Arab Film Series Online: Bloody Beans + Talkback
2022-07-28 - 2022-07-31
Arab Film Series Online: Bloody Beans + Talkback
Free Online Stream | Suggested $5 Donation – Register
This July, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Algerian Independence from France, Arab Film Series presents Bloody Beans, an experimental take on the Algerian War by Narimane Mari. This program is accompanied with a recorded discussion with the filmmaker.
Shot on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Algerian independence, (the film) is based on a loose, improvisational script about a group of children who, fed up with their monotonous diet of beans, decide to steal food from the French military barracks and end up capturing a young French soldier as well. This allegory of the Algerian War of Independence is enacted on the beach and within the populous neighborhoods of today’s Algiers, where almost half the population is under twenty-five years of age and largely unemployed. In a powerful mix of past (the struggle against French occupation) and present (the struggle of young people to survive), the film addresses the emotional realities of colonialism and contemporary forms of disenfranchisement., which sees the conflict played out by a group of vibrant children. Incorporating unique lighting and sound, the film is a complex exploration of colonial powers and the fight for freedom.
77 Minutes / 2013 / Algeria / Experimental / French and Arabic with English subtitles
For questions, e-mail Dave Serio at dserio@accesscommunity.org.

The Middle Eastern theatre of World War I : Online Lecture
2022-07-28 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
This presentation will outline and discuss how World War I affected the Balkans and the Middle East, in such long-standing campaigns as the Serbian Campaign, the Dardanelles Campaign, the Caucasus Campaign, the Palestine Campaign, the Arab Revolt, and the Mesopotamian Campaign. We will investigate how the Ottoman Empire entered the war, how Middle Eastern soldiers participated in the conflict, and how those experiences would affect the aftermath of the war.

Note: This episode will not discuss the Ottoman internal situation during the war (including the situation in eastern Anatolia) which will be discussed in the next week and will not discuss the more famous Western and Eastern Fronts in Europe as those are outside of the Middle East focus of this series.

The Middle Eastern theatre of World War I saw action between 29 October 1914 and 30 October 1918. The combatants were, on one side, the Ottoman Empire (including Kurds and some Arab tribes), with some assistance from the other Central Powers; and on the other side, the British (with the help of Jews, Greeks, Assyrians and the majority of the Arabs, along with Indians under its empire), the Russians (with the help of Armenians and Assyrians) and the French from among the Allied Powers. There were five main campaigns: the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, the Mesopotamian Campaign, the Caucasus Campaign, the Persian Campaign, and the Gallipoli Campaign. There were also several minor campaigns: Arab Campaign, and South Arabia Campaign.
Both sides used local asymmetrical forces in the region. On the Allied side were Arabs who participated in the Arab Revolt and the Armenian militia who participated in the Armenian Resistance during the Armenian genocide; along with Armenian volunteer units, the Armenian militia formed the Armenian Corps of the First Republic of Armenia in 1918. In addition, the Assyrians joined the Allies following the Assyrian genocide, known as the Assyrian volunteers and Our Smallest Ally. The theatre covered the largest territory of all theatres in the war.
Russian participation in the theatre ended as a result of the Armistice of Erzincan (5 December 1917), after which the revolutionary Russian government withdrew from the war under the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (3 March 1918). The Armenians attended the Trabzon Peace Conference (14 March 1918) which resulted in the Treaty of Batum on 4 June 1918. The Ottomans accepted the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies on 30 October 1918, and signed the Treaty of Sèvres on 10 August 1920 and later the Treaty of Lausanne on 24 July 1923.

Rage & Refuge: SCOTUS, Bodily Autonomy, and the War on Terror
2022-07-28 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for a conversation hosted by Vigilant Love, and jointed by
HEART, Palestinian Youth Movement, and For the Binat

Thursday, July 28, 2022
5 pm PDT // 8 pm EDT
Register at: bit.ly/RageRefuge
Have you felt alone in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to overturn Roe and Casey and uphold Mississippi’s 15 week ban on abortion? Are you holding anxiety about the possible ripple effects for your people in your community’s bodily autonomy?
Vigilant Love is hosting a virtual, multi-layered event to share political analysis examining the relationships between the SCOTUS leaks, Zionism, the War on Terror, and gendered Islamophobia.

