ArabishWay

Cancelled: ArabishWay Circle Time Series (2019-2020)
2020-06-04 10:30 - 11:15 UTC | 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: "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.”)

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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!!

(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

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 I: Palestinian Aida Cloth Technique, Lily (Ramallah)
2020-06-11 16:00 - 17:00 | 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

A Virtual Literary Panel - 6-12-2020 - Palestine Museum US
2020-06-12 09:00 - 10:00 | WA
Literary Panel 6/12

Description
Leading Palestinian Writers Read & Discuss their Recent works

Time

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

Movie: "The Lobby" - Saint Mark's Mideast Focus Ministry Middle East Film Series
2020-06-12 18:00 - 21:00 | WA, United States
THE LOBBY—U.S.A.

This film is distilled from four documentary films by Al Jazeera. It is essential viewing if you want to understand why the United States gives uncritical support to Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The Lobby—U.S.A. will be paired with a short film by Farah Nabulsi, titled Oceans of Injustice.
live discussion with guest speaker: Attorney John McKay

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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.”)

Virtual Class) Level II: Palestinian Waste Canvas Technique, Small Chest Design - PART ONE
2020-06-13 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
Virtual Class) Level II: Palestinian Waste Canvas Technique, Small Chest Design – PART ONE

Saturday, June 13, 2020
12:00 PM 2:00 PM EST

This is a two-part class; the first session shows how to secure and start the medium motif pattern, the second explains how to finish and remove the waste canvas.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PBOXaUxLQuWbE0wjXX-5Aw
Learn more about how to prepare for a successful online tatreez class here: https://www.tatreezandtea.com/online-classes

Palestine Museum: "We Cannot Go There Now, My Dear" Film Screening
2020-06-13 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
Screening of the Film “We Cannot Go There Now, My Dear”

Description
Film About Palestinian Refugees From Syria

Time

Jun 13, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Stitch the Motifs of 16 Villages in Historic Palestine!
2020-06-13 11:00 - 13:00 | WA
Stitch the Motifs of 16 Villages in Historic Palestine!
“The Village Series” is a set of 12 hands-on Palestinian embroidery classes that combine the traditional motifs of 16 Palestinian villages into a collaged wall-hanging. Wafa designed this project exclusively for Tatreez & Tea students. You can see a preview of the project here.
When: Every Saturday, 2 pm EST beginning June 13, 2020. Classes are recorded for 7 days after the live session.
Where: Zoom information sent after registration is completed.
Registration:

12 Class Pass ($10 discount)
À la cart (please scroll below for class listings)

Classes will always scheduled on Saturdays at 2:00PM EST, but are being released in segments due to the changing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine.
The 16 villages and regions are Galilee, Yaffa, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Ramleh, Khan Younis, Gaza, El-Khalil, Nablus, Lydda, Ramleh, Bethlehem, Beersheeba/Sinai, Esdud, Beit Jibrin

Galilee Region, Amulets (Saturday, June 13, 2020 – 2:00PM EST)
Yaffa Region, Garden Rose (Saturday, June 20, 2020 – 2:00PM EST)
Ramallah Region, Leech (Saturday, June 27, 2020 – 2:00PM EST)
Jerusalem Region, Tile Branch (Sunday, July 5, 2020 – 2:00PM EST)

Queerantine: A throwback to Queer Arab shorts [Online] - NWFF
2020-06-18 - 2020-06-19 | WA
Queerantine: A throwback to Queer Arab shorts [Online]
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Thu Jun 18: 6.00pm PDT – Fri Jun 19: 11:59pm PDT
** BLACK LIVES MATTER. In recognition of the importance of the current moment, NWFF is donating ALL PROCEEDS from our June film screenings to organizations that empower the Black community. This particular screening benefits Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network. Learn more about this initiative here: bit.ly/nwffblm or donate directly to NWFF: nwfilmforum.org/donate. **
About
** The annual Seattle Arab Film Festival will be held August 29-30, 2020. Visit the festivals website for more information and follow them on Facebook and Instagram for updates! **
In these times of rage, sorrow, and physical distancing, we know that community is more important than ever. With that in mind, the Seattle Arab Film Festival invites you to join us for a throwback screening of some of our favorite queer Arab shorts in honor of Pride! Join us from your living room to celebrate stories that highlight the diversity, resilience, and talent of queer Arab communities around the world.
Tickets are pay as you can and all proceeds from this event will go to benefit the Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network.
Total duration: 71 minutes
The Program:
BREAKING FAST
(Mike Mosallam, US, 2015, 18 min)
Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan.
I SAY DUST
(Darine Hotait, US, 2015, 15 min)
Two Arab-American women in New York City fall in love, argue home and identity, engage in a chess battle, and express themselves through the power of the spoken word. I Say Dust explores poetry in cinema.
DEARBORN ASH
(Hena Ashraf, US, 2018, 10 min)
Its Ramadan in Dearborn, Michigan. Suffering from acute anxiety, Roshan meets up with a friend, only to find her plans for the night completely disrupted.
THREE CENTIMETERS
(Lara Zeidan, Lebanon & Canada, 2018, 9 min)
Four Lebanese girls go on a ferris wheel ride to make their friend feel better about her breakup. Their conversation drifts to a less fun place.
THE WIG
(Karim Boukhari, Morocco, 2015, 19 min)
A random afternoon, a movie theater lost within the noises of Casablanca. A young man buys a ticket, enters the cinema and dresses as a woman. But nothing goes as planned…

Ambience (movie short)- San Diego Arab Film Festival 2020
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28 | WA
Two young Palestinians try to record a demo for a Music Competition inside a noisy crowded refugee camp, while failing recording because of the chaos of the place, they discover an authentic way allow them to meet the deadline creatively.
15 minute run time
Bonus interview with the director Wisam Al-Jafari available on the website.

