(Virtual Class) Special Session, Variegated Threads, Ramallah Berries
2020-08-07 11:00 - 12:30 UTC | WA
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Posted in Virtual, Classes, Special Sessions

Friday, August 7, 2020 2:00 PM 3:30 PM EST / 11:00 AM 12:30 PM PST

Mediterranean Mezze at the Pantry
2020-08-07 12:00 - 14:00, 2020-08-09 10:00 - 12:00, 2020-08-10 16:00 - 18:00, 2020-08-17 18:00 - 20:00 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Mezze (small plates) pop up all across the Mediterranean, and they extend beyond the standard hummus and tabbouleh served at most restaurants. In this class, Nadia Tommalieh will show you how to transform local ingredients into mezze that can be served as appetizers or as the centerpiece of a Mediterranean-style feast. You’ll learn how to layer flavors in musakhan (chicken with caramelized onions and sumac), accompanied by salatet betinjan (roasted eggplant, tomatoes, and pomegranate molasses), labneh bil joz (strained yogurt with walnuts and parsley), and soak up any last sauce with homemade koubez saj (flatbread).
This is a live, hands-on cooking class held in your kitchen via Zoom. Class is meant to be as interactive as it would be at our table, with the instructor teaching you how to prepare each recipe. Each class ticket is for one kitchen, and we welcome group cooking on the same screen. All recipes are designed for four servings.
Two days before class we will email everyone the detailed recipe packet and a Zoom link. All classes are listed in Pacific Standard Time.
Please click here for the list of ingredients and equipment that you will need for class.
Don’t feel like shopping? Let us do it for you! If you would like to pick up a pre-measured ingredients kit for this class, please add both the class and the kit to your shopping cart. Please be sure that you select the same date for your ingredient kit and class! Your ingredient kit can be picked up in our garden between 10am-6pm the day before class.

Seattle Arab Festival 2020
2020-08-08 | WA
Arab Festival – Seattle 2020

Due to COVID-19 and Stay Home order, the Seattle Arab Festival organization will highly consider offering an online streaming festival.

We will offer:

Story Telling
Food Demonstrations
Arab History in Seattle and USA
Seattle Arab Festival History
Upcoming start entertainers
Games Workshop
And, more

(Virtual Class) Level II: Palestinian Waste Canvas Technique, Motif: Qasfa Crown (Yazour Region)
2020-08-08 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
August 8 & 15, 12pm EST/9am PST, Motif: Qasfa Crown (Yazour Region)
Register here.

Posted in Classes, Level II, Virtual

(Virtual Class) Level III: The Keffiyeh Series
2020-08-09 11:00 - 13:00 | WA
Click here to register for this 5-week program.

Posted in Classes, Level III, Virtual

Sunday, August 9, 2020 – 2:00 PM 4:00 PM EST/11:00 AM 1:00 PM PST

Creating a Culture of Change: A Series of Conversations on Race and Community Building
2020-08-11 16:30 - 18:30 | WA
7:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020
Creating a Culture of Change: A Series of Conversations on Race and Community Building
Presented in partnership with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture and the National Network for Arab American Communities
Conversation 4: Documenting Community through Film & Journalism
Free
RSVP for Zoom link
This conversation on Documenting Community through Film & Journalism welcomes the following panelists:
Assia Boundaoui – filmmaker, journalist
Louis Massiah – filmmaker, director of Scribe Video Center
Yawu Miller – journalist, senior editor at Bay State Banner
In light of recent protests and actions across America in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, there is a need among Arab American communities to have intentional conversations around issues of race, racism and social justice. Through a cultural lens, the Arab American National Museum, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture and the Network of Arab American Communities are organizing a series of virtual presentations during the summer that bring together Arab American artists in conversation with Arab and African American educators, community leaders, journalists and scholars. We hope these conversations will provide space for increased understanding and community building towards a more just and equitable America that addresses the structures of systemic racism and inspires our individual and collective efforts for change.

