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SWEET AND SAVORY TARTS OF THE WORLD: 5-DAY KIDS CAMP: PCC
2022-08-08 - 2022-08-12 | PCC-Issaquah, 1810 12th Ave NW, Issaquah, WA, 98027, United States
Build-Your-Own Quiche and Fresh-Berry Tarts
Tourte de Blettes (French Swiss Chard and Rice Tart) and Classic New York Cheesecake
Spanakopita (Greek-Spinach Pie) and Tarte Tatin
Bisteeya (Moroccan Chicken or Vegetable Pie) and Banoffee Pie (Banana-Caramel Cream Pie)
Mixed-Greens Supper Tart and Lemon Tartlets

Instructor: Cam Zarcone
Price: $250
AGES 10 TO 15
HANDS-ON
IN-PERSON
KIDS ONLY

DESCRIPTION
Ages 10 to 15
Get your measuring cups, rolling pins and spatulas ready because we’re taking a baking trip around the world! Join Cam as you mix, whip and knead your way through some of her favorite tarts – perfect for both dinner and dessert! Future bakers will visit a new country each day, discovering a variety of cooking techniques at each destination.
With eggs, dairy and gluten; optional poultry.
About the instructor: Cam never planned to leave her career as an award-winning journalist, but a life spent cooking — and teaching others the joy of it — finally proved too irresistible. She received her professional culinary training from the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to her work at PCC, she teaches several innovative multidisciplinary cooking classes at Edmonds Heights K-12, covering everything from world folklore and history to science and environmental policy. Her food writing has appeared in publications including The Boston Globe. Follow her on Instagram: @hummingbirdculinary.
CLASS NOTES

This is a hands-on format class for kids only.
Class information will be emailed 48 hours before class. Our emails can get caught in spam filters or blocked entirely, please contact us if you don’t receive the class information.
Cancellation Policy: Classes are nonrefundable. If you cannot attend, you can request a class credit or transfer to a different class up to 7 days prior to class or have someone attend in your place.

ARCE DC: Moon Knight’s Egyptian Deities: Ammit and Taweret in Hollywood (online)
2022-08-06 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moon-knights-egyptian-deities-ammit-and-taweret-in-hollywood-tickets-386146804487

Dr Stuart T. Smith, UCSB, consultant to STARGATE, presents a fun discussion on Ammit & Taweret and their role in Ancient Egypt’s religion

About this event

Marvel’s Moon Knight drew in many fans, and introduced viewers to two Goddesses of the Ancient Egyptian pantheon. The Hippo Goddess, Taweret, in her role of protectress of women, birthing mothers, and infants, was universally revered for several thousand years. Pregnant women wore amulets of her, the meme of both having big bellies lasted thousands of years. Her image was carved on protective and household items. Images of her were also placed in tombs, to help the deceased to live again in the afterlife. This interaction with dead souls in highlighted in Moon Knight.
Ammit, another Goddess who was part hippo, was also part lion and part crocodile. She interacted with the dead in a different way. At the time of final judgement, she crouched by the balance scales where the heart of the deceased was weighed for goodness against a feather, while the spirit of the deceased changed a list of good things done in life, and bad things avoided. If the heart outweighed the feather, the soul was forbidden to enter the afterlife. Their unworthy heart was tossed to Ammit, who devoured it. The soul died. Clearly, as “Devourer of the Dead”, and “Eater of Hearts”she was not a Goddess to mess with. In Moon Knight, Ammit is elegantly costumed, with a fabulous braid and – never shown dining.
Since his 1994 consultancy with the Stargate film, Dr. Stuart Smith of the University of California, Santa Barbara, has given many entertaining talks on the incorporation of Ancient Egyptian themes in Hollywood movies.

Arabic Chat Hour
2022-08-04 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-07-28 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-07-21 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-07-14 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-07-07 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
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.

