Share a Language: Arabic - Virtual Event via Tinley Park Public Library
2021-01-30 08:00 - 08:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Event by Tinley Park Public Library

Online: us02web.zoom.us

Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 8 AM PST – 8:30 AM PST

Tickets
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Public · Anyone on or off Facebook

Ages 3-8 years with adult(s): Enrich your day by joining this storytime offered by a native speaker of Arabic. Signup required through Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_iilYKUo9Sl-WqomUgA2umQ

Movie: Jenin, Jenin - Live Stream
2021-01-30 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
To register for this event please click here.
To view the film trailer please click here.
The screening of the film will be followed by Q&A discussion with film Director Mohammad Bakri.
About the Film
Muhammad Bakri’s film “Jenin, Jenin” caused a storm in Israel and even made it to the Supreme Court (which made a decision banning its release).
The film deals with the events of Jenin in April 2002, when the Israeli Army invaded the West Bank town and the refugee camp as part of the so-called “Operation Defensive Shield.”
Palestinians as well as human rights groups accuse Israel of war crimes committed during the siege and invasion of the Palestinian refugee camp in April 2002. “Jenin Jenin” demonstrates the extent of Israeli oppression and terror and the effects they have left behind.

Samarkand Rosettes - Online Art Workshop
2021-01-30 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Samarkand is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia. Learn to draw and a 10-fold geometric rosette with beautiful biomorphic patterns.

Workshop includes illustrated handouts with step-by-step instructions and recording of class.
REGISTER HERE $35

Amina Quraishi is an artist and art educator based in Seattle, Washington. Her work is inspired by the beauty of traditional Islamic art and nature. She received an Honors Bachelors of Science majoring in Psychology and an Advanced Diploma in Art & Art History at the University of Toronto. With the focus mostly on European art movements she began to wonder what about art in other parts of the world. Going back to her roots as a Muslim, she felt a personal connection to the rich cultural and artistic history of the Islamic lands. She began studying and practicing Islamic art and architecture using traditional tools.
Amina has been teaching Islamic art since 2017. She hopes by sharing her love and fascination of Islamic art will work towards awareness and inclusion in art education.

Virtual Arabic: Meetup
2021-01-30 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Join us for a chat and maybe a game. I was thinking we could play codenames (https://codenames.game/). The words will be in english (unfortunately it doesn’t support arabic yet) but you can give “spoken” hints which we can give in arabic out loud.
No pressure if you just want to spectate/chat.

To Palestine With Love - The poetry and art of Najwa Kawar Farah
2021-01-31 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
A reading of poems and a review of artwork by Palestinian writer, poet, and artist Najwa Kawar Farah, followed by audience discussion
Najwa Kawar Farah is a Palestinian writer who has contributed to Palestinian and Arabicliterature for several decades. The bulk of her publications are short stories, novels and poems. Najwa was born in Nazareth and lived in Haifa until 1965, and then in two West Bank cities, Jerusalem and Ramallah. Najwa also lived in Lebanon, the UK and Canada. She passed away in Canada in 2015.
Najwa’s life experiences in Palestine and the Middle East, provided her with the political, historical, and socio-cultural milieu from which she drew and developed her characters.
Most of her protagonists are Palestinians, mainly ’ordinary’ people especially refugees uprooted from their homes and homeland, who seek answers to their individual and collective historical predicament. Many of these protagonists are resilient women, who in addition to their political oppression encounter social discrimination. Her stories and novels come in eleven collections in Arabic. A number of these have been translated into English.
About the Readers/Moderators
Zeina Azzam is a Palestinian American poet, writer, editor, and community activist. Currently she works as publications editor at the think tank, Arab Center Washington DC. Her chapbook, Bayna Bayna, In-Between, will be published by The Poetry Box in 2021. Zeina’s poems appear/will appear in Pleiades, Passager, Sukoon Magazine, Mizna, Cordite Poetry Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Barzakh: A Literary Magazine, Infinite Rust, Heartwood Literary Magazine, Lunch Ticket, The Fourth River, Split This Rock, Voice Male, and the edited volumes Tales from Six Feet Apart (2021),Bettering American Poetry (2019), Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by and for Refugees (2019), The Poeming Pigeon (2017), Write Like You’re Alive 2017, Gaza Unsilenced (2015), and Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves (2008). She volunteers for organizations that promote Palestinian rights and the civil rights of vulnerable communities in Alexandria, Virginia, where she lives, and is a mentor for We Are Not Numbers, a writing program for youth in Gaza. Zeina holds an M.A. in Arabic literature from Georgetown University, an M.A. in sociology from George Mason University, and a B.A. in psychology from Vassar College.
Sahar Mustafah
Sahar Mustafah is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, an inheritance she explores in her fiction. Her first novel The Beauty of Your Face (W.W. Norton, 2020) was named a 2020 Notable Book and Editor’s Choice by New York Times Book Review, a Los Angeles Times United We Read selection, one of Marie Claire Magazine’s 2020 Best Fiction by Women, and a Great Group Reads for National Reading Group Month. It was long-listed for the Center for Fiction 2020 First Novel Prize, and was a finalist for Chicago Writers Association Best Book of the Year award and the Chicago Review of Books award. Her short story collection Code of the West was the winner of the 2016 Willow Books Fiction Award. Her stories have earned a Distinguished Story citation from Best American Short Stories 2016, First Place in Fiction from the Guild Literary Complex of Chicago, and three Pushcart Prize nominations, among other honors. Mustafah earned her MFA from Columbia College Chicago where she was the recipient of the David Friedman Award for Best Fiction. She writes and teaches outside of Chicago.

