ArabishWay

Palestinian Youth Identity Workshop (virtual and in person)
2023-03-02 | WA
This winter/spring 2023: Over the course of 3 workshops (+1 workshop/performance day), participants (ages 10-17) will write monologues about their own lived experiences, thinking about how family, culture, diaspora, art, and other foundational touch points inform and shape their identities. Participants will work in community with other Palestinian youth to rehearse, edit, and present their monologues in a culminating final performance.
The youth will work with a facilitator out of California named Marina Berginstock. While she will engage in conversations about all aspects of identity, the participants are in charge of what they want to write about and what aspect of their own identity they’re most interested in exploring.
for 10-15 participants, ages 10-17 years old

Suggested dates for the 4 workshops:
(1st) Virtual meetup for all – for 2 hours – the weekend of March 2nd
(2nd) Virtual meetup for all – for 2 hours – the weekend of March 30th
(3rd) In-person meetup for participants, virtual for facilitator-Marina for 2-3 hours – the weekend of April 29th
(4th) In person meetup and performance for 4 hours the weekend of May 13th
Please have anyone interested send an email to arabishway at gmail dot com noting your interest or complete this short survey

Potentially in partnership with the Burke Museum

Arabic School: Saturdays in Kent
2023-03-01 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Kent Meridian High School, 10020 SE 256th St, Kent, WA, 98030
Our Arabic School provides those who want to learn Arabic the opportunity to fine-tune their knowledge. Our classes are held weekly at Kent Meridian High School for our kids and youth.
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Program Eligibility Requirements:
– Elementary or middle-school age children
– Living in King County

When: Saturdays
Time: 10-12
Where: Kent Meridian High School (10020 SE 256th St, Kent, WA 98030)

Arab Comfort Food: Arayes with Nadia Tommalieh
2023-02-28 18:00 - 21:30 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
In the chilly months of winter, comfort food is where we turn to warm ourselves, whether for a big weekend gathering or a weeknight family meal. Nadia Tommalieh is the curator of a special kind of Palestinian hospitality, and when you’re seated at her table, you can’t help but forget the cold outside. Join us in class to make kobez arabi (fresh made pita bread) that you’ll use for baked arayes (seasoned ground meat and pomegranate molasses in a crispy pita pockets); laban bil na’na (mint yogurt sauce); mshaat with tatbeeleh (fried cauliflower and herb fritters); and shorabet freekeh bil krema (creamy freekeh, corn, and herb soup).

PCC Cooking Class: Moroccan Dinner
2023-02-28 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC-Columbia City, 3610 S Edmunds St, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
MENU

Handmade Khobz (flat white bread)
Chicken, Apricot and Butternut Squash Tagine with Almonds Herbed Couscous
Tomato and Cucumber Salad

Moroccan cuisine is one of Ben’s favorites, and it may be yours too after making and enjoying this lush, but easy menu. Come explore the vibrant flavors of Morocco in this fun, hands-on class. Learn the uses of North African herbs and spices while making a chicken tagine with apricots and squash and herbed couscous. You’ll craft a yeasted dough for handmade khobz and round out the Moroccan adventure with a refreshing Tomato and Cucumber salad.
With gluten, nuts, and poultry.
About the instructor: Chef Ben Leonard brings together cooks from around the world to bond over cooking fresh, delicious, healthy food (with a good helping of food puns sprinkled on). He believes that our lives are made better through our relationship with food and cooking – making for greater connections with ourselves, loved ones and communities.

Amazing Mediterranean
2023-02-27 16:00 - 17:00 | 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.

Arab board games at Mox Boarding house Cafe
2023-02-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Mox Boarding House – on Leary, 5105 Leary Ave NW, Seattle, WA, 98107, United States
Let’s bring this winter weekend to live in this get together to play boardgames at Mox boarding house cafe. This place is amazing and has street parking available. Best of all it’s free on Sunday.
The Cafe offers hot and cold beverages and light food. They have a 100s of board games to choose from.
Bring your best game and let’s go for it together.

Lebanese Night (in Canada)
2023-02-25 17:30 - 19:00 | Confederation Community Center, 4585 Albert St, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5C 2G6,, Canada
We are excited to announce our first event of the year.
Join us for Lebanese Night!

PCC Cooking Class: Moroccan Dinner
2023-02-24 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC – Bothell, 22621 Bothell Everett Hwy, Bothell, WA, 98021, United States

Growth: Open Mic w/ Hana Saad
2023-02-24 16:00 - 17:30 | WA
7 p.m. ET Friday, Feb. 24, 2023
Growth: Open Mic w/ Hana Saad
In-person at AANM
Free with RSVP | Register for Livestream
Please note: To share work at the Open Mic, you must attend in person. An online livestream is available for non-local residents to tune in as part of the audience only.

