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University Book Store Presents: Laila Lalami in conversation with Dr. Anu Taranath
2021-11-03 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging In America (Pantheon Books)
November 03, 2021, 6:00 PM (Pacific Time) Virtual
Free

University Book Store is proud to present author and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Laila Lalami for a discussion about her new book Conditional Citizens. Laila will be joined in conversation with Dr. Anu Taranath, Teaching Professor in the English and Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) departments at the University of Washington.
This is a free Zoom event but registration, through the link provided, is required to receive a Zoom code to join the Webinar. If you have any questions, please email events@ubookstore.com. See you there!
ABOUT THE BOOK
A New York Times Editors’ Choice • Finalist for the California Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, Los Angeles Times
In this brilliantly argued and deeply personal work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S.citizen, using her own story as a starting point for an exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth—such as national origin, race, and gender—that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today, poignantly illustrating how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation. Weaving together her experiences with an examination of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture, Lalami illuminates how conditional citizens are all those whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.

Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of four novels, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent work, The Other Americans, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, The Guardian, and The New York Times. Lalami is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles. www.lailalalami.com

IN MEDIAS RES: A CELEBRATION OF THE ODYSSEY PROJECT'S STUDENT JOURNAL
2021-11-03 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us virtually on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 7:00 p.m (Chicago Time). for the launch of the 2021 In Medias Res, a journal of The Odyssey Project
Illinois Humanities is thrilled to celebrate the launch of the latest issue of In Medias Res, a journal of creative written and visual work by Odyssey Project students and alumni.
Contributors will read from their published work alongside celebrated Chicago author, Sahar Mustafah, whose recent novel The Beauty of Your Face (Norton, 2020) was listed as one of the New York Times Most Notable Books of 2020.

7.4 Dialogues on the Art of Arab Fashion: Architecture & Clothing (Case study Damascus)
2021-11-02 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Event Description: Dr. Reem El Mutwalli in conversation with Dr. Salam Fakih, a Lebanese Professor, Researcher, and Interior Architect.
In addition to her 20 years’ experience in the field of design, and 14 years in educational teaching, Dr. Fakih is also a member and Head of specialized Technical Committee at General Directorate of Vocational and Technical Education in Lebanon, where she constructs and periodically updates the curriculum of the fashion design. They will be discussing Dr. Salam’s research on the correlation between Architecture & Clothing in Damascus.
Date: 2nd November 2021
Time: 12 pm (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.
Eventbrite link: (for info only – this is now live):

Tatreez Workshops and Lectures by Tatreez and Tea - Ongoing
2021-11-01 - 2021-12-31
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

AANM Arab Film Festival
2021-11-01 - 2021-11-07
The Arab American National Museum proudly hosts its annual Arab Film Festival (AFF), featuring fascinating new titles from one of the most prolific and creative set of filmmakers on the planet. AFF is one of the Museum’s longest-running programs, dating back to its inception in 2005.
AFF showcases Arab and Arab American films for fans of Arabic-language movies and adventurous art-film lovers seeking new perspectives and outside-the-box thinking. Many of these films by both Arab world and Arab American artists are, with few exceptions, unlikely to reach traditional American commercial theaters. Genres include drama, comedy and documentary, in both short-form and feature lengths. Every festival film is subtitled in English, making them accessible to all.
The Arab Film Festival strives to bring you the absolute best films from the Arab world and Arab American community to your doorstep with many films making their Michigan and/or U.S. debut.
We pride ourselves on creating a safe space, a platform for Arab and Arab American films and filmmakers and to give a voice to Arab and Arab American artists and their stories.
This year’s Arab Film Festival will be taking place both online and in-person from November 1-7, 2021.

Lebanese-American Actress Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus at Central Cinema Co
2021-10-31 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave (at 21st & Union ), Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it is up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches’ reign of terror once and for all.
Starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and the actress of Lebanese descent Kathy Najimy!

