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(Virtual Class) Level I: Palestinian Aida Cloth Technique, Olive Branch
2020-07-02 16:00 - 17:30 UTC
(Virtual Class) Level I: Palestinian Aida Cloth Technique, Olive Branch

Thursday, July 2, 2020
7:00 PM 8:30 PM

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f6mz4rymRc-voXmHr-JnlA
Learn more about how to prepare for a successful online tatreez class here: https://www.tatreezandtea.com/online-classes

Free Virtual Tatreez Class by Wafa Ghnaim (Tatreez and Tea)
2020-06-30 16:00 - 17:00
Artist, author, and instructor Wafa Ghnaim (@tatreezandtea) will be hosting a free online tatreez class for the Palestine Museum US, focusing on an iteration of the Palestinian flag in the qabbeh chest panel of a First Intifada “flag” dress with nationalist motifs. Wafa has drawn the pattern from the live dress to teach for this class. Prepare for the class by watching the introductory video and purchasing Aida cloth supplies here: tatreezandtea.com/online-classes. Patterns are released 24 hours ahead of class for free, and Wafa will email you when she releases it at tatreezandtea.com/shop.
7pm – 8pm EST (4pm – 5pm PST)
Click here to register for this event.

Yalla Eat! Chef Series: Tariq Nasir presents Maklouba
2020-06-30 14:30 - 16:00
Our weekly Yalla Eat! Instagram Takeover Chef Series features Arab American chefs demonstrating delectable recipes on our Instagram Stories. Tune in on Instagram to join in, and check out previous recipes on our Instagram highlights or here.

5:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Tariq Nasir (Chef Tariq Cooks) presents Maklouba
Ingredients:
Leg of lamb, about 3 pounds
2 cups rice
2 tsp seven spices
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
2 large eggplants
1/4 cup slivered almonds, toasted
1/4 to 1/2 cup olive oil

Tariq Nasir is an Arab American food blogger and founder of ChefTariq.com. He empowers the everyday home cook to bring Middle Eastern cuisine to their table. Growing up as a refugee, Tariq has a passion for bringing people together and has found that the dinner table is the perfect place. With a Palestinian father and American mother, Nasir grew up in both the U.S. and Middle East eating both burgers and mahshi. At the moment he lives in Jordan with his wife Harriet and two dogs, Max and Charlie.

Community Meeting with Bassam Saba
2020-06-29 09:00 - 10:00
Silkroad’s Global Musician Workshop Faculty Artist Bassam Saba will present a solo performance/discussion live on Facebook, providing a general overview of her style/culture/instrument, and sharing her own personal and artistic story. The presentation will also feature live musical selections and an interactive Q&A.
Visit facebook.com/silkroadproject to watch.

Monday, June 29, 2020
12:00 PM 1:00 PM (EST) – 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (PST)

One World Summer Language Camp: Learn Arabic, Chinese or Korean (2020) Copy
2020-06-29 - 2020-07-17 | WA, United States
This language and culture camp focuses on fostering language acquisition, intercultural understanding, and a desire for international travel. During the camp, students will learn basic communicative writing, reading, listening, and speaking skills in classes taught using immersion methodology. The camp will introduce students to practices and perspectives of the Arabic-, Korean- and Chinese-speaking world, as well as the leadership skills that will enable them to become local youth leaders with a global perspective. Students will learn through classroom activities, guest speakers, music, and field trips. The last day of the camp will feature student performances in a culminating showcase for classmates, family, and community members.

For those entering 8th – 12th grade!

More details and an application can be found here: https://oneworldnow.formstack.com/forms/summerprogram2020
Session One

– Dates: June 29th – July 17th
– Courses offered: Chinese 1A, Arabic 1A, and Korean 1A
– Content: the equivalent of a first semester high school class
– This class is right for: students with no background in the language they are studying.

Session Two

– Dates: July 27th – August 14th
– Courses offered: Chinese 1B, Arabic 1B, and Korean 1B
– Content: the equivalent of a second semester high school class.
–This class is right for: Students who completed Level 1A in their language or have equivalent prior knowledge.

AMFI: Arab Film Series - Eccomi ... Eccoti (Here I Am ... Here You Are)
2020-06-28 12:00 - 14:00
Arab Film Series – Eccomi … Eccoti (Here I Am … Here You Are)

Sunday June 28

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (EST)/12:00 PM – 2 PM (PST)

A new series emerging from the Arab Film Festival, the Arab Film Series @ AANM aims to bring a wide range of new & classic films by Arab & Arab American filmmakers to the doorstep of metro Detroit. AANM strives to bring community members together through film, dialogue and activism.
Suggested Donation – $5.00 Any and all donations are extremely appreciated and allow us to continue putting on free programming, like our digital film series. When you register, and are putting your information into the tabs, you will see a donation button.
For any questions, please contact Dave Serio at dserio@accesscommunity.org.

