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Mona Awad with Kira Jane Buxton — 'Rouge: A Novel'
2023-09-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Third Place Books – Seward Park, 5041 Wilson Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
Third Place Books is thrilled to welcome Mona Awad to our Seward Park store! Awad will be discussing Rouge, her new novel which holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath. She will be joined in conversation by Kira Jane Buxton, the staff-favorite author of Feral Creatures and Hollow Kingdom. This event is free and open to the public.
For important updates, registration is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
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https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/mona-awad-kira-jane-buxton

Arabic Storytime @ Lake City Branch / وقت القصص بالعربية في فرع ليك سيتي
2023-09-16 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-09-09 14:00 - 15:00 (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.

وقت القصة باللغة العربية / Arabic Story Time (online) - KCLS
2023-09-14 16:00 - 16:30, 2023-09-07 16:00 - 16:30, 2023-08-31 16:00 - 16:30, 2023-08-24 16:00 - 16:30, 2023-08-17 16:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
وقت القصة عبر الإنترنت. كل خميس من 4:00 مساءً إلى 4:30 مساءً.
استمتعوا بالقصص والحركة والأناشيد باللغة العربية التي تنمي مهارات القراءة والكتابة لدى أطفالكم في وقت مبكر.
نرحب بجميع الأعمار مع الكبار.
الرجاء التسجيل *عبر الإنترنت هنا*. بعد التسجيل، ستصلكم رسالة تأكيد بالبريد الإلكتروني تحتوي على رابط Zoom الخاص بالبرنامج. سيتم استخدام نفس الرابط كل أسبوع لوقت القصة باللغة العربية. إذا كنتم لا ترون رسالة بريد إلكتروني، فتحققوا من ملف البريد العشوائي.
تتوفر ترتيبات تيسيرية ملائمة للأشخاص ذوي الإعاقة عند الطلب عبر البريد الإلكتروني access@kcls.org قبل سبعة أيام على الأقل من الحدث. و أيضا تتوفر التسميات التوضيحية التلقائية دائمًا للأحداث عبر الإنترنت.
Online Story Time. Thursdays, 4-4:30 pm.
Enjoy stories, music, movement, and rhymes in Arabic that develop your child’s early literacy skills.
All ages welcome with adult.
Please register online. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the program’s Zoom link. The same link will be used each week for Arabic Story Time. If you do not see an email, check your Junk or Spam folder.
Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email access@kcls.org at least seven days before the event. Automated closed captioning is always available for online events.

ONLINE CLASS: Spotlight on Newly Translated Memoirs of an Arabian Princess
2023-09-14 15:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Price:

$50 Per Person (10% off for members)

Lecture and Discussion. This live class will be recorded and available for later viewing.
Beyond the fairy tales and exotic images, Zanzibar and Oman are real destinations, each with its own history, culture and proud people – people like Sayyida Salme, Princess of Oman and Zanzibar. After becoming Emily Ruete, she would be the first Arab woman to publish a book. The class will focus on her great-great-granddaughter Andrea Emily Stumpf’s newest and most accurate translation of these Memoirs, to be discussed with all their striking drama, bright moments and dark truths.
This class will be taught in conversation with Andrea Emily Stumpf.
One Thursday: September 14 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET Online

Required Book:
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess, translated by Andrea Emily Stumpf (9781732397538) Book is non-returnable.