“Rage & Refuge: SCOTUS, Bodily Autonomy, and the War on Terror” hopes to be an intentional space for grieving and processing, and to build with values-aligned community members. We hope to see you on Thursday, July 28th from 5-6:30pm PT!
Our partners for this event are HEART (@hearttogrow), Palestinian Youth Movement (@palestinianyouthmovement), Palestinian Feminist Collective (@palestinianfeministcollective), and For the Binat (@forthebinat).
This is a free event, but we encourage donations for anyone that is able!
Register at bit.ly/RageRefuge or visit the link in our bio.

Arabic Chat Hour
2022-07-28 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-08-04 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-08-11 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-08-18 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
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.

Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Aida Returns," directed by Carol Mansour
2022-07-30 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
We will be screening a 20 minute-condensed pre-release version of the film. The film screening will be followed by Q&A discussion with Carol Mansour, film director, and Muna Khalidi, producer. Click the title above for more information.

AIDA RETURNS – أمي العائدة إلى يافا

This film is a poignant, sometimes sad, sometimes painful, sometimes humorous, often absurd story of a multiple journey: the journey of loss as the director’s mother Aida struggled with losing herself to Alzheimer’s disease, but finding solace in her repeated “returning” to the Yafa and Palestine of her youth; the journey of the loss of a parent; and the ultimate return journey back to Yafa where Aida would finally find rest and be herself once more.
Close to four years after Aida’s passing away, the director’s friend and colleague Tanya who lives in Ramallah came to visit Beirut. When she heard about Aida’s wishes and yearning for Yafa, Tanya suggested that she herself carries the ashes back. The film accompanies director Carol Mansour as she engineers a way to return her mother to Yafa in search of eternal rest and peace for her. A return that is aided by an unlikely set of friends and strangers all coming together to facilitate what should have been a simple journey. This journey is at the same time very private and personal, while resonating with hundreds of thousands of Alzheimer’s sufferers and their families as well as hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees awaiting their return home.
This film is a tribute to the lost past of the director’s family, an attempt to restore part of both an individual and a collective memory, and a poetic nod and affirmation to all those exiled Palestinians forbidden from returning to their hometowns, even after death.

Click here to watch the film trailer.
Click here to register for this event.
We will be screening a 20 minute-condensed pre-release version of the film. The film screening will be followed by Q&A discussion with Carol Mansour, film director, and Muna Khalidi, producer

Arab Street Food: Shawarma at the Pantry with Nadia Tommalieh
2022-08-02 18:00 - 21:00, 2022-08-09 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Across the Arab world, you’ll find variations on their most famous street food: shawarma. Traditionally cooked on a vertical spit that turns, shawarma is universally loved as a picnic spread, a main course, or an iconic street-food sandwich. In this class NADIA TOMMALIEH will show you everything you need to make shawarma wraps at home, starting with fresh-made saj bread. You’ll fill your warm bread with spiced and thinly sliced beef shawarma, tahini-based tarator sauce; batata harra (crispy cubed potatoes in a citrus cilantro sauce); avocado bil labaneh w za’atar (mashed avocado, jalapeno, yogurt, and Za’atar); and mkhalal left (pickled turnips).

Mona Awad in Conversation With Iain Reid
2022-08-03 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as “genius,” comes a “wild, and exhilarating” (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare’s most maligned play will remedy all that ails her — but at what cost? Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now, she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised and cost her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. That’s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda’s past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what’s coming to them, and the invisible doubted pain that’s kept her from the spotlight is made known. With prose Atwood has described as “no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged… genius,” Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. All’s Well (Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books) is a “fabulous novel” (Mary Karr) about a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain. Awad will be joined in conversation by Iain Reid, author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things.

ARCE DC: Moon Knight’s Egyptian Deities: Ammit and Taweret in Hollywood (online)
2022-08-06 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moon-knights-egyptian-deities-ammit-and-taweret-in-hollywood-tickets-386146804487

Dr Stuart T. Smith, UCSB, consultant to STARGATE, presents a fun discussion on Ammit & Taweret and their role in Ancient Egypt’s religion