Laugh Comedy Club - standup comedy on the patio
2020-06-27 19:00 - 20:00 | Laughs Comedy Club, 5220 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Laughs Comedy Club presents standup comedy on our patio. Limited outdoor seating. Please visit www.laughscomedyclub.com for more details

Comedians: Adam Tiller, Karla Tofte, Corrina Lee Allen, Aqib Hamid, and John Gardner
Weather permitting and limited seating

Stitch the Motifs of 16 Villages in Historic Palestine!
2020-06-27 11:00 - 16:00, 2020-06-20 11:00 - 14:00, 2020-06-13 11:00 - 13:00
Stitch the Motifs of 16 Villages in Historic Palestine!
“The Village Series” is a set of 12 hands-on Palestinian embroidery classes that combine the traditional motifs of 16 Palestinian villages into a collaged wall-hanging. Wafa designed this project exclusively for Tatreez & Tea students. You can see a preview of the project here.
When: Every Saturday, 2 pm EST beginning June 13, 2020. Classes are recorded for 7 days after the live session.
Where: Zoom information sent after registration is completed.
Registration:

12 Class Pass ($10 discount)
À la cart (please scroll below for class listings)

Classes will always scheduled on Saturdays at 2:00PM EST, but are being released in segments due to the changing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine.
The 16 villages and regions are Galilee, Yaffa, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Ramleh, Khan Younis, Gaza, El-Khalil, Nablus, Lydda, Ramleh, Bethlehem, Beersheeba/Sinai, Esdud, Beit Jibrin

Galilee Region, Amulets (Saturday, June 13, 2020 – 2:00PM EST)
Yaffa Region, Garden Rose (Saturday, June 20, 2020 – 2:00PM EST)
Ramallah Region, Leech (Saturday, June 27, 2020 – 2:00PM EST)
Jerusalem Region, Tile Branch (Sunday, July 5, 2020 – 2:00PM EST)

Movie: 1982 - San Diego Arab Film Festival
2020-06-27 - 2020-06-28
1982 (2019)

In June of 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon, which was already reeling from its ongoing civil war. In his feature debut, director Oualid Mouaness revisits this cataclysmic moment in Lebanese history through a different lens. At a private school on the outskirts of Beirut, as the geopolitical conflict inches closer and closer, 11-year-old Wissam (Mohamad Dalli) is more intent on finding the courage to tell his classmate he loves her. For a dreamer like Wissam, who is more likely to be drawing than playing football, it’s hard to comprehend the gravity of the impending violence. But for his teachers, Yesmine (Nadine Labaki) and Joseph (Rodrigue Sleiman), the jets in the sky signal something greater. As they try to mask their growing fears for the sake of the students, they also attempt to hide the fractures in their relationship, as they fall on different sides of the political divide. Mouaness, who also wrote the script, splits the film between these two perspectives; that of the adults and that of the children, to explore the complexities of love and war. —Toronto International Film Festival
Run Time: 1 hr 40 minutes

A Virtual Literary Panel - 6-26-2020 - Palestine Museum US
2020-06-26 09:00 - 10:00
Leading Palestinian Writers/Poets Read & Discuss their Recent works
Moderated by Dina Omar
Poet: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Novelist: Sahar Mustafah
12:00 PM 1:00 PM EST (9am – 10am PST)
Please click here to register for this event.

Arabs Nightlife (Sahra Arabia)
2020-06-25 20:00 - 21:00
Join our board member Oussama and his friends for Arabs Nightlife (Sahra Arabia). We will have our local artist Marwa singing Fairouz during our live streaming on Facebook.

Arabs in Seattle Meetup
2020-06-24 17:30 - 20:00 | WA, United States
Rotating Monthly Coffee

Hosted by Maryam

5:30 PM to 8 PM

Every 4th Wednesday of the month

Ahlan! This group is for people in Seattle who are Arab, half-Arab, or their great-great-grandmother was 12.5% from somewhere in the region. It’s also a group for you if you’re dating or married to someone from the Middle East, or you just really really love kunafa and want to hang out. Whether you were born and raised in Washington or you’re a fresh expat looking to meet new people, let’s plan some get-togethers. Welcome!
For more info/location click here: https://www.meetup.com/Arabs-in-Seattle

A Conversation with Palestinian Chef Sami Tamimi About His New Book "Falastin"
2020-06-21 09:00 - 10:00
At the occasion of publishing the cookbook “Falastin” co-author Sami Tamimi will discuss the book and the importance of Palestinian cooking.

