ArabishWay

My Name is the People of Palestine
2020-10-24 - 2020-10-25
“My Name is the People of Palestine” cultural event will take place on October 24-25 at 10:00am PST featuring Palestinian music and culture.

About this Event

Join us for a free online concert on Oct 24th-25th, 2020 at 10am PST/ 8pm Jerusalem to globally celebrate Palestinian music and culture together.
Music director Saleheddine Bedoui will be leading Aswat Ensemble with these featured artists:

Amal Murkus
Boutros Rouhana
Charbel Rouhana
Shadia Mansour
Reem Talhami
George Bisharat

Featured Poets:

Mourid Barghouti
Tamim Barghouti
Anis Chouehene

Two new songs by Boutros and Charbel Rouhana will premier at the concert.
This event will be streamed live on Facebook, Zoom, and Youtube, reserve your front-row seat and please share.
Translation will emailed to you and made available at Zawaya.org.
This concert is sponsored by: Zawaya, Middle East Children’s Alliance, and Palestinian Youth Movement.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-name-is-the-people-of-palestine-oct-24th-oct-25th-tickets-117583843441

Movie: Breaking Fast
2020-10-23 - 2020-10-25
Available online at AFMI’s Virtual Cinema Platform: Arab Cinema ReImagined
Friday, Oct. 23 – Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020
Breaking Fast (2020) dir. Mike Mosallam
Pay-What-You-Can
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Set against a vibrant West Hollywood backdrop during the holy month of Ramadan, Mo navigates life after heartbreak with faith, food, and the promise of a new relationship.
Breaking out of your shell in West Hollywood can be overwhelming, especially when you’re a practicing gay Muslim like Mo (Haaz Sleiman, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan). But on the first night of Islam’s holiest holiday, Mo’s longtime boyfriend Hassan abruptly breaks off their relationship, leaving him heartbroken and without a sous chef for iftar. Romance with the All-American Kal may be just around the corner if only he can keep his thoughts pure and the past behind him in Mike Mosallam’s charming Ramadan rom-com.
Following the screening will be a talkback with Director Mike Mosallam.
No Content Warnings
2020 | 92 minutes | Comedy | English with some Arabic (English subtitles)

Palestinian Feast: Cooking Class at the Pantry
2020-10-22 18:00 - 20:00, 2020-10-08 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Maqlouba means “upside-down” in Arabic, and in this class NADIA TOMMALIEH will guide you as you construct this feat of culinary engineering- a meal in one pot, flipped over to make a savory feast! You’ll make chicken maqlouba with roasted eggplant, cauliflower, rice pilaf, and fried nuts, and salatet bil tahini (vegetable, herb, and tahini 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. All recipes are designed for four servings.

Move American: Screening + Discussion w/ Leila Awadallah & Zaquia Mahler Salinas
2020-10-22 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Free with RSVP/suggested donation
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Presented as part of AANM’s Arab Film Series Online, Leila Awadallah, Palestinian American choreographer and current AANM artist-in-residence, co-hosts an online dance screening event as one of 7 filmmakers presenting in DISCO RIOT‘s Move American series. Witness 7 short dance films surrounding voting, social justice and identity expressed by artists across the United States, followed by a discussion with Leila Awadallah, DISCO RIOT Artistic Director and Co-Founder Zaquia Mahler Salinas and AANM Director Dr. Diana Abouali.
Submissions from Distance Dance! (enter by Oct. 16!) will be screened as part of the program.

Grand Opening of SCM Medical Missions Souk
2020-10-18 12:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | SCM Medical Mission Souk, 3806 Whitman Ave. N, Seattle, WA, United States
Our souk has moved from our former SCM office to the garage below, facing Bridge Way. This move allows more display space and more room to move around and see everything we have to offer. Please come see the new displays and know that your purchases all help our relief programs. Scarves, kaftans, refugee-made jewelry, embroidered purses, artwork, and much more will be available. Get a jump on your holiday shopping and do good at the same time!

