ArabishWay

Arabic Storytime at Lake City Public Library
2019-11-06 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | Lake City – Seattle Public Library, 12501 28th Ave. N.E., Seattle, Washington, 98125, United States
Arabic stories, music, cultural events and fun!

Yemen Blues Plays Hallel at the Triple Door
2019-11-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Triple Door, 216 Union Street, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States
Yemen Blues Plays Hallel at the Triple Door
Yemenite Jewish and ancient Arabic sounds swirl with danceable Afro-funk in singer/composer Ravid Kahalani’s utterly distinctive band. An intense, multinational blend of Yemenite, West African, and jazz influences. Joining Kahalani (lead Vocal & gimbri) are Rony Iwryn (percussion), Shanir Blumenkranz (bass & oud), Nikki Glaspie (drums), Salit Lahav (flute & sax), Navid Kandelousi (violin & kamancheh), Yoed Nir (cello), Yonatan Voltzok (trombone), and Asa Kook (trumpet).

Read more about Ravid’s family and life here: https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/63533/blues-and-roots

Community Reads: Freedom is a Constant Struggle, by Angela Davis
2019-11-05 15:30 - 17:00 | University of Washington (Bothell) – Library, 18225 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA, 98011, United States
Community Reads: Freedom is a Constant Struggle, by Angela Davis
Community Reads: Freedom is a Constant Struggle, by Angela Davis.
“In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.
Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today’s struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today’s struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine.
Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that ‘Freedom is a constant struggle.’” (-book jacket)
We invite everyone on our shared campus to join in this academic year as we read Angela Davis’ book, Freedom is a Constant Struggle. Each quarter we’ll focus on different chapters and offer related materials to explore from a variety of disciplines and artistic forms of expression (poetry, art, fiction, film, etc.) based on themes.
UW Bothell LB1 – Library, LB1-205
Event Sponsors: UWB/CC Campus Library

Arabic Lessons - UW Tacoma
2019-11-05 10:10, 2019-10-29 10:10 | UW-Tacoma (Birmingham-Hay and Seed), 1740 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, WA, 98402, United States
Learn Arabic in an informal setting and for free with student Maryam Al Darraji. Lessons on Monday and Tuesday of each week will cover the same material.
This program is generously supported by UW Tacoma’s Strategic Initiative Fund.
CAMPUS LOCATION: UW Tacoma Birmingham Hay and Seed (BHS) RM 107
EVENT SPONSORS: Office of Global Affairs

Arabic Lessons - UW Tacoma
2019-11-04 12:30 - 13:15, 2019-10-28 12:30 - 13:15 | UW-Tacoma (Birmingham Block), 1746-48 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA, 98402, United States
Learn Arabic in an informal setting and for free with student Maryam Al Darraji. Lessons on Monday and Tuesday of each week will cover the same material.
This program is generously supported by UW Tacoma’s Strategic Initiative Fund.
CAMPUS LOCATION: UW Tacoma Birmingham Block (BB) RM 107
EVENT SPONSORS: Office of Global Affairs

Wakhtiyo Sheeko Oo Soomali Ah (Somali Story Time)
2019-11-02 16:00 - 16:30, 2019-10-26 16:00 - 16:30 | Lake City – Seattle Public Library, 12501 28th Ave. N.E., Seattle, Washington, 98125, United States
It is Somali Story Time at the Seattle Public Library – Lake City Branch! Bring your children to enjoy stories, rhymes and fun in Somali.

This event repeats weekly!

Wakhtiyo Sheeko Oo Soomali Ah (Somali Story Time)
2019-11-02 15:00 - 16:00, 2019-10-26 15:00 - 16:00 | Seattle Public Library – Rainier Beach, 9125 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
It is Somali Story Time at the Seattle Public Library – Rainier Branch! Bring your children to enjoy stories, rhymes and fun in Somali.

This event repeats weekly!

Taste of Mediterranean (Morocco) - at Sur La Table
2019-11-02 13:00 - 15:30 | Sur La Table – Kirkland, 90 Central Way, Kirkland, WA, 98033, United States
Menu

Moroccan Spiced Seared Scallops with Roasted Garlic Aioli
Carrot Salad with Cumin Seed and Feta
Couscous with Mint, Lemon and Toasted Almonds
Pistachio and Phyllo Bites with Apricot Syrup

What You Will Learn
Menu: Moroccan Spiced Seared Scallops with Roasted Garlic Aioli – Carrot Salad with Cumin Seed and Feta – Couscous with Mint, Lemon and Toasted Almonds – Pistachio and Phyllo Bites with Apricot Syrup
Class Description: Join us for a colorful and crave-worthy class where we will learn how to practice searing Moroccan-spiced scallops, create a flavor packed carrot salad, cook couscous highlighted with fresh mint, lemon, and toasted almonds. Take this class, and you’ll be coming home with a taste of the Mediterranean.

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 16 students
You will be standing, cooking and working for most of the class
Please wear comfortable, closed-toe shoes and have long hair tied back
You will enjoy a generous taste of every dish
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.