Watch Previous Discussions
June 30: Youth & Race Education
July 14: The Power of Words
July 29: Building Community through Faith
Upcoming Discussions
Aug. 26: Queer Experiences in Arab and Black Communities
Sept. 2: Palestinian-Black Solidarity

Tatreezing Collective
2020-08-13 14:00 - 16:00 | WA
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Posted in Free, Special Sessions, Virtual

Thursday, August 13, 2020 5:00 PM 7:00 PM EST – 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST

Live Reading & Discussion with Mona Kareem
2020-08-13 15:00 - 17:00 | WA
6 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020
Live Reading & Discussion with Mona Kareem
Free, livestreamed on Facebook
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Join AANM artist-in-residence Mona Kareem for a live reading from her poetry collection Crossover, and discussion with AANM director Dr. Diana Abouali.
Throughout her residency, taking place remotely, Kareem is finalizing Crossover, a poetry collection that touches on themes particular to Arab experience/s in the United States: the loss or gain of language, the weight of a marked body passing through airports, the lingua of immigration and bureaucratic violence, and the fetishization of Arab sexuality in visual culture and colonial imaginary. The poems cross a range of narratives, working beyond the typical family-story, as many of us have arrived alone to this continent. They explore what this loneliness entails, especially for the bilingual artist.
Mona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Femme Ghosts (Publication Studio, 2019), a trilingual chapbook. Her work has been translated into nine languages and published in anthologies and periodicals, including Brooklyn Rail, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ambit, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Poetry International, PEN English, Modern Poetry in Translation, Two Lines and Specimen. She has held fellowships with Poetry International, BANFF Center, Norwich Center and Forum Transregionale Studien. Kareem has been a featured writer at festivals and conferences in Cairo, Istanbul, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Seoul, Copenhagen and across the United States. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from SUNY Binghamton, and has taught at SUNY Binghamton, Rutgers, Bronx Community College and the University of Maryland.

Related event: Aug. 30: Virtual Poetry Workshop with Mona Kareem

(Virtual Class) Special Session, Metallic Thread Series: Metallic Pearl Cotton
2020-08-14 12:00 - 14:00 | WA
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Learn more about each class in the series here. You are not required to take the full series, and can take these classes à la cart.

Posted in Virtual, Classes, Special Sessions

Friday, August 14, 2020 3:00 PM 5:00 PM EST/12:00 PM 2:00 PM PST

Seffarine: Edmonds City Park Concert
2020-08-16 17:00 - 18:00 | Edmonds City Park, 600 3rd Ave S, Edmonds, WA, 98020, United States
Seffarine’s international blend of sounds features soulful Moroccan singer Lamiae Naki and flamenco guitarist Nat Hulskamp. Their music embraces and extends Naki’s rich heritage, which spans from Moorish Spain to the Sahara, by mixing Arabic Andalusi music with Manuel Gutierrez’s explosive flamenco footwork, the grooves of acclaimed bassist Damian Erskine and the exotic instrumentation of Persian master multi-instrumentalist Bobak Salehi. These diverse backgrounds meld into an intoxicating blend of ancient and modern that Bass Player Magazine describes as a “gorgeous intersection of Spanish flamenco, Arabic and Andalusian music, Persian classical, and jazz”.

Seffarine takes its name from the ancient metalworking square in Lamiae’s home city of Fes, Morocco. Her family is well known in the Seffarine as master metalworkers continuing the tradition today. The square dates back to the 9th century and is famous for the complex rhythms that can be heard from the blacksmiths’ hammers.