About this event

Marvel’s Moon Knight drew in many fans, and introduced viewers to two Goddesses of the Ancient Egyptian pantheon. The Hippo Goddess, Taweret, in her role of protectress of women, birthing mothers, and infants, was universally revered for several thousand years. Pregnant women wore amulets of her, the meme of both having big bellies lasted thousands of years. Her image was carved on protective and household items. Images of her were also placed in tombs, to help the deceased to live again in the afterlife. This interaction with dead souls in highlighted in Moon Knight.
Ammit, another Goddess who was part hippo, was also part lion and part crocodile. She interacted with the dead in a different way. At the time of final judgement, she crouched by the balance scales where the heart of the deceased was weighed for goodness against a feather, while the spirit of the deceased changed a list of good things done in life, and bad things avoided. If the heart outweighed the feather, the soul was forbidden to enter the afterlife. Their unworthy heart was tossed to Ammit, who devoured it. The soul died. Clearly, as “Devourer of the Dead”, and “Eater of Hearts”she was not a Goddess to mess with. In Moon Knight, Ammit is elegantly costumed, with a fabulous braid and – never shown dining.
Since his 1994 consultancy with the Stargate film, Dr. Stuart Smith of the University of California, Santa Barbara, has given many entertaining talks on the incorporation of Ancient Egyptian themes in Hollywood movies.

SWEET AND SAVORY TARTS OF THE WORLD: 5-DAY KIDS CAMP: PCC
2022-08-08 - 2022-08-12 | PCC-Issaquah, 1810 12th Ave NW, Issaquah, WA, 98027, United States
Build-Your-Own Quiche and Fresh-Berry Tarts
Tourte de Blettes (French Swiss Chard and Rice Tart) and Classic New York Cheesecake
Spanakopita (Greek-Spinach Pie) and Tarte Tatin
Bisteeya (Moroccan Chicken or Vegetable Pie) and Banoffee Pie (Banana-Caramel Cream Pie)
Mixed-Greens Supper Tart and Lemon Tartlets

Instructor: Cam Zarcone
Price: $250
AGES 10 TO 15
HANDS-ON
IN-PERSON
KIDS ONLY

DESCRIPTION
Ages 10 to 15
Get your measuring cups, rolling pins and spatulas ready because we’re taking a baking trip around the world! Join Cam as you mix, whip and knead your way through some of her favorite tarts – perfect for both dinner and dessert! Future bakers will visit a new country each day, discovering a variety of cooking techniques at each destination.
With eggs, dairy and gluten; optional poultry.
About the instructor: Cam never planned to leave her career as an award-winning journalist, but a life spent cooking — and teaching others the joy of it — finally proved too irresistible. She received her professional culinary training from the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to her work at PCC, she teaches several innovative multidisciplinary cooking classes at Edmonds Heights K-12, covering everything from world folklore and history to science and environmental policy. Her food writing has appeared in publications including The Boston Globe. Follow her on Instagram: @hummingbirdculinary.
CLASS NOTES

This is a hands-on format class for kids only.
Class information will be emailed 48 hours before class. Our emails can get caught in spam filters or blocked entirely, please contact us if you don’t receive the class information.
Cancellation Policy: Classes are nonrefundable. If you cannot attend, you can request a class credit or transfer to a different class up to 7 days prior to class or have someone attend in your place.

The Crocodile Presents: Bombino, Yogoman
2022-08-11 20:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Crocodile, 2505 1st Ave, Seattle, WA, 98033, United States
Four thousand years of living in a hostile environment taught the Tuareg that the will to survive with dignity intact is stronger than any external threat. Bombino puts that sentiment to music, writes its anthem, and gives it a life of its own. He is known as being emblematic of the next generation of Tuareg, a new voice of the Sahara and Sahel, fusing traditional Berber rhythms with the energy of rock and roll and songs about peace. After years of drought, rebellion, and tyranny, Bombino extols his audience to remember who they are, but also realize who they can be.
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Bombino’s life and travels have exposed him to the problems facing his people. He has taken on the mission of helping the Tuareg community achieve equal rights, peace, maintain their rich cultural heritage and promote education. He is an advocate for teaching children the Tuareg language of Tamasheq, the local Haoussa language as well as French and Arabic, all of which he speaks fluently. “We fought for our rights,” remarks Bombino, “but we have seen that guns are not the solution. We need to change our system. Our children must go to school and learn about their Tuareg identity.”

