ArabishWay

NGP Talks with Susan Muaddi Darraj
2021-03-17 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Susan Muaddi Darraj’s (NGP Member) short story collection, A Curious Land: Stories from Home, was named the winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, judged by Jaime Manrique. It also won the 2016 Arab American Book Award, a 2016 American Book Award, and was shortlisted for a Palestine Book Award. Her previous short story collection, The Inheritance of Exile, was published in 2007 by University of Notre Dame Press.
In 2018, she was named a Ford Fellow by USA Artists. Susan also is a two-time recipient of an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. She has also been awarded a Ruby’s Artist Grant from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and a grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation.

In 2019, she launched the viral #TweetYourThobe social media campaign to promote Palestinian culture. Later that year, she was named winner of the Rose Nader Award, by the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), an award given by the Nader family to a person who “demonstrates an unwavering dedication and commitment to values of equality and justice.”
In January 2020, Capstone Books launched her debut children’s chapter book series, Farah Rocks, about a smart, brave Palestinian American girl named Farah Hajjar.

Vaccine Apartheid, Grassroots Resistance and Transnational Connections
2021-03-16 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Rachel Corrie: Commemorating 18 Years
Join the Rachel Corrie Foundation for a roundtable discussion commemorating Rachel Corrie’s life, legacy, and commitment to Palestinian solidarity. Huwaida Arraf, Ahmed Abu Artema, Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, and the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project will be discussing vaccine apartheid, grassroots resistance, and transnational connections in Gaza and abroad.
Registration link: http://bit.ly/2MHVjgC
Livestream link: https://youtu.be/hybPB0EZARQ

P&P Live! Nicholas Freudenberg, Abdul El-Sayed, and Micah Johnson — American Healthcare: What's Broken and How We Can Fix It
2021-03-15 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | WA
CLICK HERE to join the Live! event

There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare–and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the healthcare system at some point in their lives, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy, 18 cents go to healthcare. What are we paying for, exactly?
Healthcare policy is notoriously complex, but what Americans want is simple: good healthcare that’s easy to use and doesn’t break the bank. Polls show that a majority of Americans want the government to provide universal health coverage to all Americans. Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide is the roadmap to America’s most debated policy-in-waiting
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At What Cost confronts how globalization, financial speculation, monopolies, and control of science and technology have enhanced the ability of corporations and their allies to overwhelm influences of government, family, community, and faith. As corporations manipulate demand through skillful marketing and veto the choices that undermine their bottom line, free consumer choice has all but disappeared, and with it, the personal protections guarding our collective health. At What Cost argues that the world created by 21st-century capitalism is simply not fit to solve our most serious public health problems, from climate change to opioid addiction. However, author and public health expert Nicholas Freudenberg also shows that though the road is steep, human and planetary well-being constitute a powerful mobilizing idea for a new social movement, one that will restore the power of individual voice to our democracy.

Middle Eastern Galleries Now
2021-03-15 - 2021-03-31 | WA
This March, Artsy celebrates artists and galleries who are based in or identify with countries in the Middle East and North Africa. We will showcase online exhibitions and gallery shows to highlight artworks that are both innovative and timely. This is a chance for collectors to discover and support the work of these important artists.

https://www.artsy.net/fair/middle-eastern-galleries-now

Free Virtual Screening of the Film "The People's Patriarch" Produced by Dr. Lily Habash
2021-03-13 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Saturday, March 13, 2021
12:00 PM 1:03 PM
Palestine Museum US (map)

Times are based on US ET zone
The screening of the film will be followed by Q&A discussions with film producer Dr. Lily Habash and audience.
To register for this event please click here.
To view the film trailer please click here.
About the Film
Patriarch Michel Sabbah: An Arab, Palestinian and Christian believer from Nazareth. In 1987, Pope John Paul II appointed him as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1987, to be the first Arab Patriarch to hold the office in the Catholic Church’s history. He made an honorable history during his work as a Patriarch. His work marked significant milestones in the struggle against injustice and oppression to bring peace to the country of the Prince of Peace. He is still active in many initiatives and activities to spread his human and spiritual message in Palestine and the world. The film is a humble contribution to honor the Patriarch and shed light on some crucial moments in his life, his thought, and his constant obsession with the consolidation of love, justice, and peace.

