Arabic Chat Hour
2021-08-19 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-08-26 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-02 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Whether you’re a native speaker or learner, this is a great chance practice listening and speaking in Arabic!
Repeats every Thursday!

STORYTELLING THROUGH SPORTS
2021-08-21 10:00 - 11:00 | WA
Saturday, August 21st from 1 pm to 2 pm
The panel will feature three different Palestinian sportswomen and men who will share their stories around the importance of sports in their life. They will speak to how they are navigating everyday life under occupation to excel and create sport opportunities for themselves and their local community.
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Streetfoods of the World: Whisk Cooking Class
2021-08-27 18:00 - 20:30 | WA
Streetfoods of the World

Want to expand your culinary passport? Are you looking for a new dish to spice up your repertoire? Do you dream of tasty treats on foreign streets, but haven’t been able to get away? If the answer is yes, this class is for you! Join Chef Drew Flanders in this hands-on class where you will prepare simple but flavor-packed dishes inspired by foods sold in the markets, festivals, and by street vendors from around the world. From Morocco to Japan, Mexico to Senegal, in this class you will prepare and enjoy a variety of flavors and textures from the simple perfection of the taco, the warm comfort of “Japanese pizza”, to the glory of two different types of grilled-meat-on-a-stick!
Make, eat amd enjoy from
**Morocco – Chermoula Chicken**
Mexico – Alambres- Steak and Bacon Tacos with Salsa Verde
West Africa – Spicey Peanut-Dusted Beef Skewers
Japan – Okanomiyaki – Seafood Pancakes

Participants will have the option of enjoying a wine or beer as street food is always best with a beverage!

Arab Film Series Online: The Lebanese Rocket Society
2021-08-28 - 2021-08-29 | WA
Arab Film Series Online: The Lebanese Rocket Society
Film available 12 a.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 28 to 11:59 p.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 29
Free with RSVP
In partnership with ArteEast and AFMI, AANM’s Arab Film Series Online this month presents the feature-length documentary Lebanese Rocket Society directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, which unravels the strange tale of the Lebanese space adventure forgotten from personal and collective memory. The film will be accompanied by a discussion with the artists. MORE INFO

Academic Freedom in Palestine: A Conversation with Imad Barghouthi
2021-08-28 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
Please join Scientists for Palestine, in conversation with Imad Barghouthi, renowned Palestinian astrophysicist, father of five and Professor of Plasma Physics at Al Quds university (West Bank).
After already spending many weeks in administrative detention, he was eventually charged on the basis of his Facebook posts. Prof. Barghouthi then spent the next several months in administrative detention, away from his students and family, awaiting trial.Prof. Imad Barghouthi was recently released after nearly a year of administrative detention. After his arrest on July 22nd 2020, he was held in jail for several weeks without charges.
Prof. Barghouthi’s arrest came at great cost to him personally, and academically. Happening mere weeks before the semester started, many students were left without a teacher and/or mentor.
Scientists for Palestine’s international campaign demanding Prof. Barghouthi’s release was joined by thousands of scholars worldwide, including Nobel laureates and Fields medalists.
We now have the privilege of hosting Prof. Barghouthi’s first interview after his finally being freed. Join us to hear first hand about what it is like to be a professor in Palestine, the infringements of the Israeli occupation on academic freedom and the enduring determination of Palestinian academics to overcome them.
More information here →

Discussion/Q&A on Palestinian human rights and resistance, moderated by Free Palestine HFX
2021-08-28 16:00 - 17:00 | WA
Join us for a discussion/Q&A on Palestinian human rights and resistance, moderated by Free Palestine HFX this Saturday @ 7PM (AST).

Please register before the event via Zoom with the link provided in our bio.

This phenomenal lineup of speakers pictured up above will be joining us!

1) Miko Peled: author of the General’s Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine and Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation. He is a long time advocate for justice in Palestine, and has spoken around the world about the detrimental effects that have resulted from Zionism.

2) Dimitri Lascaris: a lawyer, activist and journalist living in Montreal, Quebec. Dimitri is a long time Palestinian rights activist, and in 2020, he ran for the Green Party of Canada.