The souk will have a schedule for the days it will be open and that will get posted on our website and Facebook page. Please come to our grand opening and try some tasty Arabic sweets, and mana’eesh will be available for purchase.

Please wear a mask, and we will be observing social distancing guidelines.

When: October 18, 2020 12pm to 3pm
Where: 3806 Whitman Ave. N, Seattle 98103

Hope to see you there!

Arab Film Series Online: Beauty and the Dogs (2017) dir. Kaouther Ben Hania
2020-10-18 12:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Free with RSVP/suggested donation; 100% of the donations raised will support ACCESS’ Domestic Violence program
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Employing impressive cinematic techniques and anchored by a tour-de-force performance from newcomer Mariam Al Ferjani, Beauty and the Dogs presents a gripping moral conundrum surrounding two young Tunisians. When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights and her dignity. Based on a true story, Beauty and the Dogs tells an urgent, unapologetic and important story head-on.
Immediately following the screening will be a talkback with guests TBA.
Please be advised that this program contains sensitive subject matter related to the discussion of sexual violence and mental and emotional abuse, that may be triggering to some.
2017 / 100 minutes / Rated R for Adult References, Explicit Language and Sensitive Subject Matter / Drama / Arabic with English Subtitles

Qalam wa Kalima – a virtual celebration!
2020-10-17 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us on Saturday, October 17 for Qalam wa Kalima – a virtual celebration! 2pm EST
Qalam wa Kalima pays tribute to the enduring legacy of al-Rabita’s members through a dynamic program, including:

Readings of al-Rabita members’ work by some of the most well-known Arab American writers and scholars
A special musical performance by Michael Ibrahim
An exclusive tour of our new digital exhibition featuring a number of rare original printings of books and other materials by al-Rabita members

Tickets are $100. All proceeds will support AANM’s ongoing mission to preserve and uplift Arab American cultural heritage.

Featuring:

Diana Abu Jaber is the award-winning author of Origin, Crescent, Arabian Jazz and The Language of Baklava. Her writing has appeared in Good Housekeeping, Ms., Salon, Vogue, Gourmet, The New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.

Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi-born poet, novelist, scholar and translator. He has published two collections of poetry and four novels, which have been translated in fourteen languages. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times and many pan-Arab newspapers and journals. In 2003, Antoon co-produced About Baghdad, a documentary about the lives of Iraqis under occupation. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya and associate professor at NYU.

Carol W. N. Fadda grew up in Beirut, Lebanon where she earned her B.A. and M.A. from AUB, and later her Ph.D. from Purdue University. Her first book, Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging (NYU Press, 2014) contests negative representations of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. She serves as the editor of the Critical Arab American Studies book series at Syracuse University Press.

Khaled Mattawa, poet born and raised in Benghazi, Libya, relocated to the U.S. as a teenager in 1979. Mattawa has been awarded several Pushcart Prizes and the PEN Award for Literary Translation, in addition to a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University and a MacArthur fellowship. He is currently on faculty at the University of Michigan.

Omar Offendum is a Syrian American hip-hop artist, designer, poet and peace activist. He was born in Saudi Arabia, raised in Washington, D.C., and now lives in Los Angeles, California.

Backyard Arabic Meetup - Seattle
2020-10-15 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | WA, United States
Marhaba! Join us in our backyard for an evening of Arabic chit chat. We will limit the number of attendees in order to maintain social distance. See picture to get a sense of the space and decide if you are comfortable joining.
Feel free to bring your own drink/snacks. We will provide hot cider to those who want to help keep us warm.
If the weather is looking too cold/wet, we will try to reschedule or do the event virtually.
Side note: If you’d like to donate a few dollars to our group renewal fee on MeetUp, please Venmo Alaa at @Mhd-Arar. The amount needed is ~$50.
3350 Blakeley St, Seattle, WA 98105