Smithsonian Sampler Series: Tatreez
2021-03-12 12:00 - 14:00, 2021-02-26 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
For generations, Palestinian women have gathered with their daughters to work collectively on embroidery projects, bonding with one another over a cup of tea. Guided by Wafa Ghnaim, who began her training in embroidery with her mother at age 2, learn the basic Palestinian cross-stitch and how to create a tatreez sampler, using a standard size sheet of Aida cloth fabric and one that can incorporate numerous patterns and eventually become a wall-hanging.
If you have already begun a tatreez sampler, this workshop will teach you traditional patterns and stitching strategies to further develop your piece. You are not required to take all three workshops in this winter series (Jan. 29; Feb. 26; and March 12)—you may take one, or all. The purpose of the sampler series is to develop your stitching skills, introduce you to new patterns throughout the region’s history, as well as learn more about textiles produced in the Holy Land throughout the centuries.
Open to students of all skill levels, learn the history and meaning behind traditional Palestinian patterns, basics of transferring a pattern to fabric, threading a needle, various cross-stitching methodologies, how to keep the back of your cloth clean, color theory and design, project planning, and motif repetition. No experience is required.
Download the supply list for this class

Virtual Book Club: The Wandering Palestinian with Dr. Anan Ameri
2021-03-11 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | WA
FREE with RSVP
Join Dr. Anan Ameri, founding director of AANM, at the next Virtual Book Club! Dr. Ameri will give a live reading from her recently published book The Wandering Palestinian, and discussion hosted by AANM deputy director Dr. Jumana Salamey. The Wandering Palestinian is a memoir of Dr. Ameri’s journey from immigrating to Detroit, Michigan to becoming a driving force of her community.
Please note that the event is free, but books are for sale. We encourage readers to purchase books from Nicola’s Books: hardcover, paperback.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Anan Ameri played a pivotal role in the creation of the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. The Wandering Palestinian chronicles her life from 1974 in Beirut, Lebanon to Detroit, Michigan as she learns how to adjust to culture shock, finds her independence and becomes a driving force in Detroit’s large and politically active Arab American community—an involvement that helped her break away from her isolation and resume her activism, and paved the way for her to become a recognized and respected leader in her community.

Arabic Conversation Hours Spring 2021 جلسة الحوار بالعربية
2021-03-09 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | WA
Join us for a fun hour of conversation in Arabic. Do you want to practice your Arabic without being judged? Do you want to learn some new words or ways of saying things? Do you want to meet other people who are trying to learn or strengthen their Arabic?
Pour You coffee or tea and let’s talk
You will receive a zoom link after you RSVP
March 9 @ 2:30-3:30
April 8 @ 1-2
For assistance or accessibility, email us at arabamcc@uic.edu

RSVP

Women’s History Month English-Arabic Storytime Online
2021-03-08 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | WA
She Persisted and Think Big, Little One with Sari Mira

Join us for a Women’s History Month-themed English-Arabic Storytime from the comfort of your home! Children ages 2-6 and their parents are invited to tune in as resident storyteller Sari Mira reads the books She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World and Think Big, Little One, in both English and Arabic.
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World introduces young readers to thirteen inspirational women who never took no for an answer, and who always, inevitably and without fail, persisted.
Think Big, Little One introduces eighteen trailblazing women, ranging from writers to inventors, artists to scientists; like influential modernist painter Mary Blair, environmental activist Wangari Maathai and architect Zaha Hadid.

The Storytime will go up at 1 p.m. EST on Monday, March 8 on our Storytime page, where you can also check out previous Online Storytimes.

Virtual Art Exhibition: Legacy Trilogy: Past Edition
2021-03-07 - 2021-03-08 | WA
ArteEast is proud to present the Legacy Trilogy series of exhibitions celebrating the organization’s legacy as a forum for contemporary art practices from the Middle East North Africa region. This fundraising exhibition consists of three parts: Past, Present, and Future.