Mona Awad in Conversation With Iain Reid
2022-08-03 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as “genius,” comes a “wild, and exhilarating” (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare’s most maligned play will remedy all that ails her — but at what cost? Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now, she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised and cost her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. That’s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda’s past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what’s coming to them, and the invisible doubted pain that’s kept her from the spotlight is made known. With prose Atwood has described as “no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged… genius,” Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. All’s Well (Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books) is a “fabulous novel” (Mary Karr) about a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain. Awad will be joined in conversation by Iain Reid, author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things.

Arab Street Food: Shawarma at the Pantry with Nadia Tommalieh
2022-08-02 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Across the Arab world, you’ll find variations on their most famous street food: shawarma. Traditionally cooked on a vertical spit that turns, shawarma is universally loved as a picnic spread, a main course, or an iconic street-food sandwich. In this class NADIA TOMMALIEH will show you everything you need to make shawarma wraps at home, starting with fresh-made saj bread. You’ll fill your warm bread with spiced and thinly sliced beef shawarma, tahini-based tarator sauce; batata harra (crispy cubed potatoes in a citrus cilantro sauce); avocado bil labaneh w za’atar (mashed avocado, jalapeno, yogurt, and Za’atar); and mkhalal left (pickled turnips).

Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Aida Returns," directed by Carol Mansour
2022-07-30 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
We will be screening a 20 minute-condensed pre-release version of the film. The film screening will be followed by Q&A discussion with Carol Mansour, film director, and Muna Khalidi, producer. Click the title above for more information.

AIDA RETURNS – أمي العائدة إلى يافا

This film is a poignant, sometimes sad, sometimes painful, sometimes humorous, often absurd story of a multiple journey: the journey of loss as the director’s mother Aida struggled with losing herself to Alzheimer’s disease, but finding solace in her repeated “returning” to the Yafa and Palestine of her youth; the journey of the loss of a parent; and the ultimate return journey back to Yafa where Aida would finally find rest and be herself once more.
Close to four years after Aida’s passing away, the director’s friend and colleague Tanya who lives in Ramallah came to visit Beirut. When she heard about Aida’s wishes and yearning for Yafa, Tanya suggested that she herself carries the ashes back. The film accompanies director Carol Mansour as she engineers a way to return her mother to Yafa in search of eternal rest and peace for her. A return that is aided by an unlikely set of friends and strangers all coming together to facilitate what should have been a simple journey. This journey is at the same time very private and personal, while resonating with hundreds of thousands of Alzheimer’s sufferers and their families as well as hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees awaiting their return home.
This film is a tribute to the lost past of the director’s family, an attempt to restore part of both an individual and a collective memory, and a poetic nod and affirmation to all those exiled Palestinians forbidden from returning to their hometowns, even after death.

Click here to watch the film trailer.
Click here to register for this event.
We will be screening a 20 minute-condensed pre-release version of the film. The film screening will be followed by Q&A discussion with Carol Mansour, film director, and Muna Khalidi, producer

Rage & Refuge: SCOTUS, Bodily Autonomy, and the War on Terror
2022-07-28 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for a conversation hosted by Vigilant Love, and jointed by
HEART, Palestinian Youth Movement, and For the Binat

Thursday, July 28, 2022
5 pm PDT // 8 pm EDT
Register at: bit.ly/RageRefuge
Have you felt alone in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to overturn Roe and Casey and uphold Mississippi’s 15 week ban on abortion? Are you holding anxiety about the possible ripple effects for your people in your community’s bodily autonomy?
Vigilant Love is hosting a virtual, multi-layered event to share political analysis examining the relationships between the SCOTUS leaks, Zionism, the War on Terror, and gendered Islamophobia.

“Rage & Refuge: SCOTUS, Bodily Autonomy, and the War on Terror” hopes to be an intentional space for grieving and processing, and to build with values-aligned community members. We hope to see you on Thursday, July 28th from 5-6:30pm PT!
Our partners for this event are HEART (@hearttogrow), Palestinian Youth Movement (@palestinianyouthmovement), Palestinian Feminist Collective (@palestinianfeministcollective), and For the Binat (@forthebinat).
This is a free event, but we encourage donations for anyone that is able!
Register at bit.ly/RageRefuge or visit the link in our bio.

