ArabishWay

Book Launch and Activist Gathering
2023-03-04 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States
“Greater than the Sum of Our Parts” is by Nada Elia, local author and activist, and is newly published by Pluto Press. Nada’s book launch provides an opportunity to connect with fellow activists, expand our knowledge of each other’s struggles, and hear from Nada about this important book!

WHEN: Saturday, March 4, 4:00-6:00 pm
WHERE: Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122

Please Register here! (If you can’t make it but would still like a copy of the book, you can get one here!)

ABOUT THE EVENT:

Today, there is a growing understanding that Palestinian liberation is connected to numerous other struggles for safety, dignity, freedom, and self sovereignty. This book launch and gathering will be an opportunity to hear more about and celebrate the launch of GREATER THAN THE SUM OF OUR PARTS. Equally important, It will be a much-needed opportunity to meet and network with fellow activists and organizers, so we can expand our knowledge of each other’s struggles, and better show up for each other.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

How is the struggle for Palestinian freedom bound up in other freedom struggles, and how are activists coming together globally to achieve justice and liberation for all?
In this bold book, Palestinian activist Nada Elia unpacks Zionism, from its hypermilitarism to incarceration, its environmental devastation and gendered violence. She insists that Palestine’s fate is linked through bonds of solidarity to other communities crossing racial and gender lines, weaving an intersectional feminist understanding of Israeli apartheid throughout her analysis. She also looks deeper into the interconnectedness of Palestine with Black, migrant, and queer movements, and with other indigenous struggles against settler colonialism, including that of Native Americans.
Greater than the Sum of Our Parts is a powerful and hopeful account, highlighting the role of the Palestinian diaspora, youth, and women, and inspired by activists across the world.

Hosted by: Dunya Productions-Seattle

Arab Gathering: Woods Coffee Bellevue
2023-03-05 16:00 - 18:00 | Woods Coffee – Bellevue, 625 116th Ave. NE, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
Hello everyone. Lets get a cup of coffee this Sunday at Wood Coffee: 625 116th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004, United States

Seattle Nacho Week: Fatteh @ Manna Market
2023-03-06 - 2023-03-12 | Manna Market and Deli, 446 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
What They’re Called: Fatteh
What’s On Them: Crispy pita, chickpeas, garlic yogurt, pine nuts
What They Say About Them: Fatteh is a traditional Levantine dish with crispy pita chips, layers of proteins, veggies, and a garlic yogurt sauce. It’s a staple on all our menus where we change up the flavors seasonally.
Where and When to Get Them: Manna Market and Deli, 446 Terry Ave N / 10:30 am–4 pm daily

International Women's Day Artist Talk with Mary Hazboun
2023-03-08 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
March 8 is International Women’s Day, so join Museum of the Palestinian People in celebrating Palestinian women artists! This artist talk will feature Mary Hazboun, the Palestinian artist behind “The Art of Weeping,” a collection of 50+ original drawings currently on show at Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C.
About Mary:
Mary Hazboun is a multidisciplinary Chicago-based artist who practices “ The Art of Weeping” as an act of processing grief and somatic healing of bodies through drawing and singing. Mary’s work highlights the nuanced traumas of women and their resistance against different forms of oppression that is manifested in the military machine, patriarchal societies, and forced migrations. She uses art, ceremonies, and performance for emptying blocked emotions, opening internal space, and pouring in trauma-informed introspections as a form of healing. Mary was born and raised in the city of Bethlehem and moved to the U.S in 2004.
Tickets are by donation, and after reserving your spot you will receive a Zoom link to join the artist talk on March 8 at 12 p.m. Resilience Monthly Club members can use the code 1948 to attend this event for free.

Arabic Chat Hour
2023-03-09 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-16 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-23 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual
Whether you’re a native speaker or learner, this is a great chance to practice listening and speaking in Arabic!
Zoom room number provided upon registeration.

Black SWANA Lit: Mizna Reading + DJ – An AWP Offsite Event [In-Person Only]
2023-03-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Northwest Film Forum and Mizna present an AWP offsite reading to mark the release of Mizna’s Black Takeover Issue, guest-edited by acclaimed poet Safia Elhillo. This collection of Black writing from the SWANA region and diaspora is a first-of-its-kind, and we’re celebrating its launch with a killer line-up of writers including Safia Elhillo and a DJ set by fab creative Ladin Awad.
This program is supported by National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, and Minnesota Center for Humanities.

Photography: Issues of culture and identity with Maha Alasaker
2023-03-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Join Maha Alasaker a visual artist and a photographer, based in Kuwait.
She will discuss how through her artwork, she tries to gain a deeper understanding of herself while attempting to engage issues of culture and identity. Her curiosity centers around how a woman’s upbringing affects identity and self-worth.
Maha’s projects have been displayed in numerous exhibitions in New York City, London, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. Magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Marie Claire and Rolling Stone have featured her work.
In 2019 , Maha published her first photo book,“ Women of Kuwait”, which was then acquired by the Getty Research Institute and The Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art .
Hosted by: Dr Becky Alexis Martin, Lecturer in Human Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University and an award-winning photographer.

