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Arabic Storytime @ Lake City Branch / وقت القصص بالعربية في فرع ليك سيتي
2026-06-06 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-06-13 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-06-20 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Lake City – Seattle Public Library, 12501 28th Ave. N.E., Seattle, Washington, 98125, United States
At storytime, children from birth through elementary school and their families can enjoy stories, songs, and fun learning activities.
Event in English and Arabic.
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في وقت القصص، يمكن للأطفال الذين تتراوح أعمارهم من حديثي الولادة وحتى سن الخامسة وعائلاتهم الاستمتاع بالقصص والأغاني وأنشطة التعلُّم المرحة.
نرحب بالعائلات من جميع الأعمار.
يُعقد الحدث باللغة الإنجليزية والعربية.
Registration is not required.

Charity 5k to raise funds for HEAL Palestine
2026-06-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Golden Garden Park, 8498 Seaview Pl NW, Seattle, WA, 98117, United States
A Charity 5k to raise funds for HEAL Palestine in collaboration with both Seattle Muslim Run Club and Arab Run Club – Seattle.

Hi everyone!
I’m hosting a charity 5k for Gaza. I’m partnering with both Muslim Run Club and Arab Run Club and donating the proceeds to HEAL Palestine.
Heal Palestine is a humanitarian initiative dedicated to helping children in Gaza access lifesaving medical care. The organization works to evacuate critically ill and injured children for treatment abroad while raising awareness about the ongoing humanitarian crisis. They’ve also helped some people I know get evacuated from Gaza for medical leave.
The suggested donation is $50 but feel free to send more or less! The link to donate is (tinyurl.com/HEALSeattle5k) and it’s zakat eligible too.
Please RSVP on Partiful (Charity 5k for Palestine | Partiful)
We’ll be running at golden gardens park. The map is linked in the strava event (https://strava.app.link/la9F7KtTg3b) but I’ll also add a map here asap.
Feel free to invite your friends, the more the merrier. If you’re interested in volunteering day of, fill out the questionaire.
linktree.com/SeattleHeal5K for all consolidated links!

A Night in Beirut
2026-06-07 16:00 - 20:00 | Aladdin’s Cafe, 6310 NE 33rd AVE, Portland, OR 97211 |, Portland, OR
an evening of delicious food, nostalgic live music by the Occidental Tourists, and community connection that reminds us of home. 💙

Hosted by the Arab American Cultural Center of Oregon, this fundraiser will support on-the-ground organizations in Lebanon providing food, shelter, and emergency health care for those displaced since March 2026.We hope to see you there.📅 Sunday, June 7
⏰ 4:00-8:00 PM
📍 Aladdin’s Café Restaurant & Catering @aladdinscafe
🎶 The Occidental Tourists
🎟 Tickets: $28.52* (LINK IN BIO)
✨ All ages welcome
*ticket includes a traditional Lebanese dessert, Kanafeh.
#AACCO #ArabAmericanCulturalCenterOfOregon #ANightInBeirut#LebanonFundraiser #PortlandEvents #PDXEvents #ArabCommunity

Keffiyah Walk at Green lake!
2026-06-08 17:30, 2026-06-15 17:30, 2026-06-22 17:30 | Greenlake Boathouse and Coffee Shop, 7351 East Green Lake Dr N #5303, Seattle, WA, 98115, United States
Monday June 1st (and every Monday!)
5:30pm (They usually start walking counter clockwise at about 5:45pm)
Starting at the Greenlake Boathouse coffee shop

وقت القصة باللغة العربية / Arabic Story Time - KCLS
2026-06-11 17:00 - 17:30, 2026-06-18 17:00 - 17:30, 2026-06-25 17:00 - 17:30 | Virtual
Enjoy stories, music, movement and rhymes in Arabic that develop your child’s early literacy skills, then stay to play, have fun and make new friends.
All ages welcome.