Conversation: JUSTICE IS POLITICAL (NOT HUMANITARIAN): WHAT PALESTINIANS DEMAND FOR GAZA
2020-10-15 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
JUSTICE IS POLITICAL (NOT HUMANITARIAN): WHAT PALESTINIANS DEMAND FOR GAZA
Thursday, October 15 1 pm ET/10 am PT
Justice cannot wait. Ahead of the second presidential debate, Palestinians in the US plan to reiterate this and other critical demands for justice: to end military funding to Israel and allow Palestinians their internationally-recognized right to return to their occupied homes. Congress’ responsibility to Gaza is political, not humanitarian. A humanitarian approach seeks to apply a bandage to a gaping wound that should instead be healed through justice in policy: ending US complicity in Israel’s siege of Gaza. Only when Palestinian voices are centered in determining their futures can their hopes for freedom and justice can be realized. Join expert Palestinians and progressive allies to discuss policy demands that aim to stop the roots of the violence on Gaza by removing US support for Israel’s ongoing violations of Palestinian rights.
Register to join this critical conversation.
This event can be viewed here: https://m.facebook.com/MPowerChange/videos/justice-is-political-not-humanitarian-what-palestinians-demand-for-gaza/2442304769409778/

Virtual Event – Laila Lalami with Roxane Gay
2020-10-12 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Virtual Event – Laila Lalami

October 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Magic City Books is proud to welcome Laila Lalami, author of the new book Conditional Citizens for a virtual author event on October 12, 2020. In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth–such as national origin, race, or gender–that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today.
Laila Lalami will be joined by Roxane Gay, author of the essay collection Bad Feminist and the memoir, Hunger. This free event will be hosted on the Zoom platform. To register in advance visit: https://magiccitybooks.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V8H4H1U2Rk2zL-7HfHycgw
After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with details about how to join the event on Monday, October 12 at 7:00 CDT.
Conditional Citizens will be published by Pantheon Books on September 22. You can reserve a copy at Magic City Books or pre-order a copy here: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/conditional-citizens/212

Virtual Artist Talks - Amal Ziad Kaawash
2020-10-11 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Please click here to register for this event.
Please join us for a new episode of virtual Artist Talks featuring Palestinian visual artist, vocalist and songwriter, Amal Kaawash on Sunday October 11, at 12:00 Noon US EST; 7:00 PM Palestine Time. Amal will talk about her life growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, her art and musical careers, a selection of which will be presented during the program. The event will be hosted on Zoom. Registration is required. To register for the event please go to the Palestine Museum US website (link in bio) and navigate to events.

National Youth Summit: Teen Resistance to Systematic Racism — Workshop with Kamelya Youssef
2020-10-09 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Online via Zoom
Registration required
In partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, AANM is pleased to host a workshop as part of this year’s National Youth Summit. The National Youth Summit hosts conversations about important events in America’s past that have relevance to the nation’s present and future. This year’s summit focuses on Teen Resistance to Systematic Racism. Middle and high school-aged youth are invited to join us for an online storytelling workshop, led by writer and teacher Kamelya Omayma Youssef, revolving around telling their personal story about social justice, racism and what equity looks like, through their own perspective.
The workshop will take place online over Zoom. Registration required; the Zoom link and all information on how to join the workshop will be sent to the e-mail used to register. REGISTER HERE

Kamelya Omayma Youssef is a poet-writer-teacher from Lebanon by way of Dearborn, Michigan. She tends to blur the borders between forms and hopes that one day borders are obliterated entirely. She is currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at New York University, where she is working on a few poetry manuscripts as well as a play. Her poems have been published in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Mizna, Agape, Bird’s Thumb and on the theater stage with A Host of People. In addition to having earned a few writing awards and residencies, she also develops and presents creative workshops with her friends. Her ongoing project is mastering the art of being in multiple places at once.