Film : Genre: Action,Comedy,Sci-Fi, 1993

Friday October 29th – Wednesday November 3rd
Evenings – 7:00pm
Matinees – 4:00pm
Thursday November 4th
Matinee – 5:00pm

Lebanese-American Actress Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus at Central Cinema
2021-10-31 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-10-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-10-30 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave (at 21st & Union ), Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it is up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches’ reign of terror once and for all.
Starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and the actress of Lebanese descent Kathy Najimy!

Film : Genre: Action,Comedy,Sci-Fi, 1993

Fall in Palestine: Fatayer
2021-10-31 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 Middle East. 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).

Virtual Conversation & Ud Playing with Palestinian Musician Nizar Rohana
2021-10-31 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sunday October 31,12:00 Noon US EDT; 7:00 PM Palestine time
Virtual Conversation & Ud Playing with Palestinian Musician Nizar Rohana
Please click here for more information and to register for this event.
Nizar Rohana is a Palestinian ud player based in the Netherlands, distinguished for combining virtuosity within fresh contemporary compositions while maintaining the ud’s authentic language.

Festival of Forbidden Life
2021-10-30 03:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
On October 30th, 2021 we begin the Festival of Forbidden Life, an ongoing celebration of life, dreams, and Al-Risan’s beauty. The festival will include works by artists who too often work under the reality that “in Palestine you make art to be demolished.” Through their art and a film that documents the project, the artists seek to answer the question: “Why do we create art that we know will be stolen, vandalized, demolished, or burned to the ground?”
About Al-Risan

Located in the heart of Palestine, Al Risan is an ancient mountain approximately 10 km northwest of Ramallah and 5 km east of Israel’s separation barrier. It is located in “Area C,” the land making up 60% of the West Bank that has been under exclusive Israeli military control since 1995. Buried within it are traces of previous cultures, and ancient Roman artifacts have been found there. For centuries, Al-Risan’s land has been privately owned by Palestinians.
Palestinian and international artists have been inspired by Al-Risan’s creative power, and in 2016 a Palestinian storyteller and a Canadian actress, photographer, and writer developed an artspace on the mountain. Together, they established trails with the intention of marking out an official hike that would integrate collaborative art pieces, audio clips, a play, and poetry.
Register here for this event

Lebanese-American Actress Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus at Central Cinema
2021-10-29 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave (at 21st & Union ), Seattle, WA, 98122, United States

We Will Remain: Street Art as Resistance from San Francisco to Palestine
2021-10-29 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Oftentimes, we see Palestinian resistance through protests, advocacy campaigns, and speeches.
But there is such a long and rich history of Palestinian resistance – and joy – through art – stitched flags on a thobe when Israel banned the Palestinian flag from flying during the Second Intifada, to songs, to vast murals on the apartheid wall.
From San Francisco to Palestine, artists are using public spaces to showcase their powerful artwork and messages of resistance. Learn from Palestinian artists about their work, challenges they face in creating these public art pieces, and why they choose this powerful form of expression.

Virtual Arabic: Meetup
2021-10-28 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Whether you’re a native speaker or learner, this is a great chance to practice listening and speaking in Arabic!

Smithsonian National Youth Summit: Gender Equity Through the Arab American Perspective
2021-10-28 06:30 - 08:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Virtual event
FREE with RSVP
In partnership with the Smithsonian Institute, AANM is pleased to be a host of the National Youth Summit. The National Youth Summit hosts conversations about important events in America’s past that have relevance to the nation’s present and future. This year’s theme focuses on gender equity.
High school classrooms and students are invited to join us for an interactive conversation on what gender equity looks like through Arab American eyes. We aim to discuss the history of gender equity in the Arab world and among the Arab American community, the intersectionality of class, religion and generations play, and what the future of gender equity looks like.
Classrooms are welcome to join for a piece of program or stay until the end!
For questions, e-mail Dave Serio at dserio “at” accesscommunity.org

Rendezvous with Madness Festival
2021-10-28 - 2021-11-07
Join Workman Arts and us for the virtual screening of As I Want, directed by Samaher Alqadi. This Rendezvous with Madness film program will be available for online viewing from October 29th to November 7th. As I Want documents the women’s rebellion in Egypt on the second anniversary of the revolution – along the way Alqadi re-examines societal constructs of her own childhood in Palestine and what it means to be a woman and mother in the Middle East.
FOR TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION
JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Q&A
Watch a pre-recorded Q&A with the director of As I Want, Samaher Alqadi and the director of
We Have Not Come Here to Die, Deepa Dhanraj. Conversation moderated by filmmaker and film
programmer Aisha Jamal and available at the same link as the film.

