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Cinema: Celebrate Pride: Arab Love
2024-06-17 - 2024-06-30 | Virtual
Arab Love is AFMI’s annual program focused on sharing the stories of the LGBTQ+ Arab community around the world.
This year’s selection of short films explores the complicated nature of gender and sexuality in relationships, and the pressure young queer people experience across the Arab world to act a role that is in inauthentic to their true selves.
Films included:

Ya Benti by Anissa Allali
Sahbety (My Girl Friend) by Kawthar Younis
Cousins by Karina Dandashi
Conditional Desire by Houcem Slouli
Eitr by Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller

Available online starting today, June 17th, through June 30th. Pay what you can to get access.
Please note that this program is only available in the USA.
Psst: looking for more films to watch? Check out our updated list of Queer Arab Films to watch during Pride month.

Movie: Photo Booth
2024-06-16 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
In this split-screen opera-documentary about boycott activism, two Palestinian brothers plot with novelist Jean Genet in Jericho to sabotage the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay singing penguins. Photo Booth weaves together diverse doc, opera, and video art scenes, blending humour and song to explore the politics of boycott, staged in a surreal landscape of megaphones and photo booths, twelve-tone and split-screen, frisbees and teargas, Gaga and Gaza, solidarity and silence…

Movie: Photo Booth
2024-06-16 16:30 - 18:30 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
In this split-screen opera-documentary about boycott activism, two Palestinian brothers plot with novelist Jean Genet in Jericho to sabotage the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay singing penguins. Photo Booth weaves together diverse doc, opera, and video art scenes, blending humour and song to explore the politics of boycott, staged in a surreal landscape of megaphones and photo booths, twelve-tone and split-screen, frisbees and teargas, Gaga and Gaza, solidarity and silence…

Also showing:

Sun Jun 16, 7.30pm PDT

Kuffiyeh Walk - Kirkland Edition
2024-06-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Google Building C (Parking Lot), 747 6th Street South, Kirkland, WA, 98033, United States
Wear your kuffiyeh and walk proudly!
Meet on Google’s Kirkland Campus!
You can park in the parking lot of Building C. Head down to the trail and meet us at the playground

Head down to the trail and meet us at the playground

Contact Nadera with questions: nadera0425@yahoo.com

Arabic Storytime @ Lake City Branch / وقت القصص بالعربية في فرع ليك سيتي
2024-06-15 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-06-08 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.

Mary Ann Peters: the edge becomes the center
2024-06-15 - 2025-01-05 | Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, 98104
The following description comes from the event organizer.
Seattle artist Mary Ann Peters (born 1949, Beaumont, Texas) has attended to overlooked narratives for almost forty years, interpreting her research through mediums including painting, sculpture, and installation. Peters unearths hidden diasporic histories, often through travel, and contextualizes them within her experiences of the contemporary Middle East as a second-generation Lebanese American. the edge becomes the center brings together the artist’s series this trembling turf for the first time and presents it alongside a new installation—works that together surface the ways forgotten and repressed pasts shape present experience.
this trembling turf features ten abstract drawings, including one from the Frye’s collection, which the artist crafts by applying thin strokes of white ink to black clayboard. The series interprets natural habitats where activity occurs beneath the surface, with rhythmic patterns referencing sound waves used by archaeologists to uncover buried traces of civilization. These intricate drawings imagine the missing records of populations and cultures physically covered over, reminding us that forgotten histories could be buried below us, lost within our collective memory.
The exhibition’s new site-specific installation continues the artist’s ongoing impossible monuments series, works of disparate materials and forms that memorialize disregarded details of socio-political events. Peters writes, “I define an impossible monument as something that deserves reverence but by virtue of its incidental nature would never be elevated to the status of a monument.” Together, these bodies of work ask viewers to consider which narratives are written into history and which are erased.

Peace Vigils [Olympia]
2024-06-14 16:30 - 18:00, 2024-06-07 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.