Graywolf Literary Salon: Conversations from Home, feat. Khaled Mattawa
2020-10-08 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Enjoy an evening of intimate conversations about home, language, and imagining a better world
Step inside the world of books and get a view straight from the desks of our authors and editors. Join Graywolf Press and four of our outstanding writers as they welcome us into their homes for an evening of conversations about place and imagination during this unprecedented moment in history.
The Graywolf Literary Salon will feature Natalie Diaz (Postcolonial Love Poem), Roy G. Guzmán (Catrachos), Khaled Mattawa (Fugitive Atlas), and Kevin Young (Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts & Fake News).
Admission is free, but we encourage you to give a donation of $25 or more to support Graywolf Press. All proceeds benefit Graywolf’s New Chapter Campaign, a $3 million initiative to strengthen our publishing program through investments in editorial, marketing, audience development, engagement, and infrastructure.
Register here: https://graywolfpress.salsalabs.org/2020salon/index.html
7:30pm CT
About the Authors
NATALIE DIAZ is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem, a finalist for the Forward Prize, and When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award. She has received many honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship, and a United States Artists Fellowship. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe.
ROY G. GUZMÁN is the author of Catrachos, and has received a 2019 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Raised in Miami, they live in Minneapolis.
KHALED MATTAWA is the author of five collections of poetry and is the translator of eleven books of contemporary Arabic poetry. He has been awarded several Pushcart Prizes and the PEN Award for Literary Translation, as well as a Guggenheim and a MacArthur fellowship. His forthcoming collection, Fugitive Atlas, will be published in October 2020. (and he’s Libyan)
KEVIN YOUNG is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, including The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, and Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts & Fake News, longlisted for the National Book Award. He is also the editor of African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, appearing September. Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and poetry editor of the New Yorker, he was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020.

Conditional Citizens: Laila Lalami in conversation with Alexander Key
2020-10-08 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth–such as national origin, race, or gender–that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today. Throughout the book, she poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation, with the result that a caste system is maintained, keeping the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens, she argues, are all the people whom America embraces with one arm, and pushes away with the other. Brilliantly argued and deeply personal, Conditional Citizens weaves together the author’s own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture.

Healthy People, Healthy Planet: That’s Population Health
2020-10-07 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Dr. Ali Mokdad, the chief strategy officer for Population Health, for an introduction to UW’s work to advance population health and find solutions by combining our knowledge of the factors that cause unhealthiness in populations. In this talk, you’ll hear about the University’s quest for answers to some of today’s biggest challenges impacting our health.

About the speaker
Ali Mokdad
Chief Strategy Officer for Population Health, University of Washington

Ali H. Mokdad, PhD, is Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Chief Strategy Officer for Population Health at the University of Washington. Prior to IHME, Mokdad worked at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has published groundbreaking research on local- level disease trends and leading risk factors for poor health. His work on obesity is among the most highly cited in the field.

