ArabishWay

Arabic School: Saturdays in Kent
2024-06-01 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Kent Meridian High School, 10020 SE 256th St, Kent, WA, 98030
Our Arabic School provides those who want to learn Arabic the opportunity to fine-tune their knowledge. Our classes are held weekly at Kent Meridian High School for our kids and youth.
​
Program Eligibility Requirements:
– Elementary or middle-school age children
– Living in King County

When: Saturdays
Time: 10-12
Where: Kent Meridian High School (10020 SE 256th St, Kent, WA 98030)

Virtual Movie Screenings: Every Saturday with Palestine Museum US
2024-06-01 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Check website: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/events for current showings and for registration links!
Often the screening ends with a Q&A with the director!
Free virtual screening of the documentary film “Children’s Cries,” directed by Iyad AbuRok

Saturday, June 1, 2024
12:00 PM 1:30 PM

Click here to register for this event.
Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe, 17:00 London; Running Time 32 minutes, 2024, English with Arabic subtitles. The film screening will be followed by discussions with film director Iyad AbuRok.
About the Film
The film is a poignant work that sheds light on the ongoing suffering of the Palestinian people from the Nakba of 1948 to the present day. It provides a realistic and vivid depiction of the massacres and crimes committed against children and civilians in the Palestinian territories, including Gaza and the West Bank.

Narratives of Pain
2024-05-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Contact for Location, See above for contact
We are excited to announce our next community event with Narratives of Pain!
Please join Narratives of Pain and Baladna for an evening of healing through the telling and witnessing of stories. Narratives of pain is a unique showcase highlighting the value of collecting gathering and communal witnessing. The Narratives of Pain structure honors both storytellers and witnesses (i.e the audience) with stories that range in subject matter and form, focused on the needs of each person.
It is important that the Palestinian community can come together in a safe, shared space to feel free to open up with the intention to heal individually and collectively. We must take care of ourselves as much as we show up for our community in order to sustain the resistance we are all engaging in daily.
If you are interested in signing up as a storyteller, please contact Zain Shamoon via email at zain.shamoon87@gmail.com

Seattle, WA
Friday, May 31st
7-9
Doors open at 6:30
*This event will take place in Seattle WA, with the exact location being shared the week of the event.

Peace Vigils [Olympia]
2024-05-31 16:30 - 18:00 | Percival Landing, 217 Thurston Ave NW, Olympia, WA, 98501
4:30-6:00 PM
Percival Landing in Downtown Olympia
4th &Water Street

Join us every Friday in downtown Olympia as we continue to gather to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, an end to occupation, saving Gaza’s children, and for peace.

Thanks to the Olympia Fellowship Of Reconciliation for supporting and joining our efforts to demand a permanent peace in Gaza. Thank you to everyone for continuing to respect the peaceful and welcoming atmosphere that the Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) has maintained at these weekly vigils for so many years.

[Virtual] Weekly Arabic Conversation: Open discussion
2024-05-30 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual
أهلاً وسهلاً
Every Thursday 6 PM PDT 8 PM CST or 9 pm EST
We see who shows up and can talk about anything. Feel free to bring something to work on or share if you are so inspired.
This is an ongoing weekly practice group to support people at an upper beginner to intermediate level of any form of Arabic.
Beginners may benefit from the introduction, and the discussion or activity part will be most appropriate for upper beginners through intermediate. Native speakers and Heritage speakers are welcome to join in.
We may mix things up a bit occasionally with a reading or watching a video together. Open to suggestions on how to make this beneficial for us all.
Zoom link available if you RSVP

Resistance and Repression Discussion and Q&A
2024-05-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Contact Host for Location Details
What: Join Samidoun Seattle for a panel and conversation on the increased repression we are facing in occupied Palestine and here in the U.S. along with the increased support for Palestinian liberation across the world. Our panel includes author and journalist Mariam Barghouti and Nizar Mansour, a longtime Palestinian activist in the community, and Samidoun Seattle organizer Bissan Barghouti.
More info and registration link: tinyurl.com/samidoun531

Spaces of Exception (Film & Discussion)
2024-05-28 19:30 - 21:00 | The Beacon, 4405 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
With filmmaker Matt Peterson in attendance for an introduction and Q&A following the screening.