Movie: Photo Booth
2024-06-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
In this split-screen opera-documentary about boycott activism, two Palestinian brothers plot with novelist Jean Genet in Jericho to sabotage the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay singing penguins. Photo Booth weaves together diverse doc, opera, and video art scenes, blending humour and song to explore the politics of boycott, staged in a surreal landscape of megaphones and photo booths, twelve-tone and split-screen, frisbees and teargas, Gaga and Gaza, solidarity and silence…

Also showing:

Sun Jun 16: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

Sur La Table: A Taste Of Morocco
2024-06-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Sur La Table – Kirkland, 90 Central Way, Kirkland, WA, 98033, United States
Menu

Orange and Olive Salad
Roasted Chicken, Caramelized Onion and Preserved Lemon
Couscous with Saffron and Ginger
Honey Pistachio Ice Cream

Roasted Chicken, Caramelized Onion and Preserved Lemon
Couscous with Saffron and Ginger
Honey Pistachio Ice Cream

Instructor: ShadS

Cooking Class Description: Enjoy a special evening filled with fun, romance and delicious food! In this class, our chef instructor will teach you about essential flavors, spices and ingredients to create staples of the cuisine you’d find at a Moroccan restaurant. You’ll work with your date to make everything from the bright salad to the aromatic main course, then finish with a classic Moroccan dessert.

What To Expect: In our classes you’ll work together with other students in a fun, hands-on environment led by our professional chef instructors.

You will work with other students in groups of 4, sharing workstations and equipment.
Classes are 2 to 2 1/2 hours, unless otherwise noted above
Hands-on classes are limited to 12-16 students, depending on location.
You will be standing, cooking and working for most of the class
Please wear comfortable, closed-toe shoes and have long hair tied back
Students receive a coupon good for 10% off in-store purchases the day of class

Movie: Photo Booth
2024-06-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
In this split-screen opera-documentary about boycott activism, two Palestinian brothers plot with novelist Jean Genet in Jericho to sabotage the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay singing penguins. Photo Booth weaves together diverse doc, opera, and video art scenes, blending humour and song to explore the politics of boycott, staged in a surreal landscape of megaphones and photo booths, twelve-tone and split-screen, frisbees and teargas, Gaga and Gaza, solidarity and silence…

Also showing:
Thu Jun 13: 7.30pm PDT

Sun Jun 16: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

Rainbow Story Time (online) w/ Lindz Amer
2024-06-12 11:30 - 12:00, 2024-06-05 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

Pinkwashing Exposed: Film & Panel
2024-06-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Description“Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back,” documents an extraordinary moment in Seattle queer history. The hour-long documentary will be followed by a panel with director Dean Spade and other long-time queer Palestine solidarity activists, with plenty of time for talking about visions for the future and what’s going on right now in Seattle.

Accessibility: wheelchair accessible, doors are not motorized. Some assisted listening devices may be available. Email the Patron Services Manager at suji@nwfilmforum.org for more info on access.

Organized by Elder Dykes for Palestine,
email Pinkwashingno@gmail.com with questions.

Tickets may be purchased at https://nwfilmforum.org/films/pinkwashing-exposed-seattle-fights-back-in-person-only/
50% of proceeds will benefit direct aid to Gaza
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Symphonic Dances: Kinan
2024-06-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Mount Baker Theater, 104 North Commercial Street Bellingham, WA, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
The Bellingham Symphony Orchestra is wrapping up another unforgettable season of live music with an exhilarating program, featuring contemporary composer Kinan Azmeh and Sergei Rachmaninoff.First, Genre-bending composer and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh brings his Suite for Improvisor and Orchestra to the stage. Azmeh composed the Suite for Improvisor and Orchestra as a fusion of music cultures with each movement calling back to a memory from his life in Syria and living as an immigrant in New York. Azmeh will be in attendance and performing the improvised clarinet part during this performance.In the second half, tap your toes to Sergei Rachmaninoff’s grandiose and energetic Symphonic Dances .This afternoon is sure to inspire and energize you for the fabulous summer ahead!A Pre-Concert Lecture about the program will take place at 2:15PM in the Walton Theatre. Doors open at 2PM and seating is limited, so please plan accordingly. These lectures are free for ticket-holders.This concert qualifies for Classical Kids, Take-A-Teen, and Student Rush ticket discounts. Visit https://www.bellinghamsymphony.org/visit-us/ticket-discounts to learn more.

Comedian Malik Elassal
2024-06-08 21:30 - 23:00, 2024-06-08 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-06-07 21:30 - 23:00, 2024-06-07 19:30 - 21:00 | Laughs Comedy Club, 5220 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Malik Elassal is a Lebanese-Canadian actor, writer, and comedian from north east Calgary. In the past few years, Malik won Top Comic in his home city of Calgary, recorded sets for television at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival and CBC’s New Wave of Standup, and performed the titular track of the Just For Laughs originals album ‘Yeehaw Hell Yeah’.
In 2022, he was named one of the New Faces at Just For Laughs in Montreal and returned to the festival in 2023 to perform on a Gala and as a part of the prestigious “Just For The Culture” Show where he was a stand out.