The Middle Eastern theatre of World War I : Online Lecture
2022-07-28 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
This presentation will outline and discuss how World War I affected the Balkans and the Middle East, in such long-standing campaigns as the Serbian Campaign, the Dardanelles Campaign, the Caucasus Campaign, the Palestine Campaign, the Arab Revolt, and the Mesopotamian Campaign. We will investigate how the Ottoman Empire entered the war, how Middle Eastern soldiers participated in the conflict, and how those experiences would affect the aftermath of the war.

Note: This episode will not discuss the Ottoman internal situation during the war (including the situation in eastern Anatolia) which will be discussed in the next week and will not discuss the more famous Western and Eastern Fronts in Europe as those are outside of the Middle East focus of this series.

The Middle Eastern theatre of World War I saw action between 29 October 1914 and 30 October 1918. The combatants were, on one side, the Ottoman Empire (including Kurds and some Arab tribes), with some assistance from the other Central Powers; and on the other side, the British (with the help of Jews, Greeks, Assyrians and the majority of the Arabs, along with Indians under its empire), the Russians (with the help of Armenians and Assyrians) and the French from among the Allied Powers. There were five main campaigns: the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, the Mesopotamian Campaign, the Caucasus Campaign, the Persian Campaign, and the Gallipoli Campaign. There were also several minor campaigns: Arab Campaign, and South Arabia Campaign.
Both sides used local asymmetrical forces in the region. On the Allied side were Arabs who participated in the Arab Revolt and the Armenian militia who participated in the Armenian Resistance during the Armenian genocide; along with Armenian volunteer units, the Armenian militia formed the Armenian Corps of the First Republic of Armenia in 1918. In addition, the Assyrians joined the Allies following the Assyrian genocide, known as the Assyrian volunteers and Our Smallest Ally. The theatre covered the largest territory of all theatres in the war.
Russian participation in the theatre ended as a result of the Armistice of Erzincan (5 December 1917), after which the revolutionary Russian government withdrew from the war under the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (3 March 1918). The Armenians attended the Trabzon Peace Conference (14 March 1918) which resulted in the Treaty of Batum on 4 June 1918. The Ottomans accepted the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies on 30 October 1918, and signed the Treaty of Sèvres on 10 August 1920 and later the Treaty of Lausanne on 24 July 1923.

Arab Film Series Online: Bloody Beans + Talkback
2022-07-28 - 2022-07-31
Arab Film Series Online: Bloody Beans + Talkback
Free Online Stream | Suggested $5 Donation – Register
This July, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Algerian Independence from France, Arab Film Series presents Bloody Beans, an experimental take on the Algerian War by Narimane Mari. This program is accompanied with a recorded discussion with the filmmaker.
Shot on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Algerian independence, (the film) is based on a loose, improvisational script about a group of children who, fed up with their monotonous diet of beans, decide to steal food from the French military barracks and end up capturing a young French soldier as well. This allegory of the Algerian War of Independence is enacted on the beach and within the populous neighborhoods of today’s Algiers, where almost half the population is under twenty-five years of age and largely unemployed. In a powerful mix of past (the struggle against French occupation) and present (the struggle of young people to survive), the film addresses the emotional realities of colonialism and contemporary forms of disenfranchisement., which sees the conflict played out by a group of vibrant children. Incorporating unique lighting and sound, the film is a complex exploration of colonial powers and the fight for freedom.
77 Minutes / 2013 / Algeria / Experimental / French and Arabic with English subtitles
For questions, e-mail Dave Serio at dserio@accesscommunity.org.