AANM’s Arab Film Festival
2022-08-12 - 2022-08-21
Friday, Aug. 12 – Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022
$75 Early Bird Festival Passes
AANM proudly hosts the annual Arab Film Festival (AFF) featuring the best of critically acclaimed and award-winning Arab American and Arab world films, many of which are unlikely to reach traditional American commercial theaters and often make their regional or national debut at AFF. This year, the festival will take place virtually and in-person, Aug. 12-21, 2022!
Early bird passes are on sale now – act fast and purchase yours today for only $75!
AFF showcases Arab and Arab American films for fans of Arabic-language movies and adventurous art-film lovers seeking new perspectives and outside-the-box thinking. We pride ourselves on creating a safe space, a platform for Arab and Arab American films and filmmakers and to give a voice to Arab and Arab American artists and their stories.
Stay tuned for the full schedule and film lineup!

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Seattle Arab Festival 2022
2022-08-13 - 2022-08-14
The Arab Festival in Seattle will happen in August. Please follow us on our social media and our website for new updates.
https://seattlearabfestival.org/
https://seattlearabfestival.org/

Seattle Arab Festival for Summer of 2022

Place: Seattle Center
Date & Time:
August 13th and 14th, 11am-7pm
Activities: Eating, Dancing, Shopping, Music, and Entertainment for ALL ages.
***The Seattle Arab Festival is a free event open to the public***
Food trucks, food booths, vendors, ad performers/entertainers are welcome to join our event. To be part of this, contact us by filling the relevant form and submit by July 22th
Vendor Booth
Food Booth
Food Truck Form
Cultural Booth
Performer/Entertainer
Volunteer Registration

Three Story Times at the Arab Festival
2022-08-13 12:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Seattle Center – Armory, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
Join me at the Arab Festival
I’ll have three story times each day:
Saturday

Animals Story Time: 12:00pm – 12:30pm + activity to follow

Colors Story Time: 1:00pm -1:30pm + activity to follow

Parts of the Body Story Time 2:00pm – 2:30pm + activity to follow

Sunday

Animals Story Time: 12:00pm – 12:30pm + activity to follow

Colors Story Time: 1:00pm -1:30pm + activity to follow

Parts of the Body Story Time 2:00pm – 2:30pm + activity to follow

Plus check out the Art Board “MEET 8 GREAT PALESTINIAN WOMEN” featuring amazing women like Maysoon Zayid and Rashida Tlaib
and a coloring table where you and your child can learn some Arabic letters and Arabic words (transliteration available)

Three Story Times at the Seattle Arab Festival
2022-08-14 12:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Seattle Center – Armory, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States

(Live and In person) SHOP EVENTS STAFF PICKS ABOUT US MY ACCOUNT CONTACT Claire Schwartz, Gabrielle Bates, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
2022-08-17 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Open Books, 108 Cherry Street, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
A Seattle visit and a remarkable new debut by New York-based poet Claire Schwartz helps occasion what would be an excellent evening of work here as she is joined by esteemed Seattle poets Gabrielle Bates and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. Claire Schwartz, who is poetry editor of Jewish Currents, has a compelling first book out from Graywolf, Civil Service.
“The power of this book is in its uncontrollable private will to imagine against the public failure of imagination. The poet dismembers our political reality into the double-edged lines, into the bare and ashamed symbols and silences. Brutal and coy, Claire Schwartz creates a scream out of irony and a rhythm out of the four corners of the page.”—Valzhyna Mort.
“We’ve all heard the cliché ‘poems are bombs.’ But Claire Schwartz’s incendiaries whisper hard truths and harder questions, beckoning us closer, seeping gently into our consciousness before exploding the passive and placid thinking that allow us to go about our ‘normal’ lives. Civil Service shines a bright light onto a dark world ruled by property, prisons, patriarchy, and profit.”—Robin D. G. Kelley.
Gabrielle Bates has her debut poetry collection, Judas Goat coming from Tin House Books in 2023, works at Open Books: A Poem Emporium and co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is most recently the Washington State Book Award winner of Water & Salt (Red Hen Press) and Arab in Newsland, winner of the Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize.
This reading has now been moved to our friends and colleagues at Open Books: A Poem Emporium.

ECA Presents Bedouin Burger
2022-08-18 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Avenue North, Edmonds, WA, 98020, United States
An Outdoor Curbside Event | ECA’s Summer Series

Lebanese indie stalwart Zeid Hamdan and celestially voiced Syrian singer Lynn Adib are Bedouin Burger, a rising duo from the Middle East. Their music marries traditional Arab sounds of magam, religious songs of ancient Syria, jazz, and slick pop hooks – all delivered with a sultry, insouciant flare. Performing as a trio, Bedouin Burger is accompanied by bassist Miles Jay.