3) Mohamad El Attar: an accountant, activist, and Youtuber by the name of That Muslim Guy. He is a Palestinian Canadian, and spends most of his time after work making comedy and educational videos about Islam, politics, and Palestine.

4) Judy Haiven: a member of Independent Jewish Voices and a writer and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Judy is the founder of Equity Watch, a human rights organization dedicated to fighting bullying and discrimination in the workplace.

Virtual Book Event - Conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her book "Where the Streets Had a Name"
2021-08-29 09:00 - 10:30 | WA
Please click here to register for this event.

All times are based on US EDT – 12 Noon, 7:00 PM in Palestine.
Join us for a conversation with Palestinian-Egyptian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah about her book “Where the Streets Had a Name.” She will also read selected passages from the book.

English-Arabic Storytime
2021-08-30 10:00 - 10:30 | WA
English-Arabic Storytime Online: We March
1 p.m. EDT Monday, August 30
Join us for an English-Arabic Storytime from the comfort of your home! Children ages 2-6 and their parents are invited to tune in as resident storyteller Sari Mira reads the book We March in both English and Arabic. MORE INFO

Arab Film Series Online: Eleven Reflections on September
2021-09-09 - 2021-09-16 | WA
Film available Thursday, Sept. 9 – Thursday, Sept. 16
Online Stream – Register for Free
Join the Arab Film Series Online for a special program Eleven Reflections on September by Andrea Assaf: A poetry, music, movement and digital media exploration of Arab American experience, Wars on/of Terror, and “the constant, quiet rain of death amidst beauty” that each autumn brings in a post-9/11 world. The program will be accompanied by a discussion with the artist Andrea Assaf as well as Lubana Al Qantar, moderated by Leila Buck, available Sept. 13-16.
Based on a series of poems Andrea Assaf has written since 2001, Eleven Reflections spans the fall of the Twin Towers, the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the global rise of anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia, and the revolutions and uprisings that have swept through the Arab world in the last decade. Aesthetically, the poems explore the disintegration of language in the face of violence, prejudice, and unspeakable horror, as they progress from lyrical to abstract and broken.
The annual witnessing of autumn leaves becomes a metaphor for the fallen…as we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11, this ever-evolving tour de force finds new relevance and urgency. As an experimental work that lives at the intersection of live performance and digital media, Eleven Reflections on September is beautiful, haunting, and truly genre-shattering.
104 minutes / 2021 / United States / Experimental / English and Arabic with English subtitles
Presented in partnership with Arab Film and Media Institute and ArteEast
MORE INFO + RSVP

Virtual Arabic: Meetup
2021-09-09 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-16 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-23 19:00 - 20:00 | WA
Whether you’re a native speaker or learner, this is a great chance to practice listening and speaking in Arabic!

Virtual screening of the documentary film "The Bitter Peace," directed by Rawan Damen
2021-09-11 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
The film screening will be followed by a Q&A discussion with the film director.
About the Film
This is a two part film documenting the events that led to the signing of peace accords between Egypt and Israel, as well as, Jordan and Israel. The film delves into the role played by the US in reaching agreements between the parties.

Saturday, September 11, 2021
12:00 PM 2:00 PM

Click here to register for this event.

ARCE Chicago: The Egyptian Game of Senet, from the New Kingdom to Roman Time: Funerary Destiny, Astronomy, and Medicine
2021-09-11 10:00 - 11:00 | WA
Lecture Information:
The game of senet is one of the most famous board games of Egyptian Antiquity. Attested from the 4th millennium BC, it is characterized by its thirty squares. It was played by 2 players, each one having 5 to 7 playing pieces, whose progress obviously depends on fate—by the throwing of sticks or a pair of knucklebones—but also on strategy. This talk will re-evaluate the role usually attributed to senet in the funerary sphere in the New Kingdom, and will discuss the evolution of the game during the first millennium, when it seems more related to astronomical practices, calculating time, and perhaps, medicine for the eyes.