Apply for the October delegation to do Environmental Justice and the Olive Harvest
2022-07-27 - 2022-08-15
Our Environmental Justice and the Olive Harvest delegation promises to be a powerful time of learning about cultural and agriculture in Palestine. We need more participates to join us in person in Palestine. If you have not applied, please apply today. Also, we invite you to share this opportunity with your friends and networks.
APPLY TODAY
This, our 73rd delegation, offers a unique cultural and environmental angle on Palestine. It is an opportunity to visit Palestine during the olive harvest season — a culturally rich and important time. Hear from farmers and learn of the importance of agriculture to the economy and culture. Learn about threats to the environment, the exploitation of natural resources, and the struggle of Palestinian communities to maintain access to land and water.
LEARN MORE & APPLY

SWEET AND SAVORY TARTS OF THE WORLD: 5-DAY KIDS CAMP: PCC
2022-07-25 - 2022-07-29 | PCC-Bellevue, 11615 NE 4th St, Bellevue, WA, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States

DJ Mansaf Mama on Moon Glow Radio
2022-07-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
dj mansaf mama
KAN YA MAKAN
Every fourth Sunday @ 7pm pst | 10pm est

DJ Mansaf Mama is a Seattle-raised, Oakland-based DJ of all sounds from SWANA, diaspora, and in the local zeitgeist. KanYaMakan will guide you through auditory space and time, where the carefully crafted music tells a different story each episode.

https://moonglowradio.net/djs/mansaf-mama/

Conner Habib with Jarret Middleton — Hawk Mountain: A Novel
2022-07-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Third Place Books – Ravenna, 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, United States
“Hawk Mountain is deft horror, made of precise strikes into our most vulnerable psychic terrain… Finally, a horror story that knows cisheteropatriarchy is the villain!” —Andrea Lawlor

Third Place Books welcomes Conner Habib—host of the popular podcast Against Everyone with Conner Habib—to our Ravenna store! Join Habib for a discussion of his debut novel Hawk Mountain, a fast-paced novel of deceit and suspense following the story of an English teacher re-encountering his high school bully seemingly by chance (but nothing is ever by chance). Habib will joined in conversation with Jarret Middleton, author of Darkansas. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required in advance.
Copies of Hawk Mountain will be available for purchase at the store. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
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JULY 22 – Seattle, WA – Third Place Books (Ravenna) with Jarett Middleton – this is a TICKETED EVENT

Sudan Archives at the Capitol Hill Block Party
2022-07-22 - 2022-07-24 | Neumos, 925 E Pike, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
CAPITOL HILL BLOCK PARTY IS AN ANNUAL 3-DAY FESTIVAL CELEBRATING MUSIC, ART AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD ITSELF IN THE HEART OF SEATTLE…
Unlike your typical festival experience, Capitol Hill Block Party (CHBP) showcases some of the city’s best local bars, restaurants, and retail shops alongside international, national and local artists, art shows, community events, and political activism. A 6-stage music and arts festival comes alive as the Seattle’s best weekend of summer! One of our primary goals is to support and promote the local and regional talent of the Pacific Northwest. Collectively, the lineup is a uniquely curated glimpse into what’s happening here and now in the PNW and beyond. CHBP is one of the last independently-owned festivals of its’ size in the country.

Diplo / Charli XCX / Jai Wolf
Toro y Moi / 100 Gecs / Remi Wolf / Danny Brown / Flo Milli / TOKiMONSTA / Beach Bunny / Duckwrth / Chet Porter / EVAN GIIA / Cannons / Sudan Archives / Manila Killa / IDK / Tkay Maidza / Magdalena Bay / Kenny Mason / Ela Minus / Chloe Moriondo / Lizzy McAlpine / Enumclaw / Michelle / IAN SWEET / Boyish / Dempsey Hope / The Black Tones / Archie / Breaks & Swells / The Moss / The Grizzled Mighty / TeZATalks / Brent Amaker and the Rodeo / LIVt / All Star Opera / Rudy Willingham / La Fonda / Linda From Work / Jang / Claudine Magbag / Tinsley / Biblioteka / Ariana Deboo / Among Authors / Erik Walters / Juliette / Lovely Colours / Jusmoni / King Youngblood / Small Paul / Laureli / Joza / Jane Don’t & Friends / Sea Lemon / Motus / Dave Shanaé / Rell Be Free / hherb (live set) / Chinese American Bear / Halley Greg / Pink Boa / Alla / Seiichi / Good Job / Oh My Eyes / Todd Zack Jr / Meltt / PRADO / Vox Rea / Teon Gibbs