**Please double check the start time on this event if you plan on attending. Thanks!

AWP Offsite: Glossing the Margins—A Bi-lingual Arabic-English Poetry Reading
2023-03-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, 98122, United States
AWP Offsite: Glossing the Margins—A Bi-lingual Arabic-English Poetry Reading
Friday Mar 10 2023 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Join us for an evening of poetry in which the borders between languages fall away and only poetry remains. Featuring poets Deema Shehabi, Fady Joudah, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Lubna Safi, and Zeina Hashem Beck.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of Water & Salt, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award. She is the translator and curator of the Poems from Palestine series at the Baffler magazine. She is the winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry, for her book Something About Living (U of Akron Press, 2024). Her second book of poems, Kaan & Her Sisters is forthcoming from Trio House Press in July, 2023.
Fady Joudah has published five collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu; a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and, most recently, Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received the Arab American Book Award, a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is an Editor-at-Large for Milkweed Editions. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.
Deema K. Shehabi is the author of Thirteen Departures From the Moon and co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, for which she received the Northern California Book Award’s NCBR Recognition Award. She is also co-author of Diaspo/Renga with Marilyn Hacker and the winner of the Nazim Hikmet poetry competition in 2018.
Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet and the author of, most recently, O, named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and The New York Public Library. She’s the co-creator and co-host of Maqsouda, a podcast about Arabic poetry produced by Sowt.
Lubna Safi is a poet, writer, and graduate student residing in California. Her poems and essays have been published in Guernica, The Journal, MIZNA, and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection, Your Blue and the Quiet Lament won the Walt McDonald First Book Prize in Poetry and is published by Texas Tech University Press

AWP Seattle Offsite Reading
2023-03-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Cherry Street Coffee House (Pioneer Square), 700 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
Join us at AWP Seattle for an offsite reading at Cherry Street Coffee House (700 1st Avenue location) on Friday, March 10, at 7 PM, featuring poets Gabrielle Bates, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Patrycja Humienik, Jason Koo, Eugenia Leigh, José Olivarez, imogen xtian smith and Dujie Tahat! Free and open to the public. Doors will open for the event at 6:30 PM and readings will begin at 7. Book signing to follow.

Between Spaces – An AWP Off Site Reading
2023-03-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Common AREA Maintenance, 2125 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA, 98121, United States
University of Washington Bothell MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, Kelsey Street Press, Essay Press and Bellingham Review host a hybridisciplinary phonetic transference (an awp offsite reading) featuring Ally Ang, Kiran Bath, Steven Dunn, Valerie Hsiung, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Dennis James Sweeney, Andrea Abi-Karam and Keith S. Wilson.

The Falafel Stand
2023-03-11 10:00 - 13:30, 2023-03-12 10:00 - 13:30 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
For the love of fresh bread, falafel, hummus, and everything in between! In this class Nadia Tommalieh will teach you how to make a traditional “sandweishet falafel” (falafel sandwiches) that will have you convinced you’ve traveled to the Arab world to eat them. You will learn about the different falafel variations of the region as she shows you how to get the perfect puff on your homemade khobez (pita bread), and how to achieve flavorful, crispy falafel every time. This super delicious street food sandwich is never complete without a layer of fresh smooth hummus. You will top your piping hot sandwiches with tarator (tahini garlic sauce), tatbeeleh (jalapeno lemon sauce), Mkhalal left (pickled turnips) and salatah Arabia (Arabic style tomato and cucumber salad).
Please note: some classes can be adjusted for students with dietary restrictions, but many cannot. If you’re vegetarian, pescatarian, or gluten-free, you can use the drop-down menu on our events page to view the best classes to fit your needs. If a class you’re interested in doesn’t appear in that filtered view, please email us before registering and we’ll see if the class’s menu can be modified.

LASS Early Mother Day Brunch
2023-03-11 11:00 - 15:00 | Crossroads Community Center, Crossroads Community Center 16000 NE 10th Street, Bellevue, WA, 98008, United States
Event by Lebanese American Society of Seattle

Crossroads Community Center

Tickets
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Join our first event of the year to celebrate Mother’s Day. on March 11, 2023

16000 NE 10th St, Bellevue, WA 98008

Arab Meetup: Escape Room
2023-03-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Locurio, 619 N 35th St, Seattle, WA, 98103, United States
Details: Come and join us in this group adventure as we try to escape the most fun escape room in Seattle. This game includes physical activity such as kneeling and crawling, though not every guest needs to participate. Comfortable shoes are highly recommended.