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Spotlight Poetry: Gabrielle Bates, Julia Guez, Luther Hughes, Dujie Tahat, and Tess Taylor
2020-10-07 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for a celebration of all things verse with visiting poets Julia Guez and Tess Taylor, along with local favorites and cohosts of the Poet Salon Podcast Gabrielle Bates, Luther Hughes, and Dujie Tahat. This event will be held on Zoom and broadcast simultaneously through Facebook Live. To RSVP to the Zoom call, click “Tickets” found at this link: https://hugohouse.org/events/spotlight-poetry-julia-guez-tess-taylor-gabrielle-bates-and-keetje-kuipers/ Link to the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/hugo-house/spotlight-poetry-gabrielle-bates-julia-guez-luther-hughes-dujie-tahat-and-tess-t/323224289001397/ ———— ABOUT THE READERS JULIA GUEZ’s poetry, essays, interviews and translations have appeared in Poetry, the Guardian, PEN Poetry Series, the Kenyon Review, BOMB, and the Brooklyn Rail. She has been awarded the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship and the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation. Guez holds degrees from Rice and Columbia. For the last decade, she has worked with Teach For America; she’s currently a senior managing director of program implementation there. She also teaches creative writing at Rutgers and writes poetry reviews for Publishers Weekly. — TESS TAYLOR is the author of five collections of poetry. Her chapbook, The Misremembered World, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship, and the San Francisco Chronicle called her first book, The Forage House, “stunning.” Her second book, Work & Days, was named one of the 10 best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times. Taylor’s work has appeared in the Atlantic, the Kenyon Review, Poetry, Tin House, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: Last West, part of Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, at the Museum of Modern Art, and Rift Zone, from Red Hen Press. She teaches at University of California, Davis. — GABRIELLE BATES is a poet from Birmingham, Alabama, currently living in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and cohosts the podcast The Poet Salon. Her poems and poetry comics have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and the Best of the Net anthology, among other venues. — LUTHER HUGHES, born and raised Seattle, is the author of A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions, 2022) and the chapbook Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018). Founder of Shade Literary Arts and executive editor for the The Offing, he cohosts The Poet Salon podcast with Gabrielle Bates and Dujie Tahat. His work has been published in Poetry, Paris Review, The Rumpus, New England Review, and others. He is the recipient of the 2020 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize. Luther received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. — DUJIE TAHAT is a Filipino-Jordanian immigrant living in Washington State. They are the author of two chapbooks: Here I Am O My God, selected by Fady Joudah for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, and Salat, selected by Cornelius Eady as winner of the Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Chapbook Award. Their poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry, Poetry NW, ZYZZVA, Best New Poets, Asian American Literary Review and elsewhere. Dujie has earned fellowships from Hugo House, Jack Straw Writing Program, and the Poetry Foundation, as well as a work-study scholarship from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. They serve as a poetry editor for Moss and Homology Lit and cohost The Poet Salon podcast.
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Club Book Author Series: Laila Lalami
2020-10-06 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Moroccan American novelist Laila Lalami uses fiction as a vehicle to showcase “overlooked” North African stories and experiences. Notable examples include her 2014 breakout The Moor’s Account, which reconstructs the journeys of the New World’s first explorer of color. It won the American Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Lalami’s follow-up, The Other Americans, centers around the mysterious death of a Moroccan immigrant in California. Equal parts family drama, murder mystery, and love story, The Other Americans was singled out by media as varied as the BBC and BuzzFeed as one of the most anticipated releases of 2019. Lalami’s new release, Conditional Citizens, is something of a departure. In this deeply personal exposé, the author uses her own unlikely immigration story as an entrée for explore the hot-button question: What does it mean to be American? One reviewer noted: “Probing, unflinching and fiercely intelligent, Conditional Citizens is a must-read for all of those who have stared, stunned, at the shifting terrain of our political landscape and wondered how we got here.”
**Not clear which time zone this is taking place, I believe it’s 7pm Central Time.**

Concert of Colors Forum on Community, Culture & Race: Community Self-Determination
2020-10-06 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Concert of Colors Forum on Community, Culture & Race: Community Self-Determination
Livestreamed on Detroit Public TV and Facebook
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The Concert of Colors Forum on Community, Culture & Race, one of the Arab American National Museum’s signature annual events, is a dynamic gathering of artists, activists and advocates who use performance and dialogue as a tool for advocacy and community building. This year’s program will be presented online at www.dptv.org and on Facebook live. Breaking bread together is a tradition during this signature event; we hope you’ll break bread with us and tune in during dinner!
Featuring keynote speaker Ismael Ahmed, panelists/performers Leila Awadallah, ShoShona Kish, Sterling Toles and Malik Kenyatta Yakini, and moderator Charles Ezra Ferrell.
Concert of Colors, Detroit’s annual diversity festival, will be happening Oct. 6-11, 2020, broadcast on Detroit Public TV. More info + concert lineup

Shuruq 4.5: Olympia Arab Festival
2020-10-05 - 2020-10-30
The first online Olympia Arab Festival!
This free, month-long festival celebrates the arts and cultures of the Arabic-speaking region and diaspora.

