ArabishWay

MAPS-MCRC-MELAW Legal Clinic
2020-04-19 14:00 - 17:00 UTC
MAPS-MCRC-MELAW Legal Clinic
Sunday, April 19, 2020
2:00pm-5:00pm

All legal clinics will be held remotely using video and audio platforms such as Zoom, until further notice.

The Middle Eastern Law Association of Washington (MELAW) is a non-profit legal organization for attorneys and law students of Middle Eastern descent, along with their friends and supporters.
MELAW is a recognized minority bar of the Washington State Bar Association. Our mission is to advance the goals of our members, provide a legal voice for the Middle Eastern community in Washington, address and educate the public on legal and political issues facing Middle Easterners, and offer resources as well as networking, mentorship, and social opportunities for our members and the public.

All are welcome to join MELAW, regardless of background or affiliation.

Silkroad Home Sessions with Kinan Azmeh
2020-04-19 12:00 - 12:30 UTC
Silkroad Home Sessions with Kinan Azmeh

Sunday, April 19, 2020
3:00 PM 3:30 PM

Bringing you music from our homes to yours. ❤️ #songsofcomfort
Location: Facebook
Date: Sunday, April 19
Time: 3:00pm EDT / 12:00pm PDT
Artist: Kinan Azmeh
Repertoire: TBA
Please note, this session will not be saved following the LIVE transmission.

Cancelled: Palestinian Spring Feast with Nadia Tommalieh
2020-04-19 10:00 - 13:30, 2020-04-18 10:00 - 13:30 UTC | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Laden with spices and brimming with flavor, many Palestinian dishes are centered around tradition and community. Join Nadia Tommalieh as she shows you how to create a traditional Palestinian feast to celebrate spring. You’ll make dajaj mahshi (roasted Cornish hens stuffed with spiced meat and rice); salatah bil tahini (spring vegetable and herb salad with tahini yogurt dressing); ful akhdar bil ziet (olive oil-sauteed fava beans); and qalayet bandora (tomato stew with fresh herbs and olive oil).
You can follow Nadia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nadiatommalieh

12-Fold Woven Rosette - Amina Quraishi
2020-04-18 13:00 - 15:00 UTC
Join me weekly on Saturdays for a live Zoom workshop!
$25 per workshop | $100 for all 5 (April 18th, April 25th, May 2nd, May 9th, & May 16th)
Email aquraishi.arts@gmail.com to register! (1-3pm Pacific Daylight Time)

Postponed: Prisoners of the Occupation - A Reading
2020-04-17 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Islamic School of Seattle, 720 25th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Staged reading of Prisoners of the Occupation by Einat Weizman and Palestinian Prisoners. Event followed by moderated panel of local prison justice activists.

Hosted by Dunya Productions Seattle
https://www.facebook.com/events/128975838551449/
https://dunyaproductionsea.wixsite.com/seattle/events/prisoners-of-the-occupation/form

Cancelled: The Falafel Stand
2020-04-16 18:00 - 21:30, 2020-04-15 18:00 - 21:30, 2020-04-14 18:00 - 21:30, 2020-04-07 10:00 - 13:30 UTC | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
In this class Nadia Tommalieh will teach you how to make pita sandwiches that will have you convinced you’ve traveled to the Middle East to eat them. You’ll learn about the history of the region as she shows you how to get the perfect puff on your homemade pita, and how to achieve flavorful, crispy, falafel every time. Also on the menu is maqali, a lesser known, but incredibly delicious pita sandwich stuffed with fried eggplant, potatoes, cauliflower, and tatbeleh (jalapeno lemon sauce). You’ll top your sandwiches with a variety of condiments like hummus, tarator sauce, mkhalal lift (pickled turnips), and tomato cucumber salad.
You can find Nadia’s work on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/nadiatommalieh

Cancelled: Jim Al-Khalili The World According to Physics
2020-04-14 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | The Forum at Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.), Seattle, 98101, United States
Honesty and doubt are among the core values of physics—the human quest for ever more foundational principles that accurately explain the natural world we see around us. To shed light on some of the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, scientific communicator Jim Al-Khalili joins us with observations from his book The World According to Physics. Al-Khalili helps us understand what this crucially important science tells us about the universe and the nature of reality itself by walking us through the core concepts of space, time, energy, and matter. He offers an accessible look at the three pillars of modern physics—quantum theory, relativity, and thermodynamics—showing how all three must come together if we are ever to have a full understanding of reality.
Using poignant examples and thought-provoking analogies, Al-Khalili illuminates the physics of the extreme cosmic and quantum scales, the speculative frontiers of the field, and the physics that underpins our everyday experiences and technologies. Share in the profound adventure of seeking truth in the world around us as Al-Khalili brings us up to speed with the biggest ideas in this fundamental field of science.
Jim Al-Khalili is professor of physics at the University of Surrey. He is one of Britain’s best-known science communicators and has written numerous books, including Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed; The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance; and Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology.rum