Jun 21, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Palestine Museum: "Stitching Palestine" Film Screening
2020-06-20 09:00 - 11:00
Screening of the Film “Stitching Palestine”

In commemorating the passage of 72 years since the Nakba, Palestine Museum US presents the film “Stitching Palestine”

Time

Jun 20, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

The Journey of the Others (2019) - San Diego Arab Film Festival
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28
At the Freedom Theater in Jenin refugee camp, the next Palestinian Intifada is brewing. A group of brave theater actors risk their lives every day to fulfill a dream that they are not willing to abandon: to show their play in New York. A group of brave theater actors risk their lives every day to show their play in New York.
Run time: 1 hr 14 minutes

Soumaya - San Diego Film Festival
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28
“Soumaya” is a film by Waheed Khan and Ubaydah Abu-Usayd with support from the Collectif Contre l’Islamophobie en France/ Collective Against Islamophobia in France.
Soumaya is an executive in a transport company. After fourteen years of employment, she learned overnight that she had been dismissed and discovered the reasons for her dismissal on television that same evening. She then decides to exercise a very particular right of reply.
Full length: 1 hr 43 min

Moderately Satisfied (2018) - movie short - San Diego Film Festival
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28
When visiting her terminally ill mother for the first time in months, an estranged daughter finds new answers about her relationship with her bitter mother, while filling out a patient satisfaction survey. For the first time, the two finally meet halfway.
~ 15 minutes

Mirrors of Diaspora (2018) - San Diego Arab Film Festival
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28
Mirrors of Diaspora is a multi-character story of seven Iraqi artists with more than forty years of exile, creativity, alienation, memories, nostalgia, survivals, and war between them.
On the 15th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Mirrors of Diaspora explores themes of exile, creativity, identity and war told through the lives of seven Iraqi artists living outside the country of their birth for close to half a century. The artists featured in this documentary belong to a group known as ‘Iraqi Artists in Exile’.
Filmed over three decades, this ambitious project explores their challenges, failures and successes, both as artists and in their private lives: from the time they graduated from art school in the 1970s, working as street artists in the piazzas of Rome and Florence, to becoming well-known. The central question the film poses is: what are the consequences of spending most of one’s life in exile?
At a time of unprecedented global migration when barely a day passes without a tragic story played out in the international media, Mirrors of Diaspora contributes to greater understanding of one of the defining issues of our time.
~90 minute run time

Karim's Role - Movie Short - San Diego
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28
Karim, an actor fed up with just playing terrorist roles, shares his sorrows with two of his friends – Dani and Bea – while having a drink. Subsequent events will make that conversation especially relevant and put each of them to the test.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
~ 10 minutes

Adam (full length)- San Diego Arab Film Festival 2020
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28
Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually, however, Abla’s resolve softens and Samia’s arrival begins to offer all of them the prospect of a new life.

Trailer

Zahra's Letter - movie short - San Diego Arab Film Festival
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28
Zahra is a Palestinian woman from Syria who like thousands of refugees, has just arrived in Germany. But she has left behind her younger son. Osama lost 35 kg during the war and one day he disappeared from the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, the most emblematic place of the Syrian war, where he lived with his family. Zahra decides to write a letter to her son from Germany: to tell him how she has arrived in Europe with his disabled sister, how the family is, how is their day to day life in the new city…Her letter without address is a desperate love letter.
~15 minutes

The Knight and the Princess (2019) - San Diego Arab Film Festival
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28
Inspired by a true 7th century knight, the story follows the adventures of Mohammed Bin Alkassim with a fictional twist. At the young age of 15, he could not accept the concept of impossible and took it upon himself to save women and children who were abducted by pirates in the Indian sea. This seemingly simple quest would be the first of many experiences that shaped the great leader he would later become. Ready to take on the tyrant king Daher as a more experienced 17-year-old, Mohammed Bin Alkassim once again leaves his hometown Basra, Iraq, with his lifelong friend Zaid, and his mentor, Abu Alaswad, on a mission to free Sind.
During one of his battles, he happened to save a young lady from the land of Sind – Princess Lubnah. It is the love story of “The Knight and The Princess.”
On the behest of his King Daher, a sorcerer attempts to control two funny yet mischievous jinn characters in order to keep Al Kassim off the path of the land of Sind.
The back and forth power struggle escalates into an epic encore of a war with battle-tested elephants, hundreds of horses, and the fight against good and evil.
The story is dramatized with an original score and 5 original songs. The voices of the characters are brought to life by well-known Egyptian actors.
Run time: 1 hr 36 minutes