Celebration of Life: A Tribute to Michel Merhej and Bassam Saba
2021-01-31 11:00 - 12:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Join us for a Celebration of Life honoring the lives and achievements Michel Merhej (1928-2020) and Bassam Saba (1958-2020), master musicians and faculty members of the Arabic Music Retreat. Both lost their lives to COVID-19 in 2020. Simon Shaheen is curating the program to salute and honor them both. The event will be on-line on Zoom.
The event will take place at 2:00PM Eastern Daylight Time (New York time).

Please RSVP for the Zoom event using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/161…/WN_LDe4wMJTS4-jRL1fpS1JNw

Photo credits: Bassam Saba photo by Hanan Debwania (2016). Michel Merhej photo by Eric Crawford (2019)
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Prevention and the Vaccine - Urgent Covid 19 Information
2021-01-31 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
PREVENTION and the VACCINE

URGENT COVID-19 INFORMATION
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS with EXPERTS

SUNDAY JANUARY 31, 4 PM

The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee-ADC Southern California invites you
to learn about common misconceptions about COVID-19, how to keep you and your family safe, and how to help end the pandemic.
Pass this along, especially to Arabic speakers. Everyone is welcome!
Conducted in English with translations and summaries in Arabic.

Dr. Souhail Toubia and Dr. Raed Al-Naser will offer the latest information on the vaccines and vigilance in prevention behavior. We are looking forward to your attendance.
Please spread widely, especially to Arabic speakers.

ADC SoCal is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: COVID-19 PREVENTION and the VACCINE in English & Arabic
Time: Jan 31, 2021 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting This Sunday at 4PM:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85156704102?pwd=[REDACTED]

the Pantry Sunday Supper: Classic Kofta with Nadia Tommalieh
2021-01-31 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Whatever your Sunday traditions may be, let cooking with your loved ones be a part of it! Our Sunday Supper series aims to get your whole household cooking together, whipping up a comforting meal to be shared at your table. “Sawani” is the Arabic word for trays, and refers to many kinds of baked trays of comfort food found across the Arab world. In this class NADIA TOMMALIEH will teach you about her family’s favorite sawani: Kofta! You’ll learn how to mix and form kofta for kofta bil bandora (baked lamb and beef patties with potatoes and tomato sauce) with ruz bil she’iryeh (vermicelli rice). We will finish with muhalabia bil bortokal (layered milk and orange pudding) for dessert.
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.

Connect Arab America: Empowerment Summit
2021-02-01 - 2021-02-05 | WA
Join the Arab America Foundation as we salute and empower Arab American unity and identity with discussions from exciting speakers in public service, cultural institutions, business innovators, influencers, and performances by exciting artists from the U.S. at this year’s first annual Connect Arab America: Empowerment Summit, February 1-5, 2021.

The primary purpose of the summit is to connect, educate, and empower Arab Americans by bringing inspiring and successful Arab Americans to present the best of Arab America.

The Connect Arab America: Empowerment Summit will run virtually on Zoom, February 1-5, 2021 Monday-Friday, from
7-8 pm ET with networking to follow each evening from 8-8:30 pm, ET.

REGISTER HERE!

As a marginalized community, Arab Americans are becoming more active politically in municipal, regional, state, and all levels of politics. This panel will meet some of the public officials that are making a difference in their respective communities.