Postponed: Cadence Video Poetry Youth Camp - NWFF
2020-04-13 - 2020-04-17 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Sliding scale
We are adapting our plan for this camp due to coronavirus.
If you’re interested in participating, regardless of ability to attend in person, please fill out our interest form below!
Duration: 13h 30m
Instructor: Hanan Diriye

In this interactive camp, students will be introduced to the genre of video poetry and collaborate in groups to create a video poem of their own. Students will engage with poetry playfully, through poetry games (exquisite corpse), video collage (through found footage), and soundscape. Fun, explorative, and experimental, this camp will help students understand the many ways poetry can be experienced off the page, offering tools and resources to bring creative visions to life. Using NWFF cameras and Adobe Premiere, students will create and edit their own video poems to share with friends, family, and festival audiences at April 17 showcase of the 2020 Cadence: Video Poetry Festival.
All equipment and software is provided. Students are welcome to bring their own tech, art, and writing to work with as well.
We allow for drop-off and pickup within 30 minutes of the start and end time of each program.
We will provide snacks and drinks. Students are encouraged to bring a water bottle. Please let us know if you have dietary restrictions by emailing jonah@nwfilmforum.org after registering.
All equipment and software is provided. Students are welcome to bring their own tech, art, and writing to work with as well.
Each camper must have a medical and liability release form, which will be sent to you following registration.

Hanan Diriye
Pronouns : she/her/hers
filmmaker, poet, artist

Hanan Hassan is a poet, organizer, and interdisciplinary creative residing in Seattle by way of Richardson, Texas. She is currently an Assistant Education Programmer at the Northwest Film Forum. Her work is rooted in her experiences and upbringing as Somali diaspora. Hanan’s film work has earned recognition in 3+ festivals and her poetry was recently featured in the Summer 2019 issue of Hargeisa Literary Magazine , a publication of the Republic of Somaliland. In her free time she enjoys creating art, cooking and brainstorming comedy skits. She is currently working on a poetry documentary through the PNW Afro X Research Fellowship and is compiling her first poetry book Desert Flower Bloom.

Arabic Language "Virtual" Meetup - Seattle
2020-04-12 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | WA, United States
This week’s virtual meetup seemed to work well, so we’re going to try to meet more regularly so folks can practice Arabic and de-stress with everything that’s going on :).
For this meetup, we’ll have an optional discussion related to this podcast, عطلة الأسبوع من برلين (“the weekend from Berlin”) https://www.sowt.com/ar/g/766 (it’s a short 15 min listen) thanks Seth for the suggestion!.
This will be a Zoom session, I enabled the video option, so comb your hair, and wear your finest pajamas.
Make sure to install zoom (https://zoom.us/) and have it setup ahead of time so that it’s ready to go. Feel free to reach out if you’re running into any issues and I can try to help :).
How to join?I updated the location with the meeting link (visible to attendees).
Our meetup subscription is due this month, we suggest a $3-10 donation of you’re able to contribute. Your donation can be sent using Venmo to @Mhd-Arar
Thank you!!

Virtual Artist Talks: Women Telling the Palestinian Story
2020-04-12 09:00 - 11:00 UTC
Palestine Museum US Presents
Virtual Artist Talks : Sunday April 12th
Women Telling the Palestinian Story
Live-Streamed on Facebook
Sunday April 12
12:00 Noon US ET
On Facebook: @Palestine Museum US

Cancelled: The Moroccan Kitchen - Cooking Class at Whisk
2020-04-09 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | Whisk, 10385 Main St, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
The Moroccan Kitchen

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,
Traditional Couscous with Saffron & Mint and
Sweet Almond-Stuffed Dates.

Postponed: SUPER Culturefest Fundraiser
2020-04-09 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | UW – Intellectual House, 4249 Whitman Ct NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
**Mark your calendars – more details are to come!**
EXISTENCE IS RESISTANCE FUNDRAISER: Join Super UW for our fourth annual Palestinian Cultural Resistance and Solidarity Festival! This will be a compelling night full of music, art, dabke, authentic Arab cuisine and much more.
Though our night celebrates the decades-long struggle to preserve and honor Palestinian culture in the face of Israeli apartheid, we can’t wait to share the stage with other powerful and resistant voices in the name of solidarity.
THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT. Tickets will be available soon!

