ArabishWay

Community Write-In with Zain Shamoon
2021-11-18 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join writers from across the country and around the world every Thursday evening and get your words flowing in community! Our best teachers rotate on a monthly basis to bring you a range of writing prompts and ideas. After a healthy dose of inspiration, you’ll get time to write and the opportunity to connect with other writers. Whether you want to journal, blog, start something new or get some fresh ideas for a work-in-progress, this hour will jumpstart your creativity.
RSVP at the “Tickets” link for as many sessions as you’d like to attend. You can sign up for them one by one each week, or all at once.

Dr. Zain Shamoon completed his PhD in human development and family studies in fall 2017 at Michigan State University. He also completed a master’s degree in couple and family therapy in 2011. He is dedicated to the creation of spaces where people can tell their personal stories on route to their own wellness. In his clinical work, he has served a range of clients, including those wrestling with high anxiety, relational conflict, and severe depression.

Arabic Chat Hour
2021-11-18 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-25 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-12-02 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-12-09 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-12-16 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-12-30 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
Whether you’re a native speaker or learner, this is a great chance to practice listening and speaking in Arabic!

Free virtual screening of "Trip Along Exodus," a film directed by Hind Shoufani
2021-11-20 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The film/poem recreates the last 70 years of Palestinian and Arab politics seen through the prism of the life of the filmmaker’s father, Dr. Elias Shoufani, a leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, an academic and leftist intellectual who was one of the leaders of the opposition to Arafat within Fatah for 20 years. The film language uses archive, poetry, family photos/8mm films, glitter, cartoons, animation, macro-photography, interviews, and other multimedia formats in a video-art amalgam—a personal and political memoir.

The Almond Blossom Knows Its Life Is Short: Poetry of Palestinian Women in Translation
2021-11-20 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Description: In this class we will explore a selection of translated poetry by Palestinian women. How do these poets tend to loss? How do they engage with their interiors while living in varying states of siege, occupation, or exile? What are their obsessions? Which mythologies do they reject and which others do they remake? Together we’ll read across generations, including poems by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Asmaa’ Azaizeh, Ahlam Bisharat, Laila Al-Sa’ih, and Fadwa Touqan. Join us to reflect together on theme and structure; to encounter texts in the original Arabic alongside the translations; and to end with a writing prompt inspired by our exploration.
Format: Online via Zoom

Queen Naija: The Butterfly Tour (Portland)
2021-11-21 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St, Portland, Oregon, 97212, United States
With the recent arrival of her debut album missunderstood, Atlanta-based singer/songwriter Queen Naija has cemented her status as one of R&B’s most compelling young stars. Hailed as “the first soul star of the social media generation” by The New York Times, the 25-year-old Detroit native has amassed over three billion combined global streams to date, each song showcasing the powerful vocal skills she first developed by singing in church. Although she initially found fame through a YouTube channel launched with her former husband, Queen struck out on her own with her breakthrough single “Medicine”: a January 2018 release that debuted at No. 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 (a nearly-unheard-of achievement for an unsigned artist), and quickly landed her a deal with Capitol Records. By summer 2018, she’d delivered a critically acclaimed self-titled EP, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart and earned major recognition in the 2019 awards season (including nominations for Top R&B Artist at the Billboard Music Awards and Best New Artist at the BET Awards, in addition to three nods at the iHeartRadio Music Awards).

Queen Naija: The Butterfly Tour at the Showbox
2021-11-22 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Showbox, 1426 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States