Conner Habib at Powell Books (Portland)
2022-07-21 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Powell Books, 1005 W Burnside St., Portland, OR, 97209, United States
An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in a tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder from Conner Habib, host of the Against Everyone with Conner Habib podcast. Single father Todd is relaxing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of a man approaching from the water’s edge. As the man draws closer, Todd recognizes him as Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly in their teenage years but now seems overjoyed to have “run into” his old friend. Jack suggests a meal to catch up. And can he spend the night? What follows is a fast-paced story of obsession and cunning. As Jack invades Todd’s life, pain and intimidation from the past unearth knife-edge suspense in the present. Set in a small town on the New England coast, Habib’s debut introduces characters trapped in isolation by the expansive woods and the encroaching ocean, their violence an expression of repressed desire and the damage it can inflict. Both gruesome and tender, Hawk Mountain (W. W. Norton) offers a compelling look at how love and hate are indissoluble, intertwined until the last breath.

Please note: Signed preordered books will be shipped to you and are not available for pick-up in the store the night of the event (but if you’re planning to attend, don’t worry! Signed editions are usually available at the events). Also, we are sorry but we can not accommodate personalized inscriptions, or guarantee the signed books are first editions. Thanks for your understanding.
See our full selection of signed editions from Powell’s

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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments

Single father Todd is relaxing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of a man approaching from the water’s edge. As the man draws closer, Todd recognizes him as Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly in their teenage years, but now seems overjoyed to have “run into” his old friend. Jack suggests a meal to catch up. And can he spend the night?
What follows is a fast-paced story of obsession and cunning. As Jack invades Todd’s life, pain and intimidation from the past unearth knife-edge suspense in the present. Set in a small town on the New England coast, Conner Habib’s debut introduces characters trapped in isolation by the expansive woods and the encroaching ocean, their violence an expression of repressed desire and the damage it can inflict. Both gruesome and tender, Hawk Mountain offers a compelling look at how love and hate are indissoluble, intertwined until the last breath.

Review
“The tension is palpable on every page, and Habib skillfully illustrates the complexity of relationships and the pain of unmet desires, both queer and otherwise. His prose is as brutal as it is profound and beautiful…. A brutal and gorgeous tale of manipulation, control, and desire.” Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Review
“Conner Habib’s debut novel is a bleak, dark adrenaline rush.” Clive Barker
Review
“A deeply disturbing yet, somehow, soaring novel I won’t soon forget. It plumbs the depths of traumatized characters trapped within our damaging culture. I couldn’t look away, even when I was looking from between my fingers.” Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club
Review
“The opening lines of Hawk Mountain plummet you into an atmosphere of creeping dread and precarious restraint that won’t let up until the final, shocking moments.” Caitlin Doughty, bestselling author of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
About the Author
Conner Habib hosts the podcast Against Everyone with Conner Habib, which features conversations with artists, intellectuals, and countercultural figures, and covers topics as wide-ranging as punk rock, philosophy, pornography, and occultism. His nonfiction writing has appeared in multiple online and print magazines. He lives in Ireland. Hawk Mountain is his first novel.

Movie (streaming): July: A Perfect Day + Ashes
2022-07-21 - 2022-07-24
In July, we present two of Hadjithomas and Joreige’s films which deal with absence. A Perfect Day tracks Malek, who has both sleep apnea and narcolepsy. He lives with his mother, Claudia, who has still not accepted his father’s disappearance 15 years earlier. She stays at home in case her husband returns. Malek drives around the city in search of Zeina, the woman he loves, but who no longer wants to see him. Each of them is trying to live with a void of lost love, but today may be the “perfect day” to lay their ghosts to rest.

Ramad (Ashes) follows Nabil as he returns to Beirut with the ashes of his father who died abroad. He tries to overcome his bereavement while his family insists on respecting rites and customs by burying a non-existent corpse.