Falafel and Pita - PCC Cooking Class
2020-08-17 16:00 - 17:00 | WA
DESCRIPTION
Make any night falafel night! Tiago will share his taken on this popular Arabic takeout dish, one of his very favorite foods. He’ll demonstrate how to make fresh pita bread – from dough to fluffy grilled final product – and blend, flavor, form and fry falafel. To complete the meal, he’ll show you how to whip up a tangy tahini sauce.
About the instructor: Tiago graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 2014. After graduation, he honed his skills as a lead sauté cook for a fine dining establishment. He has been teaching cooking classes for the last several years and has found teaching to be one of the most gratifying experiences of his life. Tiago is also a wine enthusiast and certified sommelier.
CLASS NOTES
This is a demonstration class offered live via the Zoom app. You will receive an email with recipes and class details five days in advance. After class, we will share a recorded version. This class is not designed as a cook-along. All key elements will be shown in class; however, instructors may complete time-consuming steps in advance. Online classes are nonrefundable.

Excavating Dangeil: Royal Statues and Sacred Rams
2020-08-18 10:00 - 12:00 | WA
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Join Dr. Julie Anderson for an exploration of the Dangeil archeological site.
Excavations at Dangeil, located close to the Nile in what is now central Sudan, have uncovered a previously unknown 1st century CE temple dedicated to the god Amun. Earlier rulers discovered there in a statue hoard include the celebrated Kushite Pharoah Taharqo. This is one of many discoveries at Dangeil throwing unexpected light on African history from antiquity into the medieval period and later.

Dr. Julie Anderson is responsible for curating the Sudanese and Nubian collections of the British Museum. Excavating at numerous sites in Egypt and Sudan since 1987, her research interests include daily life and material culture in the Nile valley and surrounding deserts. Since 1997, she has co-directed archaeological excavations in Sudan together with the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) in the Berber-Abidiya region. Her current fieldwork is concentrated upon the late Kushite site of Dangeil (3rd century BC – 4th century AD), situated approximately 350km north of Khartoum, where excavation of a large Amun temple, surrounding temenos enclosure and associated cemetery is underway. Currently, she is the Honorary Secretary for the International Society for Nubian Studies and for the Sudan Archaeological Research Society.
This program is presented in partnership with the American Research Center in Egypt.

1:00 p.m. EST — 7:00 p.m. EET

Please help the NAC support artists. By making a donation with your registration, you contribute directly to the NAC Artist Fellows program, helping to further the careers of up-and-coming artists.
This program will be hosted via Zoom. You will receive additional details upon registration.
All images copyright Berber-Abidiya Archaeological Project.

(Virtual Class) Level I: Aida Cloth, Orange Blossom Motif (Yaffa)
2020-08-22 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
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Learn more about online classes here.

Posted in Classes, Level I, Virtual

Saturday, August 22, 2020 12:00 PM 2:00 PM / 9:00 AM 11:00 AM PST

Naila and the Uprising - Live Stream
2020-08-22 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
NAILA and the UPRISING
Click here to register for this event.
The screening will be followed by Q&As and discussion with Suhad Babaa, Executive Producer.
Synopsis
When a nation-Wide uprising breaks out in 1987, a woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time.

English-Arabic Storytime Online (recorded): Something Happened in Our Town
2020-08-24 | WA
1 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 24, 2020
Something Happened in Our Town with Sari Mira
Join our resident storyteller Sari Mira for another exciting English-Arabic Storytime from the comfort of your home! Children ages 4+ and their parents are invited to join Sari who will read Something Happened in Our Town by Drs. Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard, teaching a few Arabic words and phrases along the way.
A note on content: This story explores sensitive topics of racial injustice and police brutality.
Something Happened in Our Town follows two families — one White, one Black — as they discuss a police shooting of a Black man in their community. The story aims to answer children’s questions about such traumatic events, and to help children identify and counter racial injustice in their own lives.
The storytime video will go up at 1 p.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 24 on our Storytime page, where you can also check out previous Online Storytimes.

Join Eyewitness Palestine on a Virtual Delegation
2020-08-24, 2020-08-30 | WA
Join Eyewitness Palestine on a Virtual Delegation
We will Spend August with Shoruq – in Deheisheh
Also, don’t miss one more opportunity to join a SPECIAL tour in Hebron!
Our August Virtual Delegations begin in TWO WEEKS! Throughout August, we will be hosting Shoruq. Our hosts, Tamara Abu Laban and Hazam Alqassas will be taking us to the Deheisheh Refugee Camp.
Join us to explore Deheisheh and learn about Shoruq’s powerful work!
Four Chances to Join Virtual Delegations to Deheisheh
Aug 24 I Aug 30 I Sept 3
Learn more and sign up today – space is limited!
This will fill up quickly! Register today!