Part of Creating Art with Islamic Patterns Series
2021-03-06 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Ages 12 and older.
Presented by Amina Quraishi.
Arabesque art is one of the main components of Islamic art and consist of rhythmic linear motifs with floral and vegetal foliage. Learn to draw an arabesque pattern with step-by-step instructions and paint with watercolor.
Supplies needed: Pencil, ruler, printed handout (this will be emailed to you).
Optional supplies: Tracing paper, tape, art or watercolor paper, watercolors or coloring medium of choice.
Please register. You will be sent a Zoom link.

Eggstraordinary Objects: ostrich eggs as luxury items in the ancient Mediterranean
2021-03-06 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Dr. Tamar Hodos, University of Bristol
Decorated ostrich eggs were traded as luxury items from the Middle East to the western Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BCE. The eggs were engraved, painted, and occasionally embellished with ivory, precious metals and faience fittings. While archaeologists note their presence as unusual vessels in funerary and dedicatory contexts, little is known about how or from where they were sourced, decorated and traded. An ongoing project between researchers at Bristol University and the British Museum has established techniques to identify where the eggs originated and how they were decorated. This talk shares the results of our study, revealing the complexity of the production, trade, and economic and social values of luxury organic items between competing cultures of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMscuGhrzMvGdB8aReWTG8Q5DLaMX2vLsSP

Palestine Writes Cultural Spotlight: Ibtisam Azem: The Book of Disappearance
2021-03-06 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
We are excited to announce the Palestine Writes Cultural Spotlight. These zoom webinar events will offer registration and live-streaming on facebook.
This month, we are featuring Ibtisam Azem and her incredible novel, The Book of Disappearance. The event will be co-sponsored by the Institute of Palestinian Studies and moderated by Laura Al Bast, a digital editor at the Institute for Palestinian Studies. Please register for the event here!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrZw-Cv6Q2BdV7p_7kPdVNNUIQcM9KGV7Hve4gBt8ntYBOoA/viewform

Movie: EAST JERUSALEM/WEST JERUSALEM via St Marks
2021-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
EAST JERUSALEM/WEST JERUSALEM
American, Israeli, and Palestinian musicians record a new album. And, in defiance of Israel’s dark realities, start a new program for children living under occupation.
Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza sets out to realize his dream of cooperation and dialog between Israelis and Palestinians through music. During 8 days and nights of joint creation by his mixed Jewish and Muslim band in an East Jerusalem studio, a hopeful message of equality and unity arises. Featuring Steve Earle and Mira Awad.
Learn more here.
with guest speaker: TBA
Contact info@saintmarks.org to be added to the Mideast Focus Ministry mailing list, or use this form. (Check the box marked “Mideast Focus.”)

Palestinian Fatayer with Nadia Tommalieh
2021-03-04 17:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
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 Middle East. In this class, NADIA TOMMALIEH will guide you through the Palestinian take on this most perfect of mezze. You’ll layer a citrusy spinach filling into dough triangles to make fatayer sabanekh, fold cheese and herbs into boat-shaped fatayer jebneh, and make open-faced spiced beef sfeeha.
This is a live, hands-on cooking class held in your kitchen via Zoom. Class is meant to be as interactive as it would be at our table, with the instructor teaching you how to prepare each recipe. Each class ticket is for one kitchen, and we welcome group cooking on the same screen. To learn more about how class will go visit our FAQ PAGE.

There are two options for gathering ingredients for this class! You can shop for your own ingredients or we are happy to pre-measure ingredients and assemble them into a 4-serving kit. And if you like to sip wine while you cook, consider adding a lovingly paired bottle with your kit!
You can preview the ingredients and equipment needed by FOLLOWING THIS LINK. One week before class we will send out a detailed shopping list, and a few days before class we will email you a detailed recipe packet and Zoom link. All classes are listed in Pacific Time.