Shot between 2014 to 2017, SPACES OF EXCEPTION observes and juxtaposes the communities and struggles of the American Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp. It visits reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, New York, and South Dakota, as well camps in Lebanon and the West Bank, “places defined by their historical and spiritual resistance” in order to “understand the conditions for life, community, and sovereignty.”

More info and buy tickets (for profit to the theater): https://thebeacon.film/calendar/movie/spaces-of-exception
more details» copy to my calendar

The Traveling Bakeshop
2024-05-28 08:00 - 17:00
https://www.whiskcooks.com/cooking-class/kids-in-the-kitchen-the-traveling-bakeshop/

Northwest Folklife Festival
2024-05-26 14:00 - 14:45 | Seattle Center, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
The schedule isn’t out but I have heard that there will be Arab performers! Wahoo!
Please triple check the time and specific stage location when the official schedule comes out:
https://nwfolklife.org/festival/home.html

A 25-Mile March for Palestinian Liberation
2024-05-26
Join us on a 25-mile march for Palestinian liberation this Memorial Day weekend, May 26th 🍉
👇Our vision statement:
As we grieve more than seventy-five years of unbearable loss of life and freedom in occupied Palestine, we are coming together to walk 25 miles—the length of Gaza—for justice.
We are a group of Palestinians and non-Palestinians; Indigenous and non-Indigenous; Black, POC, and white; Jews and non-Jews; Christians, Buddhists, and people of many faiths; settlers and immigrants, living on Duwamish and other Coast Salish land and united in our longing for the liberation of Palestine. We are disabled and abled, elders and young. We know ableism is at the heart of every genocide, and we welcome all bodies into this movement.
When we say “freedom from the River to the Sea,” we call for universal freedom and safety for everyone from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. We call for universal access to food, water, shelter, education and medical care. We call for freedom of movement and freedom of expression regardless of religion or ethnicity.
When we say “freedom from the River to the Sea,” we long for true liberation for all peoples beyond false borders. Our conscience calls us to forcefully and unceasingly demand an end to the continuing Israeli expulsion of Palestinians. We know that there is no military solution. True safety and freedom must be collective. We are unequivocal in our vision: one state, called Palestine, with equal rights for all.
We are walking toward the world we yearn for: Indigenous sovereignty restored, land held as sacred, not as property, and an end to all systems that exploit, extract, and kill. We are walking for peace, life, and liberation, from every river to every sea.
Will you walk with us?

riverseawalkseattle@gmail.com

Arabic Storytime @ Lake City Branch / وقت القصص بالعربية في فرع ليك سيتي
2024-05-25 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-05-18 10:30 - 11:30 | Lake City – Seattle Public Library, 12501 28th Ave. N.E., Seattle, Washington, 98125, United States
At storytime, children from birth through elementary school and their families can enjoy stories, songs, and fun learning activities.
Event in English and Arabic.

Seffarine (Portland)
2024-05-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR, 97201
At a momentous first meeting at a coffee shop in Fez, Moroccan vocalist Lamiae Naki and multi-instrumentalist Nat Hulskamp composed their first song and decided to get married. Brought together by their deep knowledge of the music of both sides of the Straits of Gibraltar — Spanish flamenco and Moroccan Arabic music — they created Seffarine.
Seffarine takes its name from the ancient metalworking square in Fez, which is famous for the complex rhythms that ring out from the blacksmiths’ hammers, and where Lamiae’s family is well known as masters of the tradition. Seffarine‘s music embraces and extends Morocco’s musical collision between Arabic, Iberian and West African cultures, forging vibrant original music deeply rooted in their backgrounds in flamenco guitar, oud and Arab Andalusian music. Nat and Lamiae built an international quintet bringing in all star musicians from Iran, the US and Spain, who infuse the sound with textured instrumentation and inspired improvisation. Sweeping kamancheh (Persian spike-fiddle) ornamentation plays off gritty bass grooves and explosive flamenco footwork, with Lamiae’s fluidly riveting voice at the center, sending up sheets of cascading Andalusi melodies punctuated by the catchy hooks of North African Chaabi, sung in her native Moroccan Arabic. Their sound has taken them around the world, from touring Indonesia and Europe to receiving grants to study Ottoman singing in Turkey, to recording with top flamenco musicians in Spain such as Diego del Morao and Latin Grammy Award winner Antonio Rey.