Free Film Screening “My Neighborhood”
2020-10-03 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Free Online Virtual Event
Click Here to Register for Event. Free Event but Registration is Required.
Click here to view the film trailer.
SYNOPSIS
Mohammed El Kurd is a Palestinian boy growing up in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in the heart of East Jerusalem. When Mohammed turns 11, his family is forced to give up part of their home to Israeli settlers, who are leading a campaign of court-sanctioned evictions to guarantee Jewish control of the area.
Shortly after their displacement, Mohammed’s family and other residents begin peacefully protesting against the evictions, determined not to lose their homes for good. In a surprising turn, they are quickly joined by scores of Israeli supporters who are horrified to see what is being done in their name. Among them is Jewish West Jerusalem resident Zvi Benninga and his sister Sara, who develop a strong relationship with Mohammed and his family as they take on a leading role in organizing the protests.
Through their personal stories, My Neighbourhood goes beyond the sensational headlines that normally dominate discussions of Jerusalem and captures voices rarely heard, of those striving for a shared future in the city.
My Neighbourhood follows Mohammed as he comes of age in the midst of unrelenting tension and remarkable cooperation in his backyard. Highlighting Mohammed’s own reactions to the highly volatile situation, reflections from family members and other evicted residents, accounts of Israeli protesters and interviews with Israeli settlers, the film chronicles the resolve of a neighbourhood and the support it receives from the most unexpected of places.
My Neighbourhood is directed and produced by Rebekah Wingert-Jabi, who documented Mohammed’s story over two years, and acclaimed filmmaker Julia Bacha. It is the latest production by Just Vision, an award-winning team of Palestinian, Israeli, North and South American filmmakers, journalists and human rights advocates dedicated to telling the stories of Israelis and Palestinians working nonviolently to achieve security, freedom and peace.

Conversation with Malak Mattar and Taqi Spateen
2020-10-02 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for a conversation with Malak Mattar and Taqi Spateen, whose artwork for George Floyd and Iyad Al-Hallaq went viral on Instagram.

About this Event

Join us for our second event to celebrate our new virtual exhibit, “Intersections: Palestinian and African American Art for Social Justice” as we talk with two of our Palestinian artists for the exhibit, Malak Mattar and Taqi Spateen.
In a span of five days, Black American George Floyd was killed by a Minnesota police officer and Iyad al-Hallaq, an unarmed Palestinian man with autism, was fatally shot by two Israeli officers on his way to a school for the disabled. Their deaths inspired a wave of protests—and art—around the world. In this one-time event, Malak and Taqi will share their artwork, creative process, and perspectives on the relationship between art and activism.
Donations are welcome: We are very grateful for your partnership and support. The Museum of the Palestinian People is based in Washington DC and here to tell our stories, which encompass the rich history, vibrant arts, culture and spirit of a people who thrive even in the face of adversity.
Visit our website: mpp-dc.org/

Three acclaimed Seattle-area writers including Lena Tuffaha
2020-10-01 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for an evening with three acclaimed Seattle-area writers, all published by Red Hen Press!
Kristen Millares Young is the author of the novel Subduction, a Paris Review staff pick called “whip-smart” by the Washington Post, a “brilliant debut” by the Seattle Times and “utterly unique and important” by Ms. Magazine. Her essays, investigations and reviews appear in the Washington Post, Literary Hub, the Guardian, and elsewhere, as well as the anthologies Latina Outsiders, Pie & Whiskey and Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19. She was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize. From 2018 to 2020, Kristen served as Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House.