Policing Somali Refugees: Somali Refugee Resistance to State Violence
2021-03-03 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
For Somali refugees, San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood and the camp at Dadaab, Kenya are connected carceral spaces. Both are governed by militarized techniques and technologies of surveillance and militarism, and both demand counter-technologies through which refugees survive and even thrive.

Mohamed Abumaye is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, San Marcos.
Additional co-sponsor: UW Center for Human Rights

Abdul El-Sayed and Micah Johnson (livestream) A Citizen’s Guide to Medicare for All
2021-03-02 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Doctors Abdul El-Sayed and Micah Johnson join us via livestream to present a simple guide to America’s most debated policy-in-waiting. Using their book Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide as a base, they relate how, although healthcare policy is notoriously complex, what Americans want is simple: good healthcare that’s easy to use and doesn’t break the bank. And two-thirds of Americans want the government to provide universal health coverage. Is Medicare for All the solution? El-Sayed and Johnson offer a serious examination of this complex subject, offering viewpoints on how Medicare for All would transform the way we give, receive, and pay for healthcare in America. Don’t miss this conversation that is perhaps more significant than ever before.
Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, is a physician, epidemiologist, public health expert, and progressive activist. He rebuilt Detroit’s Health Department after the City’s bankruptcy as the youngest big-city health commissioner in a major US city. He ran for Governor of Michigan in 2018 on a state-level single-payer platform in a bid endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, The Nation, and Current Affairs. He holds a doctorate in Public Health from University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a medical degree from Columbia University.

We Want Representation: Students Speak Up for MENA Category
2021-03-02 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | WA
Join Undergraduate Student Government and the Arab American Cultural Center to share your voices, your stories, and your perspective on why a MENA category is important at the U of Illinois. Speak about your experiences and what you would like to see take shape on campus to support MENA students.
Event will be co-hosted by students Sarah Hassan and Malak Kanan
Real-time captioning will be provided
for questions email us at: arabamcc@uic.edu
Event is being co-sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine – UIC, Students for Justice in Palestine – UIUC, Arab Student Association at UIUC, Relief or Yemen at UIC, Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at UIC, Muslim Student Association at UIC

4.4 DIALOGUES ON THE ART OF ARAB FASHION: WHAT EGYPTIAN DRESS TELLS US ABOUT SYMBOLS
2021-03-02 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
4.4 DIALOGUES ON THE ART OF ARAB FASHION: WHAT EGYPTIAN DRESS TELLS US ABOUT SYMBOLS
Event Description: This conversation with anthropologist and author, Dr Andrea Rugh, is based upon Andrea’s book “Reveal and Conceal”, which studies the complex cultural expressions of clothes and dress in Egypt. Dr Andrea analyses contemporary social meanings found in the symbols of dress and shows the way groups and individuals use the symbols like a language to reveal or conceal significant aspects of their identities.
Date: 2nd March 2021
Time: 11 am NYC, 4 pm London, 8 pm Dubai
Tickets: Donation
Students: If you are a student, or member of academia please register here to receive your complimentary registration links.
Registering will not only give you access to the live session, but also a recorded version to catch up on in your own time.

Tatreez Workshops and Lectures by Tatreez and Tea - Ongoing
2021-03-01 - 2021-03-02 | WA
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/events

Arab Film Series Online: There Is A Field + Talkback
2021-02-28 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
3 p.m. EST Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021
Arab Film Series Online: There Is A Field (2020) dir. Jen Marlowe
Free with RSVP/$5 suggested donation
RSVP for streaming link
There Is A Field tells the story of Asel Asleh, an unarmed 17-year old Palestinian teenager who was murdered while participating in a demonstration calling for an end to Israeli occupation and settler-colonization.
A play turned performance-reading film, There Is A Field is performed by Black Lives Matter activists in the U.S., and is intercut with the activists’ own realizations of the parallels they see between Asel’s story and the experiences of BIPOC communities in the U.S. Amidst the ongoing Black Lives Matter uprising that reignited in recent months following the police murder of George Floyd, There Is A Field provides a unique and timely lens for discussing decolonization, Black liberation, Black-Palestinian solidarity and cross-movement organizing.
Following the screening, we are pleased to be joined by director Jen Marlowe for a talkback.
Palestine, U.S.A. / 70 minutes / Documentary, Performance / English
For questions, e-mail Dave Serio, Public Programming Specialist at dserio@accesscommunity.org.

