ArabishWay

Arabic Chat Hour
2023-01-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-01-19 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-01-26 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-02 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

2022 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour [In-Person Only]
2023-01-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 95-minute theatrical program of 7 short films curated from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival short film program, including three titles that won Festival awards.
Including:
Warsha

France & Lebanon (Director and Screenwriter: Dania Bdeir, Producer: Coralie Dias)
A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to find his freedom. Fiction. Cast: Khansa. Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction.
Dania Bdeir is a Canadian-Lebanese writer and director. She’s a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and has an MFA in directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2019 she was selected as a Berlinale Talent and participated in its Short Film Station with Warsha. She is currently based in Dubai and is developing her first feature film.

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Tatreez & Tea - Free Instagram Live Course
2023-01-14 09:00 - 10:00 | WA
Date/Time: Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 12pm EST
Pattern Link: https://www.tatreezandtea.com/shop/friendsof
Motif: First Intifada Flag
Supplies: A minimum of 4”x4” Aida Cloth Cross Stitch Cloth, 11-14 Count, Any Color (though black is notably challenging for a beginner), 1 Tapestry Needle, Size 22-24, embroidery scissors/any small scissors, Red, Green, Black and White DMC pearl cotton size 8 (if your fabric is white, you can skip the white thread).
A Note on Colors: I am not going to specify which color of embroidery thread to use, because I do not want to encourage purchasing new supplies. If you have red pearl cotton on hand, please just use that red. It is best to use what you have, and there is no need to purchase more. Don’t worry about “traditional colors”. The most traditional color is the one you have and will not waste. 🙂
Need supplies? I am happy to send you a small pack of starter supplies. In order to receive a pack of starter supplies, please follow the below link and donate $20.
The Palestinian embroidery starter set includes;

A postcard with custom illustrated stitching guidance, and a tree of life pattern with the meaning and significance

A woven garment label that says “Made According to Palestinian Traditions”

1-2 pieces of white or beige 11 count Aida cloth, each a minimum of 4×4 inches

A size 22 or 24 DMC tapestry needle

3 arms lengths each of 3 thread colors in red, green and black (DMC pearl cotton thread, size 8)

Domestic shipping to anywhere in the United States. If you are international, I may have to ask you to cover the excess of shipping. Please make sure the address you enter when you make the donation is your shipping address.

Movie: Sons of Eilaboun
2023-01-14 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Please click here to register for this event.

Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EST; 7:00 PM Palestine Time.
24 minutes, English subtitles. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Hisham Zreiq.
SYNOPSIS
He choked and his eyes were full of tears, and with a trembling voice he said “I remember it as if it has just happened”, this is the way he ended the story, the story of a nine years old boy from a small village called Eilaboun (Eilabun), in Palestine 1948, the story of my father, when he was a refugee.

Cooking class: Mediterranean Inspired Vegetables
2023-01-14 16:00 - 18:00 | PCC – Bothell, 22621 Bothell Everett Hwy, Bothell, WA, 98021, United States
Mediterranean cuisine is as diverse and colorful as the regions that surround the Sea, from Europe to North Africa and the Middle East. Join Ben in discovering how all the lovely flavors meet in a menu that represents the best in vegetarian dishes from this shining region. Craft flatbreads, roast and grill vegetables and make fresh sauces that elevate every dish.
Vegetarian with dairy, gluten, and nuts.
MENU

Skillet Flatbreads with Roasted Carrots, Parsnips and Red Chermoula
Roasted Cauliflower with Green Goddess, Feta and Pistachios
Winter Squash and Grilled Onion Salad with Romesco

Author Amal Ghandour [afikra Conversations]
2023-01-16 07:00 - 08:00 | WA
Amal Ghandour is a Lebanese-Jordanian author and blogger (Thinking Fits), with a career that spans more than three decades in the fields of research, communication, and community development. Her book, About This Man Called Ali (2009), was named the first biography of a modern Arab artist by the renowned Historian Philip Mansel. Ghandour describes her new book, This Arab Life, A Generation’s Journey Into Silence (October 11, 2022), “as a memoir that is not of an individual but of the generation that came of political age in the 1980s in the Levant.” This Arab Life, she adds, “is an intimate rendition of the times that shaped us; the way we internalized our parents’ myriad dejections and disappointments; the pragmatism and silence that defined us; and the dispiriting inheritance we inexorably bequeathed our own children.” Ghandour holds an MS in International Policy from Stanford University and a BSFS from Georgetown University. Among her works: Aeon, The Daily Beast, Washington Independent Review of Books, Midanmasr, Canvas.

