The Palestinian Table: Sayadieh
2021-10-10 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
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).

Movie: Alia's Birth: Tacoma Film Festival
2021-10-11 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Grand Cinema, Tacoma, 606 Fawcett Avenue, Tacoma, WA, 98402, United States
Alia’s Birth Sam Abbas US/UK/Bolivia | 2020 | 66 min A rocky relationship between a female couple forces them to spend the night apart. Through their respective journeys we experience a live recorded set by queer superstar DJ/Producer Nicole Moudaber and witness a live home birth with a resuscitation. With Poorna Jagannathan, Nikohl Boosheri, Maya Kazan, Samuel H. Levine, and Edward Akrout. Sam Abbas is an Egyptian-American filmmaker currently living in Paris. In 2018, he founded the production company ArabQ Films, and released his debut feature The Wedding across the U.S. and Middle East. The film screened in Turkey, Tunisia, Lebanon, and Egypt; countries in which it is difficult & in parts illegal to identify as gay or nonbinary. In 2020 Abbas acted as curator, director, editor, and producer and teamed with leading cinematographers from around the world to create the documentary Eremita (Anthologies).
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MONDAY OCTOBER 11 4:30 PM the grand cinema #1

SIX SHORT FICTIONAL FILMS FROM GHANA, EGYPT, IRAN, UK AND THE US: Tacoma Film Festival
2021-10-13 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Grand Cinema, Tacoma, 606 Fawcett Avenue, Tacoma, WA, 98402, United States
Da Yie | Ghana | 20 | Anthony Nti | A foreigner in Ghana gets an assignment from his gang to find kids for a risky job that will take place later that evening. While spending the day with two energetic children, Prince and Matilda, he starts to question his decision and how it will affect their lives.

i am afraid to forget your face | Egypt | 15 | Sameh Alaa | After being separated for 82 days, Adam travels down a rough road to be reunited with the one he loves, whatever it takes.

Good Thanks, You? | United Kingdom | 13 | Molly Manning Walker | In the aftermath of an attack, Amy is left voiceless, trapped in a whirlwind of incompetence. She must find a way to confront what has happened, in order to save what matters to her most.

Witness | Iran, Islamic Republic of | 15 | Ali Asgari | A mother helps an elderly woman in a shopping mall in Tehran. A tragedy occurs, brutally confronting her with the impact of her actions.

Dọlápọ̀ Is Fine | United Kingdom | 15 | Ethosheia Hylton | Ready to leave her UK boarding school and enter the working world, a young Black woman faces pressure to change her name and natural hairstyle.

Leylak | US | 17 | Scott Aharoni, Dennis Latos | In present day Queens, New York, a Turkish gravedigger is unable to face a shattering truth, and risks losing the dearest connection left in his life.

Solidarity Town Hall: Imagining Decolonized Futures
2021-10-14 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Online Livestream
FREE with RSVP
Join us for our annual Solidarity Town Hall program, an anchor discussion as part of AANM’s theme for Fall 2021 – Spring 2022: Istiqbal al Mustaqbal (Welcoming the Future). This year, the Town Hall is themed Imagining Decolonized Futures, highlighting futurist and sci-fi narratives as we imagine a world without colonial concepts. The Town Hall will feature keynote speaker: Anishinaabe academic and author Grace Dillon; and panelists: multidisciplinary Afrofuturist artist Bryce Detroit, Canadian and Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson, and British Palestinian fiction writer Selma Dabbagh; with moderator Hina Baloch, leader of the Research & Analytics team at GM. This is a virtual event taking place via Zoom.

Laila Lalami: Kepler's Literary Foundation
2021-10-14 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT. Please consider joining with a book to support programs like this one.
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami—author of the acclaimed novels The Moor’s Account and The Other Americans—opens up with a deeply personal and powerfully researched book about the experience of “conditional citizens” living in the United States.
What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and passionate detail, Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Through a tour of history, politics, culture and literature, in a book that Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “a gift to all Americans,” Lalami clarifies a vision of the United States where accidents of birth are codified in a hierarchy that disenfranchises and limits some based on skin color and origin. Conditional citizens, Lalami argues, are all the people whom America embraces with one arm, and pushes away with the other.
Online with Kepler’s on October 14 for the paperback release of Conditional Citizens, one of our most compelling literary voices takes a hard look at a broken social fabric which limits the welcoming promise of our famously multicultural nation. In a period of continued international turmoil around borders, a very real refugee crisis and embattled citizenship, be prepared to join the conversation: don’t miss Laila Lalami.
“Consistently thoughtful and incisive, the book confronts the perils of our modern age with truths to inspire the coalition-building necessary to American cultural and democratic survival. A bracingly provocative collection perfect for our times.”—Kirkus Reviews

Virtual Arabic: Meetup
2021-10-14 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-21 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-28 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Whether you’re a native speaker or learner, this is a great chance to practice listening and speaking in Arabic!

Riz La Vie at Barboza, Seattle
2021-10-14 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | the Barboza, 925 E Pike St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
The soul-baring RIZ LA VIE, a Lebanese-American artist originally from New Jersey and based in New York, has a vocal approach that ranges from a consoling croon to a fervent howl. His artful, grainy, and occasionally bluesy hybrid of R&B, hip-hop, and pop was showcased throughout 2020 in songs like “Tesla” and “She Said”, culminating and world-expanding in the EP “Feed.” & its’ deluxe. Over the last several years, Riz has built an increasingly growing following through a heatmaking string of singles and EPs, drawing from musical influences ranging from the underground to Billboard’s Hot 100. From his unique genre-blending sonic approach to his thoughtful lyricism, fans of Riz can expect exciting new music and visuals throughout 2021, including collaborations on 6 Dogs’ posthumous album (March) and a debut album.
Check out his music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZC9Fw6bb6E
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Kaveh Akbar: In‑Person & Online
2021-10-15 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? Pilgrim Bell, Kaveh Akbar’s newest collection of poems, meditates on this question, taking readers on a spiritual journey through disavowal, divinity, and belonging.
With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Akbar’s brilliant poems unfold in the empty space where song lives, teasing the sacred out of silence and stillness.
Q&A with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.

