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Geography and Ethnicity of Arab Food with Sami Zubaida [Matbakh]
2022-11-02 07:00 - 08:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Join us as we interview Professor of Emeritus Politics and Sociology, Sami Zubaida, who also authored books such as The Idea of Arab Food: Geography and Ethnicity, on our Matbakh series.

Whisk Cooking Class: Around the World Small Plates, Big Taste
2022-10-30 17:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whisk, 10385 Main St, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
Join us for a delightful trip Around the World with four different Small Plates guaranteed to wow with their Big Tastes! You will accompany Chef Jennifer Berry in this hands-on class as your taste buds travel the world with stops in Spain, Cuba, Egypt and Greece. No passport needed! Just come hungry as you will cook, eat, cook, eat, etc.:

Spain – Spanish Espelette Clams with Grilled Tomato Bread, Clams steamed in Spanish sherry broth with dulce (sweet) paprika and Espelette pepper
Cuba – Beef Picadillo-Filled Pastries, Flaky puff pastry filled with sweet and briny beef filling, baked to golden brown and brushed with honey glaze
Egypt – Kataifi Prawns, Dukkah and Pistachio Yogurt, prawns seasoned with traditional Egyptian spice mixture wrapped with shredded Kataifi
Greece – Fried Calamari, Assorted Vegetables,and Crispy Chickpeas served with Tzatziki and Fried Herbs.

Book Event: Nine Quarters of Jerusalem by Matthew Teller (hybrid)
2022-10-30 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Please click here to register for this event.

This is a Hybrid Event, meaning you can attend virtually via Zoom or, in person, at the Palestine Museum US, in Woodbridge, CT, USA. You can register on Zoom and decide later how you want to attend.
Doors open at 2:30; the program begins at 3:00 PM US EDT; 10:00 PM Palestine Time.
Author Matthew Teller will be on site at the Paelstine Museum US to talk about the book and sign copies for buyers.

About the Book
This unique, absorbing biography of Jerusalem brings to light its overlooked histories and diverse contemporary voices.
In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. The Old City has never had “four quarters” as its maps proclaim. And beyond the crush and frenzy of its major religious sites, many of its quarters are little known to visitors, its people ignored and their stories untold. Nine Quarters of Jerusalem lets the communities of the Old City speak for themselves. Ranging from ancient past to political present, it evokes the city’s depth and cultural diversity.
Matthew Teller’s highly original “biography” features the Old City’s Palestinian and Jewish communities, but also spotlights its Indian and African populations, its Greek and Armenian and Syriac cultures, its downtrodden Dom Gypsy families, and its Sufi mystics. It discusses the sources of Jerusalem’s holiness and the ideas—often startlingly secular—that have shaped lives within its walls. It is an evocation of place through story, led by the voices of Jerusalemites.

Matthew Teller
Photo Credit Andrew Shaylor

About Author
Matthew Teller writes for the BBC, The Guardian, Times of London, Financial Times, and other global media. He has produced and presented documentaries for BBC Radio and has reported for the BBC’s From Our Own Correspondent program from around the Middle East and beyond. He is the author of several travel guides, including the Rough Guide to Jordan. His most recent book is Quite Alone: Journalism from the Middle East 2008–2019.

"Madafeh": Hanan Awad, photographer, essayist (virtual)
2022-10-30 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Event Occurs Every Sunday-Register Once; Attend All.

The program begins at 12 Noon US EDT; 7:00 PM Palestine Time.
Please join us for a virtual session of open discussion about Palestinian topics.
Please click here to register for this event.
In 1948, the year of al-Nakba or “the catastrophe”, over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland through militarized displacement resulting in the depopulation and destruction of over 400 Palestinian villages. Each village has a unique story regarding the specifics of how it was attacked and how its inhabitants were forcibly expelled. For the most part, the villages were totally destroyed – leaving only a few that stand to this day. Ayn Hawd and Ayn Karem are these unique cases of villages escaping the brutal destruction that sought to erase the physical signs of the Palestinan presence throughout the region. While the houses and buildings of these two villages were left standing, the actual Palestinian inhabitants were displaced and are forbidden to return. The stories of Ayn Karem and Ayn Hud are critical for understanding the situation in Palestine as one of settler-colonialism.

