ArabishWay

(Virtual Class) Level I: Palestinian Aida Cloth Technique, Lily (Ramallah)
2020-06-11 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | WA
(Virtual Class) Level I: Palestinian Aida Cloth Technique, Lily (Ramallah)

Thursday, June 11, 2020
7:00 PM 8:00 PM EST

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6Bk903T7TK-5cz0os8yW2w
Learn more about how to prepare for a successful online tatreez class here: https://www.tatreezandtea.com/online-classes

Digging Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Mines
2020-06-09 19:00 - 20:30 | WA
ARCE
Tuesday June 9, 2020 7pm to 8:30
Dr. Kate Liska;
Room TBA UW

(Virtual Class) Level III: Palestine Map Series on Aida Cloth, Session 1/4
2020-06-07 11:00 - 13:00 | WA
(Virtual Class) Level III: Palestine Map Series on Aida Cloth, Session 1/4

Sunday, June 7, 2020
2:00 PM 3:30 PM EST

Registration and supplies information is shared here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xJzzzsrFRmyRa_KL6XkBgQ

Arabic Language "Virtual" Meetup - Seattle
2020-06-07 11:00 - 12:00 | WA, United States
Grab your 11AM coffee, and let’s tell each other about the adventure-lacking days we’ve had since we last chatted!! 🙂
Thank you!!

Artists and Writers Discuss Current Human Rights Crisis in the US & Palestine - Palestine Museum US
2020-06-07 09:00 - 10:00 | WA
Artists and Writers Discuss Current Human Rights Crisis in the US & Palestine

Description
Due to current political climate in the US, our Artist Talks program will be reoriented to a politically engaged talk by writers and artists speaking about human writes for Palestinians and people everywhere.

Time

Jun 7, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Queen Naija at Marymoor Park
2020-06-06 19:00 | Marymoor Park, 6046 West Lake Sammamish Parkway NE, Redmond, WA, 98052, United States
As a little girl growing up outside Detroit, Queen Naija started singing in church at the age of three and writing her own songs in third grade. Although she kept up with her singing and songwriting as she got older—and even cut a few records in a local studio—her focus shifted when she and her former husband found fame online with their wildly popular YouTube channel. But when their marriage fell apart last year, Queen returned to her lifelong passion and released a powerfully unapologetic single that shares her side of the story.

Seattle Arab Festival Public General Meeting
2020-06-06 13:00 - 14:00 | WA
Seattle Arab Festival public general 2 meeting to provide information about the Arab Festival and future activities to our community.
The meeting will be hosted on Zoom, courtesy of Highline College.

Protest/Protect: A Sukoon Virtual Reading
2020-06-06 11:00 - 13:00 | WA
6 p.m. EDT Monday, July 27, 2020
Protest/Protect: A Sukoon Live Reading
Free
RSVP to Facebook event
In collaboration with Sukoon, AANM presents a live reading around the theme of “Protest/Protect,” co-curated and hosted by Sukoon founding editor Rewa Zeinati, with performers Aja Monet, Chaun Ballard, Safia Elhillo and Layla Azmi Goushey, and music from Ian Fink.
In all 50 states and across the world, protests have been erupting. Why do we protest? Why do we question? Why do we create? To dismantle systems of injustice and oppression, and to reimagine a future in which we may exist more fully. We also do it to preserve, protect and remember what’s rightfully ours: to live a life in dignity. As demonstrations continue across the country in response to long-standing issues of systemic racism and injustice, “Protest/Protect” honors the global uprisings of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Through this event, we will hold space for writers and activists to express the struggles, experiences and victories of the ongoing protests in the fight for freedom.
This virtual reading will be streamed live on AANM’s Facebook page, so be sure to RSVP to the Facebook event to be notified and tune in when the livestream goes up.

Aja Monet is a surrealist blues poet, storyteller and organizer born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, who follows in the long legacy and tradition of poets participating and assembling in social movements. She won the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam poetry award title in 2007. Her first full collection of poems is My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter (Haymarket Books, 2017). Her poems explore gender, race, migration and spirituality. In 2018 she was nominated for a NAACP Literary Award for Poetry, and in 2019 was awarded the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award for Poetry for her cultural organizing work in South Florida. Monet co-founded a political home for artists and organizers called Smoke Signals Studio. She facilitates Voices: Poetry for the People, a workshop and collective in collaboration with Community Justice Project and Dream Defenders. She is currently working on her next full collection of poems, Florida Water.

Chaun Ballard’s chapbook, Flight, was the winner of the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize and is published by Tupelo Press. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Rattle, Sukoon, The New York Times, Tupelo Quarterly and other literary magazines. Chaun is the recipient of a 2019 Alaska Literary Award. His work has received nominations for both Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize.

Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which received the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award, Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House 2021), and the novel in verse Home Is Not a Country (Make Me A World/Random House, 2021). She is co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books, 2019) and currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Layla Azmi Goushey is a Professor of English at St. Louis Community College in St. Louis, Missouri. She is a reviews editor for Sukoon magazine, an Arab-themed art and literature journal. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Adult Education: Teaching and Learning Processes. Her poetry and prose have been published in several literary journals. She has recently published two essays: The Jordanian Kids in the June 2019 St. Louis Anthology and Profile of a Citizen: Generations Then and Now in the March 2020 anthology, Beyond Memory: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction.

Ian Fink is a pianist, producer, and composer based in the Detroit area. He performs in many different ensembles and has done so alongside artists such as Esperanza Spalding, Karriem Riggins, Robert Hurst, Shigeto, and Savion Glover. On Wednesday nights he hosts Singularity Detroit on Instagram Live (@finkianfink), where he performs a 3 to 4 hour solo piano set. He is a 2020 Gilda Award winner in Music Composition and Performance awarded by the Kresge Foundation.

Sukoon is an independent, online literary journal, publishing Arab-themed art and literature in English, by established and emerging artists, poets and writers of short stories and personal essays, reflecting the diversity and richness of the cultures of the Arab world.
Learn more about Sukoon.

Windows/Shababeek: A Sukoon Virtual Reading
2020-06-06 11:00 - 13:00 | WA
Windows/Shababeek: A Sukoon Virtual Reading

AANM presents a Sukoon bilingual live reading around the theme of Windows/Shababeek, curated and hosted by Sukoon founding editor Rewa Zeinati, and featuring an incredible lineup of Arab writers and poets: Zeyn Joukhadar, Zeina Hashem Beck, Philip Metres, George Abraham, Sahar Mustafa, Zeina Azzam (Arabic) and Farah Chamma (Arabic).

We’ve spent the last several weeks observing life go back and forth to stillness, isolation, fear or healing, all through the windows of our homes (if we are privileged enough to have them). We’ve pondered other people’s lives existing behind their own windows. What joy or confusion or horror was multiplied? Join us for this bilingual poetry and fiction virtual live reading in collaboration with Sukoon, exploring—in the most broad or intimate sense—the various and infinite ways we interpret the barriers, filters or open fields we call “windows” and how these inform the light and shadows we allow or dissipate.

This virtual reading will be streamed live on AANM’s Facebook page, so be sure to RSVP to the Facebook event to be notified and tune in when the livestream goes up.

Palestine Museum: Screening of the film: "My Love Awaits Me by the Sea”
2020-06-06 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
Screening of the film “My Love Awaits Me by the Sea”

Screening of the film “My Love Awaits Me by the Sea”

Jun 6, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Movie: "Imprisoning a Generation" - Saint Mark's Mideast Focus Ministry Middle East Film Series
2020-06-05 18:00 - 21:00 | WA, United States
IMPRISONING A GENERATION
This documentary film following the stories of four young Palestinians who have been detained and survive imprisonment under the Israeli military and political systems. Their perspectives, along with the voices of their families, form a lens into the entangled structures of oppression that pervade all aspects of life. Also included will be a short film by Farah Nabulsi titled Today, They Took My Son.
live discussion with with guest speaker: Author and physician Alice Rothchild
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Saint Mark’s Mideast Focus Ministry Presents:
COPING WITH OCCUPATION:
AN ONLINE FILM AND DISCUSSION SERIES
Links to watch the films and participate in the discussions are sent out to the Mideast Focus mailing list (and by request). Watch the films any time before Friday evening. Live discussions with special guests begin at 8 p.m.
Contact info@saintmarks.org to be added to mailing list, or use this form. (Check the box marked “Mideast Focus.”)

Cancelled: ArabishWay Circle Time Series (2019-2020)
2020-06-04 10:30 - 11:15 | King County Library System – Bellevue, 1111 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
Sadly, this event has been cancelled. We hope to resume in the fall.
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!

Movie: Cairo Drive
2020-05-31 12:00 - 14:30 | WA
The Arab Film Series is back with Cairo Drive, followed by a talkback with Egyptian American director Sherief Elkatsha, moderated by ArteEast board member and CEO of Arab Foundations Forum, Naila Farouky.
The program starts at 12 pm Pacific.
Using the road as an analogy for life in Cairo, Cairo Drive explores the unique personality of Egyptians as they go about their daily struggle of simply moving about the city. The film introduces its audience to the contrast between residents of the massive city, from different walks of life and displays how those differences are often erased when they have to share Cairo’s congested roads.
Watch the trailer.
Find all details + RSVP here.
The Arab Film Series Online is organized in partnership with:

Cancelled: Palestinian Spring Feast with Nadia Tommalieh
2020-05-31 10:00 - 13:30, 2020-05-30 10:00 - 13:30 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
This event has been cancelled.
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