Karen Leggett Abouraya is a journalist and children’s author, winning the 2013 Arab American Book Award and other honors for Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books. She is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Egypt, and with her Egyptian-born husband, chairs the Baltimore Luxor Alexandria Sister City Committee and the Friends of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) Maryland, Virginia, D.C. Together they also produce the podcast American Egyptian Women of Influence. Karen facilitates online conversations between Egyptian and American children and co-hosted a conference on informal education at the BA in 2015. She reviewed children’s books for the New York Times, is a past president of the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, D.C. and has served as a judge for children’s writing contests in Egypt and Montgomery County. She earned her B.A. in international relations from Brown University.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha with Claudia Castro Luna and Rachel Edelman at Elliott Bay Book Company
2023-09-12 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, 98122, United States
Poet and friend of the store Lena Khalaf Tuffaha returns for the launch of her latest collection, Kaan and Her Sisters. Fellow poets Claudia Castro Luna and Rachel Edelman will join her for the reading.
Kaan and Her Sisters illuminates the work of grief and survival, the sordid legacies of official historical record and the liberatory practice of intimate narration. Tuffaha writes in the liminal space between languages, personifying Arabic verbs who guide the reader through a “history hurtling into the future.” Kaan and Her Sisters centers character of the Arabic teacher, Miss Sahar, whose progressive displacements from Palestine and across Arab cities unfold in epistles, refashioned songs, and glimpses into the interiors of her lost home. In these disclosures, a study of time and a record of resistance to erasure emerges, and at its heart, the women who keep intergenerational memory. “Our mothers miraculous, persevering./No maps are new to the ancestors.”
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of Water & Salt, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award. She is the translator and curator of the Poems from Palestine series at the Baffler magazine. She is the winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry, for her book Something About Living (U of Akron Press, 2024). Her second book of poems, Kaan & Her Sisters is available now from Trio House Press.
Claudia Castro Luna has been an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow, the Washington State Poet Laureate, and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet. She is the author of Cipota Under the Moon; One River, A Thousand Voices; the Pushcart nominated Killing Marías, shortlisted for the Washington State 2018 Book Award in poetry; and the chapbook This City. Her most recent nonfiction can be found in the anthology There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. Born in El Salvador, she came to the United States in 1981. Living in English and Spanish, Claudia writes and teaches in Seattle on unceded Duwamish lands where she gardens and keeps chickens with her husband and their three children.
Rachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis, TN whose writing explores the creative work of diasporic living. Her poems have appeared in Narrative, The Seventh Wave, West Branch, and many other journals, and she has received material support from the Academy of American Poets, the University of Washington, Mineral School, Crosstown Arts, and Tin House. She teaches Language Arts in the Seattle Public Schools, where embodiment and care root her personal, poetic, and pedagogical practice. Her debut book, Dear Memphis, will be published by River River Books in January 2024.

Virtual Movie Screenings: Every Saturday with Palestine Museum US
2023-09-09 09:00 - 11:00, 2023-08-26 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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!

Egyptian Street Food at the Pantry
2023-09-06 18:00 - 21:00, 2023-09-05 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Join Nadia Tommalieh as she embarks on a culinary journey to the vibrant streets of Egypt! In this class you’ll dive into the world of kushari, a popular dish of rice, lentils, pasta, and chickpeas, topped with a spiced tomato sauce and crispy fried onions. No exploration of Egyptian street food is complete without ful medames—a hearty stew made from slow-cooked dried fava beans, herbs, and lemon. Also on the menu: feteer meshaltet, a flaky pastry that showcases the mastery of Egyptian baking. You’ll bake two versions of this dough: a savory one, and a sweet one with nuts, coconuts, and raisins. You’ll complete your culinary adventure with Sobia, a refreshing street drink made from coconut milk, rice, and rosewater, whose taste will transport you to the shores of the Nile.

Fouad Masoud at Bumbershoot
2023-09-03 13:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Seattle Center, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
Fisher Stage

Sunday, Sep 3rd
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Meet Fouad Masoud, the Seattle-based DJ who’s been a fixture in the city’s music scene for over a decade. As a talent buyer and resident DJ with Studio 4/4, a collective dedicated to bringing high-quality electronic music to Seattle, Fouad has played a key role in shaping the local scene.
With a passion for exploring a wide range of electronic genres, Fouad takes pride in his ability to set the vibe and take listeners on a sonic journey full of surprises. He’s played alongside some of the biggest names in the industry, including Carl Cox, Maceo Plex, Nicole Moudaber, Pete Tong, Peggy Gou, Sasha, and more

Culinary Line Up: Mamnoon Street Eats: https://bumbershoot.com/culinary-lineup/

12th Annual Arab Mahrajan Festival [Oregon]
2023-09-03 11:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Oaks Park, 7805 SE Oaks Park Way, Portland, WA, 97202, United States
Join us Sunday, September 3rd, 2023 at Oaks Park!
delicious cuisine, bazaar, music, dance, poetry
clothing, crafts, children’s activities, henna
FREE ADMISSION | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
open 11am to 7pm

Arab Senior Men's Coffee Club
2023-09-02 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Queen Bee Cafe – Kirkland, 1002 Lake Street S., Kirkland, WA, 98033, United States
Are you bored at home?
Do you like to share your rich life experiences with others?
Are you interested in discussing politics and how to solve world problems?
Then join the Arab senior men’s club for coffee.

We will meet on the first Saturday of every month.
We had two wonderful meetings so far and our group is growing. We will be meeting at private residence.
If you are interested please email Nadera at:
nadera0425@yahoo.com

We look forward to seeing you there.

Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Return to Lifta," a Zochrot film narrated by Umar al-Ghubari.
2023-09-02 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Please click here to register for this event.

Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe, Running Time 26 minutes, English with English subtitles as applicable. The film screening will be followed by discussions with the audience.
This educational video (tour) is a message of refusal to accept the current situation in Lifta, and an act of resistance to the destructive plan that seeks to finally erase the Palestinian village.
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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!