Join us for an Open Mic Night, hosted by AANM artist-in-residence Hana Saad! We are creating a space for writers and musicians to continue sharing their work. We invite you to reflect on the theme of Growth – both literally and figuratively. Prepare a three-minute story about your favorite plant, the ways the world has changed you, or a lamentation for the earth. Hana Saad will also share the poetry she’s created while in residency, about the flowers of the Beqaa Valley.

SAMIA - Honey Tour with Tommy Lefroy
2023-02-23 19:30 - 22:00 | The Crocodile, 2505 1st Ave, Seattle, WA, 98033, United States
There’s a line on Honey, the latest album from Nashville-via-NYC songwriter Samia, about Aspen Grove, a collection of 40,000 trees in the plains of North America, all connected by a single expansive root system. There’s no stronger metaphor for the audience the 25-year-old empathy engine has been generating since she began releasing music seven years ago. Her songs, her fans, her friends: one enormous, interconnected ecosystem. Honey, comprised of eleven new moments of catharsis, is by and for that organism. Set for release on January 23rd 2023 via Grand Jury Music, the album was recorded at North Carolina studio Betty’s –- owned and operated by Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sandborn and Amelia Meath. It was produced by Caleb Wright, part of the team that helmed Samia’s breakthrough 2020 debut The Baby, and a founding member of one of Samia’s favorite bands, The Happy Children. It features some of her nearest and dearest friends: Christian Lee Hutson, Briston Maroney, Jake Luppen, Raffaella. Its songs were surreptitiously road tested for her devotees while opening for Lucy Dacus, Courtney Barnett, and more. The end result is what Samia calls simply “a real community record.” “We tried to be as honest as possible and keep the songs as raw as possible,” Samia said. “We talked a lot about zooming out and zooming in, giving a lot of weight to the small moments and considering them as part of a big picture, how they factor into everything else that’s happening in the world.”

PCC Cooking Class: Moroccan Dinner
2023-02-22 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC-Bellevue, 11615 NE 4th St, Bellevue, WA, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States

Arab Film Series Online: Time for Ilhan
2023-02-22 - 2023-02-25 | Virtual
Ilhan Omar, a young, hijab-wearing mother of three, takes on two formidable opponents in a highly contested race for a seat in the Minnesota State Legislature. Up against a 43-year incumbent, Ilhan is the “outsider” – a Muslim, refugee, woman of color seeks to challenge the party’s status quo while simultaneously defying lingering gender norms within her own Muslim community.
TIME FOR ILHAN shadows Ilhan and her scrappy group of dedicated campaign staffers throughout the entire campaign’s dramatic uphill battle. A fresh and timely take on theclassic American Dream, the film offers an inspiring, stereotype-busting portrait of one of America’s brightest new political stars, at the start of her meteoric ascent from political newcomer to becoming one of the first Muslim Women in the U.S. Congress. Her story, part of a larger, unprecedented wave of growing diversity in elected office around the country offers a powerful and transformative reminder of the reflective, representative democracy that is truly possible.

Palestinian Classics: Maqlouba and Knafeh
2023-02-21 18:00 - 21:00, 2023-02-20 18:00 - 20:00 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Join Nadia Tommalieh as she dives into the most famous classical Palestinain family-style dishes and the memories, stories, and traditions behind them. You will learn the art of layering and flipping the perfect maqlouba , a world-renowned showstopper of upside-down chicken with roasted eggplant, cauliflower, rice, and fried nuts). You’ll enjoy it with salatet khodar w t’heeniyeh (tomato, herb, and tahini salad); qalayet bandora (spicy tomato, garlic and herb stir fry); and finish the meal with freshly made knafeh nabulsiya (shredded fine angel hair dough stuffed with sweet cheese and sweetened with orange water syrup and topped with crushed pistachio.

Arabs friend’s Valentines 💖
2023-02-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Chocolati Café, 8319 Greenwood Ave, Seattle, 98103, United States
Come enjoy hot chocolate and with friends this Valentine’s Day. Couples are welcome if you want to spend the evening with friends 🤗

PCC Cooking Class: Moroccan Dinner
2023-02-17 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC- Burien, 15840 1st Ave S, Burien, WA, 98148, United States

Arabic Chat Hour
2023-02-16 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-09 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.