Notturno: Streaming at NWFF
2021-02-01 - 2021-02-07 | WA
From the Oscar-nominated director of Fire at Sea, this lyrical tour-de-force captures the peoples and places ravaged along the borders between Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon. Italy’s Oscars 2021 Best International Feature Film Submission. Includes special pre-recorded conversation with director Gianfranco Rosi and Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Mayor: On Demand via SIFF
2021-02-01 - 2021-02-07 | WA
Mayor is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. His immediate goals: repave the sidewalks, attract more tourism, and plan the city’s Christmas celebrations. His ultimate mission: to end the occupation of Palestine. Rich with detailed observation and a surprising amount of humor, Mayor offers a portrait of dignity amidst the madness and absurdity of endless occupation while posing a question: how do you run a city when you don’t have a country?

YEAR
2020

RUNTIME
89 mins

LANGUAGE
English, Arabic

COUNTRY
United States, United Kingdom

RATING
NR

The Falafel Stand: Cooking Class
2021-02-01 17:00 - 19:30, 2021-02-07 17:00 - 19:30 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 Mediterranean 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 khubez (pita bread), and how to achieve flavorful, crispy, falafel every time. You’ll top your piping hot sandwiches with tarator (tahini garlic sauce), tatbeeleh (jalapeno lemon sauce), and tomato cucumber salad.
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. To learn more about how class will go visit our FAQ PAGE.

You can find Nadia’s work on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/nadiatommalieh

Reconstruction, Reconsidered: Belonging and Urban Contestation In Mogadishu's 'Building Boom'
2021-02-03 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Despite a remarkable post-war building boom and returning diaspora, Somalia’s capital city remains contested. Ballooning property values and the refurbishment of public and private spaces continue to embody the politics of urban belonging, memory and violence of the past three decades.

Surer Mohamed is a David and Elaine Potter Cambridge Trust Scholar and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge.

Additional co-sponsor: Department of History

Visit Gaza City with Eyewitness Palestine
2021-02-04 11:00 - 12:30, 2021-02-07 09:00 - 10:30, 2021-02-09 09:00 - 10:30, 2021-02-17 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Spend FEBRUARY in the Old City of Gaza
on a Virtual Delegation
with your Guide, Mohammed Rafik

Co-sponsored by We Are Not Numbers
Choose between one of the following four tours:
February 4th, 7th, 9th, 17th, or 20th
(Dates for this series have had to be postponed from January to February, due to the closures and school schedule changes in Gaza because of COVID-19.)
For this Virtual Delegation, our guide is Mohammed Rafik, a young writer and blogger from We Are Not Numbers. He will take you on a tour around Gaza City, where many of the oldest historical places lie in the Gaza Strip and firmly show Palestinians’ historical connection and right to this land.

You will be introduced to places like the Al Basha Palace, the Great Al Omari Mosque, and the Church of Saint Porphyrius. During the walk around, Mohammed will provide you with some interesting historical information about how these places were constructed and what they mean to the Palestinians in Gaza. We will also walk with Mohammed in the streets of Gaza’s old city and learn more about the people living there.

Egyptian Rule and Canaanite Resistance as Seen from Jaffa: ARCE Lecture
2021-02-04 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
The excavations of the Egyptian New Kingdom fortress in Jaffa, on the southern side of Tel Aviv were undertaken from 1956 to 2014. It was the only Egyptian fortress excavated in Canaan. Its archaeological record, particularly the evidence from several dramatic destructions, provides a unique perspective on Egyptian rule and local resistance to it from ca. 1460 to 1125 B.C. The archaeological evidence, taken together with textual sources, yields a picture of Canaanite resistance to the Egyptian military presence in Jaffa. This originated in centers located throughout the coastal plain and persisted for several centuries. This talk is drawn from excavations directed by the author and undertaken by the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project between 2011 and 2014. Dr. Aaron Burke is the Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies at UCLA.

Moorish Splendors - Online Art Workshop
2021-02-06 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
The Alhambra Palace is a remarkable work of architecture adorned with tiled geometric mosaics, biomorphic carving and calligraphy. Learn how to construct a geometric pattern using a compass and ruler and paint with watercolor.
Workshop includes illustrated handouts with step-by-step instructions and recording of class.
REGISTER HERE $35

Amina Quraishi is an artist and art educator based in Seattle, Washington. Her work is inspired by the beauty of traditional Islamic art and nature. She received an Honors Bachelors of Science majoring in Psychology and an Advanced Diploma in Art & Art History at the University of Toronto. With the focus mostly on European art movements she began to wonder what about art in other parts of the world. Going back to her roots as a Muslim, she felt a personal connection to the rich cultural and artistic history of the Islamic lands. She began studying and practicing Islamic art and architecture using traditional tools.
Amina has been teaching Islamic art since 2017. She hopes by sharing her love and fascination of Islamic art will work towards awareness and inclusion in art education.