Benefit for the Palestine Writing Workshop with Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
2022-10-29 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
REGISTER NOW, www.mecaforpeace.org/lastleaf to hear the director of the Palestine Writing Workshop, Maya Abu Al-Hayyat— on Saturday, October 29, 11am PT / 2pm ET — with her new book, “You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems”. She and Deema K. Shehabi will share poetry and conversation in this virtual event.
Booklist wrote about Maya’s new book, “Al-Hayyat’s latest devastating and courageous collection captures the precarious everyday lives of Palestinians with enormous empathy and glistening clarity.”

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat is a Palestinian writer, storyteller, and mother based in occupied East Jerusalem. Each day she passes through Israeli checkpoints, like the infamous Qalandia checkpoint, to direct the Palestine Writing Workshop, one of MECA’s partner organizations. Maya and her team at the Palestine Writing Workshop have published award-winning Arabic children’s books and led hundreds of interactive workshops from Nablus to Silwan to Gaza for children, youth, librarians and parents on reading aloud, creative writing, and storytelling. Her work is grounded in the belief that art and literature can change lives and aims to improve Palestinian children’s literacy and also encourage their imaginations. She is a gifted storyteller who captures the attention of children of all ages (and adults too!).Maya also runs writing courses for former prisoners, helping them transform trauma into art.
She has published four collections of poems, four novels, and numerous children’s stories, including The Blue Pool of Questions. She contributed to and wrote a foreword for A Bird Is Not a Stone: An Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Poetry, and she is an editor of The Book of Ramallah. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Cordite Poetry Review, The Guardian, and Literary Hub.

Please join us to learn more about Maya’s work and life in Palestine!

Virtual Film: FalaFala directed by Mohammed Almughanni
2022-10-29 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
All times are based on US EDT – 12 Noon; 7:00 PM in Palestine. English subtitles | Thirty Minutes.
Please click here to register for this event.
Please click here to view the film’s trailer.
The film screening will be followed by discussions with the film director Mohammed Almughanni.

About the Film
Denmark, 1972: Abdul Alnajjar is flown in secret to Denmark to be the first child to recieve a heart valve operation. But when the only link between Abdul and his family in Jordan is severed, his life takes a different direction.

Filmmaker, Mohammed Almughanni

Mohammed Almughanni
Director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was born in 1994 in Gaza, Palestine. He pursued his Bachelor and Masters degrees in Film Directing at Łódź Film School in Poland.
In the past few years he did film in different areas in the world such as Cuba, Palestine, Denmark, China, Jordan, Lebanon, Poland and Germany.
He is an author of documentary and narrative films, including “Blacklisted” (2021), “Son Of The Streets” (2020) “Falafala” (2019), “Operation” (2018), “Where’s the Donkey” (2018), “Shujayya” (2015) and “Halawan”

Annual Festival of Forbidden Life: Benefit for Palestine Museum US
2022-10-29 05:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Jabal al-Risan Artists’ Collaborative is hosting the second Annual Festival of Forbidden Life October 28-29, 2022, at the Heart al-Risan Art Museum (h.A.R.A.M.).
REGISTER HERE
The Palestine Museum US is proud to once again host the virtual component of this event and it will take place on October 29th from 8 AM to 2 PM New York Time/2 PM to 8 PM Palestine time.
Festival of Forbidden Life will feature performances and artworks from an international group of artists. Work will be presented on the mountain, virtually and at sister sites hosting their own live audience. It is a radical display of truth in the face of delusion.
Saturday October 29
8:00 AM – 2:00 PM US EDT
2:00 PM- 8:00 PM Palestine time

Nubian Architect Menna Agha [afikra Conversations]
2022-10-28 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Dr. Menna Agha is an architect and researcher who has recently been coordinating the spatial justice agenda at the Flanders Architecture Institute in Belgium. She joins the Azrieli School to promote pedagogy and research in the newly established area of Design and Spatial Justice. Menna holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Antwerp, and a Master of Arts in Gender and Design from Köln International School of Design. In 2019/2020, she was the Spatial Justice Fellow and a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. She is a third-generation displaced Fadicha Nubian, a legacy that infuses her research interests in race, gender, space, and territory. Among her publications are: Nubia still exists: The Utility of the Nostalgic Space; The Non-work of the Unimportant: The shadow economy of Nubian women in displacement villages; and Liminal Publics, Marginal Resistance.