On Borrowed Time in Gaza: Art in Confinement: Monica Reyes Gallery
2021-11-24 - 2021-11-27 | Mónica Reyes Gallery, 602 East Hastings (at Princess), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Join us November 24th at Monica Reyes Gallery in Vancouver for the opening of the exhibition “On Borrowed Time in Gaza: Art in Confinement”:
Drawings and Paintings by Palestinian, Gaza based artists:
Majdal Nateel Maisara Baroud
Maha Daya Mohammed Alhaj
Rufida Sehwail Ganem Alden
Mónica Reyes Gallery
602 East Hastings (at Princess), Vancouver
Wednesday November 24 to Saturday November 27, 2021.
Hours: 12 to 5pm
Closing reception and walkthrough: Saturday November 27 at 1:00pm
Art in Confinement evokes perseverance, humanism, and creativity in dark times. The
exhibition represents expressions from life in Gaza by six Palestinian artists, whose works defy a brutal Israeli blockade imposed on over two million Palestinians. Crossing states’ boundaries and aerial spaces to reach Turtle Island, the works affirm Palestinian hope,
persistence, endurance, and love of art and life. The two hundred drawings and
paintings are a testament of the power of art, the power of imagination under bombardment, and aspiration for a just and peaceful life in a forsaken world.
Making art in Gaza is an act of survival, refusal, and resistance to unendurable conditions
inflicted on Palestinians in the largest collective prison on earth. Deprivation of the Palestinian artists in Gaza from their right to freedom of movement, their right to connect with the rest of the art community and the public in colonized Palestine and beyond has not stopped them from making art. Despite Israel’s prohibition of art material and supplies from entering Gaza, or prohibiting art from exiting Gaza, artists continue to create engaging art, representing their experiences in confinement, isolation, and deprivation of basic human rights.
100% of the sales of the artworks, ranging in price from $50 to $1500 will be going to the artists and art therapy programs for children in Gaza. This exhibition is a call for support of Palestinian artists who live and work under extreme conditions in Gaza

Fall in Palestine: Fatayer
2021-11-28 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
The universal practicality of packing deliciousness into a portable dough package ranges from Cornish pasties to empanadas to fatayer, a type of savory pie eaten throughout the Middle East. In this class, NADIA TOMMALIEH will teach you how to make Palestinian-style pastries, as you learn how to knead, stuff, and fold fatayer in the traditional way to get perfectly soft and fluffy golden brown pies every time. You’ll make shorabet adas bil hamid (vegetable and lentil soup with lemon and pomegranate molasses); fatayer sabanekh (triangle-shaped spinach-stuffed pies); fatayer jebneh (boat-shaped savory cheese and herb pies); sfeeha (open-faced seasoned beef pies), and dagga gazawyieh (spicy Gaza-style sauce with tomatoes, garlic, jalapeno, dill, and lemon).

Streetfoods of the World: Whisk Cooking Class
2021-11-28 17:00 - 19:30, 2021-12-29 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 amd enjoy from
Morocco – Chermoula Chicken
Mexico – Alambres- Steak and Bacon Tacos with Salsa Verde
West Africa – Spicey Peanut-Dusted Beef Skewers
Japan – Okanomiyaki – Seafood Pancakes

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

Virtual Delegations About Palestinian Political Prisoners w/ Eye Witness Palestine
2021-12-01
Join us for a virtual tour with Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution. Addameer works to support Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons and this tour will focus on the prison system Palestinians are subjected to and hearing directly from former political prisoners about their experiences.
(All tour times are listed in Eastern Time – USA)

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Jordan Salama with Michael Shapiro (Virtual)
2021-12-01 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, 98122, United States
A journalist and TV producer who works in both English and Spanish, Jordan Salama’s debut, Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena (Catapult), received such awards as the Ricardo Piglia Award and Stanley J. Stein Prize for Best Senior Thesis at Princeton University (yes, he’s young – this started as a senior thesis) on the way to becoming a book.
“Jordan Salama writes with an attentiveness, and a sense of adventure, that many of us might envy; this engaging, intrepid debut promises many more wonders to come. Already he’s shown himself to be a writer with a rare (and inspiring) commitment to giving us the world.” —Pico Iyer.
“The book is more than a notable achievement in travel literature and more than a clarifying window into a misunderstood culture; it is a book of conscience and open-heartedness . . . It is a privilege to savor, if vicariously, this harvest of a promising writer’s vivid journeys.” —Kirkus Reviews.
“This is a born journalist.”—John McPhee.
Joining Jordan Salama in virtual conversation will be rafting guide, interview journalist (Spark), and author Michael Shapiro. His recent book is The Creative Spark: How Musicians, Writers, Explorers, and Other Artists Found Their Inner Fire and Followed Their Dreams.
Co-presented by ORION & Elliott Bay Book Company.
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Syrian/Iraqi