وقت القصة باللغة العربية
!انضموا إلينا في وقت القصة باللغة العربية عبر الإنترنت، كل يوم خميس من الساعة 5:00 مساءً حتى 5:30 مساءً
.تمتعوا بالقصص العربية، والحركات المفعمة بالحيوية، والأناشيد التي تهدف إلى تنمية مهارات القراءة والكتابة…

Registration requiredRegister for event

Therapy is Political Speaker Series featuring Shaza Abu Dayah
2026-06-12 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
Join us live from Gaza for a conversation with Shaza Abu Dayah: Psychologist, Writer, and Journalist.

Please join us for a live talk with Gaza-based psychologist and writer Shaza Abu Dayah. Shaza will share her reflections on trauma, resilience, meaning-making, and redefining the role of the therapist within the context of an ongoing genocide. She’ll speak about “the limitations of traditional mental health models when applied to a violently colonial reality, and how practitioners can become more aware of the political and ethical dimensions of their work.” She’ll also explore “forms of support and solidarity that move beyond the individual level toward a more collective responsibility”. You don’t want to miss Shaza’s powerful message!

Rainbow Story Time (online) w/ Lindz Amer
2026-06-12 11:00 - 11:30, 2026-06-19 11:00 - 11:30, 2026-06-26 11:00 - 11:30 | Virtual
Join Lindz Amer, the award-winning LGBTQ+ activist, author and co-host of the beloved indie web series, Queer Kid Stuff, for songs and stories that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community all-year-round.
All ages welcome with adult.
Please register:
https://kcls.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdOuqpzssGtC5XlvnFdvIAD2bwlBzP-RA

Weekly Peace Vigil
2026-06-12 16:30 - 18:00, 2026-06-19 16:30 - 18:00, 2026-06-26 16:30 - 18:00 | Percival Landing, 217 Thurston Ave NW, Olympia, WA, 98501
ONGOING LOCAL ACTIONS FOR PEACE

WEEKLY PEACE VIGIL
Every Friday 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Percival Landing in Downtown Olympia
4th & Water Street

We continue to vigil, network, and advocate for Palestinians, for peace with justice, and for our civil rights. Despite an agreed ceasefire, Israel continues to attack Gaza. Bring a sign and a friend, and join us at Percival Landing every Friday!
Thanks to the Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation for organizing these peace vigils through the years, and for inviting us to share this space as we advocate for peace.

Palestine Narrates presents the 2026 selection of Queer Cinema for Palestine
2026-06-12 19:00 - 21:30 | Pipsqueak Community Space, 173 16th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122
an international collection of short films by Queer filmmakers in solidarity with Palestine
Friday, June 12. 7 pm
Pipsqueak Gallery. 173 16th Ave, Seattle 98122.
Free
Masks required, provided
A flyer is attached.
The film descriptions:
2026 QC4P program:
https://queercinemaforpalestine.org/2026/04/07/film-program-queer-cinema-for-palestine-2026/

Virtual Movie Screenings: Every Saturday with Palestine Museum US
2026-06-13 09:00 - 11:00, 2026-06-20 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Check website: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/events for current showings and for registration links!
Often the screening ends with a Q&A with the director!

Radical Leadership: Find Your Self Workshop + Mini-Retreat
2026-06-13 10:00 - 14:00 | Register for Location
In this workshop + mini retreat, you will be gently but firmly guided from feeling like you exist in a disconnected, burnt out, hamster wheel reality into an embodied connection with your self and your truth.
You will engage in practices that allow you to bring in and hold on to who you want to be in the spaces where you lead (work, home, community, organizing space, etc).
You will also be led through a workshop that encourages you to identify and let go of the stories that keep you playing the game of cutthroat competitiveness and scarcity, then guides you through ways that you can resist and counteract those stories.
Note: This is a women-only event, and as there is an optional (but recommended) hot sauna and cold plunge element, all staff on location will also be women.