All Arts: Foreign Drama Film Festival
2022-10-28 - 2022-11-01 | WA
ALL ARTS is hosting a Foreign Drama Film Festival from Oct. 4 to Nov. 1. Here are the details about the films and how to watch.
Includes:
A Son by Tunesian Director, Mehdi Barsaoui
11-year-old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital a family secret will be revealed.

Foreign Body
After a young Tunisian woman informs on her radical Islamist brother, she arrives illegally in France, finding danger as well as hope.

One Book One Village: Author Presentation: Laila Lalami
2022-10-27 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Virtual
Join us as Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami discusses her life and work, including the One Book One Community featured title, The Other Americans. Lalami will be in conversation with author and educator Sahar Mustafa. Attendees will have an opportunity for Q&A with the author.
Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of five books, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was on the longlist for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. The Other Americans, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. Lalami will be in conversation with author and educator Sahar Mustafa.
Sahar Mustafah is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, an inheritance she explores in her fiction. Her first novel The Beauty of Your Face was named a 2020 Notable Book and Editor’s Choice by New York Times Book Review, a Los Angeles Times United We Read selection, and one of Marie Claire Magazine’s 2020 Best Fiction by Women.
This virtual program will be presented both in-person inside the library and virtually via Zoom.

Register HERE for the in-person viewing party inside the library.

Participants must register and provide a working email address to receive the login information, if attending through Zoom.

Arabic Chat Hour
2022-10-27 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2022-10-20 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles), 2022-10-13 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Virtual
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.

Seattle Restaurant Week: Arab Restaurants!
2022-10-27 - 2022-11-05 | WA
A unique chance to celebrate and support our culinary community, highlighting its craft, diversity, resilience, and great food as well as these Arab-owned restaurants:
Mamnoon, Hanoon, Mamnoon Street, Anar and Manna
In a change from years past, this year’s Seattle Restaurant Week is no longer just about finding a great deal—it’s a “chance to celebrate and support our culinary community” through menus curated especially for the occasion. With a variety of unique prix fixe and combo meals at price points ranging from $20 to $65 per person, it’s a great time to branch out and try something new.

Movie: Fangs (virtual)
2022-10-27 - 2022-10-31 | Virtual
Films available 12 a.m. ET Thursday, Oct. 27 to 11:59 p.m. ET Monday, Oct. 31
Arab Film Series Online: Fangs (Anyab)
Free Online Stream | Suggested $5 Donation – Register
A girl and her fiancé are on their way to a party on New Year’s Eve when their car has an accident, and they find nowhere to go except a strange castle. They are met there by many vampires, led by count Dracula, who instantly falls in love with the girl and wants her for himself. The two lovers discover that Dracula is in Egypt in many forms (doctor, taxi driver, plumber, etc.) not to suck people’s blood but to suck their money, as a typical modern profiteer. Combining the genres of horror, fantasy and musical, this film will definitely leave a lasting impression! Directed by Mohammed Shebl.
“A lost gem of Egyptian queer cinema, Anyab is an unfaithful remake of the musical cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Although the story is apparently the same, Shebl’s film is almost too homoerotic to handle. Weaved into its camp aesthetics, horror genre tropes and 80s disco numbers, Anyab provides a running commentary on the social situation in Egypt, from youth unemployment to class struggle, while intersecting sexual politics into the mix.” (Gasworks)
100 Minutes / 1981 / Egypt / Horror, Drama, Camp / PG-13 / Arabic with English subtitles
For questions, e-mail Dave Serio at dserio@accesscommunity.org.

MENA Business Mixer
2022-10-26 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | SURF Incubator, 999 3rd Avenue #700, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
We are welcoming all Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African identifying business owners and entrepreneurs to come mingle and network at our incubator. We also have a guest from Egypt coming to discuss his experience in the business sector in Egypt. Free event and refreshments provided. Please RSVP and email faith@surfincubator.com to receive check in instructions.