Tatreez and Tea: Class Registration: Winter 2022
2021-10-28
Join them for the many wonderful Palestinian embroidery programs this Winter term. Click on each program title below to learn more. To join a beginner class, or learn about other recorded class opportunities, check out the Winter 2022 registration page.

Lecture Series: The Art Historical Timeline of Palestinian Embroidery:

Rolling Admission

The Palestine Map Project:

Thursdays at 5 pm EST, begins January 13

The Village Series Thobe Project:

Fridays at 12 pm EST, begins January 7

The Village Series Thobe Project:

Thursdays at 7 pm EST, begins January 13

A Treasury of Palestinian Stitches Program:

Saturdays at 2 pm EST, begins January 8

The Denim Jacket Project:

Saturdays at 12 pm EST, begins February 12

Digital World Premiere: Tarek Yamani & Spektral Quartet
2021-10-27 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Online Livestream
FREE with RSVP
As the culmination of their 2020/21 UMS Digital Artist Residency, the Spektral Quartet performs the world premiere of a new four-movement suite composed by Tarek Yamani.
Program
Works by Tarek Yamani:
Berytus (world premiere for string quartet)
Skylines Ahead (for string quartet and Lebanese percussion)
For questions, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski at KGrabowski@accesscommunity.org.

Tarek Yamani, born and raised in Beirut, is a Lebanese American award-winning composer and pianist who taught himself jazz at the age of 19. Since the release of his debut album “Ashur” in 2012, he has been reinventing classical Arab music within the framework of Black American Music in a genre often dubbed “Afro-Tarab.” He has composed the works on this program for the Spektral Quartet, a Grammy-nominated string quartet based in Chicago that actively creates musical conversations between traditional repertoire and new works. Tarek currently resides in Berlin.

UW Public Lecture Series: Maysoon Zayid
2021-10-26 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Meany Performing Arts Center, 4040 George Washington Lane Northeast, Seattle, 98195, United States
Join comedian, disability advocate, and author Maysoon Zayid for “Survival of the Unfittest.” This one-hour talk will tackle everything from diversity to cats named Beyonce through Maysoon’s humorous lens.

The Palestinian Table: Sayadieh (in person)
2021-10-25 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Laden with spices and brimming with flavor, many Palestinian dishes are centered around tradition and community. Join NADIA TOMMALIEH as she shows you how to bring these concepts to your table as you create a beautiful, bountiful Middle Eastern feast. You’ll make classic smooth hummus; shamandar bil tahini (beet dip with walnuts and tahini); pita chips; sayadieh (shrimp and fish rice pilaf) with fried pine nuts and caramelized onions; and salatah fallahia (Palestinian farmer’s salad with tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, and sumac).

Bassem Yousef at the Tacoma Comedy Club - 2 Shows
2021-10-23 19:30 - 21:00, 2021-10-22 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tacoma Comedy Club, 933 Market St, Tacoma, Washington, 98402, United States
Bassem Youssef, dubbed the Jon Stewart of the Arab World, was the host of popular TV show AlBernameg – which was the first of its kind political satire show in the Middle East. Originally a 5-minute show on YouTube, AlBernameg became the first online to TV conversion in the Middle East and the most watched show across the region with 30 million viewers every week.
Two showings: 7:30pm and 10:30pm
Tickets: $25-$35

Seats only guaranteed until showtime. Ticket price is more expensive at the door (if any remain).
Premium seating is in the front row of the balcony, and front two rows directly in front of the stage. General Admission is first come, first serve.
Most of our tables seat 4 people, so purchasing 4 or more tickets is the only way to ensure a table to yourself.
There are no refunds on any ticket purchases.
2-item minimum in showroom. This means each person must purchase 2 items off the menu. This can be an alcoholic, or non-alcoholic drink, or any of our food items.