Available virtually WORLDWIDE July 21–24, 2022. Tickets are pay what you can. TICKETS

The Arab Bakery : Mana'eesh
2022-07-19 18:00 - 21:00, 2022-07-07 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
A popular street food across Arab countries, mana’eesh (or manakish) are flatbreads topped with spices, cheese, seasoned meats, or veggies, and enjoyed hot out of the oven. A man’oushe — the singular form — can be sliced like a pizza or folded, the traditional way, into a wrap, and can be served for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. In this class NADIA TOMMALIEH will teach you to roll and bake this childhood favorite in several preparations: one with za’atar and labaneh; another, lahmeh bi ajeen, featuring seasoned beef and pomegranate molasses; man’oushet jebneh hara, flavored with spicy akawai cheese; man’oushet el armaleh, topped with spiced onions, tomato, and sesame; and a sweet tahini man’oushe with date molasses and pistachio.

SWEET AND SAVORY TARTS OF THE WORLD: 5-DAY KIDS CAMP: PCC
2022-07-18 - 2022-07-22 | PCC- Burien, 15840 1st Ave S, Burien, WA, 98148, United States

ARCE DC: Excavating a Frontier Fortress: Uronarti, Sudan
2022-07-16 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
The fortifications at Uronarti in Lower Nubia were among a string of massive monuments built by the kings of Egypt’s 12th dynasty when they established control over this gold-bearing region.

While the fortresses were imposing military monuments, they were also locations of interaction between the Egyptian garrison and local Nubian populations, as well as places of domestic and production activities. Since 2012, a joint mission of Brown University and Swansea University has been conducting an excavation and survey at Uronarti and the surrounding area to address questions of both colonialism and daily life at this outpost.

This talk will present recent finds from that project, including one of the best-preserved ancient Egyptian pottery kilns yet known, a settlement of stone huts outside the fortress, and construction layers from the earliest phase of the site that highlight the impressive engineering necessary to conquer this forbidding landscape.

Email us at arce.dc.news at gmail dot com for a link to register for
this event.

Registration is required
Presented by: Dr. Laurel Bestock

1:00 PM EDTWashington, DC

Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Stones of the Valley," directed by Ismail Habbash
2022-07-16 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
About the Film
Stones of the Valley is an oral history-based documentary of the activities and struggle of members of the Palestinian Communist Party from 1948 through 1967. The film director interviewed six prominent members of the Palestinian Communist party in an 0ral history format. Each member talked about their involvement in the Party and the trouble they encountered as a result on the hands of the authorities in charge of the West Bank at the time, including arrest, torture and intimidation. This is a rare treatment of a subject that has not been publicly discussed.

Zeina Hashem Beck (virtual)
2022-07-13 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Much-praised Lebanese poet Zeina Hashem Beck makes this welcome visit by virtual means to read from her newly published third full-length collection, O (Penguin Poets). Writing in Arabic and English, she cuts to the quick here, in form, range, breadth – and breath.
“O is so full of life, of music and passion for life. In ghazals, odes, revolution songs and invocations of O the world comes vividly alive: ‘I carry a name & many cities,’ writes Hashem Beck, as her poems unfold the abundance of our world. Abundance, yes: so much tenderness, so much passion in these pages: just one language can’t contain it all, so the poet gives us ‘Duets,’ joining Arabic and English in the same stanza. The lyricism is a vehicle of emotional impact … Hashem Beck’s prayer isn’t shy of calling for revolution, of asking ‘to occupy the streets, bring the tires, the sofas, the drums, the blaring cars.’ Zeina Hashem Beck’s prayer isn’t afraid of stories, of new music on your balconies. Listen. Her O brims with the world.” —Ilya Kaminsky.
“Western readers often consume books by international authors like perverse anthropologists, scanning for a word or phrase that buttresses their ill-informed preconceptions, cudgeling a writer’s meticulously woven lyric into vapid social generality. Zeina Hashem Beck’s O rebukes this tendency explicitly in an early poem: “I’m tired of metaphors about peace. // I prefer dark chocolate in the morning, / & a good window.” And then throughout the collection, she rebukes it with her truly undeniable poems—rhymes braid across multiple languages, intricate forms fracture under the weight of their subjects. In one unforgettable piece, a subtle incantation ends on the name of a flower that looses itself across the page like so many petals. Unforgettable, undeniable—these are the words I keep coming back to with O. Anyone who reads it in earnest will emerge better made.” —Kaveh Akbar.
Zeina Hashem Beck’s other collections include Louder Than Hearts, To Live in Autumn, and the chapbooks 3arabi Song and There Was and How Much There Was.