Amanda Ekery & Friends in Concert
2022-10-22 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Purchase Tickets for Livestream ($5)
Join artist-in-residence Amanda Ekery and participants from her songwriting workshop for a performance of their collaborative work, produced during her residency.

Reviving The Jericho ‘Thobe Ubb’
2022-10-22 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Date/Time: October 22, 2-3:30pm EST
Format: Virtual Event
Fee: Sliding Scale $10 or $20
The SWANA Style Saturday Series is a lecture series focused on exploring the traditional dress of cultural communities living in SWANA (Southwest Asia & North Africa). The aim of this series is to bring awareness to styles that have generally been left out of the historical record, however have great historical origination stories. Our cultural memory must preserve this knowledge for the next generation.
Jericho is the oldest continuously inhabited area in the world. Today, it is the last Palestinian city before crossing the Allenby Bridge to Jordan. Geological and geographic factors have contributed to its long history of survival and an ideal place for settlement, making it a source of envy and coveted possession for invaders who have seen Jericho as the key to controlling Palestine. In the oldest continuously inhabited place on earth, what is the oldest traditional dress worn by the residents? And, is it still being worn today?
Learn the answers to these questions, and more, at the next installment of SWANA Style Series, titled “Reviving The Jericho ‘Thobe Ubb’. Learn about Wafa’s most recent discovery of the Thobe Ubb at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, a treasure that has yet to be identified in the museum’s catalogue.
Please note that you are welcome to register for the lecture and watch the recording at a later time, because it will be recorded and sent to all registrants within 24 hours of the live event. However, the recording will be available for a limited time.

Lebanese in tech (Lebnet) in Seattle and beyond
2022-10-20 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
This is a unique opportunity to connect with the American Lebanese Tech community in Washington, Portland, and Idaho. Join the LebNet network of more than 1200 executives, entrepreneurs, students and young professionals working in the Hi-Tech space.

Where Do We Come From? Maud Newton, author of Ancestor Trouble, in conversation with Laila Lalami
2022-10-18 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
WHERE DO WE COME FROM?
Maud Newton, author of Ancestor Trouble, in conversation with Laila Lalami
5pm PT / 8pm ET, Tuesday, October 18, 2022, online event
Ever since her mother explained that she’d married her father so they would have smart children, Maud Newton has felt vexed by her kin. As an adult, she spent years researching her genealogy, uncovering, among other things, ten of her grandfather’s marriages, an accused witch, and her ancestors’ roles in slavery and genocide. Her journey took her into the realms of genetics, epigenetics, and the debates over intergenerational trauma. She mulled over modernity’s dismissal of ancestors along with psychoanalytic and spiritual traditions that center them. Searching, moving, and inspiring, Ancestor Trouble is one writer’s attempt to use genealogy—a once-niche hobby that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry—to expose the secrets and contradictions of her own ancestors, and to argue for the transformational possibilities that reckoning with our ancestors offers all of us. Read more about Ancestor Trouble.

The Road to Representation: Arab Americans in Office
2022-10-14 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
In-person at AANM
Free with RSVP
Register for in-person attendance | Register for virtual attendance
Arab American representation in public office positions has increased in recent years, reflective of the growing community. This panel features Arab Americans in a variety of governmental and public office positions, both in the spotlight and behind the scenes, as they work towards a present and future that includes the full participation of all Arab Americans. Join us to hear their personal stories and journeys along the road to representation.

Arabiyya: Mua'jinaat with Reem Assil at the Pantry
2022-10-13 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
For this introduction to the world of Arab baking and pastry we are thrilled to welcome chef REEM ASSIL, owner of the Bay Area’s beloved Reem’s bakeries and author of the cookbook Arabiyya: Recipes from the Life of an Arab in Diaspora. You’ll learn the science, art, and history behind the recipes, and you’ll make mu’ajinaat (savory pastries) from start to finish: fatayer sabaanikh (spinach and onion turnovers), sfeeha Ba’albekiyyeh (Baalbek-Style lamb, pomegranate, and pine nut turnovers), and laffat safarjal (quince and cheese rolls), all accompanied by a fattoush salad. Each ticket includes one copy of Reem’s cookbook.