La Dame E Le Roi - short movie (2019) - San Diego Film Festival 2020
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28
Leila is an 11-year-old girl who lives in France. She returned with her family to spend the summer holidays as every year. Ahmed is Leila’s only friend in Tunisia so she decided to provide him with a visa and take him with her to France.

24 minutes

Homecoming (movie short) - San Diego Film Festival 2020
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28
Mariam Jalloul is the first student accepted to Harvard from Fordson High School; located in Dearborn, Michigan- the city with the most concentrated amount Arabs and Muslims outside of the Middle East. Mariam’s acceptance is historical to the community. This is the story of how Mariam leaves home, navigates her identity, and finds her way back; all while tearing down barriers.

Ambience (movie short)- San Diego Arab Film Festival 2020
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28
Two young Palestinians try to record a demo for a Music Competition inside a noisy crowded refugee camp, while failing recording because of the chaos of the place, they discover an authentic way allow them to meet the deadline creatively.
15 minute run time
Bonus interview with the director Wisam Al-Jafari available on the website.

Queerantine: A throwback to Queer Arab shorts [Online] - NWFF
2020-06-18 - 2020-06-19
Queerantine: A throwback to Queer Arab shorts [Online]
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Thu Jun 18: 6.00pm PDT – Fri Jun 19: 11:59pm PDT
** BLACK LIVES MATTER. In recognition of the importance of the current moment, NWFF is donating ALL PROCEEDS from our June film screenings to organizations that empower the Black community. This particular screening benefits Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network. Learn more about this initiative here: bit.ly/nwffblm or donate directly to NWFF: nwfilmforum.org/donate. **
About
** The annual Seattle Arab Film Festival will be held August 29-30, 2020. Visit the festivals website for more information and follow them on Facebook and Instagram for updates! **
In these times of rage, sorrow, and physical distancing, we know that community is more important than ever. With that in mind, the Seattle Arab Film Festival invites you to join us for a throwback screening of some of our favorite queer Arab shorts in honor of Pride! Join us from your living room to celebrate stories that highlight the diversity, resilience, and talent of queer Arab communities around the world.
Tickets are pay as you can and all proceeds from this event will go to benefit the Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network.
Total duration: 71 minutes
The Program:
BREAKING FAST
(Mike Mosallam, US, 2015, 18 min)
Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan.
I SAY DUST
(Darine Hotait, US, 2015, 15 min)
Two Arab-American women in New York City fall in love, argue home and identity, engage in a chess battle, and express themselves through the power of the spoken word. I Say Dust explores poetry in cinema.
DEARBORN ASH
(Hena Ashraf, US, 2018, 10 min)
Its Ramadan in Dearborn, Michigan. Suffering from acute anxiety, Roshan meets up with a friend, only to find her plans for the night completely disrupted.
THREE CENTIMETERS
(Lara Zeidan, Lebanon & Canada, 2018, 9 min)
Four Lebanese girls go on a ferris wheel ride to make their friend feel better about her breakup. Their conversation drifts to a less fun place.
THE WIG
(Karim Boukhari, Morocco, 2015, 19 min)
A random afternoon, a movie theater lost within the noises of Casablanca. A young man buys a ticket, enters the cinema and dresses as a woman. But nothing goes as planned…

Palestine Museum: "We Cannot Go There Now, My Dear" Film Screening
2020-06-13 09:00 - 11:00
Screening of the Film “We Cannot Go There Now, My Dear”

Description
Film About Palestinian Refugees From Syria

Time

Jun 13, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Virtual Class) Level II: Palestinian Waste Canvas Technique, Small Chest Design - PART ONE
2020-06-13 09:00 - 11:00
Virtual Class) Level II: Palestinian Waste Canvas Technique, Small Chest Design – PART ONE

Saturday, June 13, 2020
12:00 PM 2:00 PM EST

This is a two-part class; the first session shows how to secure and start the medium motif pattern, the second explains how to finish and remove the waste canvas.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PBOXaUxLQuWbE0wjXX-5Aw
Learn more about how to prepare for a successful online tatreez class here: https://www.tatreezandtea.com/online-classes