Cancelled: The Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture in Arab and Islamic Studies: Vali Nasr presents "The Emerging New Regional Order in the Middle East"
2020-04-08 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Kane Hall – University of Washington, 4069 Spokane Ln 98105, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
The Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture in Arab and Islamic Studies: Vali Nasr presents “The Emerging New Regional Order in the Middle East”
Vali Nasr is the Majid Khadduri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. Between 2012 and 2019 he served as the Dean of the School. He has advised senior American policy makers, world leaders, and businesses including the President, Secretary of State, senior members of the Congress, and presidential campaigns, and has written for New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Between 2009 and 2011 he served as Senior Advisor to U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. He is the author of The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat; Forces of Fortune: The Rise of a New Middle Class and How it Will Change Our World; The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future and Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty.
This annual lectureship was established in honor of Farhat J. Ziadeh, whose contributions to the fields of Islamic law, Arabic language, and Islamic Studies are truly unparalleled.
This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Campus Location: Kane Hall

Online Lecture: The Modern Art History of Palestinian Embroidery, hosted by Tatreez & Tea
2020-04-05 13:00 - 15:00 UTC
Author and teaching artist, Wafa Ghnaim, will discuss the evolution of the thobe from the nineteenth century through the contemporary period. In the lecture, Wafa will detail regional variations of traditional Palestinian costume in old Palestine; political events that had direct artistic implications on embroidery; the emergence of costume customization; post-1967 war conditions that impacted textile artistry; the artwork that emerged during the First Intifada; as well as the various work of embroidery artists that are seen today. Join Wafa on a unique journey into the language of Palestinian embroidery as it was used on the traditional thobe, and how generations of Palestinians have preserved and modernized these traditions in diasporic communities around the world.
Please note that when you register, you will be given a unique code to enter into the webinar. The lecture will be recorded so you can access it on-demand if you miss the live session. You can watch the lecture anytime!
You have two options to register:
1. Zoom; only accepting PayPal: https://us04web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hxs3SRiGRUa1C79goEaEdQ
2. Eventbrite; accepting all payment types: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-modern-art-history-of-palestinian-embroidery-with-wafa-ghnaim-tatreez-tickets-100728904866

Cancelled: World Language Story Time King County Library - Arabic
2020-04-04 10:30 - 11:00 UTC | King County Library System – Redmond, 15990 NE 85th Street Redmond WA 98052, Redmond, WA, 98032, United States
This event has been cancelled due to library closure!
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.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Redmond Library.

Arabic Story Time/أوقات قراءة القصة العربية

Arabic Online Karaoke Party
2020-04-03 18:00 - 21:00 UTC
Make sure to have your Zoom app on mobile phone or tablet installed, it is free. Or, install Zoom player on your desktop.
Find your karaoke music on YouTube and add the link on the Facebook event.

Cancelled: ArabishWay Circle Time Series (2019-2020)
2020-04-02 10:30 - 11:00 UTC | King County Library System – Bellevue, 1111 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
DUE TO THE STAY HOME ORDER – THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!
Hopefully, we will resume on May 7th!
Bring your little one down and join Laila for a circle time that will have songs, stories and activities all in Arabic followed by snack and craft time.
We will meet once each month and each month will have a theme: (September: alphabet, October: numbers, etc.) and the books, songs and activities will correlate with this theme.
Circle time is great for non-native speakers who want to expose their child to another language as well as native speakers who want to expose their children to Arabic outside of the home. It’s also been a great place for people to meet and get to know other families.
We will have the meeting room from 10am – 11:30am. The circle time will run from 10:30am-11:00am followed by informal snack/craft which can be done in class or completed at home.
Repeats monthly on the 2nd Thursday of the month until February then March through June will be the 1st Thursday of the month.
This circle time is geared towards toddlers and early preschool but all ages are welcome and will enjoy the activities!

Dining for Kids at Tanoor
2020-04-01 11:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tanoor (Restaurant), 2610 SE 4th Str, suite 400, Sammamish, WA, 98074, United States
Order delicious Lebanese fare for pick- up on April 1st from 11AM-9PM and Tanoor will donate 20% of your bill to support students.
Not comfortable leaving your home but still want to support? Ask if purchasing gift cards is an option. 20% of gift card sales if available would also be donated to Issaquah Schools Foundation.
Public · Hosted by Issaquah Schools Foundation and Tanoor

Cancelled: Arabic Story Time at Lake City Public Library
2020-03-30 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Lake City – Seattle Public Library, 12501 28th Ave. N.E., Seattle, Washington, 98125, United States
This event has been cancelled due to library closure!
Moms with an interested in Arabic are getting together and spending an hour with Arabic stories, music, cultural events and fun!
(this group moved from Wednesdays to Mondays at 5pm for the month of February and to 4pm in March)

