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Black SWANA Lit: Mizna Reading + DJ – An AWP Offsite Event [In-Person Only]
2023-03-09 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Northwest Film Forum and Mizna present an AWP offsite reading to mark the release of Mizna’s Black Takeover Issue, guest-edited by acclaimed poet Safia Elhillo. This collection of Black writing from the SWANA region and diaspora is a first-of-its-kind, and we’re celebrating its launch with a killer line-up of writers including Safia Elhillo and a DJ set by fab creative Ladin Awad.
This program is supported by National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, and Minnesota Center for Humanities.

Arabic Chat Hour
2023-03-09 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-02 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-16 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual
Whether you’re a native speaker or learner, this is a great chance to practice listening and speaking in Arabic!
Zoom room number provided upon registeration.

International Women's Day Artist Talk with Mary Hazboun
2023-03-08 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
March 8 is International Women’s Day, so join Museum of the Palestinian People in celebrating Palestinian women artists! This artist talk will feature Mary Hazboun, the Palestinian artist behind “The Art of Weeping,” a collection of 50+ original drawings currently on show at Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C.
About Mary:
Mary Hazboun is a multidisciplinary Chicago-based artist who practices “ The Art of Weeping” as an act of processing grief and somatic healing of bodies through drawing and singing. Mary’s work highlights the nuanced traumas of women and their resistance against different forms of oppression that is manifested in the military machine, patriarchal societies, and forced migrations. She uses art, ceremonies, and performance for emptying blocked emotions, opening internal space, and pouring in trauma-informed introspections as a form of healing. Mary was born and raised in the city of Bethlehem and moved to the U.S in 2004.
Tickets are by donation, and after reserving your spot you will receive a Zoom link to join the artist talk on March 8 at 12 p.m. Resilience Monthly Club members can use the code 1948 to attend this event for free.

Seattle Nacho Week: Fatteh @ Manna Market
2023-03-06 - 2023-03-12 | Manna Market and Deli, 446 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
What They’re Called: Fatteh
What’s On Them: Crispy pita, chickpeas, garlic yogurt, pine nuts
What They Say About Them: Fatteh is a traditional Levantine dish with crispy pita chips, layers of proteins, veggies, and a garlic yogurt sauce. It’s a staple on all our menus where we change up the flavors seasonally.
Where and When to Get Them: Manna Market and Deli, 446 Terry Ave N / 10:30 am–4 pm daily

Arab Gathering: Woods Coffee Bellevue
2023-03-05 16:00 - 18:00 | Woods Coffee – Bellevue, 625 116th Ave. NE, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
Hello everyone. Lets get a cup of coffee this Sunday at Wood Coffee: 625 116th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004, United States

Book Launch and Activist Gathering
2023-03-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States
“Greater than the Sum of Our Parts” is by Nada Elia, local author and activist, and is newly published by Pluto Press. Nada’s book launch provides an opportunity to connect with fellow activists, expand our knowledge of each other’s struggles, and hear from Nada about this important book!

WHEN: Saturday, March 4, 4:00-6:00 pm
WHERE: Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122

Please Register here! (If you can’t make it but would still like a copy of the book, you can get one here!)

ABOUT THE EVENT:

Today, there is a growing understanding that Palestinian liberation is connected to numerous other struggles for safety, dignity, freedom, and self sovereignty. This book launch and gathering will be an opportunity to hear more about and celebrate the launch of GREATER THAN THE SUM OF OUR PARTS. Equally important, It will be a much-needed opportunity to meet and network with fellow activists and organizers, so we can expand our knowledge of each other’s struggles, and better show up for each other.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

How is the struggle for Palestinian freedom bound up in other freedom struggles, and how are activists coming together globally to achieve justice and liberation for all?
In this bold book, Palestinian activist Nada Elia unpacks Zionism, from its hypermilitarism to incarceration, its environmental devastation and gendered violence. She insists that Palestine’s fate is linked through bonds of solidarity to other communities crossing racial and gender lines, weaving an intersectional feminist understanding of Israeli apartheid throughout her analysis. She also looks deeper into the interconnectedness of Palestine with Black, migrant, and queer movements, and with other indigenous struggles against settler colonialism, including that of Native Americans.
Greater than the Sum of Our Parts is a powerful and hopeful account, highlighting the role of the Palestinian diaspora, youth, and women, and inspired by activists across the world.

Hosted by: Dunya Productions-Seattle

Arabs Archery Adventure
2023-03-04 12:00 - 14:30 | Nock Point, 22313 70th Avenue West, Mountlake Terrace, WA
Details: (Optional) at 12 PM lets have a quick lunch at the best arabic-style Shawarma in the area Gyro Crush Mediterranean Kitchen. Address: 16911 Hwy 99, Lynnwood, WA 98037 At 1 PM, Lets go have fun and throw a few, if you have never done it before, dont worry about it. No prior experience required. cost for renting equipment is …

Arab Senior Men's Coffee Club
2023-03-04 10:00 - 12:00 | 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.
Our first meeting will be Saturday, March 4th at 10:30am at the Queen Bee Cafe in Kirkland.
1002 Lake Street S., Kirkland, WA 98033

If you are interested but cannot attend, please email Nadera at:
nadera0425 [at] yahoo [dot] com

We look forward to seeing you there.

Arabic Live Music with Naseem Band
2023-03-03 21:00 - 22:00 | The Eye Hookah Lounge, 8074 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, United States
Come join us at the Eye hookah to listen to Arabic live music and enjoy the belly dancing show.
Note there is a cover charge of $10

Movie: Blue Caftan (Portland showing)
2023-03-03 | Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. The talented apprentice shows an utmost dedication in learning the art of embroidery and tailoring from Halim.
Slowly Mina realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.
In Arabic with English subtitles.