The Moroccan Kitchen: Cooking Class
2024-05-24 18:00 - 20:30 | Whisk, 10385 Main St, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
In this hands-on 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. 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 a 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:

Chicken Tagine with Meyer Lemons and Olives
Couscous with Saffron, Mint and Basil
Cucumber and Tomato Chopped Salad
Almond-Stuffed Dates

Movie: The Old Oak
2024-05-23 16:30 - 18:30, 2024-05-22 16:30 - 18:30, 2024-05-21 16:30 - 18:30, 2024-05-20 16:30 - 18:30, 2024-05-18 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-05-17 16:00 - 18:00, 2024-05-16 16:30 - 18:30 | The Beacon, 4405 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing in its small northern town, but it’s also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. Its owner TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) hangs on to The Old Oak by his fingertips, and his predicament is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship, TJ meets a curious young Syrian photographer named Yara (Ebla Mari). Together can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other? So unfolds a deeply moving drama about their fragilities and hopes.

SIFF: The Mother of All Lies [Morocco]
2024-05-20 - 2024-05-27 | Virtual
How do you reconstruct the past when all traces of that past have been erased? This is the dilemma that confronts filmmaker Asmae El Moudir, in terms of both her personal history and the history of her country. In terms of her personal history, her tyrannical grandmother has forbidden the taking of photographs in the family, seemingly as part of a larger obfuscation of the past. In the absence of photographs, El Moudir enlists her father, a successful builder, to help her construct an elaborate diorama of the street where the family lived during her childhood, in the Sebata district of Casablanca. She populates the diorama with miniature clay figurines of her family, friends, and neighbors. Their real-life counterparts are then invited to revisit their memories of that time and place—in particular the 1981 Casablanca Bread Riots, protests over the price of bread that were brutally suppressed by the police and military. On El Moudir’s street alone, a girl her age named Fatima was killed in the street; neighbors Saïd and Abdallah were seized and tortured. These events have been suppressed in El Moudir’s family history, as well as in the national history. But El Moudir recreates them, retrieving what might otherwise be lost; bringing family secrets and memories to light, and achieving some measure of justice, if only in miniature.

SIFF: Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano [Lebanon]
2024-05-20 - 2024-05-27 | Virtual
While shooting Costa Brava, Lebanon (SIFF 2022), the film crew’s world stopped when Lebanon’s Port of Beirut suddenly exploded, killing over 200 people and injuring thousands more. What does it mean to strive for human dignity and make art amid a country’s continuing turmoil?

Nakba 76
2024-05-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Gas Works Park, 2101 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA, 98103
🇵🇸 SEATTLE 🇵🇸: This year, the Palestinian Nakba enters its 76th year and comes at the heels of a violent onslaught against our people in Gaza who have been facing a US-backed Israeli genocide for over 6 months. What we have witnessed these past months in Gaza is part of an ongoing colonial project to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their land since the Nakba, which began in 1948. For more than 76 years, Israel and its imperialist allies have conspired to destroy the will for Palestinian liberation, and for more than 76 years Palestinians have resisted their oppressors.
We must carry on this struggle of resistance until all Palestinians return home! We invite all Palestinian, Arab, and progressive organizations and people of conscience to join us on May 18 to honor the martyrs and demand:
1️⃣ An end to the genocide in Gaza
2️⃣ An immediate two-way arms embargo
3️⃣ The release of all Palestinian political prisoners
4️⃣ Immediate humanitarian aid and investment in relief efforts to help rebuild Gaza
5️⃣ An end to the Zionist occupation of Palestine!