(Please double check that I have the time right when you register!)

Musicians For Harmony: 20th Anniversary “Concert for Peace”
2021-09-11 16:00 - 17:00 | WA
Musicians For Harmony returns to Merkin Hall to celebrate its 20th Anniversary with an online and in-person concert. This special event aims to elevate musical voices in the service of peace, health and equity to commemorate the victims of 9/11, Covid-19 and social injustice. The concert will feature performances by the Juilliard String Quartet, Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh with his CityBand, ETHEL and Musique Sans Frontières.

Virtual Book Launch - "A Taste of Gaza," A Cookbook by Lima Shawa
2021-09-12 09:00 - 10:30 | WA
Please click here to register for this event.
All times are based on US EDT – 12 Noon = 7:00 PM in Palestine.
The book is Available for Pre-Order here from Palestine Museum US Bookshop

Join us for a conversation with Palestinian Gazan author, Lima Shaw, talking about her newly published book. Lima will do a live cooking demonstration of the famous Gaza dish “Fatteh Ghazawyeh فته غزاوية.”
Food and Traditions from Home
Lima Shawa celebrates Gazan traditions and cuisine in her new book – A Taste of Gaza.

“Before starting to write about food and traditions of Gaza, my home, I had a mixture of feelings: happiness, nostalgia, and laughter; yet also deep sadness. As I began, memories flooded back: events, family, neighbors, friends, and the wonderful smell of home.“
The book opens with the celebrations, feasts and different seasons in Gaza. Lima Shawa shares Palestinian traditions and recipes full of fragrance, flavors and richness from her beloved Gaza.
*Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2021
Lima Shawa was born in Gaza and now lives in Amman. She has three children.

Arte East: Reconstructing Histories
2021-09-16 - 2021-09-19 | WA
ArteEast is pleased to announce our new Unpacking the ArteArchive program:
RECONSTRUCTING HISTORIES examines the role of the documentary in representing the Lebanese Civil War (1975–90) through the experimental works of three important Lebanese post-war artists/filmmakers: Walid Raad, Jayce Salloum, and Mohamad Soueid.
Online Screening: Sept 16-19
This program is available for audiences worldwide.
FREE WITH RSVP / suggested donation $5: artearchive.org

RECONSTRUCTING HISTORIES is curated by ArteEast’s film curator Ginou Choueiri and presented as part of the legacy program Unpacking the ArteArchive, preserving and presenting over 17 years of film and video programming by ArteEast.

RSVP FOR RECONSTRUCTING HISTORIES

Arabic Language and Story Time for Young Children w/ Laila Taji from ArabishWay at MPP
2021-09-16 10:00 - 11:00 | 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

Virtual silent art auction in support of InHisSteps Pathways of Peace - Breast Cancer Patient Navigation Program in Palestine
2021-09-17 - 2021-09-19 | WA
The Palestine Museum US is co-sponsoring a virtual silent art auction in support of
InHisSteps Pathways of Peace – Breast Cancer Patient Navigation Program in Palestine.
The virtual auction organized by the Museum is now open and accepting bids and can be accessed here. The auction will close on Sunday September 19th at 7:00 PM US EDT. Proceeds from the auction (amounts above the estimated value of the art plus auction costs) will go to support the breast cancer program in Palestine and benefit the Palestinian artists whose works are being auctioned as well as the Museum.

Virtual screening of the documentary film "Lost Cities of Palestine" directed by Ramez Kazmouz
2021-09-18 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
Click here to register for this event.
About the Film
An extraordinary insight into Palestinian life in the city before 1948, revealing the loss of a culture and lifestyle.
The film, directed by Ramez Kazmouz, is 49 minutes.
Rarely seen archival footage accompanies memories and accounts of forgotten Palestinian cities and the catastrophic effect the creation of Israel in 1948 had on them.
Haifa, Nazareth, and Jaffa have all been overshadowed by Tel Aviv, but in their day each of the Palestinian cities had magnificent commercial and cultural ability.
Made for Al Jazeera in 2011, “Lost cities of Palestine” provides a rare opportunity to see Palestine as it was in the 30s and 40s and learn about the everyday life and culture of urban Palestine before 1948.