Farm Field Trip 4 Shami Teens
2026-06-14 10:30 - 16:30 | Register for Location
We’re going on a field trip! Shami teens and their caregivers are invited!
A guided visit to a local farm (Olympia, WA). This is a culture-tending day to connect with land and food in the context of food justice and sovereignty
​This event is shaped for youth of Shami/Levantine descent and their caregivers. The activities, conversations, and pace are for their safety, pace, curiosities, healing, and needs.
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​For culture healing through relational learning and orienting ourselves as part of the natural world 🌍. A politicized container to weave power and address systemic injustice.
​As always, this is a container to honor land, heal culture, connect, and expand towards justice and wellness for all.
​WHAT TO EXPECT
​The guidance will be tuned to food sovereignty and culture through conversation and contemplation.
The flow will be organic based on the invitations of the land, our hosts, and the mood of the group. Some of the activities on the menu:

​A land tour

​Guided contemplation about food systems, ecology, and Shami agriculture, in the context of food traditions

​Hands-on land tending for embodied experience and building relationships

​Storytelling

​Hanging out with farm animals!

​Plant recognition practice

​Future visioning practice

​Quiet rest time

​We’ll be sharing a meal together. Details on that forthcoming!
​PARTICIPATION CONTRIBUTION

​$125 per participant

​$0 access spots are available per request. Contact hello@trillium.eco
​**Limited to 15 participants**

Fady Rizk’s Inevitable Comedy Tour
2026-06-14 20:00 - 22:00 | Laughs Comedy Club, 5220 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Fady Rizk’s Inevitable Comedy Tour: ‘Fady is now touring his new comedy hour, “Inevitable” — a high-energy, interactive show packed with crowd work, relatable stories, sharp observations, and real moments that hit way too close to home no matter where you come from.
Seattle — with Egypt playing its first game in the 2026 World Cup and facing Belgium on June 15, come join Fady the night before for an evening full of laughs, great energy, and a chance to clear your mind before the big game. Whether you’re a football fan or just looking for a fun night out, this is a high-energy interactive show built to bring people together
Fady Rizk is a New York–based Egyptian comedian, actor, and musical artist known for his honest, relatable humor and story-driven comedy. Often referred to as “the Egyptian king of clean comedy,” Fady encourages people to see one another as individuals rather than categories, using humor to bridge cultures and highlight shared human experiences.
Fady has been performing stand-up comedy for over 10 years across top comedy clubs and international stages around the world. He was featured on Comedy Central Arabia and recently appeared in the feature film Lucky Lu, which premiered at Cannes, TIFF, and several other international film festivals.

The Beauty of Tatreez: Exploring Palestinian Embroidery and Dress
2026-06-15 10:30 - 12:30 | Virtual
Embroidery as language: trace how Palestinian women stitched village identity, lineage, and land into the thobe…

CLASS DESCRIPTION
Until the mid-twentieth century, the dress of the Palestinian people was descriptive of identity; by societal segment (city dweller, villager or bedouin), and by the region in which the wearer came. Within each regional style, finer distinctions in women’s dress (thobe) were expressed that shared the maker’s life and the natural world around her. Palestinian women recorded their identity in their thobe with embroidery (tatreez) through a shared illustrative language of embroidered patterns, stitching techniques and thread colors. The thobe records unwritten stories and serves as a visual register of collective and individual identities, documenting a woman’s village, tribe or town, her marital status, her familial lineage, and the material impact of colonialism, occupation, war and exile. The regional identity of the woman defines the overall governing style of her thobe, and evidence of identity is largely through her embodiment of land.
This lecture will discuss the regional distinctions in dress in historical Palestine during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by city, village and tribe for at least six regions, to include Ramallah, Galilee, Gaza, Bir Saba, Al Khalil, and Bethlehem.
ABOUT OUR LECTURER
Wafa Ghnaim is an art and dress historian, fashion researcher, embroiderer, educator, and the founder of the Tatreez Institute, specializing in Palestinian embroidery and adornment. She is the author of Tatreez & Tea (2016) and THOBNA (2023), with research published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Singapore. A former instructor at the Smithsonian and Research Scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she now continues her preservation work as a Mellon Foundation Research Fellow at the Museum of the Palestinian People, and a commissioned designer for Victoria & Albert Museum’s Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine.