Reflection Session: Alert! with Andrea Assaf
2021-02-09 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
FREE with RSVP
Reflection Sessions are live, interactive, online events led by Arab American theatre artist and AANM artist-in-residence Andrea Assaf, on the second Tuesday of each month this year, leading up to the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Each session is grounded in a performance excerpt from Eleven Reflections on September*, with special guest artists who share their work, and engage in a “back stage” conversation about the themes of the month.
This February session will feature the poem Alert! by Andrea Assaf, and explore themes of surveillance, Islamophobia and drone technology in the post-9/11 era. Special guest announcement coming soon!
For questions, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski, Curator of Public Programs at kgrabowski@accesscommunity.org
*Eleven Reflections on September is a poetry/spoken word, multimedia performance on Arab American experience, Wars on/of Terror, and “the constant, quiet rain of death amidst beauty” that each autumn brings in a post-9/11 world. The annual witnessing of autumn leaves becomes a metaphor for the fallen. This trans-disciplinary project includes performances with interactive media design and live music; community dialogues; visual arts exhibits; open mics, panels and opportunities for action through partnerships with peace organizations. In 2021, this project will be re-created as a large-scale, community-based, devised performance directed by Andrea Assaf, engaging Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) and Muslim American artists and allies in San Antonio, Texas, commissioned by The Carver.

Pasadena Library discussion of The Moor’s Account
2021-02-11 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Authors & Their Journeys: Laila Lalami
Author Laila Lalami will discuss her novel The Moor’s Account and share her journey writing it.

Presented in Zoom • Sign up here, and a link to join will be sent to you.

This event is sponsored by The Friends of the Pasadena Public Library

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Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of four novels, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Other Americans, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a full professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles. Her new book, a work of nonfiction called Conditional Citizens, was published by Pantheon in September 2020.

“No One Will Do This For Us” Intellectuals of African Descent and the Nile Valley in the Early 20th Century
2021-02-11 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
The disciplinary history of Egyptology, as it is currently written, incorrectly excludes the voices of intellectuals of African descent. In the early 20th century, when Egyptology was first taught in US universities, Black scholars and writers and white Egyptologists who held university posts engaged with one another over matters related to Egypt, ancient and modern. These conversations must be recognized as integral to the formation of the discipline in the United States and to its future. Vanessa Davies is the founding organizer of the Nile Valley Collective, which promotes the Africanity of the ancient NileValley cultures. She is writing a book on the contributions of scholars of African descent in the US to the disciplinary histories of Egyptology and Nubiology. She is the author of Peace in Ancient Egypt, the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography, and the editor of The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N2500.
ONLINE MEETING LINK: us02web.zoom.us…

Virtual Screening: Rana's Wedding via Palestine Museum US
2021-02-13 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
To register for this event please click here.
To view the film trailer please click here.
About the Film
Rana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum delivered by her father: She must either choose a husband from a pre-selected list of eligible men, or she must accompany her father abroad. Rana’s Wedding is a romantic drama about a Palestinian girl who wants to get married to the man of her own choice. With only ten hours to find her boyfriend in occupied Jerusalem, Rana sneaks out of her father’s house at daybreak to find her forbidden love, Khalil. Facing barriers and occupation which have become an everyday reality, Rana overcomes her fears and doubts, deciding not to let anyone control her life.
by Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad

A Virtual Celebration of the Life and Art of Rajie Cook 1930 - 2021
2021-02-14 09:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
It is with heavy heart and deep sadness that we report the passing of Palestinian artist Rajie Cook.
Please join us in celebrating Rajie’s life and decades of artistic excellence.
All times listed are in the Eastern US Time Zone.
Please click here to register for this event.