ARCE PA: Reconstructing Egypt's East Frontier Defense Network in the New Kingdom
2021-09-18 12:30 - 14:00 | WA
About Lecture:
Excavations in North Sinai beginning in the 1980s and the work at Tell el-Borg from 1999-2008 has uncovered a series of forts that were on the “Ways of Horus” and served as part of the defensive network of Egypt’s east frontier in the New Kingdom. Geological work has revealed the paleo-environment and ancient landscape that influenced the arrangement of the defensive system. Thanks to the new data, new maps can be drawn to reveal how the east frontier defense network operated throughout the New Kingdom and how it thwarted the Sea Peoples invasion in Ramesses III’s reign.

Streetfoods of the World: Whisk Cooking Class
2021-09-19 17:00 - 19:30 | WA
Streetfoods of the World

Want to expand your culinary passport? Are you looking for a new dish to spice up your repertoire? Do you dream of tasty treats on foreign streets, but haven’t been able to get away? If the answer is yes, this class is for you! Join Chef Drew Flanders in this hands-on class where you will prepare simple but flavor-packed dishes inspired by foods sold in the markets, festivals, and by street vendors from around the world. From Morocco to Japan, Mexico to Senegal, in this class you will prepare and enjoy a variety of flavors and textures from the simple perfection of the taco, the warm comfort of “Japanese pizza”, to the glory of two different types of grilled-meat-on-a-stick!

Make, eat amd enjoy from
Morocco – Chermoula Chicken
Mexico – Alambres- Steak and Bacon Tacos with Salsa Verde
West Africa – Spicey Peanut-Dusted Beef Skewers
Japan – Okanomiyaki – Seafood Pancakes

Participants will have the option of enjoying a wine or beer as street food is always best with a beverage!

JAM3A: A Virtual Music Festival
2021-09-23 - 2021-09-26 | WA
JAM3A: A Virtual Music Festival
Thursday, Sept. 23 – Sunday, Sept. 26
AANM is excited to announce the lineup for JAM3A, a 4-day virtual music festival celebrating Arab art, talent and identity. The lineup includes audience favorites as well as names new to the AANM (virtual) stage.
Performing at JAM3A will be:

47SOUL
Alsarah & The Nubatones
Emel
Hello Psychaleppo
Medusa TN
Oddisee
Ramy Essam
REMOooOTE: Detroit-Palestine (A Poetic Societies production)

Originally planned as an in-person festival, JAM3A (Arabic for “gathering”) has moved to a virtual platform to maintain the safety of audience members during COVID-19, while also increasing accessibility to the amazing Arab artists presented as many of them are internationally based and unable to travel at this time.
Entirely free, the festival will be livestreamed across various platforms on September 23-26, 2021. In addition to musical performances, the festival will include artist talkbacks and workshops, featuring the musical and artistic talent of the Arab and Arab American community.
This event is presented in partnership with Arab.AMP, East Downtown Dearborn Development Authority, UMS and YallaPunk.

The Moroccan Kitchen - Whisk Cooking Class
2021-09-23 18:00 - 20:30 | WA
In this class you’ll be swept off to another continent to experience the exotic spices and fresh herbs of classic North African cuisine. This authentic Moroccan menu highlights traditional ingredients that are easy to find here. In this hands-on class, you’ll learn about using preserved lemons, couscous, saffron and fenugreek in the savory dishes and ground almonds, honey and orange blossom water in dessert. Make a fork-tender chicken dish baked in traditional earthenware dish called a tagine. Chef Barbara Sowatsky will show you that spiced doesn’t have to mean spicy as she takes you step by step through this flavor-layered menu.
You will make:
Tagine-Baked Chicken with Meyer Lemons and Olives
Couscous with Saffron & Mint and Basil
Cucumber and Tomato Chopped Salad
Sweet Almond-Stuffed Dates

Mdou Moctar at the Crocodile
2021-09-24 18:00 - 20:00 | The Crocodile, 2505 1st Ave, Seattle, WA, 98033, United States
Mdou Moctar immediately stands out as one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Saharan music. His unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar and have pushed him to the forefront of a crowded scene. Back home, he’s celebrated for his original compositions and verbose poetry, an original creator in a genre defined by cover bands. In the exterior, where Saharan rock has become one of the continents biggest musical exports, he’s earned a name for himself with his guitar moves. Mdou shreds with a relentless and frenetic energy that puts his contemporaries to shame.