A Conversation with Gideon Levy - Haaretz Columnist and Member of Editorial Board
2021-02-28 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | WA
Please click here to register for this event.

Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author who writes regularly for the newspaper Haaretz. His writings often focus on the daily lives and sufferings of ordinary Palestinians living under Israeli occupation and control in the West Bank and Gaza. His work raises sharp criticism from mainstream Israeli journalists and politicians who accuse him of being pro Palestinian and of treason.
During this one hour conversation with the Palestine Museum US, Levy will share his unique insights and perspective on issues related to the current Palestinian situation, including the obstacles and prospects for peace, the one/two-state solutions, the role of the Palestinian Authority, prospects for Palestinian unity, Israeli elections/politics, and Israel’s relations with the new Biden administration.

Free Virtual Screening of the Film "Recollection" by Palestinian Director Kamal Aljafari
2021-02-27 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | WA
To register for this event please click here.
To view the film trailer please click here.
The following description is by Shimrit Lee writing for Warscapes.com
About the Film

Kamal Aljafari remembers when Jaffa was transformed into civil war-torn Beirut. Under the direction of Menachem Golan, the production team of The Delta Force (1986) created urban mayhem, arranging for the explosion of real buildings in the staging of a fictional battle. Aljafari recalls standing on the side of the road with a group of other children, eagerly awaiting a glimpse of Chuck Norris racing by in a van with the name of their school, “St. Joseph,” printed on the door. Years later, while flipping through television channels in a hotel room in London, Aljafari was shocked to recognize this scene. He sat on the bed mesmerized, not by the action shots but by the background: a clear documentation of the Jaffa of his childhood, a city which has since been destroyed, renovated, gentrified and rebuilt beyond recognition.
Aljafari’s latest film Recollection is composed entirely of footage from Israeli and American fiction features shot in Jaffa from the 1960s to the 1990s, primarily of the so-called bourekas genre that dramatized tense romantic relationships between Mizrahi male “thugs” and Ashkenazi female elites. Jaffa provided the perfect setting to construct new Israeli narratives on top of emptied Palestinian ruins. As Aljafari explains, Palestinians were effectively “uprooted in reality and in fiction.” In Recollection, Aljafari removes the Israeli actors to give the stage to the people who appear by chance in the background of these shots, including both Palestinians and Iraqi Jews who were settled in the city, enacting what he describes as “cinematic justice.”
Aljafari was born in neighboring Ramle in 1972 and later emigrated to Germany to attend film school. His previous films include The Roof (2006), which follows him on a return visit to the homes of his parents and grandmother in Palestine, and Port of Memory (2009), which traces the eviction of his mother’s family from their home in Ajami. Aljafari’s dark humor and silent communication style liken his work to that of Palestinian filmmakers Elia Sulieman and Michel Khleifi.
Unlike his previous films, Recollection has no central protagonist. Aljafari moves through the found-footage, creating the illusion of a dreamer sleep-walking through the city with a handheld camera. While Aljafari sometimes describes this unseen cameraman as himself, each excavated memory is shared, belonging to his grandfather, his mother, his neighbors, and others who cannot return. Each footstep holds a certain urgency; as Aljafari explains, “I walk everywhere, sometimes hesitant and sometimes lost. I wander through the city; I wander through the memories. I film everything I encounter because I know it no longer exists. I return to a lost time.”

Beyond the Two State Solution: Book Talk and Discussion
2021-02-27 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Jonathan Kuttab’s new book is a short introduction to the crisis in Palestine-Israel, which has been characterized by the competing visions of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism. While many thought the two-state solution would offer a resolution, Jonathan explains that the two-state solution (that he supported) is no longer viable. He suggests that any solution be predicated on the basic existential needs of the two parties, which he lays out in exceptional detail. He formulates a way forward for a one-state solution that challenges both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism. This book invites readers to begin a new conversation based on reality: two peoples will need to live together in some sort of unified state. It is balanced and accessible to neophytes and to experts alike.
Zoom Registration

Virtual Arabic Hosted by Muhammad Alaa Eddin
2021-02-25 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Let’s catch up peeps.