This performance is a curbside event presented as part of ECA’s Summer Series. All Curbside events will take place outside in ECA’s parking lot, open at limited capacity. In the event of inclement weather, performances will be held indoors in ECA’s theatre.

Sponsored by Laura Ellis and Corbitt Loch & Tammy Coffing

Admission
$25-$35

New Third World Presents: Launch Party for Unceded Land by Issam Zineh
2022-08-20 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Featuring George Abraham, Ruth Awad, Carolina Ebeid, Adele Elise Williams, and Issam Zineh.

About this event

Join us for a poetry reading and virtual celebration of highly anticipated debut collection from poet and scientist Issam Zineh – Unceded Land (Trio House Press, 2022) 🖤 Saturday, August 20 at 1pn Eastern 🖤
Featuring readings by George Abraham, Ruth Awad, Carolina Ebeid, Adele Elise Williams, and Issam Zineh.
Hosted by the New Third World Reading Series 🖤
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This is a virtual event and will be hosted on Zoom. RSVP below to receive the Zoom link and reminder emails ahead of the event 🌹
This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Online Arab (Muslim) Singles Event 21-40 USA
2022-08-21 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
This event is for you if you find yourself wanting to connect with others or gain the confidence to meet your spouse ! It can be frustrating or even stressful trying to connect with others. It can be difficult making connections through matchmakers or matrimonial platforms . Well…if you’re serious about finding someone and want some guidance around finding that person for yourself, then come along to our event.

Open to Arab muslims living in US and Canada from following ages : Males and Females 21-40.
Come along for the opportunity to meet your future spouse in a relaxed, halal environment.
Book now for the chance to meet your potential spouse.You will be meeting singles from the comfort of your home via your computer with Webcam or Smart Phone/Tablet (strong wifi connection will be required).
Just like with traditional matchmaking events at the end of the event you will be able to let us know who you were interested in. We will send you both mutual matches (if you picked them and they picked you too )
We will start the event off in a group environment and then move on to One on One interactions . After we complete the group round, we will break participants into pairs of two. You will get to speak to your potential dates privately and continue to get to know each other.
Complete event details will be sent out only to registered participants .
Ticket purchase must be in made ONLY in the name of the candidate (s) who is attending the event.Candidates must attend the event .Chaperones Optional.All tickets sales are final and the tickets are non refundable and non transferable .
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Movie (streaming) : Je Veux Voir + Barmeh
2022-08-25 - 2022-08-28
The screenings presented in August highlight films by Hadjithomas and Joreige which have to do with vision and perception in post-war Lebanon. In Je Veux Voir (I Want to See), the filmmakers travel to Beirut with iconic French actress Catherine Deneuve. In the film, she meets with artist and actor Rabih Mroué, and together, the two drive through the regions of Lebanon devastated by the 2006 war, areas that remain inaccessible to most citizens. Through the presence and meeting of these two stars, the filmmakers hope to find the beauty in Lebanon which the eye can no longer perceive.

Barmeh (Rounds) is a video featuring Rabih Mroué, filmed driving through the streets of the city. Beirut is evoked through the driver’s stories and through sound, but the city is never seen; it is rendered invisible in an overexposed whiteness. Like his driving, Mroué’s stories spin in a circle. He is like a ghost, haunting the streets of a city where a reconstruction project is in a post-Civil War period.

Available virtually US ONLY August 25–28, 2022. TICKETS ARE EXTREMELY LIMITED. TICKETS

Virtual screening of the documentary film "Golden Harvest," directed by Alia Yunis.
2022-08-27 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Golden Harvest (shorter version) is a 6,000-year old love story in which the filmmaker tries to understand the profound, often troubled, relationship between olive trees and the people of Mediterranean, including her own Palestinian father. It is a complicated romance, sometimes funny,sometimes tragic, set in a region that includes some of the poorest and most conflicted areas of Europe and the Middle East and .