The Evolution of Symbolism in Palestinian Embroidery (8 Week Series)
2022-10-13 | WA
“The Evolution of Palestinian Symbolism” is an 8-part art historical lecture series detailing the various stages of motif symbolism and ritual in Palestinian society, spanning hundreds of years into history. The motifs are divided into categories of ancient, traditional, curvilinear, contemporary and political. The primary objectives of this course are to; 1) understand the iconographical approach to studying art history and it’s limitations in Palestinian embroidery, 2) the evolution of motifs throughout time, 3) learning the evolutionary context of motifs throughout time, 4) the use of each symbol and the significance of its meaning in Palestinian culture, and 5) the contemporary context of Palestinian embroidery, and an appropriate way to use symbolism in your study.

Tacoma Arts Live Regional Theater presents: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, By Stephen Adly Guirgis
2022-10-13 - 2022-10-23 | Tacoma Armory, 1001 S Yakima Ave, Tacoma, WA, 98405, United States
“An immersive theater experience mixing both comedy and drama amidst a time-bending world between heaven and hell. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot reexamines the fate of the New Testament’s greatest villain, a traitor, who betrayed his Lord for 30 pieces of silver. Set in a Purgatory courtroom, Judas is brought to judgement to determine if he is guilty of greatest betrayal of all time. Whether Judas enters through the gates of heaven or burns in hell rests upon the testimony of saints and sinners including Pontius Pilate, Mother Teresa, Sigmund Freud, Satan and others. Through outrageous comedy and deep pathos, this play challenges audiences to reflect upon their own beliefs, their own sin and to reconsider what they know about forgiveness, faith, and the human inside one of the history’s most infamous figures.”

Preview Night: Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, October 14, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.
Friday, October 21, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.*

Arab American and Muslim Representation
2022-10-12 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
We invite you to ParentChild+’s virtual series Windows, Mirrors & Doors, where children’s book authors, educators, and advocates will lead us in a compelling discussion on Arab American and Muslim representation in children’s literature. The discussion will shine a light on the impact representation has on the well-being and social-emotional development of Arab American and Muslim children. It will highlight the importance of all children and families learning about Arab Americans and the many continents, countries, cultures, and religions they represent; Muslim families and the many countries and cultures they represent; the importance of Arab and Muslim children seeing themselves in the books they encounter; the ways in which we can equip parents and caregivers to access these books and stories and share them with the children in their lives, and how we can all advocate for improvements in Arab American and Muslim representation.

"Unruly Jewels - Neither Muslim Nor Jewish" by the Zay Initiative (online)
2022-10-11 20:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Dubai) | WA
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, joins Dr Reem El Mutwalli & Salma Ahmad Caller for a Dialogue “Unruly Jewels – Neither Muslim Nor Jewish”