Virtual Delegations to Visit Public Street Art Installations w/ Eyewitness Palestine
2021-10-16 | WA
Join us for a virtual delegation to visit public art installations in Palestine. During this delegation we will speak with artists and see the ways in which they use art as a resistance tool. Join Palestinian artists, from the US and Palestine!
This delegation is co-sponsored by the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival
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ARCE PA: Revealing the Practice of Tattooing in Ancient Egypt
2021-10-16 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
About Lecture:
The practice of tattooing in ancient Egypt is rarely attested. Egyptologists have identified tattoos on only a handful of mummies spanning Pharaonic Egypt’s more than 3,000 year history. Textual evidence is virtually silent on the practice and art historical evidence is often ambiguous. In 2014, the mission of the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) made an incredible find–an extensively tattooed mummy from the necropolis at Deir el-Medina, the community of the workmen who cut and decorated the New Kingdom’s royal tombs. With over 30 tattoos, this woman completely redefined what we knew about tattooing in ancient Egypt. The extensive use of Hathoric imagery in these tattoos further showed us the incredible amount of religious agency women could hold during a time when the title “priestess of Hathor” was not even attested. Since then, we have used infrared imaging to identify dozens of new tattoos among the many unpublished human remains at the site. This talk presents the most recent findings from the bioarchaeological team of the 2019 and 2020 IFAO mission at Deir el-Medina. These additional tattoos indicate that many more individuals were likely tattooed at Deir el-Medina. Additionally, the designs and placement of tattoos varied broadly. Coalescing the physical and art historical evidence, this talk offers some of the most comprehensive evidence we have to date on the practice of tattooing in ancient Egypt.

The Palestinian Table: Sayadieh (in person)
2021-10-17 18:00 - 21:00, 2021-10-25 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA

Across Disciplines: Alia Ali & Tarek Yamani
2021-10-20 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Virtual event
FREE with RSVP
Join multimedia artist Alia Ali and musician/composer Tarek Yamani as the two artists of different disciplines interview one another, discover unexpected connections, and discuss each of their newest projects commissioned by UMS and AANM.
Alia Ali (Arabic: عاليه علي // Sabean: ‎ 𐩲𐩱𐩡𐩺𐩲|𐩲𐩱𐩡) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-US multi-media artist. A child of migrant linguists, Ali has traveled to sixty-seven countries, lived in and between seven, and grown-up among five languages. Her migrations have led her to process the world through interactive experiences and the belief that the damage of translation and interpretation of written language has dis-served particular communities, resulting in the threat of their exclusion, rather than a means of understanding. As an artist who exists on the borders of identifying as West Asian, Eastern European, a United States citizen, queer, culturally Muslim yet spiritually independent, her work explores cultural binaries, challenges culturally sanctioned oppression, and confronts the dualistic barriers of conflicted notions of gender, politics, media, and citizenship. Through her practice, Ali critiques linguistics and inherited political structures and narratives, while simultaneously attempting to counter the polarization and miscommunication that imperils communities across the world, encouraging viewers to confront their own prejudices.
Tarek Yamani is an American-Lebanese New York-based composer and a self-taught jazz pianist dedicated to exploring relationships between African-American Jazz and Arabic rhythms/maqams. He is the recipient of awards such as the Givanas Foundation Grant, Huygens Scholarship, Andrea Elkenbracht Award, Prins Bernhard Culture Fund, Thelonious Monk Composers Competition Prize, Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency, New Dutch Composition Contest, and Composer’s Platform Commission by the Abu Dhabi Festival. Tarek has been recently commissioned by UMS (Ann Arbor) to write a new piece for the genre-bending Spektral Quartet to be premiered on October 27th, as part of the UMS Digital Artist Residency.

Arabic Language and Story Time for Young Children w/ Laila Taji from ArabishWay at MPP
2021-10-21 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Learn the alphabet, colors, numbers, and more with fun songs and stories with Laila Taji, author of These Chicks. This program is aimed towards children age 2-5 years.
Suggested donation to the museum: $10
The Museum of the Palestinian People Resilience Monthly Club members who register for these sessions will receive a free copy of These Chicks.
Every third Thursday of the month: Sept. 16, Oct. 21, Nov. 18, Dec. 16, Jan. 20, Feb. 17, March 17, April 21, May 19, June 16

Candid Conversations with Susan Abulhawa
2021-10-21 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
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.

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).

Virtual Event: Margaret Owen with Hafsah Faizal — Little Thieves
2021-10-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
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.

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

Bassem Yousef at the Tacoma Comedy Club - 2 Shows
2021-10-22 19:30 - 21:00, 2021-10-23 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.

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.

Digital World Premiere: Tarek Yamani & Spektral Quartet
2021-10-27 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
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.

Tatreez and Tea: Class Registration: Winter 2022
2021-10-28 | WA
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

Rendezvous with Madness Festival
2021-10-28 - 2021-11-07 | WA
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.

Smithsonian National Youth Summit: Gender Equity Through the Arab American Perspective
2021-10-28 06:30 - 08:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
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

We Will Remain: Street Art as Resistance from San Francisco to Palestine
2021-10-29 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
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.

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
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