Cooking Class: Palestinian Winter Favorites
2023-01-17 18:30 - 21:00 | Book Larder, 4252 Fremont Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98103, United States
Nothing beats the cold winter season than gathering around the table for comfort food served family-style. Join Nadia Tommalieh in this hands-on class as she teaches you how to create an array of traditional Palestinian winter favorites. You will learn how to make: Kofta bil T’heeniyeh (meat patties, tahini, and potato bake); Ruz Bil She’iryeh (toasted vermicelli rice in olive oil); Salata Arabiyya (classic Arabic salad); and Gers Ogaily (sesame, cardamom and saffron winter cake).
Class is limited to 11 people and is hands-on. Includes dinner.
Masking is optional. Please note that event registration is non-refundable.

Cooking class: Mediterranean Inspired Vegetables
2023-01-18 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC-Edmonds, 9803 Edmonds Way, Edmonds, WA, 98020, United States

Des Moines Evening Book Group
2023-01-18 18:30 - 19:30 | KCLS – Des Moines, 21620 11th Avenue S, Des Moines, WA, 98198, United States
Description

Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
New members always welcome.
Please register.
Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email access@kcls.org at least seven days before the event. Automated closed captioning is always available for online events.

About the Author: Born in New York City to a Tunisian father and a Swiss mother, Suleika attended The Juilliard School’s pre-college program for the double bass, and earned her BA with highest honors from Princeton University and an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College.

Seattle Arabs - Welcome 2023
2023-01-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Urban Luxe Cafe, 6105 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, United States
Let’s start this year together!!
Come have coffee or lunch and meet our beautiful Seattle’s community 🤗 we will discuss plans for our community events for the year. Open for event suggestions, activities and ideas.
See you then 🌸

Free virtual screening of the film "TANTURA" directed by Alon Schwartz
2023-01-22 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
Please click here to watch the film trailer.
Please click here to register for this event.
Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EST; 7:00 PM Palestine Time.
94 minutes, English subtitles. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Israeli filmmaker Alon Schwartz.
Tantura investigates the massacre at the Palestinian village of Tantura in 1948 and the dogged work of one Israeli researcher to finally expose the truth.

Streaming: There is Field + panel discussion
2023-01-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Amnesty International Puget Sound AIPS and Local Group AI-270 will be presentingThere Is A Field this Sunday, January 22, 2023 from 6-8pm PT. The film will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Nada Elia, with Alicia Koustoulieris, Jesse Hagopian, and Jen Marlowe.
About the film:
In October 2000, a police officer shot and killed unarmed 17-year old Asel Asleh. His story is tragically familiar for Americans, but Asel was not killed in Ferguson, New York City, Atlanta, or Minneapolis. Asel was a Palestinian teenager who was murdered by Israeli police as he participated in a demonstration, calling for an end to the Israeli occupation and settler-colonization.
There Is A Field begins as a play about Asel’s life and his death, told from the perspective of his older sister, Nardin. Through Nardin’s struggle to cope with the murder of her brother, the play offers a uniquely personal lens for learning about intersecting systems of oppression, the root causes of state-sanctioned violence and structural racism. Learn more about the film.
About The Panelists:

Nada Elia PhD, (moderator) is a diaspora Palestinian scholar and activist who teaches in the American Cultural Studies program at Western Washington University WWU, and is the author of Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine.
Alicia Koutsoulieris, Amnesty International, USA country specialist for the Israel Occupied Territories – Palestinian Authority – IOPT-PA.
Jesse Hagopian is an educator, author, and part of the 2011 African Heritage Eyewitness Palestine delegation. Jesse’s African ancestors survived the middle passage and enslavement on plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Jen Marlowe is the founder of Donkeysaddle Projects and director and producer of the documentary film There Is A Field.

The free event will take place on Sunday at 3pm ET/6pm PT. Follow this link to register.

Amnesty International Puget Sound AIPS and Local Group AI-270 will be presentingThere Is A Field this Sunday, January 22, 2023 from 6-8pm PT. The film will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Nada Elia, with Alicia Koustoulieris, Jesse Hagopian, and Jen Marlowe.

The Lives Along the Nile (5 series class)
2023-01-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Welcome to another series in attempting to better understand the Middle East and North Africa yet, this time we are traveling south to north with the Nile River. We will go on an expedition (no need for passport, inoculations or tents for camping or visas) from the origins of Nile to the Mediterranean Sea. We will read history books, journalists’ accounts and novelists describe the river and the inhabitants along its banks. Join us on this journey along the Nile River. According to the National Geographic: “The Nile River flows from south to north through eastern Africa. It begins in the rivers that flow into Lake Victoria (located in modern-day Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya), and empties into the Mediterranean Sea more than 6,600 kilometers (4,100 miles) to the north, making it one of the longest rivers in the world. The Nile River was critical to the development of ancient Egypt. In addition to Egypt, the Nile runs through or along the border of 10 other African countries, namely, Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. Its three main tributaries are the White Nile, the Blue Nile, and the Atbara.”
Five Mondays: January 23, February 6 and 20, March 6 and 27 from 1 to 3 p.m. ET Online
1. 23rd January 2023: River of the Gods – Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the search for the source of the Nile by Candice Millard (9780385543101)
2. 6th February: The Black Nile by Dan Morrison (9780143119371)
3. 20th February: God Dies by the Nile by Nawal al Saadawy (9781783605965)
4. 6th March: Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz (9780385423335)
5. 27th March: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (9780063139848)
AND/OR
The Fugitives by Jamal Mahjoub (9781838850821)