Antonio Rey - Flamenco Guitar Master from Spain with Seffarine
2021-12-03 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Flamenco Guitar virtuoso from Spain, Antonio Rey makes his Seattle debut after winning the 2020 Latin Grammy for best flamenco album
Seffarine’s international blend of sounds features soulful Moroccan singer Lamiae Naki and flamenco guitarist Nat Hulskamp. Their music embraces and extends Naki’s rich heritage, which spans from Moorish Spain to the Sahara, by mixing Arabic Andalusi music with Manuel Gutierrez’s explosive flamenco footwork, the grooves of acclaimed bassist Damian Erskine and the exotic instrumentation of Persian master multi-instrumentalist Bobak Salehi. These diverse backgrounds meld into an intoxicating blend of ancient and modern that Bass Player Magazine describes as a “gorgeous intersection of Spanish flamenco, Arabic and Andalusian music, Persian classical, and jazz”.
Seffarine takes its name from the ancient metalworking square in Lamiae’s home city of Fes, Morocco. Her family is well known in the Seffarine as master metalworkers continuing the tradition today. The square dates back to the 9th century and is famous for the complex rhythms that can be heard from the blacksmiths’ hammers.

Arabic Chat Hour - Optimism Brewing Company [in-person]
2021-12-04 18:00 - 20:00 UTC

Palestinians Fight For Their Village: Virtual Brunch in Solidarity with Silwa
2021-12-05 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
DECEMBER 5, 2021 – DECEMBER 5, 2021
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Last summer, Palestinians and pro-Palestinian activists worldwide rose up to defend Silwan and other villages in East Jerusalem from Israeli bulldozers. Silwan is out of the headlines, but the battle rages on! Silwan is an example of creative resistance to Israeli efforts to destroy all Palestinian presence in the villages…

NAAWA Speakers Panel: Arab-American Women Authors Reflect on Roles, Identities, and Contributions
2021-12-05 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join NAAWA speakers’ panel virtual event on Sunday December 5th. at 7P EST. We hope you will be able to attend and listen to our wonderful speakers discussion. Follow the link to attend.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvf-yspzksGNOQe3gFtTLfsj_956K4rzFz?fbclid=IwAR0cXPkRI9kl0qlVPYusIrLaBi3uvR_RCfg7pr2YWBaKcf__uYJqbYUAxMg

Reading & Conversation hosted by University of Michigan-Dearborn
2021-12-06 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Sahar Mustafah as she reads from and discusses her novel. Register here for this free virtual event.

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Islamic Geometric Pattern Art Workshop (Zoom)
2021-12-07 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Description

For tweens and teens.
Combine math and art to learn how to draw six-fold geometric patterns using an isometric grid, a grid of equilateral triangles.
Materials Needed

printout of isometric grid (emailed the day before the event)

pencil

ruler

markers or pencils

Please register. You will be sent the Zoom link.
Closed captioning is available for online events. Captioning is auto-generated. Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request for all events. Contact the library at least seven days before the event if you need accommodation. Send your request to access@kcls.org.

Human Rights in Palestine: An ongoing struggle for peace with justice
2021-12-08 06:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
We are working with the Rotary Peace Fellows Alumni to co-sponsor an important interactive webinar on the ongoing struggle for peace with justice in Palestine. We invite you to join us on Wednesday, December 8. You can register HERE!