Planting the Seeds of Liberation
2024-05-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Gas Works Park, 2101 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA, 98103
This year, the Palestinian Nakba enters its 76th year and comes at the heels of a violent onslaught against our people in Gaza who have been facing a US-backed Israeli genocide for over 6 months. What we have witnessed these past months in Gaza is part of an ongoing colonial project to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their land since the Nakba, which began in 1948. For more than 76 years, Israel and its imperialist allies have conspired to destroy the will for Palestinian liberation, and for more than 76 years Palestinians have resisted their oppressors.
In commemoration of Nakba, join us on May 19 to sow seeds of resistance. For this community event, we will learn about the role of Palestinian agriculture and farming in resistance, along with the significance of plants, such as the poppy. This practice of cultivating and caring for our roots is a one of defiance against Zionist aggression, land theft, and ethnic cleansing. We must carry on this struggle of resistance until all Palestinians return home!
📍Gas Works Park
⏰ 2 pm
📆 May 19

Kuffiyeh Walk - Kirkland Edition
2024-05-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Google Building C (Parking Lot), 747 6th Street South, Kirkland, WA, 98033, United States
Wear your kuffiyeh and walk proudly!
Meet on Google’s Kirkland Campus!
You can park in the parking lot of Building C. Head down to the trail and meet us at the playground

Head down to the trail and meet us at the playground

Contact Nadera with questions: nadera0425@yahoo.com

Seffarine
2024-05-18 19:00 - 21:00 | New Traditions, 300 5th Ave SW, Olympia, WA, 98501, United States
“gorgeous intersection of Spanish flamenco, Arabic and Andalusian music, Persian classical, and jazz” -Bass Player Magazine

The sounds that stir the dry winds of Southern Spain and Morocco, two countries separated by only a whisper of the Mediterranean, are the musical DNA of a beautifully complex extended family linking North Africa and Europe.

The musicians of Seffarine, soulful Moroccan singer Lamiae Naki and flamenco guitarist Nat Hulskamp, supported by master musicians of diverse cultures, embrace and extend this rich legacy. Their exciting performances masterfully combine explosive flamenco footwork, exotic instrumentation and grooving basslines. These diverse backgrounds meld, creating what SoundRoots describes as “an ear-caressing blend of sounds from Spain and North Africa, spiced with a bit of fiery instrumentation and percussion.”

“Seffarine’s music can melt the coldest hearts” -Chicago Reader

SIFF: Three Promises [Palestine]
2024-05-18 17:30 - 19:30, 2024-05-17 14:30 - 16:30 | SIFF Film Center, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, 98109
In the early 2000s, when the Israeli army was retaliating against the Second Intifada in the West Bank in Palestine, Suha filmed the experience from the hillside town of Beit Jala, where she lived with her family. Two decades later, her son has edited that footage and interwoven it with present-day conversations with his mother about what that period was like. The result provides a remarkable insight into daily life during wartime—the uncertainty, the upheaval, the terror—which families in Gaza are experiencing today. Suha and her husband try to gauge the distance of the attacks in order to calculate the degree of threat. Is it time to go down to the basement, or is it still okay to remain upstairs? Will the children be safer against the wall or in the corner? At the moments of greatest danger, Suha promises God that, if they survive, they will leave—they are fortunate enough to be able to do so. But leaving feels almost as impossible as staying, a choice between emotional anguish (not to mention the logistical ordeal) and physical jeopardy. In this way, the film is also an exploration of the topic of forced migration, another aspect of the Palestinian experience that is still with us in the present.

SIFF: After the Fire (North African in France)
2024-05-16 12:45 - 14:45 | SIFF Cinema Downtown, 2100 4th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98121
As an immigrant family mourns the death of one of their own at the hands of Strasbourg’s brutal police force, they decide to take on the justice system that helped to cover it up in this rousing political thriller from Mehdi Fikri.