Show/Doors Times

7:30 PM Show/6:30 PM Doors
10:30 PM Show/9:45 PM Doors

Tinariwen at the Showbox
2021-10-22 21:00 - 23:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Showbox, 1426 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States
The best Tinariwen album hasn’t been recorded yet. Perhaps it never will be. Because the best Tinariwen music isn’t the music they perform in front of microphones. It’s the music they play at night around the fire, back in their own country, amongst themselves and at their own pace. Having eaten, and drunk their tea, the men bring out their guitars, chat, remember old songs and let the music come. In those moments, the music can become like the fire, free, magical and impossible to stuff into a box. It rises up like a shower of sparks or a state of grace, without premeditation; the momentary manifestation of a friendship, a community, an environment, a history; the revelatory connection with something that belongs only to them, and goes beyond them. Their discography stretching out over the last 17 years, all the tours and the international recognition have changed nothing: Tinariwen are still a desert band, only certain aspects of which the western music industry can ever hope to capture and present. Tinariwen existed long before any of their albums were recorded, and they still exist quite distinct from their discographic dimension. So, the best Tinariwen album doesn’t exist. But it’s still worth trying to go and find it.

Bassem Yousef at the Tacoma Comedy Club
2021-10-21 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tacoma Comedy Club, 933 Market St, Tacoma, Washington, 98402, United States
Bassem Youssef, dubbed the Jon Stewart of the Arab World, was the host of popular TV show AlBernameg – which was the first of its kind political satire show in the Middle East. Originally a 5-minute show on YouTube, AlBernameg became the first online to TV conversion in the Middle East and the most watched show across the region with 30 million viewers every week.

Tickets: $25-$35

Seats only guaranteed until showtime. Ticket price is more expensive at the door (if any remain).
Premium seating is in the front row of the balcony, and front two rows directly in front of the stage. General Admission is first come, first serve.
Most of our tables seat 4 people, so purchasing 4 or more tickets is the only way to ensure a table to yourself.
There are no refunds on any ticket purchases.
2-item minimum in showroom. This means each person must purchase 2 items off the menu. This can be an alcoholic, or non-alcoholic drink, or any of our food items.

Show/Doors Times

7:30 PM Show/6:30 PM Doors

Virtual Event: Margaret Owen with Hafsah Faizal — Little Thieves
2021-10-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Third Place Books welcomes Margaret Owen, the beloved author of The Merciful Crow and The Faithless Hawk, for the launch of her highly anticipated standalone YA novel: Little Thieves. She will joined in conversation by Hafsah Faizal, the New York Times bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame.

Nadia Tommalieh: Cooking Class: Autumn Palestinian Dinner (in person)
2021-10-21 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Book Larder, 4252 Fremont Ave N, Seattler, WA, 98103, United States
Inspiration in the kitchen is always welcome with the turn of the seasons. In this hands-on class, greet autumn with Nadia Tommalieh as she teaches an array of traditional home-cooked Palestinian dishes. You will learn how to make Shorabet Freekeh bil Lahmeh (roasted green durum wheat and diced meat soup); Arayes (crispy baked pita pockets stuffed with minced meat and vegetable paste); Mutabal Betinjan (charred eggplant in creamy tahini sauce), and Salatet Bandora W Zaytoon (tomato and olive salad finished with citrus dressing).

Candid Conversations with Susan Abulhawa
2021-10-21 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Thursday, October 21, 2021
8:00 PM 9:00 PM (BST) – 12:00 PM 1:00PM (PST)
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Nahr has been confined to the Cube: nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. The world outside calls Nahr a terrorist, and a whore; some might call her a revolutionary, or a hero. But the truth is, Nahr has always been many things, and had many names. She was a girl who learned, early and painfully, that when you are a second class citizen love is a kind of desperation; she learned, above all else, to survive.