What we’re about

Ahlan wa sahlan! I’m 3laa’. Benjamin is the original Organizer for the group, and Islam (Sam) allowed me to take the lead after he moved away from Washington.
This group is created as a way for those who are studying and have a good foundation in Arabic to come and practice their speaking and listening skills in lively conversation.

The Wandering Palestinian: A Book talk by Author and Activist Anan Ameri
2021-02-25 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Chicago) | WA
Join us for a conversation between Author and Activist Anan Ameri and Professor and Activist Nadine Naber
Dr. Anan Ameri is a scholar, author, activist, and community organizer. She is the founding Director of the Arab American National Museum (AANM) and Palestine Aid Society of America. She holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Jordan, an MA from Cairo University, and a PhD from Wayne State University in Detroit. She was a fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, a visiting scholar in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and served as Interim Director of the Institute for Jerusalem Studies. The recipient of numerous awards, Anan was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame in Lansing, Michigan in 2016 and received ACCESS’s Arab American of the Year award in 2020. She enjoys writing and has authored and edited several articles and publications. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Dr. Nadine Naber is Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program and holds an affiliation with the Department of Anthropology at UIC. Dr. Naber’s research interests lie at the intersections of transnational feminisms; women of color and queer of color theory; de-colonizing feminisms; empire studies; critical race studies; and Middle East Studies; and Arab American Studies. Dr. Naber is author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (NYU Press, 2012). She is co-editor of the books Race and Arab Americans (Syracuse University Press, 2008); Arab and Arab American Feminisms, winner of the Arab American Book Award 2012 (Syracuse University Press, 2010); and The Color of Violence (South End Press, 2006). Dr. Naber is an editorial board member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, the Journal of Palestine Studies, and Al-Shabakah. Dr. Naber co- founded Arab and Muslim American Studies (an Ethnic Studies unit within the Program in American Culture) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Naber’s current book in progress focuses on radical mothering in the context of protest movements of the Egyptian revolution and Chicago’s immigrant and people of color-based movements against state violence.

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-wandering-palestinian-a-book-talk-by-author-and-activist-anan-ameri-tickets-139806399705

Palestinian Fatayer: Hands On via ZOOM!
2021-02-22 17:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
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 Middle East. In this class, NADIA TOMMALIEH will guide you through the Palestinian take on this most perfect of mezze. You’ll layer a citrusy spinach filling into dough triangles to make fatayer sabanekh, fold cheese and herbs into boat-shaped fatayer jebneh, and make open-faced spiced beef sfeeha.

The Falafel Stand: Cooking Class
2021-02-22 17:00 - 19:30 UTC | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
In this class NADIA TOMMALIEH will teach you how to make pita sandwiches that will have you convinced you’ve traveled to the Mediterranean to eat them. You’ll learn about the history of the region as she shows you how to get the perfect puff on your homemade khubez (pita bread), and how to achieve flavorful, crispy, falafel every time. You’ll top your piping hot sandwiches with tarator (tahini garlic sauce), tatbeeleh (jalapeno lemon sauce), and tomato cucumber salad.
This is a live, hands-on cooking class held in your kitchen via Zoom. Class is meant to be as interactive as it would be at our table, with the instructor teaching you how to prepare each recipe. Each class ticket is for one kitchen, and we welcome group cooking on the same screen. To learn more about how class will go visit our FAQ PAGE.

You can find Nadia’s work on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/nadiatommalieh

Virtual Artist Talks - A Conversation with Raghda Zaiton
2021-02-21 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Click here to register for this event.
Please join us for a conversation and an online art review with the Nablus (West Bank)-based Palestinian Artis and Al-Najah University art instructor Raghda Zaiton.