Family Dinner: Sahtein, A Modern Arabic Feast
2026-06-19 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-06-20 19:00 - 22:00 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Join us for a dinner where we do all the cooking! Each month we open the doors between our classrooms and seat 40 guests for a five-course family-style dinner, featuring all the ingredients we’re excited about. This season we’re teaming up with Nadia Tommalieh for Sahtein, A Modern Arabic Feast! Pricing includes a wine or nonalcoholic drink pairing with each savory course, and tea or coffee with dessert.
Mokabelat Mushakaleh
Hummus with sauteed morel mushrooms and green chickpeas
Mghanajeh (charred eggplant) topped with peppers, scallions, and tomatoes
Pistachio muhammara with pomegranate seeds
Labneh tabat (labneh bites coated with za’atar and olive oil)
Ka’ak el asrounieh (Lebanese sesame bread)
Honey and baharat-roasted carrots
Warm dates, crispy halloumi, and tahini-date molasses drizzle
Spring fattoush with shaved asparagus and radishes, snap peas, and fava beans
Crunchy pita and herby green olive dressing
Mashawi
Reyash (pomegranate molasses-glazed lamb lollipops)
Shish taouk (yogurt-marinated chicken thighs)
Grilled asparagus & spring onions
Smoked pepper toum, green garlic tatbeeleh (jalapeno sauce), and caramelized carrot labneh
Markouk bread
Olive oil-toasted bulgur with black lime-infused tomato sauce and caramelized onions
Sumac-roasted strawberries with rose and pink peppercorn meringues
Honey-labneh mousse, crumbled filo, and pistachio honeycomb candy
The vegetarian menu will include grilled vegetables in place of the lamb and chicken.
The pescatarian menu will include grilled halibut in place of the lamb and chicken.
The gluten-free menu will include gluten-free crackers in place of the sesame bread, rice in place of the markouk bread , and no crumbled filo with the dessert.

Baladna's Annual Palestinian Graduate Recognition Gathering
2026-06-21 | WA
Get ready to celebrate with us! Join Baladna for our Annual Palestinian Graduate Recognition Gathering on June 21, 2026 and let’s honor all our amazing Class of 2026 graduates! 🔥
This is also our chance to give a special shoutout to the incredible Palestinian fathers in our community who’ve been supporting our community every single day! 💪
Mark your calendars because we’re bringing the energy with food 🍖, vendors 🏪, games 🎯, sports 🏈, and so much more! It’s going to be epic!
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🎓🇵🇸 To every Pali grad in our community, this one’s for you.
From Pre-K diplomas to PhDs, every milestone deserves to be recognized and celebrated within our community. If you’re graduating in 2026 or know is someone who is graduating, sign up using the link in our bio so we can honor you at our Annual Palestinian Graduate Gathering!
PALI GRAD SIGN UP 🔗
https://forms.gle/Z3cX9vQkvyrWr85AA

Al-Bustan Summer Camp 2026 [Philadelphia]
2026-06-22 - 2026-07-03 | Al Bustan Seeds of Culture, 310 Master St, Philadelphia, PA, 19122
We’re excited to announce that Al-Bustan’s Summer Camp will take place June 22–July 3! Have your little ones join us for two weeks of art-making, cultural exploration, and connection.
Stay tuned for more info!

Ibrahim Maalouf at the Crocodile
2026-06-23 19:00 - 21:00 | The Crocodile, 2505 1st Ave, Seattle, WA, 98033, United States
Ibrahim Maalouf is a French-Lebanese trumpeter, producer, arranger, and composer. In 2022, he became the first Lebanese instrumentalist nominated at the Grammy Awards for his album Queen of Sheba in collaboration with Angélique Kidjo