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Alia Yunis

About the Filmmaker
Alia Yunis, writer/director, has worked on film and writing projects in several countries. Alia spent many years in Los Angeles as a screenwriter and script analyst for companies such as Village Roadshow Pictures and Miramax. Alia is a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, has been a top ten finalist Zoetrope Screenwriting Awards and the recipient of a comedy-writing award from Warner Bros. Her novel, The Night Counter (Random House 2010), was critically-acclaimed by the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, and several other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction writings have appeared in numerous books, magazines and anthologies and have been translated into eight languages. She has produced several short films, as well as the feature documentary, Man Hunt (2004), which played on the Oxygen Channel as a Valentine’s Day special.

"Madafeh" - Open Discussion About Palestine
2022-08-28 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Event: “Madafeh” – Open Discussion About Palestine
Sunday August 28, 2022 – 12:00 Noon US EDT; 7:00 PM Palestine Time.
Please click here to register for this event.
Our guest for this episode is Peabody Award-winning journalist Jamal Dajani, co-host of the syndicated radio show Arab Talk. He will share the documentary film “Occupied Minds.” The film is the story of two journalists, Jamal Dajani, a Palestinian-American, and David Michaelis, an Israeli citizen, who journey to Jerusalem, their mutual birthplace, to explore new solutions and offer unique insights into the divisive Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The film takes viewers on an emotional and intensely personal odyssey through the streets of one of the world’s most volatile regions.

Gaza: Beautiful Resistance - Virtual Delegation to Palestine
2022-08-28 10:00 - 11:30, 2022-08-30 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Gaza is often portrayed as a place of desperation and violence, due to decades of occupation, siege and ongoing brutal assaults. What is far less often portrayed is Gaza as a place of life, laughter, joy, and creativity. On this Virtual Delegation of the Gaza Strip, we will introduce you to beautiful resistance in the Gaza Strip. Through music, art, dancing and more, Palestinians in Gaza resist the dehumanization inherent in colonization.
Join us to meet Palestinians in Gaza who insist on expressing their full humanity and on waging life!
This Virtual Delegation is co-sponsored by Donkeysaddle Projects and Just Vision.
Tour Date Options:
August 28: 1:00-2:30pm ET
August 30: 12:00-1:30pm ET
September 2: 12:00-1:30pm ET
(All tour times are listed in Eastern Time – USA)

REGISTER TODAY!

Director of the movie 1982, Oualid Mouaness on ZOOM
2022-08-28 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Lebanese Americans and Lebanese American Society of Seattle will host the Director 1982 Oualid Mouaness on August 28, 2022, at 11 AM Pacific Time on Zoom.
Mr. Mouaness will be happy to answer your questions live.
https://bit.ly/3Rg69Gl

SIFF

43rd Annual Middle Eastern Festival (Portland)
2022-08-28 12:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Experience the food, dance and faith of the #MiddleEast. #Traditional #Lebanese #dance #Church tours, #food, children’s activities, #bookstore and #silent_auction throughout the day.
#Chicken_Kabab #Gyros #Falafel #Italian_Soda and many other #pastries will be available including #Baklava

2101 NE 162nd Ave, Portland, OR 97230-5501, United States

Movie: 1982 at SIFF
2022-08-29 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
Lebanon | 2019 | 100 min. | Oualid Mouaness

1982 is a life-affirming coming-of-age tale set at an idyllic school in Lebanon’s mountains on the eve of a looming invasion. It unfolds over a single day and follows an 11-year-oldboy’s relentless quest to profess his love to a girl in his class. As the invasion encroaches on Beirut, it upends the day, threatening the entire country and its cohesion. Within the microcosm of the school, the film draws a harrowing portrait of a society torn between its desire for love and peace and the ideological schisms unraveling its seams.
In his debut feature, Oualid Mouaness delivers an ode to innocence in which he revisits one of the most cataclysmic moments in Lebanon’s history through the lens of a child and his vibrant imagination. It demonstrates the complexities of love and war, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Director:Oualid Mouaness
Principal Cast:Nadine Labaki, Mohamad Dalli, Rodrigue Sleiman, Aliya Khalidi
Country:Lebanon, France, Norway, Qatar, USA
Year:2019
Running Time:100 min.
Awards:TIFF19 Netpac Award, Grand Prix Cannes Écrans Juniors 2021, Oscars 2020 Official Selection (International Feature Film)
Language:Arabic, English
Has Subtitles:Yes
US Distributor:Tricycle Logic (theatrical)
International Sales:House Of Film