Author Alice Rothchild: Old Enough to Know
2024-06-08 18:00 - 19:00 | Village Books, 1200 11th Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225
All ages are welcome to join us in the Readings Gallery to celebrate Old Enough to Know, a middle grade novel that explores identity and understanding.
FREE FAMILY EVENT! Click here to reserve your spot or pre-order a copy of Old Enough to Know!*
Nine-year-old Mohammed Omar Mohammed Abu Srour and his 16-year-old sister move to a new city where they face a challenging first week of school. Their grandmother grounds them in her story: from a peasant village in Palestine, struggling for survival in Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, to coming to the US.
“It unapologetically and truthfully weaves the story of Palestine, then and now, through the life young Mohammad who lives in America. A great book for young people.”
— Miko Peled, author of The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, and Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five
“More than a story of children struggling to be accepted into a new school, this tale weaves in their family history in another land, a dark narrative of loss and dispossession that also forms their identity. Poignant and heartbreaking, it is a story of reckoning with the past, while trying to navigate the present, in a world that does not understand.”
— Fida Jiryis, author of Stranger in My Own Land
Alice Rothchild, author, filmmaker, and physician, is focused on human rights and social justice. She writes and lectures widely, is the author of a number of books addressing health and human rights issues in Israel/Palestine, and a young adult and a middle grade novel that explore the region for young people. She was last in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza in August 2023.

Virtual Movie Screenings: Every Saturday with Palestine Museum US
2024-06-08 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!

Mercer Island Art Walk: SZ Gallery: I'm Still Alive
2024-06-07 - 2024-07-31 | SZ Art Gallery, 2441 76th Avenue SE, Suite 160, Mercer Island, WA
During this (Frist) Friday MI Art Walk, stop by the SZ Gallery with a spirit of empathy & sense of curiosity, as you explore and learn from Palestinian and Arab Artists.
In gratitude for and collaboration with the Zawyeh Gallery, SZ Gallery commits to giving voice to Palestinians and their experiences, focusing on their humanity, through creative expressions of art & culture.
After losing his home and studio in Gaza City in October, Maisara Baroud began drawing his diaries under the devastating Israeli genocidal war. He hasn’t ceased drawing since losing his “personal little world” to destruction, along with all his paintings, tools, books, and precious memories. Through his paintings, he documents displacement, brutal bombardment, the fear of loss, and the anxiety of protecting loved ones. Baroud says, “I draw to tell my friends that I am still alive.” – Excerpt by Rana Anani

Words for Palestine: Virtual
2024-06-06 16:00 - 17:30 | Virtual
Online via livestream
Free with RSVP
Join 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.
“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.
For questions, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@accesscommunity.org
leena aboutaleb is an Egyptian and Palestinian writer, asking you to commit to the Palestinian liberation struggle. Read her work at www.leenaboutaleb.onl

Summer 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.

Sarah 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.

Noor 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

Streaming: Movie: Where the Olive Trees Weep
2024-06-06 - 2024-06-27 | Virtual
Where Olive Trees Weep offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice.
We follow, among others, Palestinian journalist and therapist Ashira Darwish, grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi, and Israeli journalist Amira Hass. We also watch Dr. Gabor Maté support a group of women seeking understanding and healing and offer his insights into intergenerational trauma.

Meaningful Movies on Vashon: Lyd
2024-06-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Vashon Theater, 17723 Vashon Highway SW, Vashon, WA, 98070
LYD (the Arabic name of Lod, a city now in Israel) is about a 5,000-year-old bustling Palestinian town that was conquered when the State of Israel was established in 1948, and the film LYD is the story of that city’s rise and fall. An exploration of what it once was, and what it is now, in the context of the continuing conflicts and the war in Gaza, LYD’s excavation of one community’s complex history offers us not only lessons but possible futures.
As the film unfolds, a chorus of characters creates a tapestry of the Palestinian experience of this city and the trauma left by the massacre and expulsion, while vivid animations envision an alternate reality where the same characters live free from the trauma of the past and the violence of the present.
Using never-before-seen archival footage of the Israeli soldiers who carried out the massacre and expulsion, the personified city explains that these events were so devastating that they fractured reality, and now there are two Lyds — one occupied and one free. As the film cuts between fantastical and documentary realities, it ultimately leaves the viewer questioning what future should prevail.
Made by a Palestinian from Lyd and a Jewish American, LYD provides much-needed context for this moment, as it goes deep into the history of the Nakba from the perspective of Palestinians who survived. The film imagines an alternate reality where Palestine was never occupied and Palestinians of all religions (Muslims, Christians, and Jews) live in a liberated Palestine. Narrated by Palestinian actress Maisa Abd Elhadi who personifies the city, the viewer is guided through the lifespan of a five-thousand-year-old city and its residents.
“A harrowing watch, but a vital one if the goal is gaining a greater understanding of the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict.”