Amber Flame is a writer, composer and performer whose work has garnered artistic merit residencies with Hedgebrook, The Watering Hole, Vermont Studio Center, and Yefe Nof. Flame served as the 2017-2019 Poet-in-Residence at Hugo House. Her first collection, Ordinary Cruelty, was published in 2017 by Write Bloody Press, and her second collection is forthcoming from Red Hen Press.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her first book of poems, Water & Salt won the Washington State Book Award and was a finalist for the Arab American Book Awards. Her chapbook, Arab in Newsland, won the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Prize, and her most recent chapbook, Letters from the Interior, was published by Diode editions. Her poems and essays have received the Robert Watson Literary Prize and been published in Adroit journal, Jubilat, Kenyon Review Online, the New England Review, the Rumpus, Southern Humanities Review, and World Literature Today, among others.
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Redlining and Real Estate with Randa Kayyali Privett, Ph.D.
2020-10-01 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
As part of her commitment to fighting racism, Dr. Randa Kayyali Privett will be discussing how past redlining affects today’s real estate markets. This talk, based on the book, The Color of Law, is sponsored by two University of Washington groups: UW Libraries and the UWAA Book Club, and will be moderated by UW Alumna, Melony Pedersen, Senior Development and Construction Manager at Forterra.

Laila Lalami in Conversation with Kiese Laymon Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America | Virtual Talk
2020-09-30 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
About the Program

Hear from Laila Lalami, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Other Americans, as she discusses her first work of nonfiction, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America. Using her own journey from Moroccan immigrant to United States citizen as a starting point, Lalami explores how marginalized groups—including immigrants, women, and people of color—are often blocked from many of the rights, liberties, and protections associated with American citizenship. Moderated by writer Kiese Laymon (Heavy: An American Memoir), this evening offers illuminating and deeply personal insights about the experiences of those whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.
Signed books available for preorder on booksoup.com.

Virtual Delegation: Yafa
2020-09-30 11:00 - 13:00 UTC
Throughout the month of September we will hold Virtual Delegations to visit Yafa with:
Abed Shehadeh – Tel Aviv’s only Palestinian City Council Member and Political Activist
Join us to explore Yafa and understand the challenges faced by Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Whether this is your first time “visiting” Yafa or you want an update about the current situation, this virtual delegation is for you!
We are asking for each person to pay on a sliding scale: $25 – $75
(Any payment above $25 is a tax deductible donation)
Register here: https://eyewitnesspalestine.salsalabs.org/virtualdelegationtoyafa/index.html

Sept 30th – 2pm ET

Movie: Bayt Jadeed
2020-09-30 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Part of the Social Justice Film Festival

Bayt Jadeed: Seeking Home explores the parallels between Somali refugees’ experiences in St. Cloud, MN and refugees’ experiences in Germany. Through the commonalities in experiences, we hope to present a variety of perspectives to encourage a complex and honest conversation about how we define community.

YEAR
2019

RUNTIME
30 minutes

COUNTRY
Germany & US

This movie can be found in BLOCK 3: Together Against Hate as part of the Social Justice Film Festival Series. It includes:

Liberation Heroes (40 min.)
Bayt Jadeed: Seeking Home (29 min.)
Seva (16 min.)
Stronger than Steel (7 min.)

Cooking by the Book: Falastin
2020-09-27 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Cooking by the Book

Sunday, September 27, 2020
2:00 PM 3:00 PM EST

Click here to register for this event.

Movie: Gaza Fights for Freedom
2020-09-26 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Film Screening:
“Gaza Fights for Freedom”
Saturday
September 26th
1:00 – 3:00 PM
(US Eastern Time)

Virtual Delegation: Yafa
2020-09-26 09:00 - 12:00 UTC
Throughout the month of September we will hold Virtual Delegations to visit Yafa with:
Abed Shehadeh – Tel Aviv’s only Palestinian City Council Member and Political Activist
Join us to explore Yafa and understand the challenges faced by Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Whether this is your first time “visiting” Yafa or you want an update about the current situation, this virtual delegation is for you!
We are asking for each person to pay on a sliding scale: $25 – $75
(Any payment above $25 is a tax deductible donation)
Register here: https://eyewitnesspalestine.salsalabs.org/virtualdelegationtoyafa/index.html

Sept 26th – 12pm ET

Sept 30th – 2pm ET