Creating a Culture of Change: Queer Experiences in Arab and Black Communities
2020-08-26 16:30 - 18:30 | WA
7:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020
Creating a Culture of Change: A Series of Conversations on Race and Community Building
Presented in partnership with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture and the National Network for Arab American Communities
Conversation 5: Queer Experiences in Arab and Black Communities
Free
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This conversation on Queer Experiences in Arab and Black Communities welcomes the following panelists:
Hannah L. Drake – Blogger, poet, activist
Hamed Sinno – Musician (lead singer of Mashrou’ Leila), poet, activist
Dr. Sa’ed Atshan – Author, assistant professor at Swarthmore College

Watch Previous Discussions
June 30: Youth & Race Education
July 14: The Power of Words
July 29: Building Community through Faith
Upcoming Discussions
Aug. 11: Documenting Community through Film & Journalism
Sept. 2: Palestinian-Black Solidarity

Independent Filmmaking 101
2020-08-26 17:30 - 18:30 | WA
Join us on Wednesday August 26 for a live, online webinar all about making YOUR film!
RSVP here.
We will be joined by two filmmakers who will share how they went from pre- production to distribution and who will answer your most pressing questions.
Arab Film Festival fans, you all already know Rami Alayan‘s films. Rami was the Producer and Writer of Love, Theft and other Entanglements which won the Best Film Award at #AFF2015.
And he also wrote The Reports on Sarah and Saleem, shown at #AFF2018. He was awarded the Special Jury Award for exceptional artistic achievement for that screenplay at the Hivos Tiger Competition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018.
Yasmeen Turayhi is the Writer and Producer of Short Film – A Star in The Desert, whose star, Jamal Mutrahji, just won the Best Child Actor Award at Beirut International Children And Family Film Festival.
Don’t wait, join us next week. RSVP here to receive the link to attend this online event.

Movie screening and discussion of Naila and the Uprising
2020-08-28 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
Join us for a screening and discussion of Naila and the Uprising, a Just Vision documentary, with the Deputy Director and a Producer.

About this Event

Join Museum of the Palestinian People for a special film screening and discussion of Naila and the Uprising with Just Vision’s Deputy Director, Emma Alpert and one of the film’s producers, Rula Salameh.
Naila and the Uprising is a documentary film about a nation-wide uprising that breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and the story of a young woman in Gaza who must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time. Naila and the Uprising chronicles the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh and a fierce community of women at the frontlines, whose stories weave through the most vibrant, nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian history – the First Intifada in the late 1980s. You can watch the trailer, here.
The film will be available for registrants to view at their own convenience prior to our discussion with Emma and Rula on Zoom on Friday, August 28 at 12pm EDT. All registrants will receive info to watch the film and join the Zoom conversation via email after they register.
Suggested donation: $10. Free for Resilience Monthly Club Members.
Thanks to our Resilience Club supporters, we are able to host weekly events on Palestinian culture, history and heritage. To become a member, please visit here.
We are very grateful for your partnership and support. The Museum of the Palestinian People is based in Washington DC and here to tell our stories, which encompass the rich history, vibrant arts, culture and spirit of a people who thrive even in the face of adversity.
Visit our website to learn more: mpp-dc.org

Abolition and Liberation: A Conversation with Angela Davis and Jamal Juma'
2020-08-28 10:00 - 12:00 | WA
Abolition and Liberation:
A Conversation with Angela Davis and Jamal Juma’
Friday, August 28
1pm ET / 10am PT / 8pm Palestine
Join the Arab American Cultural Center for an international discussion of the connections between Black Lives Matter calls to defund the police and abolish the prison industrial complex, and Palestinian calls to tear down all apartheid walls and free Palestine.