Arabic Language "Virtual" Meetup - Seattle
2020-03-29 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | WA, United States
This week’s virtual meetup seemed to work well, so we’re going to try to meet more regularly so folks can practice Arabic and de-stress with everything that’s going on :).
For this meetup, we’ll have an optional discussion related to this podcast https://pca.st/bjmw8bos (it’s a short 15 min listen) which talks about two people and their journey of finding independence after leaving an orphanage. If you want to participate, please listen to it ahead of time (thanks Sarah for the suggestion!).
This will be a Zoom session. Attendance will still be limited so we can have a good conversation.
How to join? I’ll be sending the Zoom session link to those who sign up, so keep an eye on your Meetup messages 🙂
I enabled the video option, so comb your hair, and wear your finest pajamas.
Make sure to install zoom (https://zoom.us/) and have it setup ahead of time so that it’s ready to go. Feel free to reach out if you’re running into any issues and I can try to help :).

Cancelled: Wakhtiyo Sheeko Oo Soomali Ah (Somali Story Time)
2020-03-28 17:00 - 17:30 UTC | Seattle Public Library – Rainier Beach, 9125 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
This event has been cancelled due to library closure!

Fadlan Keen Caruurtaada Si Ay U Qaataan Waqti Xiiso leh, Iyo Sheeko Xariiro Ku Bixi Doonta Afka Soomaaliaga

Cancelled: Arabian Nights in Seattle - Ladies!
2020-03-28 16:00 - 23:00 UTC
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!
Who is ready for another evening of live entertainment, authentic Arabic dishes, and much more?!? 💃🏼
Arabian Nights in Seattle will be hosting another private event on March 28th for all of our exquisite women! ✨ We welcome everyone to join us as we use this evening to celebrate all of the amazing women in our community. This is your chance to bring your friends, family, and community members for a lovely night out! 🎀
Check out the Facebook event for ticket link!

Postponed: Movie: "Gaza Fights for Freedom" - Saint Mark's Mideast Focus Ministry Middle East Film Series
2020-03-27 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | St. Marks Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave E, Seattle, WA, 98102, United States
This event has been cancelled!
Please join our brothers and sisters at Saint Mark’s Mideast Focus Ministry for a film series to educate and promote understanding about the struggle for peace and justice in the Holy Land. Each screening includes presentations by guest speakers with personal experience on the subject.
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Gaza Fights for Freedom is a collaborative piece that shows you Gaza’s protest movement like you’ve never seen before. Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.

Film Series Dates Include:

February 28, 2020: Tel Aviv on Fire (catered reception at 6:15 p.m, movie at 7pm)
March 27, 2020: Gaza Fights for Freedom
April 24, 2020: Imprisoning a Generation
May 15, 2020: The Lobby—U.S.A

Cancelled: Crescendo at SIFF
2020-03-25 20:30 - 22:15 UTC | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
This event has been cancelled!
As part of a peace summit, a world-famous German conductor (Peter Simonischek; THE INTERPRETER, SJFF 2019) creates an orchestra of specially chosen Israeli and Palestinian youth musicians. But can music overcome the feelings of mistrust and suspicion striking chords and shrill notes onstage and off? It takes all the conductor’s skill and resources—and divulging his own tragic story—to overcome the discord and teach them how to achieve harmony, leading to a tense and emotional finale.
Academy Award-nominated director Dror Zahavi has united an impressive supporting cast of Israeli and Palestinian non-actors playing the students into a convincing ensemble, who fight, argue, laugh, and make music together in this dramatic, humanist hymn about forgiveness, reconciliation, and the astounding power of music.
Winner of the 2019 Audience Prize at the Festival of German Film.
Dror Zahavi | Drama | Germany, Israel, Italy | 2019 | English, German w/English subtitles | 112m
Rating: PG-13
Special Guest Intro and performance by Bram Schenck, principal clarinetist for Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra and member of the National Youth Orchestra

Cancelled: SJFF: Breaking Bread
2020-03-25 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
This event has been cancelled!
Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel—the first Muslim Arab Israeli to win the MasterChef Israel television competition—is on a quest to make social change through food. Her A-sham Arabic Food Festival in Haifa pairs Arab and Jewish chefs to collaborate on dishes like kishek (a Syrian yogurt soup) and qatayef (a dessert typically served during Ramadan). Exotic cuisines are served up with a side of politics, as we savor the taste of hope, collaboration, and mouthwatering fare.
Beth Elise Hawk | Documentary | USA | 2020 | English | 86m
Rating: G
Sponsors: Cathy Sarkowsky and Max Sarkowsky, Judy and Joe Schocken
Community Partner: UW Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization
Special Event: Hummus Tasting