As part of International Human Rights week, the Rotary Peace Fellows Alumni Asian group presents this insightful panel raising the voices and personal experience of Rotarians and Rotary Peace Fellows working for an end to occupation and peace with justice in Palestine/Israel, Wednesday, December 8 at 9:00 am EST, 4:00 pm CEST and MENA, 9:00 pm/21:00 Thailand time.
This interactive webinar will focus on a broad range of peace building and organizing for change including environmental justice in Western Asia as a key to peace and sustainability; importance of diversity and inclusion of Palestinian voices in media and technology for advocacy and change; peace building and nonviolent action initiatives involving Palestinian women, youth and refugee camp residents; and anti-militarism and nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation and Palestinian oppression involving Israeli Jewish activists.
This will be a 90-minute program with time for comments and questions from participants and an announcement of the launch of a new independent Rotary Peace Fellow Alumni human rights action group and a statement of support for Palestinian human rights for the Rotary community to support and sign onto.
Moderator and Panelists:

Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh is a specialist in the Middle East in Palestine/Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Gulf States and Yemen. With more than 30 years’ experience in over 70 countries world-wide, Katherine is an expert for peacebuilding, confict transformation, human rights, and nonviolent action and organizing. She has held leadership positions in many human rights and peace and justice organizations including Peace Brigades International-USA, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, and Solidarity 2020 and Beyond. She is also a board member of DAY-Africa, Kenya, and a Rotary Peace Fellow from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh is founder and volunteer director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) at Bethlehem University. A 2020 laureate of the Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation award (which acknowledges and encourages remarkable accomplishments that represent a true source of inspiration), and the 2019 recipient of the Takreem award that honors Arab leading accomplishments (for environmental work). He has published numerous scientific papers, book chapters, and several books on topics ranging from cultural heritage to human rights to biodi- versity conservation to cancer. He serves on the board of a number of Palestinian youth and service organizations and oversees many projects related to sustainability of human and natural communi- ties. Qumsiyeh is a member of the Rotary Club of Bethlehem Palestine and the Organizing Committee of Solidarity 2020 and Beyond.
Reem Ghunaim, is a global citizen originally from Tulkarm, Palestine. She is a sought-after public speaker and consultant and is a Positive Peace Activator and a Global Peace Index Ambassador for the Institute for Economics and Peace. Reem started in Rotary as a Rotaractor in Ramallah, Palestine and later earned her master’s degree in City and Regional Planning and a certificate in International Peace and Confict Resolution through a Rotary Peace Fellowship at Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center. As the immediate past Executive Director for the Rotary Action Group for Peace based in Portland, Oregon, Reem is the recipient of the 2021 Global Peace and Humanitarian Award that recognizes her transformative work and leadership. Reem is a Rotary Peace fellow from University of North Carolina and is currently leading her own company at the Founder Institute.
Suheir Freitekh is originally from Nablus and currently based in Ramallah, Palestine. She is strongly committed to peace and development exemplifed by her ongoing commitment to research and study in the eld as well as her work on peace initiatives and projects with INGOs (International Crisis Group and others) and with Palestinian NGO’s and government entities. Suheir earned a MA in Peace and Confict Resolution from a European University and is completing her second master’s degree in development and nonviolent organizing and action at the University of Haifa. She is currently a Rotary Peace Fellow at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, working on her social change initiative to empower women in Palestine through nontraditional careers and economic security.
Sahar Vardi is an Israeli anti-militarist and human rights activist from Jerusalem. Sahar led the Israel program for the American Friends Service Committee for ten years, where she founded the Database of Israeli military and Security Export (https://dimse.info/). Prior to this, Sahar worked with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, ICAHD, founded by Jeff Halper and New Profle. Sahar was involved in a protective presence/accompaniment program in the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank and is involved in grassroots anti-occupation activism in Jerusalem and throughout the Palestinian West Bank. She is a Rotary Peace Fellow at the University of Bradford in the UK.

You can register HERE!

InFocus: Arab Cinema (2021)
2021-12-10 - 2021-12-11
We are proud to join NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as partners for this year’s virtual edition of the annual NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) Film Festival InFocus: Middle Eastern, Arab & Dutch Cinema program. The weekend will feature an international lineup of films by talented emerging filmmakers across three short film programs. The event will include virtual screenings, filmmaker Q&A’s and industry panels.
More details and programming information to come.