Homecoming (movie short) - San Diego Film Festival 2020
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28 | WA
Mariam Jalloul is the first student accepted to Harvard from Fordson High School; located in Dearborn, Michigan- the city with the most concentrated amount Arabs and Muslims outside of the Middle East. Mariam’s acceptance is historical to the community. This is the story of how Mariam leaves home, navigates her identity, and finds her way back; all while tearing down barriers.

La Dame E Le Roi - short movie (2019) - San Diego Film Festival 2020
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28 | WA
Leila is an 11-year-old girl who lives in France. She returned with her family to spend the summer holidays as every year. Ahmed is Leila’s only friend in Tunisia so she decided to provide him with a visa and take him with her to France.

24 minutes

The Knight and the Princess (2019) - San Diego Arab Film Festival
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28 | WA
Inspired by a true 7th century knight, the story follows the adventures of Mohammed Bin Alkassim with a fictional twist. At the young age of 15, he could not accept the concept of impossible and took it upon himself to save women and children who were abducted by pirates in the Indian sea. This seemingly simple quest would be the first of many experiences that shaped the great leader he would later become. Ready to take on the tyrant king Daher as a more experienced 17-year-old, Mohammed Bin Alkassim once again leaves his hometown Basra, Iraq, with his lifelong friend Zaid, and his mentor, Abu Alaswad, on a mission to free Sind.
During one of his battles, he happened to save a young lady from the land of Sind – Princess Lubnah. It is the love story of “The Knight and The Princess.”
On the behest of his King Daher, a sorcerer attempts to control two funny yet mischievous jinn characters in order to keep Al Kassim off the path of the land of Sind.
The back and forth power struggle escalates into an epic encore of a war with battle-tested elephants, hundreds of horses, and the fight against good and evil.
The story is dramatized with an original score and 5 original songs. The voices of the characters are brought to life by well-known Egyptian actors.
Run time: 1 hr 36 minutes

Zahra's Letter - movie short - San Diego Arab Film Festival
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28 | WA
Zahra is a Palestinian woman from Syria who like thousands of refugees, has just arrived in Germany. But she has left behind her younger son. Osama lost 35 kg during the war and one day he disappeared from the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, the most emblematic place of the Syrian war, where he lived with his family. Zahra decides to write a letter to her son from Germany: to tell him how she has arrived in Europe with his disabled sister, how the family is, how is their day to day life in the new city…Her letter without address is a desperate love letter.
~15 minutes

Adam (full length)- San Diego Arab Film Festival 2020
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28 | WA
Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually, however, Abla’s resolve softens and Samia’s arrival begins to offer all of them the prospect of a new life.

Trailer

Karim's Role - Movie Short - San Diego
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28 | WA
Karim, an actor fed up with just playing terrorist roles, shares his sorrows with two of his friends – Dani and Bea – while having a drink. Subsequent events will make that conversation especially relevant and put each of them to the test.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
~ 10 minutes

Mirrors of Diaspora (2018) - San Diego Arab Film Festival
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28 | WA
Mirrors of Diaspora is a multi-character story of seven Iraqi artists with more than forty years of exile, creativity, alienation, memories, nostalgia, survivals, and war between them.
On the 15th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Mirrors of Diaspora explores themes of exile, creativity, identity and war told through the lives of seven Iraqi artists living outside the country of their birth for close to half a century. The artists featured in this documentary belong to a group known as ‘Iraqi Artists in Exile’.
Filmed over three decades, this ambitious project explores their challenges, failures and successes, both as artists and in their private lives: from the time they graduated from art school in the 1970s, working as street artists in the piazzas of Rome and Florence, to becoming well-known. The central question the film poses is: what are the consequences of spending most of one’s life in exile?
At a time of unprecedented global migration when barely a day passes without a tragic story played out in the international media, Mirrors of Diaspora contributes to greater understanding of one of the defining issues of our time.
~90 minute run time

Moderately Satisfied (2018) - movie short - San Diego Film Festival
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28 | WA
When visiting her terminally ill mother for the first time in months, an estranged daughter finds new answers about her relationship with her bitter mother, while filling out a patient satisfaction survey. For the first time, the two finally meet halfway.
~ 15 minutes

Soumaya - San Diego Film Festival
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28 | WA
“Soumaya” is a film by Waheed Khan and Ubaydah Abu-Usayd with support from the Collectif Contre l’Islamophobie en France/ Collective Against Islamophobia in France.
Soumaya is an executive in a transport company. After fourteen years of employment, she learned overnight that she had been dismissed and discovered the reasons for her dismissal on television that same evening. She then decides to exercise a very particular right of reply.
Full length: 1 hr 43 min

The Journey of the Others (2019) - San Diego Arab Film Festival
2020-06-20 - 2020-06-28 | WA
At the Freedom Theater in Jenin refugee camp, the next Palestinian Intifada is brewing. A group of brave theater actors risk their lives every day to fulfill a dream that they are not willing to abandon: to show their play in New York. A group of brave theater actors risk their lives every day to show their play in New York.
Run time: 1 hr 14 minutes

Palestine Museum: "Stitching Palestine" Film Screening
2020-06-20 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
Screening of the Film “Stitching Palestine”

In commemorating the passage of 72 years since the Nakba, Palestine Museum US presents the film “Stitching Palestine”

Time

Jun 20, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