About this event

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay joins Dr Reem El Mutwalli & the founder of the Imaginarium postcard project, artist and art historian Salma Ahmad Caller for a dialogue on “Unruly Jewels – Neither Muslim Nor Jewish”
Looking at some photographs, postcards and jewels, Azoulay will question the investment of the French colonial project in the de-algerisation and de-arabisation of the Jews in Muslim countries. One of the signs of their “success” in turning the indigenous into “modern type” was the withdrawal of the Jews from wearing heavy jewels and clothing with gold thread embroidery, through the production of these gold threads and jewels was a craft Jews used to practice for centuries. The disappearance of the jewels from their bodies was not a simple change in mode, but rather a disruption of a world in which craft and craft making was essential for world building and for world maintenance, and was embedded in guilds that were part of social fabrics of mutual care.
OUR GUEST SPEAKERS:
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature (Brown University), film essayist and curator of archives and exhibitions. Her books include: Potential History – Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2019), Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (Verso, 2012), The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone Books, 2008). Among her films: Un-documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder (2019), Civil Alliances, Palestine, 47-48 (2012). Among her exhibitions Errata (Fundació Tàpies, 2019, HKW, Berlin, 2020), and Enough! The Natural Violence of New World Order, (F/Stop photography festival, Leipzig, 2016).
Salma Ahmad Caller was born in Iraq to an Egyptian father and a British mother and grew up in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. She now lives in the UK. An artist, art historian and writer, Salma considers herself a disruptive body, a hybrid of cultures and faiths. Her work explores her mixed- race identity, cross-cultural experiences, text/image relationships and forms of embodiment, materiality and memory, drawing on personal intimate family histories and vulnerability as a way to destabilise larger narratives. Uncanny juxtapositions and hybrid forms are used to investigate how the private and political collide and intertwine, using techniques of collage, assemblage, drawing, watercolour, photography, projection, installation/sound and more recently film. Salma also writes art theory, poetry and creative non-fiction. Her theoretical background in research on the meanings of ornament in non-Western cultures through frameworks of anthropology of art and cognitive science/physiology, are used to decolonise and break down boundaries, categories, typologies and terminology that characterise hegemonic colonial and patriarchal formations. With a Masters in art history and art theory, and a background in medicine and pharmacology, and several years teaching cross-cultural ways of seeing via non-Western artefacts at Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, she now works as an independent artist and teacher.

"It Won't Always Be Like This" Author Talk with Malaka Gharib & Hannah Bae
2022-10-11 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
This is an online program. Join the 53rd Street Library for a conversation with Malaka Gharib, the award-winning author of I Was Their American Dream, to discuss her latest work It Won’t Always Be Like This. A chronicle of growing up with her Egyptian father’s new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country It Won’t Always Be Like This is a touching time capsule of Gharib’s childhood memories—each summer a fleeting moment in time—and a powerful reflection on relationships, values, family, and what happens when it all collides. Malaka will be joined by freelance journalist and fellow author Hannah Bae for what will be an unforgettable discussion on the power of identity and belonging.

P&P Live! Muhammad Najem, Nora Neus, & Julie Robine
2022-10-11 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Muhammad Najem had mostly known a life of war during his childhood in Syria; he was only thirteen when a bombing killed his father. Realizing that people did not know what families like his were living through, he began reporting on the war using the camera on his phone and social media. Through interviews with kids like himself, he revealed a painful truth: that ordinary Syrians were being bombed by their own government and were spending their days hiding in underground shelters. Despite strong personal losses and tremendous risk for his family, he continued reporting, and his stories began to gain notice around the world. Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria is the graphic memoir written by Muhammad Najem and Nora Neus, the CNN producer who helped bring international recognition to his reporting.
Muhammad Najem is an internationally recognized journalist from Eastern Ghouta, Syria. He began his reporting career as a child, under near-constant bombardment by the Assad regime, by taking videos on his cell phone and posting them on social media. His story went viral in 2018, putting a target on his and his family’s backs. In 2019, he and his family fled Syria and moved to Turkey.

Author Sahar Mustafah in conversation with afikra
2022-10-10 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Join Sahar in a virtual conversation with afikra, a grassroots movement that evolved into a global media and educational platform focused on the history and culture of the Arab world. RSVP

Artist Talk: Yousr Shaltout
2022-10-09 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Yousr Shaltout is an Egyptian /Lebanese medical student and Tatreez artist based in New Jersey. Yousr is self taught, and first fell in love with the art as well as its political and cultural significance four years ago. In 2021, Yousr was awarded the NJ Council of the Arts Folk Arts Apprenticeship Grant. Under the apprenticeship, Yousr created her first thobe under the mastery of Wafa Ghnaim of The Tatreez Institute (Tatreez & Tea). Yousr’s next project is to design, sew, and embroider a thobe for her medical school graduation in 2024 as the culmination of her skills in the craft. It will combine the various styles of embroidery from Palestine and those from her roots in Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria to showcase that Tatreez is an art form shared across the Arab world with distinct regional and cultural styles and motifs.
Yousr is the proud owner of a small business selling tatreez patterns and tatreez inspired items. You can support her work at tatreezing.etsy.com or by following her journey at her Instagram @tatreezing.
Learn more about Yousr’s thobe project and concept, by registering to this artist talk.