Postponed: Alia Al-Hatlani: Cake Decorating with Lady Grey Seattle
2020-05-31 09:30 - 12:00 | Book Larder, 4252 Fremont Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98103, United States
POSTPONED: ALIA AL-HATLANI: COOKING CLASS: CAKE DECORATING WITH LADY GREY SEATTLE

Hands-on class. Each student will go home with their own three layer 6-inch cake and will enjoy a slice of cake with coffee or tea at the conclusion of class.
Start your Sunday off with something sweet, and join Alia Al-Hatlani of Lady Grey Seattle for a cake decorating class! She’ll walk you through filling, stacking, and decorating a cake in her signature painted buttercream floral style. Alia will be bringing her background in painting to the table, talking through some color theory and giving you some tips and tricks on how to get those shades just right! She’ll be answering your cake questions along the way, and finishing the class off with some cake to share.
Students will decorate and take home: vanilla buttermilk cake with whipped cream cheese and tart raspberry sauce. Alia will demo (and students will get to taste): ginger cake with whipped cream cheese and strawberry rhubarb compote.
Class is limited to 11 students. Please note that class reservations are non-refundable.

Virtual Artist Talks - 5-31-2020 - Palestine Museum US
2020-05-31 09:00 - 10:00 | WA
Virtual Artist Talks – 5-31-2020

Description
Virtual Artist Talks Series – Telling the Palestinian Story

Time

May 31, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

(Virtual Class) Level II: Palestinian Aida Cloth Chest Design Segment (El Khalil) & Qutibet el Namel
2020-05-30 11:00 - 13:00 | WA
(Virtual Class) Level II: Palestinian Aida Cloth Chest Design Segment (El Khalil) & Qutibet el Namel

Saturday, May 30, 2020
2:00 PM 4:00 PM EST

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_c7GEBV8kRDmPsQFYc5LgJQ
Learn more about how to prepare for a successful online tatreez class here: https://www.tatreezandtea.com/online-classes

Justice Beats
2020-05-30 10:00 - 16:00 | WA
JUSTICE BEATS

SCHEDULE / EASTERN STANDARD TIME!

The Peace Poets / 1 pm. (10am PST)
DJ Sarouna / 1:15pm (10:15am PST)
Clarissa Bitar / 1:50pm (10:50am PST
Ty Defoe / 2:15pm (11:15am PST)
John Scott-Richardson / 2:35pm (11:35am PST)
Dakota Camacho / 2:50pm (11:50am PST)
Rebel Betty / 3:15pm (12:15pm PST)
Emmanual Candelario / Peace Poets / 3:55pm (12:55pm PST)
Yadira De La Riva / 4:05pm (1:05pm PST)
Tef Poe / 4:20pm (1:20pm PST)
Agile One / 5:05pm (2:05pm PST)
Pacia Elaine / 5:35pm (2:35pm PST)
Makeda Kravitz / 5:45pm (2:45pm PST)
Frantz Jerome / Peace Poets / 6:20pm (3:20pm PST)
MarshaMayI? / 6:25pm (3:25pm PST)
Lyriq Tye / 6:55pm (3:55pm PST)

https://www.justicebeats.com/lineup

Movie: "Gaza Fights for Freedom" - Saint Mark's Mideast Focus Ministry Middle East Film Series
2020-05-29 18:00 - 21:00 | WA, United States
GAZA FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM

Filmed during the height of a six-week campaign of protests near the Gaza-Israeli border in 2018, this film features exclusive footage of the demonstrations. This documentary tells of Gaza’s complex history through rare archival footage, info-graphics, and first-hand accounts. Backed by thorough legal documentation and exclusive evidence, this film details Israeli military war crimes that are supported by our own country. See the trailer here.
The documentary will be paired with NIGHTMARE OF GAZA, an award-winning short film by Farah Nebulsi.
After viewing the documentary, join together on Zoom for a live discussion with Former Congressman Dr. Brian Baird. Email Liz Gilbert, elizabethegg@hotmail.com , for the links to participate, or to sign up for the Mideast Focus mailing list and receive the links automatically.
Links to watch the films and participate in the discussions are sent out to the Mideast Focus mailing list (and by request). Watch the films any time before Friday evening. Live discussions with special guests begin at 8 p.m.

Virtual Book Club - Bitter Almonds by Lilas Taha
2020-05-27 15:00 - 17:00 | WA
May Book Selection: Bitter Almonds by Lilas Taha
Live discussion with Lilas Taha, hosted by Carol Fadda: 6 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, May 27 via Facebook live
E-book (English) E-book (Arabic Translation)

Virtual Book Club
AANM is excited to launch our Virtual Book Club! Each month, AANM will choose a digitally-available book by an Arab American author to read and discuss via the dedicated Facebook group, culminating in a live discussion with the author.