Cooking class: Mediterranean Inspired Vegetables
2023-01-24 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC-Issaquah, 1810 12th Ave NW, Issaquah, WA, 98027, United States

Mary Ann Peters "Pulse of Time"
2023-01-25 - 2023-03-18 | Virtual
James Harris Gallery is pleased to present our ninth exhibition by Seattle artist Mary Ann Peters titled “Pulse of Time.” This online exhibition focuses on her series this trembling turf and makes connections to previous work throughout her forty-year career. Black and white have been an important element in Peters art making. For the artist, black and white is often used to tie together aspects of place or the delineation of territory without the potential sentiment of spectrum distractions. In black and white the narrative is consolidated. More recently these colors or anti-colors communicate the experiential storytelling of hidden histories.

Palestinian Kitchen: Fatayer
2023-01-25 18:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-26 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).

Continuous Trauma and Social Devastation: Gaza and Washington leaders in discussion on social trauma and healing
2023-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | St Marks Cathedral, 1245 Tenth Avenue East, Seattle, WA, 98102-4398, United States
The Gaza Strip’s visiting lead psychiatrist updates us in person on current conditions there with local leaders and audience questions and reflections on “glocal”social divisions building best ways forward together.

Trauma & Hope Tour “Continuous Trauma and Social Devastation – or Caring for ALL?"
2023-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | St Marks Cathedral, 1245 Tenth Avenue East, Seattle, WA, 98102-4398, United States
FREE

The Rachel Corrie Foundation is honored to be one of multiple co-sponsors of this Seattle event featuring Dr. Yassar Abu-Jamei, who has led the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme – a leading Palestinian non-governmental organization providing mental health services to the Gaza Strip – for fifteen difficult years. During this time, those in Gaza have suffered daily from an international blockade, and continuing military threats and raids by the Israeli army.

The event, organized by the Massachusetts-based Gaza Mental Health Foundation, will also feature the following local leaders speaking about social and racial disparity globally and in Washington State:

Imraan Siddiqi, Executive Director, Council of American-Islamic Relations (Washington Chapter)
The Honorable Damon Shadid, Seattle Municipal Court judge
Dr. Jonathan Kanter, Director, Center for the Science of Social Connection (University of Washington)
Dr. Brian Baird, psychologist, and U.S. Congressman for 12 year

In person and also on zoom: register for zoom: http://bit.ly/3k1Aflv

Metamorphoses, written by Sami Ibrahim
2023-01-27 - 2023-02-26 | Seattle Rep – LEO K. THEATER, 155 Mercer St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
A daring and intimate new production inspired by Ovid’s epic poems of transformation. This modern interpretation performed by a quartet of actors weaves together a collection of both well-known and rarely told myths that excavate the extremes of human experience through the purest forms of theatrical storytelling.

By Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas, and Sabrina MahfouzDirected by Shana Cooper

James Falzone’s “Sighs Too Deep for Words” w/ Ronnie Malley
2023-01-27 19:30 - 21:00 | St Marks Cathedral, 1245 Tenth Avenue East, Seattle, WA, 98102-4398, United States
The Music Series at Saint Mark’s Cathedral presents: James Falzone’s “Sighs Too Deep for Words”

January 27 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2023, 7:30 P.M., in the cathedral nave (ticketed livestream also available)

Join acclaimed clarinetist, penny whistle player, composer and improvisor (and Saint Mark’s parishioner) James Falzone for a night of original music composed specifically for the distinct acoustical environment of Saint Mark’s Cathedral. Joining James will be vocalist and sound artist Johnaye Kendrick; pianist, vocalist, and sound artist Kaley Lane Eaton; and Palestinian/American oud player and vocalist Ronnie Malley. Tickets: $20–25. Reserve tickets here.

Virtual screening of "On the Doorstep," directed by Sahera Dirbas
2023-01-28 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
SYNOPSIS
A documentary that shows how three generations of Palestinians in U.S from Bisharat family, have maintained their emotional attachment to their home in West Jerusalem, taken over by Israelis in 1948.
Among them a Valerie 21-year-old, who traveled across the world to visit her grandfather’s house to find out the truth she inherited about the house and managed to meet face to face the current Gisele Arazi 96-year-old Israeli occupant.