Virtual Arabic Classes thru Mizna
2023-09-01 | OR
Registration for Fall Arabic classes is now open. Classes will begin the week of September 25 and run for 11 weeks, ending the week of December 4, 2023. Mizna is offering Beginning, Intermediate, and Conversation levels of Arabic, taught virtually by Dunia Khoury.
REGISTER NOW

Whisk Cooking Class: Street Foods of the World
2023-08-30 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whisk, 10385 Main St, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
Want to expand your culinary passport? Are you looking for a new dish to spice up your repertoire? Do you dream of tasty treats on foreign streets, but haven’t been able to get away? If the answer is yes, this class is for you! Join Chef Drew Flanders in this hands-on class where you will prepare simple but flavor-packed dishes inspired by foods sold in the markets, festivals, and by street vendors from around the world. From Morocco to Japan, Mexico to Senegal, in this class you will prepare and enjoy a variety of flavors and textures from the simple perfection of the taco, the warm comfort of “Japanese pizza”, to the glory of two different types of grilled-meat-on-a-stick!
Make, eat and enjoy street foods from

Morocco – Chermoula Chicken
Mexico – Alambres, Steak and Bacon Tacos with Salsa Verde
West Africa – Spicy Peanut-Dusted Beef Skewers
Japan – Okonomiyaki – Seafood Pancakes

Participants will have the option of enjoying wine or beer as street food is always best with a beverage!

Rainbow Story Time (online) w/ Lindz Amer
2023-08-30 11:30 - 12:00, 2023-08-16 11:30 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Rainbow Story Time

dates for: Rainbow Story Time
Online event

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.
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Arab board games at Mox Boarding House Cafe
2023-08-27 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Mox Boarding House – on Leary, 5105 Leary Ave NW, Seattle, WA, 98107, United States
The Cafe offers hot and cold beverages and light food. They have a 100s of board games to choose from.
Bring your best game and let’s go for it together.

Lebanese-American Actress Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus at Crossroads Movie in the Park
2023-08-24 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Crossroads Park, 16140 NE 8th St, Bellevue, WA, 98008, United States
After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it is up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches’ reign of terror once and for all.
Starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and the actress of Lebanese descent Kathy Najimy!

Film : Genre: Action,Comedy,Sci-Fi, 1993

Rare Film Screening: Marking the Anniversary of Tall El-Zaatar
2023-08-24 - 2023-08-27 | Virtual
The 2023 Mizna Film Series highlights archival works and initiatives that document Palestine’s struggle for liberation.
Marking the 47th anniversary of the Tall el-Zaatar Massacre, this August, Mizna Film Series presents Tall el-Zaatar, the recently recovered and restored documentary directed by Mustafa Abu Ali, Pino Adriano, and Jean Chamoun.
The film documents the August 12, 1976 massacre of Palestinian and Lebanese refugees at Tall el-Zaatar, a UN-administered refugee camp in northeast Beirut. Produced after the massacre, but featuring footage shot before and during the siege leading up to it, Tall el-Zaatar reconstructs the history of the camp and recounts the long months of assault and resistance through the voices of the many survivors.

Lost, Covered and Restored:
Tall el-Zaatar was produced in two versions: one in Arabic for the Palestinian Cinema Institution of the PLO in Beirut, and the other dubbed into Italian for TV broadcast. Arabic film prints were damaged and lost following the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the subsequent plundering of PLO archives. Between 2012 and 2014, filmmaker Monica Maurer and artist Emily Jacir rediscovered the rushes of the film, including the original soundtrack in Arabic, which were kept at the Audiovisual Archive of the Democratic and Labour Movement (AAMOD) in Rome. Maurer and Jacir dedicated themselves to salvaging the rushes, restoring and digitizing them in order to make the film available to the public and safeguard these images as part of Palestinian collective memory.
Watch WORLDWIDE VIRTUALLY August 24–27, 2023.

Arab Street Food: Shawarma with Nadia Tommalieh
2023-08-23 18:00 - 21:00, 2023-08-22 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Across the Arab world, you’ll find variations on their most famous street food: shawarma. Traditionally cooked on a vertical spit that turns, shawarma is universally loved as a picnic spread, a main course, or an iconic street-food sandwich. In this class Nadia Tommalieh will show you everything you need to make shawarma wraps at home, starting with fresh-made saj bread. You’ll fill your warm bread with spiced and thinly sliced beef shawarma, tahini-based tarator sauce; batata harra (crispy cubed potatoes in a citrus cilantro sauce); avocado bil labaneh w za’atar (mashed avocado, jalapeno, yogurt, and Za’atar); and mkhalal left (pickled turnips).
Please note: some classes can be adjusted for students with dietary restrictions, but many cannot. If you’re vegetarian, pescatarian, or gluten-free, you can use the drop-down menu on our events page to view the best classes to fit your needs. If a class you’re interested in doesn’t appear in that filtered view, please email us before registering and we’ll see if the class’s menu can be modified.