Freedom Film Series #5: To Treat Kids Like Me (Virtual)
2021-12-12 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
“To Treat Kids Like Me:” Dec 12 screening & discussion, sponsored by Donkeysaddle Projects

About this event

With severe medicine shortages and an overstretched health care system in Gaza, children in need of medical treatments can only find them outside the strip. Yet Israel’s convoluted, arbitrary permit process leaves them waiting in pain, often missing life-saving care. To Treat Kids Like Me (produced by Donkeysaddle Projects and +972 Magazine) follows the family of Mohamed Saleh and several other children in the Gaza Strip as they navigate the often Kafqaesqe process of getting permission from the Israeli army to leave the besieged strip for medical treatments that are unavailable there.
The 5th offering in DSP’s Freedom Film Series will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Jen Marlowe and special guests:

Ghada Majadli: Director of the Physicians for Human Rights-Israel department for Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT); featured in To Treat Kids Like Me.
Mohamed Lafi: Public health professional working for the World Health Organization in the OPT, with a focus on access to health care for patients who need to seek care outside the OPT.
Fadi Abu Shammalah: Manager of Donkeysaddle’s Palestine Grassroots Distribution Project; has been DSP’s on-the-ground support for Mohamad Salah (who is featured in To Treat Kids Like Me)
Miranda Cleland: Communications Manager for Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP). DCIP documents cases like Mohamed’s where Israeli forces kill or injure Palestinian children.

Tickets by donation. 50% of ticket proceeds go to Palestine Grassroots Distribution Project, including Mohamad Salah’s medical care.
Co-sponsored by Just Vision & Defense for Children International-Palestine

Exploring Poetry through Performance Workshop with George Abraham and Fargo Tbakhi
2021-12-15 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
6 p.m. ET Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021
Exploring Poetry through Performance Workshop with George Abraham and Fargo Tbakhi
In-person at AANM Russell J. Ebeid Library & Resource Center OR virtual via Zoom
Purchase in-person tickets
Museum Members: $12
General Public: $15
Students: $10
OR register for FREE virtual attendance
Although performance strategies and techniques are not often taught within mainstream poetry spaces, they can offer unique modes of inspiration and revision for poets. This workshop will explore poets who use performance in dynamic ways, learning practical techniques and exercises for animating poems with performance.
Open to writers at all levels – we just ask that participants come with a piece they have already drafted and would like to expand with performance exercises. Participating writers will have the opportunity to perform their work at EVE — A Poetry Performance Project by Fargo Tbakhi and George Abraham on Saturday, Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. ET.
This is a hybrid workshop. In-person participants will attend at the AANM Library and virtual participants will attend via Zoom. All AANM guests are required to show proof of full vaccination, remain masked, and fill out a health screening form upon check-in in order to attend this event.
For questions, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski at KGrabowski@accesscommunity.org.

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a queer Palestinian American performance artist and writer. He is the winner of the Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize, a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, and a Taurus. He has received fellowships from Rhizome DC, VisArts, Desert Nights Rising Stars, Halcyon Arts Lab, Mosaic Theater, and RAWI. His writing appears in Foglifter, Mizna, Peach Mag, Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, the Shallow Ends, Prolit, and select bags of Nomadic Grounds Coffee. His performance work has been programmed at OUTsider Fest, INTER-SECTION Solo Fest, the Rachel Corrie Foundation’s Shuruq Festival, the Alwun House Monster’s Ball, Mosaic Theater, and has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
George Abraham is a Palestinian American poet, writer, and engineer who was born and raised on unceded Timucuan lands (Jacksonville, FL). His debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry) won the Arab American Book Award and the Big Other Book Award, and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He is a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers, and recipient of fellowships from The Boston Foundation, and Kundiman. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Nation, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, Mizna, and elsewhere. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard University, Abraham is currently a Litowitz MFA+MA Candidate in poetry at Northwestern University.