Madafeh - Book Event - Fida Jiryis - author of the book "Stranger in My Own Land"
2023-01-29 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them.
This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey, which is also the story of Palestine, from the Nakba to the present—a seventy-five-year tale of conflict, exodus, occupation, return and search for belonging, seen through the eyes of one writer and her family. Jiryis reveals how her father, Sabri, a PLO leader and advisor to Yasser Arafat, chose exile in 1970 because of his work. Her own childhood in Beirut was shaped by regional tensions, the Lebanese Civil War and the 1982 Israeli invasion, which led to her mother’s death. Thirteen years later, the family made an unexpected return to Fassouta, their village of origin in the Galilee. But Fida, twenty-two years old and full of love for her country, had no idea what she was getting into.
Stranger in My Own Land chronicles a desperate, at times surreal, search for a homeland between the Galilee, the West Bank and the diaspora, asking difficult questions about what the right of return would mean for the millions of Palestinians waiting to come ‘home’.

Fida Jiryis

About Fida Jiryis
Fida Jiryis is a Palestinian author living in Ramallah. She grew up in Lebanon and Cyprus, the daughter of Palestinian intellectual and leader, Sabri Jiryis. As her family fled Israel’s oppression and wars, Fida’s life has spanned the full spectrum of the Palestinian people’s forced fragmentation: in Israel, the West Bank and the diaspora. Her writings include several collections of Arabic short stories; a contribution to the book, Kingdom of Olives and Ash, a Washington Post bestseller; and Ha-Cluv (The Cage), a Hebrew translation of her short stories published this year. Her most recent book, Stranger in My Own Land, describes her and her family’s remarkable life journey which is, in many respects, the story of Palestine.

Who Can Speak on Palestine?
2023-01-30 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
The Foundation for Middle East Peace & Al Shabaka invite you to the first episode in our four-part series, Learning and Unlearning Palestine.
Who Can Speak on Palestine?
Monday, January 30th, 2023
12pm Eastern
featuring Nour Joudah (UC Berkeley), Dina Matar (SOAS, University of London), in conversation with Maha Nassar (University of Arizona)
RSVP Here
This conversation will examine the history and current reality of the erasure of the Palestinian narrative, the delegitimization of Palestinian voices in mainstream spaces, and possibilities for change.
Speakers:
Nour Joudah completed her PhD in Geography at UCLA. She is currently the UC Presidential Postdoctoral fellow at UC-Berkeley. Nour’s work examines mapping practices and indigenous survival and futures in settler states, highlighting how indigenous countermapping is a both cartographic and decolonial praxis.
Dina Matar is Professor of Political Communication at SOAS, University of London, where she is also chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies. Her teaching and research are informed by a non-Western centric approach to addressing communication and politics, with a particular focus on the marginal and the periphery. She is the author of What it Means to be Palestinian (2010), and co-author of The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication (2014). She is co-editor of Narrating Conflict in the Middle East (2013) and Gaza as Metaphor (2016) and is currently co-editing a volume titled Producing Palestine with Helga Tawil-Souri.
Maha Nassar is an associate professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona, where she specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of the modern Arab world. Her award-winning book, Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World (Stanford University Press, 2017), examines how Palestinian intellectuals connected to global decolonization movements during the mid-twentieth century. She is working on her next book, a global history of Palestine’s people.

Cooking class: Mediterranean Inspired Vegetables
2023-01-31 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC-Redmond, 11435 Avondale Rd NE, Redmond, WA, 98052, United States

Tatreez Workshops and Lectures by Tatreez and Tea - Ongoing
2023-02-01 - 2023-04-02 | Virtual
Your instructor is author and scholar Wafa Ghnaim, founder of Tatreez & Tea!
Tatreez & Tea’s mission is to preserve Palestinian embroidery and storytelling traditions in the diaspora. Tatreez & Tea is the first of it’s kind. When Wafa first founded Tatreez & Tea in 2016, she was the only educator solely focused on Palestinian embroidery, traveling the US and the world. Now, new local initiatives, culture bearers, “tatreez circles”, and mentors are emerging from communities around the world like never before. The tatreez revolution has gained a beautiful momentum and now is the time to join.
Wafa’s goal in her educational classes are three-fold: educate students from art history and oral history perspectives that preserve the meanings, stories and symbolism of traditional Palestinian embroidery motifs; teach versatile skills that allow students to eventually produce large independent projects; encourage students to become creative and grow beyond simply abiding by traditional embroidery principles.
Click here for upcoming events!
https://www.tatreezandtea.com

Arab Hookah night
2023-02-03 20:00 - 23:00 | The Eye Hookah Lounge, 8074 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, United States
Let’s meet for hookah in our favorite hookah hangout place