Virtually hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company.

Virtual US Book Launch Event - "Oranges from Jaffa," by Nadine Sayegh
2022-07-10 09:15 - 10:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Oranges from Jaffa – A true story about the end of the golden age of Palestine
Please join us for a conversation with and a reading of book excerpts by the book author, Nadine Sayegh, who is an Austrian Palestinian with Jaffa roots.

Jaffa Oranges is a family history, a novel against oblivion. The book presents the coming of age story of Nicolas Sayegh, a Palestinian Tom-Sawyer-type, who, together with his friends, roams the sun-drenched neighborhood streets of Jaffa in 1947 – an ancient Arab city, the commercial capital of Palestine at the time, fragrant with the smell of orange blossoms. Nicolas is always up to childhood adventures and mischief, exploring his parents’ magical orange groves, parading through his neighborhood like a cowboy on a donkey’s back, or sneaking out with his best friend Suhail to the local Alhambra cinema. The story poetically portrays the daily life of a well-to-do Christian Palestinian family and the people of Jaffa as a whole, giving insights into the local Palestinian culture that was prevalent at the time. However, Nicolas’ carefree days and boyhood ended abruptly in the spring of 1948, when the state of Israel was created and most inhabitants of Jaffa were driven out by the Zionist forces.

Author: Salma El-Wardany (virtual)
2022-07-09 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
This midday Saturday virtual reading sends us over the Atlantic to wherever Egyptian/Irish poet, novelist, spoken word performer and BBC broadcaster Salma El-Wardany may be. She is here with her much-anticipated, brilliant first novel, These Impossible Things (Grand Central).
“These Impossible Things is an addictive portrait of three Muslim friends moving through a pivotal time in womanhood, caught between expectation and possibility, hungry to earn wisdom of their own. Salma El-Wardany deftly reveals searing and poignant truths about the female experience, ones so rarely confronted in fiction. What a gift to be inside this author’s mind through the pages of her beautiful and memorable writing.”—Ashley Audrain.
“Salacious, incisive, and unapologetically Muslim, Salma El-Wardany’s bold and brilliant story doesn’t shy away from the taboo subjects of religion and sex. These Impossible Things shows that Muslim women are multifaceted and complex despite the dearth of representation we are allowed.”—Blair Imani.
Virtually hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company.

Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Lama Brothers - Pioneers of Arabic Cinema," directed by Raed Duzdar
2022-07-09 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
To register for this event please click here.

To view the film trailer please click here.
The screening of the film will be followed by Q&A discussion with film Director Read Duzdar.
About the Film
59 Minutes, English Subtitles, 2013.
(Lama Brothers) film, is a documentary film produced by Palestine TV and directed by Raed Duzdar. The film talks about the life story of the two brothers, Badr and Ibrahim Lama and their role in establishing the beginnings of Arabic cinema, in which their film ( Kiss in the desert ) is considered the first narrative Arabic film which was screened in the city of Alexandria at the (Cosmograph Cinema) in 1927. In addition to their production of dozens of films, which many of them are considered from the early movies in Arabic cinema

LASS 4th of July on the 3rd
2022-07-03 13:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | East Sammamish Picnic Shelter, 21300 NE 16th Street, Sammamish, WA, 98074, United States
Event by Lebanese American Society of Seattle

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