Video Exhibit: Palestine Museum: 50 Women Artists, 200 Works of Art
2020-05-27 - 2020-06-30 | WA
See a selection of works from the Palestine Museum US exhibit “Telling the Palestinian Story – Fifty Women Artists – 200 Works of Art”
https://www.palestinemuseum.us/exhibit-videos

Rajaa Gharbi: Cauldron Delights at Gallery 110
2020-05-27 - 2020-05-30, 2020-05-20 - 2020-05-24 | Gallery 110, 110 3rd Ave. S, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
Tunisian artist and award-winning poet and translator Gharbi delves into warm and cold palettes using an unusual mixed-media combination: acrylic paint, semi-precious stones, and olive pits.
May 6–30, Wednesdays–Sundays, 11 am–6 pm

Team Mashallah Poetry Eid
2020-05-23 15:00 - 16:00 | WA
Team Mashallah Poetry Eid
with Angel Nafis, Fatimah Asghar, Safia Elhillo, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kaveh Akbar

When: Sat, May 23, 3pm – 4pm

E-mail: teammashallahpoetry@gmail.com for Zoom invite!

Palestine Museum: "Stitching Palestine" Film Screening
2020-05-23 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
PALESTINE MUSEUM
Film Screening Online: Saturday May 23rd
Please join us for the screening of “Stitching Palestine” followed by a virtual discussion with
Carol Mansour (Director) and Muna Khalidi (Producer)
Twelve resilient, determined and articulate women from disparate walks of life: lawyers, artists, housewives, activists, architects, and politicians stitch together the story of their homeland, of their dispossession, and of their unwavering determination that justice will prevail. Through their stories, the individual weaves into the collective, yet remaining distinctly personal.

Clock with Arabic Numbers with ArabishWay at Northwest Folklife Festival
2020-05-23 - 2020-05-25 | WA
From Home to Home: Northwest Folklife Festival!

May 23-25, 2020 online here at nwfolklifestreaming.org
Suggested Daily Donation: $20 per person | $30 per family
Committed to Access for All | Powered by Your Donations
ArabishWay created a video so you can make your own clock with Arabic numbers at home!

It is part of the “Family Fun: Create and Explore” channel
Sponsored by BECU, ParentMap, and Seattle’s Child
Additional videos, photos, and downloadable content to promote interactive learning for the whole family
The PDF can be found here: https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ARABIC-CLOCK-1.pdf
NWFF is also streaming concerts as well as hosting dance and other activity videos. Check it out here: nwfolklifestreaming.org

SYZYGY reading series: with Janan Alexandra and Others
2020-05-22 16:00 - 17:00 | WA
SYZYGY reading series: ross gay, marlee grace, janan alexandra, l. renée, juliet johnson, essence london, sophie whitmore

When: Fri, May 22, 4pm – 5pm

Description: https://wthetrees.earth/syzygy

On Zoom at 7pm EST:
Register here: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEud-moqDIoHtd4KHXGieDlIabxKNtUdJ8R

Annexation & What it Means: Part 3 – Israeli Perspectives
2020-05-18 08:00 - 09:00 | WA
Annexation & What it Means: Part 3 – Israeli Perspectives

Please join our brothers and sisters at The Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) and the Middle East Institute (MEI) for this 3-part webinar series: “Annexation & What it Means: Views from the Ground & Around the World.”

Date:
Wed, May 13, 2020 – 11:30-1pm
Fri, May 15, 2020 – 11am-12pm
Mon, May 18, 2020 – 11am-12pm

Location:
Online Webinar

Information:
Event information here →

Tickets:
Free, Must Register for each webinar

EVENT DETAILS
Israel has been de facto annexing land in the West Bank since the inception of its military occupation of Palestinian territories following the 1967 war. Now, under the new Netanyahu-Gantz government and in close coordination with the Trump Administration, the Israeli government is poised to formalize and massively expand the extent of that annexation. What will this mean for Palestinians and for Israelis? What does it mean for the international community? And what happens next – in Israel, Palestine, the region, and the world?
This three-part webinar series, co-moderated by FMEP’s Lara Friedman and MEI’s Khaled Elgindy, will engage leading voices from Israel and Palestine, in addition to U.S., European, and Arab perspectives.
Part 2 – Palestinian Perspectives (Friday, May 15, 11am-12pm ET)
Part 3 – Israeli Perspectives (Monday, May 18, 11am-12pm ET)
More information here →

Arabic Language "Virtual" Meetup/عربي من البيت - Seattle
2020-05-17 14:00 - 16:00 | WA, United States
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).
Feel free to post ideas on the comment section if there’s an activity we should try out during the next meetup. In the past we’ve done podcasts and played pictionary.
Thank you!!