If you missed this event you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aSStKFaMQ0

Seattle Arab Film Festival 2020
2020-08-29 - 2020-08-30 | WA
Movies short and long from Sudan, Tunesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and more!
Check out this amazing list of movies and get your passes today!
https://seattlearabfilmfest.com/?page_id=1451

2020 Pasadena Festival of Women Authors - online
2020-08-29 - 2020-09-04 | WA
Due to the coronavirus we are not able to hold the 2020 Pasadena Festival of Women Authors that was scheduled for August 29, 2020.
We will be presenting the 2020 author talks online. Donors to the 2020 event will be the first to receive access to the videos in early September. The videos will be made available to the public later in September.

Featuring 7 female authors, including Laila Lalami!

(Virtual Class) Sewing & Mounting Basics
2020-08-29 09:00 - 10:30 | WA
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Posted in Classes, Special Sessions, Virtual

Saturday, August 29, 2020 12:00 PM 1:30 PM EST/9:00 AM 10:30 AM PST

Free Screening of the Film "Martin Luther King in Palestine"
2020-08-29 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
Martin Luther King in Palestine follows an African American gospel group led by Stanford professor and King scholar Clay Carson who travel to Palestine in March of 2011 to perform an original play about MLK written by Carson. While there, the small choir of political neophytes quickly discover the repressive conditions Palestinians endure daily under the Occupation, and empathy develops between peoples who have a shared history of oppression

Virtual Artist Talks - Documentary Photography
2020-08-30 09:00 - 10:00 | WA
Click here to register for this event.
Laura Boushnak is a Kuwait-born Palestinian photographer based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her work mainly focuses on the Arab world, looking at issues that she finds stem from her own personal experience of gender, education, and aftermath of war.
After receiving a degree in Sociology from the Lebanese University in Beirut in 1999, Boushnak infused her interest in social issues with her passion for the visual arts and began her career as a photographer for the Associated Press in Lebanon. She then went on to work with the Agence France-Presse (AFP) at its Middle East hub in Cyprus and its headquarters in Paris. During this nine-year span, Boushnak’s experience included covering hard news in conflict zones such as the war in Iraq and the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.

Virtual Poetry Workshop with Mona Kareem
2020-08-30 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
12 – 2 p.m. EDT, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020
Virtual Poetry Workshop with Mona Kareem
Free
Registration required by Aug. 13
Join AANM artist-in-residence, poet, and translator Mona Kareem for a one-day Virtual Poetry Workshop! This workshop is for adult writers and teens age 17+ who are committed to using poetry as a medium to explore and intertwine the personal with the political. Those interested in themes, practices, theory and/or poetics of translation in relation to expression and narrative are especially welcome to join.
Mona Kareem will provide participants with two texts to review as well as a writing prompt prior to the workshop (via email). The workshop will unfold, via Zoom, with a close reading of selected texts, followed by an open reading and discussion of participants’ poems.
Workshop timeline:
Aug. 13: Registration deadline; limited to 10 participants
Aug. 16: Poet will provide participants with selected reading texts and a writing prompt
Aug. 23: Writing prompt submission deadline
Aug. 30: Workshop from 12 – 2 p.m.
Register by Aug. 13 to secure your spot in the workshop!
Mona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Femme Ghosts (Publication Studio, 2019), a trilingual chapbook. Her work has been translated into nine languages and published in anthologies and periodicals, including Brooklyn Rail, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ambit, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Poetry International, PEN English, Modern Poetry in Translation, Two Lines and Specimen. She has held fellowships with Poetry International, BANFF Center, Norwich Center and Forum Transregionale Studien. Kareem has been a featured writer at festivals and conferences in Cairo, Istanbul, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Seoul, Copenhagen and across the United States. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from SUNY Binghamton, and has taught at SUNY Binghamton, Rutgers, Bronx Community College and the University of Maryland.

Related event: Aug. 13: Live Reading & Discussion with Mona Kareem