Free Film Screening: Israelism
2024-06-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Edmonds Theater, 415 Main St, Edmonds, WA, 98020
Two young American Jews travel to Israel seeking a deeper understanding of the country they were raised to love. What they encounter profoundly impacts them, leading them to join a growing movement to redefine their community’s relationship with Israel in this challenging and emotional journey. Join us for the free screening of this film.
About the film
Two young American Jews – Simone Zimmerman and Eitan – are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs. Eitan joins the Israeli military. Simone supports Israel on ‘the other battlefield:’ America’s college campuses. When they witness Israel‘s mistreatment of the Palestinian people with their own eyes, they are horrified and heartbroken.
They join the movement of young American Jews battling the old guard over Israel’s centrality in American Judaism, and demanding freedom for the Palestinian people. Their stories reveal a generational divide in the American Jewish community as more young Jews question the narratives their synagogues and Hebrew school teachers fed them as children.
The film also features voices like Jacqui, a Jewish educator who says “Judaism is Israel and Israel is Judaism”, and former Anti-Defamation League President Abe Foxman, who claims voices like Simone and Eitan’s represent a small minority. Thought leaders like Peter Beinart, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Noura Erakat, Cornel West, and Noam Chomsky also weigh in.
Directed by two first-time Jewish filmmakers who share a similar story to the film’s protagonists, Israelism is produced by Peabody-winner and 4-time Emmy-nominee Daniel J. Chalfen (Loudmouth, Boycott), executive produced by two-time Emmy-winner Brian A. Kates (Marvelous Ms. Maisel, Succession) and edited by Emmy-winner Tony Hale (The Story of Plastic), Israelism uniquely explores how Jewish attitudes towards Israel are changing dramatically, with massive consequences for the region and for Judaism itself.

وقت القصة باللغة العربية / Arabic Story & Play Time
2024-06-02 16:00 - 17:00 | King County Library System – Kent, 212 2nd Ave N, Kent, WA, 98032, United States
Description

وقت القصة باللغة العربية
انضموا إلينا للاستماع إلى القصص و الأناشيد باللغة العربية لتطوير مهارات القراءة المبكرة لأطفالكم. سنستمتع أيضا باللعب والمرح، وتكوين صداقات جديدة.
.جميع الأعمار مرحب بها برفقة الكبار
تتوفر ترتيبات تيسيرية ملائمة للأشخاص ذوي الإعاقة عند الطلب عبر البريد الإلكتروني access@kcls.org قبل سبعة أيام على الأقل من الحدث. و أيضا تتوفر التسميات التوضيحية التلقائية دائمًا للأحداث عبر الإنترنت

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.

Cook With . . . A Palestinian!
2024-06-02 13:00 - 16:00 | Contact Host for Location Details
Event by A Crafty Arab

Bellevue, WA

Duration: 3 hr

Public · Anyone on or off Facebook

Please fill out this Google Form to sign up: https://forms.gle/aC9BAbxcA1qbVW986
I am so excited to bring you our next culinary adventure: Cook With… A Palestinian!
This experience follows our journey that began in Egypt, stopped in Morocco, Palestine, and Syria, and then went to Iraq. We are so excited to now take you back to Palestine.
We will be making stuffed grape leaves, stuffed zucchini, and foul medames. Then we will sit together and share our delicious creations, followed by knafah dessert and tea.
Class registration ends on May 30th.
Jazak Allah khair for @ThereForYu for being our wonderful sponsor. May you be blessed with barakah.

Stand in Solidarity on an Overpass Near You
2024-06-02 11:00 - 13:00 | Multiple Locations, WA, United States
A massive shoutout to everyone who fueled our movement with their time and passion during our banner events this weekend! Your commitment is our driving force.
Now, we’re revving up for the upcoming weekend, and we need YOUR continued support!
📢 Calling all volunteers! Join us on Saturday, Sunday, or both, at vital locations including 145th, 92nd, 80th, 50th, 45th, Roanoke, Denny, Olive, Pine, Lakewood, and everywhere in between here and Tacoma!
Let’s make the next weekend even more impactful. Your dedication propels us forward! 🚀💙 Let us know if you would like to volunteer to hold down a location!