Lebanese-American Actress Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus at Central Cinema
2019-10-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-10-30 16:15 - 18:15, 2019-10-29 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-10-29 16:15 - 18:15, 2019-10-28 16:15 - 18:15, 2019-10-27 13:30 - 15:30, 2019-10-26 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-10-26 13:30 - 15:00 and 2 more dates | 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

Wakhtiyo Sheeko Oo Soomali Ah (Somali Story Time)
2019-10-29 18:00 - 18:30 | Seattle Public Library – New Holly Branch, 7058 32nd Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
It is Somali Story Time at the Seattle Public Library – NewHolly Branch! Bring your children to enjoy stories, rhymes and fun in Somali.

This event repeats weekly!

World Language Story Time King County Library - Arabic
2019-10-28 11:00 - 11:30 | King County Library System – Redmond, 15990 NE 85th Street Redmond WA 98052, Redmond, WA, 98032, United States
World Language Story Times
Family program, all ages welcome.
Come for an interactive Story Time in Arabic that includes Early Literacy fun with books, songs and finger plays. Speakers of all languages welcome.
This event repeats every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Redmond Library.

Arabic Story Time/أوقات قراءة القصة العربية

Monday, November 25, 2019 (11:00AM-11:30AM)

Monday, December 9, 2019 (11:00AM-11:30AM)
Monday, December 23, 2019 (11:00AM-11:30AM)

Arabs in Seattle Meetup
2019-10-27 17:00 - 18:30
Rotating Monthly Coffee

Hosted by Maryam

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

5:00 PM to 6:30 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/events/pnbrwpyzlblc/

Call When You Have a Minute: A Reading and Celebration with Billie Swift and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
2019-10-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Open Books, 108 Cherry Street, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
Call When You Have a Minute: A Reading and Celebration
with Billie Swift and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Please join Billie Swift and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha as they celebrate their new chapbooks—Everything Here and Letters from the Interior—and the poetry, conversations, and communities that sustain their work.
Billie Swift lives in Seattle, Washington, where she is the owner and operator of Open Books: A Poem Emporium. She received an MFA in poetry from the Rainer Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha has lived the experiences of first-generation American, immigrant, and expatriate. Her heritage is Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian and she is fluent in Arabic and English, and has academic proficiency in French. She has lived in and traveled across the Arab world, and many of her poems are inspired by the experience of crossing cultural, geographic and political borders, borders between languages, between the present and the living past.

Palestinian Movie Night Event - PACC
2019-10-26 17:30 - 20:30 | Spartan Community Center, 202 NE 185th Street, Shoreline, WA, 98155, United States
The Palestinian Community Center of WA is hosting its 1st Palestinian movie night event.
This event will include a community potluck dinner and also activities for children.
Event Details:
They invite you to join us to support our new Community Center and the work we are doing to enhance and strengthen the social ties within our Palestinian community of WA.
This event is free & open to all our community members and their friends as well.
Please join us and bring your favorite Palestinian dish to share!
Amin Odeh
Palestinian American Community Center of WA.
PACC-WA

Devilwood, New Rose, Velveteen Rabbit and Intisaar at LoFi
2019-10-25 21:00 - 2019-10-26 01:00 | LoFi, 429 Eastlake Ave E, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
Devilwood, New Rose, Velveteen Rabbit + Intisaar
Devilwood
Devilwood
New Rose – Tribute to The Damned
Velveteen Rabbit (Velvet Underground Tribute)
Intisaar: www.intisaar.bandcamp.com
$10

Poet Salon Podcast - Lit Crawl 2019
2019-10-24 18:00 - 18:45 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
The Poet Salon is a podcast where poets talk over drinks. In each episode, co-hosts Gabrielle Bates, Luther Hughes, and Dujie Tahat answer a question from the audience and then interview a poet they love about some of the issues, challenges, and delights of being a poet today. Recent guests include Hanif Abdurraqib, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Ross Gay, and Danez Smith. Who will grace Lit Crawl? Find out! Connect on Facebook >

Dujie Tahat is a Filipino-Jordanian immigrant living in Washington state. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Nashville Review, The Southeast Review, Shenandoah, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. Dujie has earned fellowships from the Richard Hugo House and Jack Straw Writing Program. He serves as a poetry editor for Moss and Homology Lit and cohosts The Poet Salon podcast. He got his start as a Seattle Poetry Slam Finalist, a collegiate grand slam champion, and Seattle Youth Speaks Grand Slam Champion, representing Seattle at HBO’s Brave New Voices.

Lecture: Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya
2019-10-24 12:30 - 14:00 | University of Washington – Thomson Hall, 1911 Skagit Lane, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Lecture: Matthew Ellis
“Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya”
Presenter: Matthew Ellis, Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Chair in International Affairs and Middle East Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. He is a historian specializing in the social, intellectual, and cultural history of the modern Middle East and North Africa.
In this talk—based on his recent book, Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya (Stanford, 2018)—Matthew Ellis adopts a different approach to national territoriality, arguing that Egypt and Libya emerged steadily as modern territorial nation-states in the decades before World War I despite the lack of official maps defining their borders. By reconstructing the multiple layers and meanings of territoriality in this desert borderland, Ellis suggests that national territoriality was not simply imposed on Egypt’s western—or Ottoman Libya’s eastern—domains by centralizing state power, but rather emerged only through a complex and multilayered process of negotiation with a range of local actors motivated by their own conceptions of space, sovereignty, and political belonging.
UW – Thompson Hall – Room 317
Event Sponsors: Middle East Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Part of the 2019-20 “Voices in Middle East Studies.” Contact: mecuw@uw.edu
