Seniors | $15 General Public | $5 Livestream
DRONE is a play by artist-in-residence Andrea Assaf, and a transdisciplinary performance project integrating theatre, live music, emerging technologies and artistic containers for public dialogue. It explores the drone as a metaphor for how we become desensitized to daily violence, domestic and global, the question of Moral Injury, and the effects of remote-control warfare on the human soul.

Arab Film Festival - San Francisco (virtual)
2022-11-11 - 2022-11-20 | Virtual
North America’s largest and oldest festival of Arab films opens on Friday, November 11th at the historic Castro Theatre and will run through November 20th. Our presale is over, but you can still get a pass! Festival passes are the best way to watch as many films as you can 😉
Psst: Not in the San Francisco Bay Area? Choose our VIRTUAL ONLY pass.

Community Write-In with Zain Shamoon (via Zoom)
2022-11-10 17:30 - 18:30 | Virtual