PCC Cooking Class: Moroccan Dinner
2023-02-16 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC-Edmonds, 9803 Edmonds Way, Edmonds, WA, 98020, United States

“When We Were Arabs – Memory, Erasure and Cultural Connections” Workshop
2023-02-16 15:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
Diverse expressions of historical memory persist and gain meaning despite nationalist projects to minimize diversity in pursuit of an imaginary homogeneity that in truth exists practically nowhere in the world. The fact that such attempts at erasure are responsible not only for cultural amnesia, but for denial of common cultural experiences that would foster acceptance instead of rejection. This workshop will place two works of historical memory into conversation. Coincidentally, two authors representing two culturally related but geographically distant societies gave their books the same title: When We Were Arabs to invoke that claim of identity (Cuando Fuimos Arabe). They are Emilio González Ferrín, University of Seville, and journalist Massoud Hayoun based in Los Angeles. This conversation, moderated by educator Dr. Rabiah Khalil, will explore the persistence of memory and affirm the value of recognizing shared roots and accepting the richness of our diversity.
This program is sponsored by Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, the Arab American National Museum and Montgomery College Office of Advancement and Community Engagement
This program is made possible by a Title VI grant from the United States Department of Education, which is funding a National Resource Center on the Middle East at Georgetown University, and by support from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown and the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.
For more questions, e-mail Dave Serio at DSerio@accesscommunity.org

CFFS 2023 – The Young Rebels (Ages 8+) [Hybrid]
2023-02-11 16:30 - 18:00 | WA
Series of film shorts including:
The Colours of Humanity
North American premiere!

This short explores how immigration can be an overwhelming experience, but through the power of acceptance, can transform into a culturally rich experience for everyone. No matter what filters the world applies to us, we are all human.
(Zainab Sarwar, United Arab Emirates, 2022, 2 min, in English)

Also available to stream at your convenience at home!

CFFS 2023 – Hopeful Harmonies (Ages 8+) [Hybrid]
2023-02-11 14:00 - 15:30, 2023-02-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Series of short films. Includes one from the Arab world:
Two in-person showings and available to stream virtually (on your own schedule)

Wall Piano (بيانو الجدار)

PNW premiere!
Part music video, part magical realism, Wall Piano shows a wall as something more than just a barrier for a group of children living near the Qalandia checkpoint in Ramallah, Palestine, a frontline of the West Bank conflict.
(Asma Ghanem, Christopher Marianetti &Alexia Webster, Palestine, 2020, 3 min, nonverbal)

Virtual screening of the film "A Handful of Earth," directed by Sahera Dirbas.
2023-02-11 09:00 - 11:30 | WA
Saturday 2/11
Virtual screening of the film “A Handful of Earth,” directed by Sahera Dirbas.
The film examines the role played by oral histories in maintaining the bond between Palestinian refugees and the homes from which they were driven in 1948. Taking its title from the handfuls of earth many still keep from their original villages, the film focuses on refugees from the Tirat Haifa area.
Please click here for more information, film trailer and to register for viewing the film.

PCC Cooking Class: Moroccan Dinner
2023-02-10 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC-Issaquah, 1810 12th Ave NW, Issaquah, WA, 98027, United States

PCC Cooking Class: Moroccan Dinner
2023-02-08 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC-Green Lake Village, 450 NE 71st St., Seattle, WA, 98115, United States

Philanthropist Teresa Chahine [afikra Conversations]
2023-02-07 01:00 - 03:00 | Virtual
Teresa is the inaugural Sheila and Ron ’92 Marcelo Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management. She is the author of “Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship,” a twelve step framework for building impactful ventures in new and existing organizations. Dr. Chahine’s research focuses on developing tools to characterize and advance social and environmental determinants of health. She launched the first social entrepreneurship program in the context of public health, at Harvard University. She was also responsible for launching the first venture philanthropy organization in her home country of Lebanon, providing tailored financing and critical management support to social enterprises serving marginalized populations through education and job creation for youth and women.

Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Objector"
2023-02-05 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
About the Film
Like all Israeli youth, Atalya is expected to become a soldier. Unlike most, she questions the practices of her country’s military, and becomes determined to challenge this rite of passage. Despite her family’s political disagreements and personal concerns, she refuses military duty and is imprisoned for her dissent. Her courage moves those around her to reconsider their own political positions and power to effect change. Objector follows Atalya to prison and beyond, offering a unique perspective of a young woman who seeks truth and takes a stand for justice.

Settler Colonialism from Turtle Island to Palestine: Teaching in an Ethnic Studies Framework
2023-02-04 09:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Settler Colonialism from Turtle Island to Palestine: Teaching in an Ethnic Studies Framework
Saturday, February 4
9 am–12 pm PST/noon-4 pm EST
We’re honored to be collaborating on this virtual workshop with XITO (Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing). Rooted firmly in the decolonial framework of Tiahui, we’ll build knowledge and pedagogy for connecting Indigenous histories of Turtle Island and current struggles in the US to Palestinian history and resistance. You’ll leave with deeper knowledge, inspiration, and resources!

Register for this free workshop at bit.ly/xito-meca

Arab Hookah night
2023-02-03 20:00 - 23:00 | The Eye Hookah Lounge, 8074 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, United States
Let’s meet for hookah in our favorite hookah hangout place