Palestinian Holiday Feast: Cooking Class at the Pantry
2021-12-18 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Holiday tables around the globe are packed with soulful dishes, friends, family, and traditions. Come to class and let NADIA TOMMALIEH share the light and warmth of the holidays in Palestine around our table. On the menu: dajaj mahshi (whole Cornish hens stuffed with “Hashweh” seasoned rice and ground meat and garnished with an assortments of fried nuts); fattoush (vegetable and herb salad with toasted pita and pomegranate molasses dressing) khiar bil laban (cucumber, mint and yogurt sauce); and shamandar bil tahini (roasted beets with walnuts in Tahini sauce).

We are excited to welcome you into our space and would like to remind you of our covid policy. For the safety and comfort of our staff, guests, and their loved ones at home, we are requiring proof of vaccination and ID to attend in-person events in our space. Please make sure you and your guests know to bring either their vaccination card or a photo of their card as well as their ID. All guests will be required to wear a mask during instruction regardless of vaccination status. If you have had symptoms of covid or if you have been in close contact with someone with covid in the past 14 days, you will need a negative covid test to attend class. If you are sick, please stay home. Thank you for your help keeping each other and our staff safe!

EVE — A Poetry Performance Project by Fargo Tbakhi and George Abraham
2021-12-18 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
7 p.m. ET Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021
EVE — A Poetry Performance Project by Fargo Tbakhi and George Abraham
In-person at The Annex @ AANM OR virtual via online livestream
FREE with RSVP
Register for in-person attendance OR Register for virtual attendance
Join us for an evening of poetry and performance art with Fargo Tbakhi and George Abraham! This event will showcase work from the local community, featuring work composed in George and Fargo’s Exploring Poetry through Performance Workshop. Thereafter, Fargo and George will perform, for the first time ever, an excerpt from their residency project: EVE — A Palestinian Necropastoral, a re-imagining of Milton’s Paradise Lost through the lens of Palestinian liberation.
This is a hybrid performance. In-person participants will attend at The Annex @ AANM and virtual participants will attend via online livestream. All AANM guests are required to show proof of full vaccination, remain masked, and fill out a health screening form upon check-in in order to attend this event.
For questions, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski at KGrabowski@accesscommunity.org.

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a queer Palestinian American performance artist and writer. He is the winner of the Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize, a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, and a Taurus. He has received fellowships from Rhizome DC, VisArts, Desert Nights Rising Stars, Halcyon Arts Lab, Mosaic Theater, and RAWI. His writing appears in Foglifter, Mizna, Peach Mag, Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, the Shallow Ends, Prolit, and select bags of Nomadic Grounds Coffee. His performance work has been programmed at OUTsider Fest, INTER-SECTION Solo Fest, the Rachel Corrie Foundation’s Shuruq Festival, the Alwun House Monster’s Ball, Mosaic Theater, and has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
George Abraham is a Palestinian American poet, writer, and engineer who was born and raised on unceded Timucuan lands (Jacksonville, FL). His debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry) won the Arab American Book Award and the Big Other Book Award, and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He is a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers, and recipient of fellowships from The Boston Foundation, and Kundiman. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Nation, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, Mizna, and elsewhere. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard University, Abraham is currently a Litowitz MFA+MA Candidate in poetry at Northwestern University.

My Fair Lady at the Paramount starring Shereen Ahmed
2021-12-28 - 2022-01-02 | The Paramont Theater, 911 Pine Street, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States
STG & Broadway at The Paramount present MY FAIR LADY at The Paramount Theatre December 28, 2021 – January 2, 2022. Tickets purchased for the previously scheduled March 3 – 7, 2021 performances will be honored for entry!
From Lincoln Center Theater that brought you The King & I and South Pacific, comes “a sumptuous new production of the most perfect musical of all time” (Entertainment Weekly), Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY. Director Bartlett Sher’s glowing production is “thrilling, glorious and better than it ever was” (New York Times). “Every so often a revival comes along that reminds you how indispensable great theater can be” (NY1).
Boasting such classic songs as “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “The Rain in Spain,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” and “On the Street Where You Live,” MY FAIR LADY tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flower seller, and Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor who is determined to transform her into his idea of a “proper lady.” But who is really being transformed?
To learn more about Shereen visit: https://shereenahmed.com/about-shereen