Seattle Arab Festival 2023
2023-08-13 11:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Seattle Center – Armory, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
Seattle Arab Festival 2023

Seattle, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA 98109, USA

Mark your calendar for SAF annual festival!

Middle East Peace Camp: Family Picnic and Activities
2023-08-13 10:30 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Ravenna Park, 2000 NE 58th Street, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Dear Peace Camp Community,

We are excited to announce that we have been invited to hold our activities at ArabFest which is held at the Seattle Center Armory.

Schedule of Events:

11 am Morning Circle with Mary K,
(meet at ARMORY STAGE) followed by camp activities
12:30 – 1:30 Picnic Lunch
(bring your food, or buy from ArabFest vendors or Seattle Center restaurants.)
1:30 -2:30 Camp activities for children, Adult discussion on MEPC future.
2:30 Wrap up of MEPC activities. All are welcome to stay and enjoy ArabFest

Please come at 10:30 am -we will have camp activities – then we can start on time at 11 am.

Masks are strongly recommended for indoor activities.

Directions to our new location:
https://www.seattlecenter.com/explore/attractions/armory

Questions? Email Sara Lerner sjlerner@gmail.com

*Please note, our dream is to return to a more in-depth camp experience for summer 2024, possibly a week-long camp like summers in the past! We are asking for a new crop of volunteers to carry the torch into the years to come, perhaps parents of current young campers. As the generations grow, we need a new generation of camp planners and organizers, too! Do not hesitate to reach out if this sparks your interest at all! Email Sara at sjlerner@gmail.com.

With love,
MEPC Leadership
MEPC is a project of Kadima, co-founded with the Arab Center of Washington and Kay Bullitt.

Seffarine at Sunset Concert and Cider Tasting on Sauvie Island
2023-08-12 16:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Howell Territorial Park, 13901 NW Howell Park Rd., Portland, OR, 97231, United States
Join Portland Fruit Tree Project as we celebrate the harvest at Howell Territorial Orchard on Wapato (Sauvie) Island August 12th with a day of Cider and Mead Tasting, games and harvest activities for all ages, and a sunset concert featuring the award winning music of local legends Seffarine.

Featuring the never to be missed menu from Spice of Africa, along with and the African Heritage Cooking Experts from Oregon State University hosting live cold fruit prep activities with harvested fruits!

Thank you to our sponsors: 2Towns Cider and Nectar Creek Meadery and Oak Union Brewery – Guests will receive 4 oz tastings for free, and beverages will be sold with proceeds benefiting Portland Fruit Tree Project.

Harvest – Food and Fun 4 to 9pm.
Sunset Concert at 7:15pm
Children 12 and under are free with adult entry

This gorgeous property, owned by Metro, showcases the region’s natural and cultural history in one serene setting. Bring a picnic blanket and chairs, and a pair of binoculars to watch for birds that flock to the park’s wetlands. Learn about Sauvie Island and the families who shaped it, and relax in the shade of an authentically restored 1850s farmhouse, enjoying fruit from the onsite orchard. Please Note – No Pets are Allowed on the Property and BYO alcohol is prohibited.

Sliding scale tickets made available via a generous donation from Metro, and free ride passes have been donated by Trimet. If you receive SNAP benefits, please use code FruitForAll for free tickets, including a $25 meal voucher: SNAP tickets made possible by the Peace Fox and Ernie Fox fund.

To access this property via Trimet, get off at the Sauvie Island Stop on Line 16, a sign will be posted to text our volunteer shuttle service to pick you up and drive you to the property. Please email kathrynh@portlandfruit.org to be sent free Trimet Passes by mail, and include your full mailing address.

About Portland Fruit Tree Project:
We joyfully care for and harvest fruit trees that feed and shade our neighborhoods. Join us!

About Seffarine:
Born in the ancient city of Fes, Morocco, internationally acclaimed singer Lamiae Naki and her ensemble Seffarine channel their deep knowledge of the music of both sides of the Straits of Gibraltar, the crossroad where African, Middle Eastern and European cultures meet. From the 9th to 15th centuries these cultures coexisted peacefully, producing a seminal musical alchemy that influenced the foundations of both classical Arabic and European Renaissance music.

“an ear-caressing blend of sounds from Spain and north Africa, spiced with a bit of fiery instrumentation and percussion.”-Scott Stevens, SoundRoots
“a skilled blending of musical alloys” -Willamette Week

About the OSU Extension African Heritage Cooking Program:
Oregon State University Extension’s African Heritage program and workgroup promotes an Afrocentric, plant-based diet using healthy recipes from the four regions of the diaspora (Africa, The Caribbean, South America, and the American South) through nutrition education, cooking demonstrations, cultural events, and food tastings in communal settings.