Amazing Mediterranean
2023-03-13 19:00 - 21:30 | Sur La Table – Kirkland, 90 Central Way, Kirkland, WA, 98033, United States
Menu

Grilled Shrimp with Chermoula Dipping Sauce
Homemade Pita Bread
Roasted Spiced Cauliflower with Cucumber and Herb Yogurt Sauce
Olive Oil Cake

Instructor: PeterL

What You Will Learn

Cooking Class Description: Join us and explore Mediterranean flavors in fun and unexpected ways. Get plenty of hands-on practice grilling shrimp, roasting cauliflower and making a cucumber herb yogurt sauce. Plus, bake up fresh pita bread to complement your meal. For a sweet ending, we’ll enjoy an olive oil cake.

What To Expect: Great cooking is about more than recipes—it’s about techniques. In our classes you’ll work together with other students in a fun, hands-on environment led by our professional chef instructors.

Classes are 2 to 2 1/2 hours, unless otherwise noted above
You will work with other students in groups of 4.
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

Sur La Table recipes are developed using common cooking and baking ingredients that may or may not be specified in the menu titles, including various fruits and vegetables, nuts, meats, spices, wheat flours, etc. If you have a food allergy, please check with your local Cooking School before attending the class. Adjustments to recipes cannot be made during class.

Cooking Class Description: Join us and explore Mediterranean flavors in fun and unexpected ways. Get plenty of hands-on practice grilling shrimp, roasting cauliflower and making a cucumber herb yogurt sauce. Plus, bake up fresh pita bread to complement your meal. For a sweet ending, we’ll enjoy an olive oil cake.

What To Expect: Great cooking is about more than recipes—it’s about techniques. In our classes you’ll work together with other students in a fun, hands-on environment led by our professional chef instructors.

Classes are 2 to 2 1/2 hours, unless otherwise noted above
You will work with other students in groups of 4.
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

Sur La Table recipes are developed using common cooking and baking ingredients that may or may not be specified in the menu titles, including various fruits and vegetables, nuts, meats, spices, wheat flours, etc. If you have a food allergy, please check with your local Cooking School before attending the class. Adjustments to recipes cannot be made during class.

The Palestinian Bakery with Nadia Tommalieh
2023-03-15 18:00 - 21:00, 2023-03-16 18:00 - 21:00 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Sfeeha yafawiyeh is a traditional Palestinian pastry made with dough that is rolled thin, stuffed, twisted into a spiral, and baked with olive oil. These little twirls are a showstopping addition to any feast, and in this class Nadia Tommalieh will teach you how to make traditional Yafawiyeh dough and a variety of savory and sweet fillings. On the menu: sfeeha yafawiyeh (spiced beef and onion-stuffed pinwheels); yafawiyeh bil jebneh wa za’atar (akawai cheese and zaatar-stuffed pinwheels); and nabulsi tamriyeh (pocket pastries stuffed with semolina pudding, fried and dusted with powdered sugar and pistachios). You’ll enjoy your freshly made pastries with khiar bil na’na (yogurt mint sauce) and salatet jarjeer w shamander (arugula, beets and pine nuts salad with olive oil and pomegranate molasses dressing).

Sultans of String: Edmonds
2023-03-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Avenue North, Edmonds, WA, 98020, United States
Three-time JUNO Award nominees and Billboard charting band Sultans of String creates “energetic and exciting music from a band with talent to burn!” according to Maverick magazine. Thrilling their audiences with their genre-hopping passport of Celtic reels, flamenco, gypsy-jazz, Arabic, Cuban and South Asian rhythms, the group celebrates musical fusion and human creativity with warmth and virtuosity.

Gather for Gaza: A Fundraiser for UNRWA
2023-03-19 15:00 - 16:30 | Virtual
Join Nadia Tommalieh for an online fundraiser benefiting refugee families in Gaza via the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA USA). Fatteh (or fattet) is an Arabic word that refers to bread that is broken and then steeped in a sauce or broth; it’s a layered dish of toasted bread, vegetables, meat and garlic infused tahini and yogurt sauce. Fatteh dish is beloved across the Arab world and is especially popular during the month of Ramadan. In this online class Nadia will teach you how to make two preparations of fattet betinjan (Eggplant Fatteh), one vegetarian and one with lamb or beef, as well as mhalabiyeh bi ma’ elzaher, a milk pudding dessert flavored with orange blossom water. 100% of proceeds will provide food assistance to refugee families in Gaza during the month of Ramadan.

Hassaniya Arabic Poetry by Saharawi poet Zaim Allal
2023-03-20 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual
Part of the Late Winter Poetry Translation Workshops 2023 collection
Translating the work of Zaim Allal, a famous Saharawi poet who is living in a refugee camp in Algeria with Hamza Lakhal.