4.3 DIALOGUES ON THE ART OF ARAB FASHION: MY LIFE’S PASSION
2021-02-16 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
4.3 DIALOGUES ON THE ART OF ARAB FASHION: MY LIFE’S PASSION
Event Description: Widad Kawar is the founder of the Tiraz Centre in Amman, Jordan, home to the biggest collection of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Arab traditional dress in the world, and the author of Threads of Identity, a record of Palestinian dress and the women who made and wore it. With her childhood and youth spent in Bethlehem and Ramallah, Widad was surrounded by traditional Palestinian weaving and embroidery. The war and displacement in Palestine encouraged her to collect not only the items but the stories and legacies of the women who lost their homes and their culture. For Widad, each item in her collection is a reminder of a person, a place, and an event. Her knowledge stems from the personal stories of the women who made and worn these dresses.
Date: 16th February 2021
Time: 11 am NYC, 4 pm London, 8 pm Dubai
Tickets: Donation
Students: If you are a student or member of academia please register here to receive your complimentary registration links.
Registering will not only give you access to the live session but also a recorded version to catch up on in your own time.
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World Premiere of 3 X 13, an interactive online performance
2021-02-18 | WA
ANNOUNCING THE WORLD PREMIERE OF 3 X 13
An Interactive Online Performance

Thursday, February 18
FREE/by donation

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Join us for the premiere of this interactive online performance co-presented by Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre and ArteEast, and receive exclusive online content from the artists, available for 48 hours.

Created by award-winning Director Eimi Imanishi and Choreographer Samar Haddad King, and produced by Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, 3 x 13 explores the singularity of the individual and the universality of the human experience. In 12 short films with original music by Lou Tides (TEEN, Here We Go Magic), 12 artists from around the globe share a journey of transformation that deeply marked their lives. These personal accounts of parenthood, loss, race, exile, dreams both realized and abandoned, all find expression through a common choreography for body and camera, offering an intimate glimpse into the performers’ inner and outer worlds.
The work culminates in an interactive 13th film that unites all 12 journeys in a virtual ensemble that invites audiences to chart their own course across 6 languages (with subtitles in Arabic and English) and 8 countries: Cuba, Egypt, France, Mali, Mexico, Palestine, South Korea, and the US.
On February 20, 3 x 13 will be widely released online for free, furthering YSDT’s mission to increase access to – and promote understanding through – the arts.

Laila Lalami & Mike Davis By UCR Writers Week 2021
2021-02-18 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
44th Annual Writers Week Conference 2021: Writers Week is the longest-running, free literary event in California and features the most renowned authors of our day alongside those at the start of promising careers. February 13 and 16-20, 2021
Laila Lalami
Contributing Editor, The Nation
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America (Knoph, 2020)
Mike Davis D. Charles Whitney Reader
Contributing Editor, The Nation
Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties (Verso, 2020)

P&P Live!: Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick — Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
2021-02-19 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Friday, February 19, 2021 – 6 p.m.

This event will be streamed online as part of our P&P Live! Series.
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and experts on U.S. policy in the region.
Hill and Plitnick provide a timely and essential intervention by examining multiple dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conversation, including Israel’s growing disdain for democracy, the effects of occupation on Palestine, the siege of Gaza, diminishing American funding for Palestinian relief, and the campaign to stigmatize any critique of Israeli occupation. Except for Palestine is a searing polemic and a cri de coeur for elected officials, activists, and everyday citizens alike to align their beliefs and politics with their values.
MARC LAMONT HILL is an award-winning journalist and the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. He is the author of multiple books, including the New York Times bestselling Nobody, and co-author (with Mitchell Plitnick) of Except for Palestine (The New Press). His newest book, We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility is a timely intervention into the popular movement for police abolition. He’s featured speaking for The Root here.
MITCHELL PLITNICK, the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy, is a political analyst and a frequent writer on the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. His past roles include vice president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, director of the U.S. Office of B’Tselem, and co-director of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Movie: Advocate via Mideast Focus Ministry
2021-02-19 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
ADVOCATE
This film provides a fascinating look at the life and work of Jewish Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented Palestinian prisoners for nearly 50 years, in Israeli courts.
The film follows Jewish-Israeli human-rights lawyer Lea Tsemel as she navigates through the Israeli judicial system in defense of Palestinian political prisoners. The film includes archival footage of past cases Tsemel was involved in over a five-decade long career; interviews with Tsemel and her family members, including her husband, Michel Warschawski and their daughter and son, as well as interns and associates at Tsemel’s law firm; and closely follows two contemporary cases represented by Tsemel and her co-counsel, Tareq Barghout.
Learn more here.
with guest speaker: TBA
Contact info@saintmarks.org to be added to the Mideast Focus Ministry mailing list, or use this form. (Check the box marked “Mideast Focus.”)