Virtual: Building for Hope with Marwa al-Sabouni
2021-09-25 10:00 - 12:00 | WA
We can’t begin to say how delighted, how grateful, how honored we are to finally be able to present a program with author, thinker, architect, Marwa al-Sabouni. If all goes well (In sh’Allah), she will be joining us at this special hour, virtually and ‘live’ from her home in Homs, Syria to discuss her extraordinary new book, Building for Hope: Towards an Architecture of Belonging (Thames & Hudson). Building for Hope comes five years after Marwa al-Sabouni’s first book, The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria, introduced the larger world to a writer uniquely adept at using words to convey ideas from books, book-study, life being fully lived (and wars survived) and from the physical spaces of buildings, streets, land-use patterns that do so much to shape how we live as individuals and as communities and countries.

“Ambitious… Building for Hope is expansive, abstract, and at times extraordinarily idealistic… Al-Sabouni argues that architecture is a necessary agent for any kind of peace, any possibility of belonging in our modern, extremely polarized world… It’s especially enlightening to read about Western cities through the lens of an architect specialized in Islamic traditions… Building for Hope is dense and daring. Readers will finish with a list of people and places to investigate, as well as with a firm belief that a better future lies in valuing community over ostentation, coherence and decency over luxury, truly livable cities over places designed purely for profit.” – World-Architects.com.
“A gifted writer and illustrator, al-Sabouni’s visionary ideas will inspire architects, designers and urban planners across the world.” – Shahina Piyarali , Shelf Awareness.
Yes, the illustrations, that language, too. This is one not to be missed.
Saturday, September 25, 2021 – 10:00am

P&P Live! Rabih Alameddie —The Wrong End of the Telescope - in conversation with Aminatta Forna
2021-09-26 14:00 - 16:00 | WA
Sunday, September 26, 2021 – 5 p.m.

This event will stream online as a part of P&P Live! Series
Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp’s children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya’s secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants’ displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them.
Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina’s singular own,The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis.
Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels The Angel of History; An Unnecessary Woman; The Hakawati; I, the Divine; Koolaids; and the story collection, The Perv. In 2019, he won the Dos Passos Prize.
Alameddine will be in conversation with Aminatta Forna, the author of the novels Ancestor Stones, The Memory of Love, The Hired Man, and Happiness, as well as the essay collection The Window Seat and memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water. Forna’s books have been translated into twenty two languages. Her essays have appeared in Brick, Freeman’s, Granta, The Guardian, Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, The New York Review of Books Daily, The Observer, and Vogue. She is currently Director and Lannan Foundation Chair of Poetics at Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University.
Click Here to register for this event.
Sunday, September 26, 2021 – 5 p.m ( I believe this is Eastern Standard Time, please double check when you register)

P&P Live! Elizabeth F. Thompson — How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Arab Congress of 1920, the Destruction of the Syrian State, and the Rise of Anti-Liberal Islamism
2021-09-27 15:00 - 17:00 | WA
Monday, September 27, 2021 – 6 p.m (I believe this is Eastern Standard Time, please double check when you register for this event!)

CLICK HERE to register for this virtual event!
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Arab Congress of 1920, the Destruction of the Syrian State, and the Rise of Anti-Liberal Islamism is the story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy–and how the West crushed it.
Elizabeth F. Thompson is a leading historian of the modern Middle East and Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace at American University’s School of International Service. She is the author of two previous books, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon, winner of two national book prizes, and Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East.

P&P Live! Washington DC 20008