The Shape of Home Anthology Virtual Author Talk
2023-03-20 15:30 - 17:00 | Virtual
Join us to chat with several authors published within The Shape of Home anthology and learn how they came up with their story ideas, what their writing process is, and more!

Email rocyouth@clpvd.org for the Zoom link

Faza'a Immersion Program in Palestine - Summer 2023
2023-03-21 - 2023-03-26
Apply for a fully funded youth organizer immersion program to Palestine with @fazaaprogram for this July (2023)
Apply at bit.ly/apply-fazaa

Eligibility Criteria:

Between the ages of 20-34.
Reside in the United States.
Have a minimum of 1 year of grassroots/volunteer organizing experience for Palestinian liberation.
Be available and ready to commit to a 4 week program from July 1st to July 31st, 2023 and attending pre and post trip zoom meetings.
Be able to commit to fundraise based on an equity sliding scale, between $100-$500 USD by June 15th.

Mama and Me
2023-03-21 16:30 - 18:00 | Virtual
Beloved Palestinian chefs with their mothers and grandmothers have teamed up with UNRWA USA to deliver you our sweetest *free* event of the year – Mama & Me: A Palestinian Cook-Off 🇵🇸👵🏼
Join us LIVE on #ArabMothersDay Tuesday 3/21 at 7:30 pm EST via YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter for a festive cooking demo that helps refugees.
Hit the link in our bio for your free ticket! 🎟️
This year’s cooking stars include:
🥗 Suzanne Husseini @suzannehusseini
🍅 Laila El-Haddad @gazamom
🍉 Mai Kakish from @almondandfig
🍹 Muna Dubbaneh from @zandzdc
🥘 Reem Assil from @reemscalifornia
🥮 Maha Kailani from @makedelicioushappen
🫒 Fadi Kattan @fadi.f.kattan

Poet Charif Shanahan with Luther Hughes and Jane Wong
2023-03-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, 98122, United States
Chicago poet Charif Shanahan visits Seattle on the occasion of his second published collection of poetry Trace Evidence. Two acclaimed local poets who have both read their poetry on Elliott Bay’s stage, Jane Wong and Luther Hughes, will join in the celebratory night of poetry.

International Book Club with ArabLit and Alice Guthrie
2023-03-23 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual
About the Book
Malika Moustadraf is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her uncompromising depiction of life on the margins.
Something Strange, Like Hunger presents Moustadraf’s collected short fiction: haunting, visceral stories by a master of the genre. Here, we tune into Casablanca’s unheard: a sex worker struggling to keep warm on the streets; a housewife flirting with strangers online; a kidney patient, priced-out of treatment, facing the harsh reality of his condition; and a mother scheming to ensure her daughter passes a virginity test. Something Strange, Like Hunger is a sharp provocation to patriarchal power, and a celebration of the life and genius of one of Morocco’s preeminent writers.
About the Author
Malika Moustadraf (1969–2006) was a writer from Casablanca, Morocco, celebrated for her distinctive style and experimental language. An exacting social critic, she wrote unflinchingly about life in the margins and was persecuted for her taboo-busting subject matter. Denied the life-saving treatment she needed, Moustadraf died at thirty-seven of kidney disease, leaving behind a semiautobiographical novel and a collection of short stories. Something Strange, Like Hunger is the first full-length translation of her work into any language.
About the Translator
Alice Guthrie is an independent translator, editor and curator specialising in contemporary Arabic writing. Her work often focuses on subaltern voices, activist art and queerness (winning her the 2019 Jules Chametzky Translation Prize). She programmed the literary strand of London’s Arab arts biennale Shubbak Festival between 2015 and 2019, and has curated queer Arab arts events for the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Outburst International Queer Arts Festival and Arts Canteen. Guthrie teaches translation at the University of Exeter and the University of Birmingham.

Reading of a Play: Nubian Stories
2023-03-25 14:00 - 16:00
Nubian Stories by Nabra Nelson & Mona Sherif Nelson
directed by Lia Fakhouri
featuring Ifrah Mansour as Sabila, and Hanna Eady on the oud
Produced by Dunya Productions

In a private home in Burien – see ticket for details.

International Day of Lebanese Emigrant 2023
2023-03-25 18:30 - 21:30
Join us for a night of culture, and short films. Followed by a social hour, dessert and refreshments

Nature Around Us - March - Formal Arabic Classes for Kids
2023-03-27 10:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
Four sessions of dialogue in classical Arabic are suitable for children between the ages of 4-8 years. The dialogues will be about topics related to the nature around us. These dialogues will be via the Zoom application with Mr. Mustafa Abu Saleh. Every Monday at 10 am Pacific time for half an hour.