Time: TBD, please check website

PANEL | Shocks & Aftershocks of the Turkey-Syria Earthquake
2023-03-02 18:00 - 20:00 | University of Washington – Thomson Hall, 1911 Skagit Lane, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
The Middle East Center invites you to an evening roundtable on:
STRATEGIC ‘HOLLOWING OUT’: BUREAUCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, CONSOLIDATION OF POWER, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISASTER – Asli Cansunar, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Washington
ONE MAN MANY DISASTERS: WHAT IS NEXT FOR TURKEY? – Resat Kasaba, Professor & former Director, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
WHY DID THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPEN AND WHY WAS IT SO DESTRUCTIVE: A GEOLOGIC PERSPECTIVE ON TURKEY’S MAJOR EARTHQUAKE ZONES – Scott L. Montgomery, Geoscientist and Lecturer, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Affiliate Faculty, Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
LIFE AMIDST CUMULATIVE DISASTERS: REFUGEES AFTER EARTHQUAKE IN GAZIANTEP – Ayda Apa Pomeshikov, Ph.D. Candidate, Interdisciplinary Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington
MODERATED BY – Selim S. Kuru, Associate Professor, Director of Ottoman & Turkish Studies (TOS), Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures, University of Washington
Thomson Hall – Rm 101

What's next for the right to boycott in America?
2023-03-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Thursday, March 2 at 1:00 pm Eastern.
This virtual gathering, co-sponsored by the Institute for Middle East Understanding, Jewish Currents and Just Vision, will provide a unique opportunity to hear directly from Alan Leveritt, publisher of the Arkansas Times and protagonist in Boycott, together with his attorney, Brian Hauss, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). I will also be joined by Boycott protagonists Bahia Amawi, a speech therapist and plaintiff from Texas; Mikkel Jordahl, an attorney and plaintiff from Arizona; Dima Khalidi, a lawyer and the Executive Director of Palestine Legal; Lara Friedman, a researcher and the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace; and our very own, Julia Bacha, Just Vision‘s Creative Director and Director of Boycott.
This is an opportunity to be in community as we mark the worldwide online release of Boycott on the heels of the Supreme Court’s announcement earlier this week. We’re counting on you to bring your curiosities and questions, and to be part of the next phase of our campaign to bring attention to anti-boycott laws and their implications.
Please register here by Wednesday, March 1, and feel free to extend this invitation to your family, friends and community. Our shared work to protect the right to dissent continues, and we hope you can join us in this important conversation.

Palestinian Youth Identity Workshop (virtual and in person)
2023-03-02
This winter/spring 2023: Over the course of 3 workshops (+1 workshop/performance day), participants (ages 10-17) will write monologues about their own lived experiences, thinking about how family, culture, diaspora, art, and other foundational touch points inform and shape their identities. Participants will work in community with other Palestinian youth to rehearse, edit, and present their monologues in a culminating final performance.
The youth will work with a facilitator out of California named Marina Berginstock. While she will engage in conversations about all aspects of identity, the participants are in charge of what they want to write about and what aspect of their own identity they’re most interested in exploring.
for 10-15 participants, ages 10-17 years old

Suggested dates for the 4 workshops:
(1st) Virtual meetup for all – for 2 hours – the weekend of March 2nd
(2nd) Virtual meetup for all – for 2 hours – the weekend of March 30th
(3rd) In-person meetup for participants, virtual for facilitator-Marina for 2-3 hours – the weekend of April 29th
(4th) In person meetup and performance for 4 hours the weekend of May 13th
Please have anyone interested send an email to arabishway at gmail dot com noting your interest or complete this short survey

Potentially in partnership with the Burke Museum

Arabic School: Saturdays in Kent
2023-03-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Kent Meridian High School, 10020 SE 256th St, Kent, WA, 98030
Our Arabic School provides those who want to learn Arabic the opportunity to fine-tune their knowledge. Our classes are held weekly at Kent Meridian High School for our kids and youth.
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Program Eligibility Requirements:
– Elementary or middle-school age children
– Living in King County

When: Saturdays
Time: 10-12
Where: Kent Meridian High School (10020 SE 256th St, Kent, WA 98030)

Arab Comfort Food: Arayes with Nadia Tommalieh
2023-02-28 18:00 - 21:30 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
In the chilly months of winter, comfort food is where we turn to warm ourselves, whether for a big weekend gathering or a weeknight family meal. Nadia Tommalieh is the curator of a special kind of Palestinian hospitality, and when you’re seated at her table, you can’t help but forget the cold outside. Join us in class to make kobez arabi (fresh made pita bread) that you’ll use for baked arayes (seasoned ground meat and pomegranate molasses in a crispy pita pockets); laban bil na’na (mint yogurt sauce); mshaat with tatbeeleh (fried cauliflower and herb fritters); and shorabet freekeh bil krema (creamy freekeh, corn, and herb soup).

PCC Cooking Class: Moroccan Dinner
2023-02-28 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC-Columbia City, 3610 S Edmunds St, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
MENU

Handmade Khobz (flat white bread)
Chicken, Apricot and Butternut Squash Tagine with Almonds Herbed Couscous
Tomato and Cucumber Salad

Moroccan cuisine is one of Ben’s favorites, and it may be yours too after making and enjoying this lush, but easy menu. Come explore the vibrant flavors of Morocco in this fun, hands-on class. Learn the uses of North African herbs and spices while making a chicken tagine with apricots and squash and herbed couscous. You’ll craft a yeasted dough for handmade khobz and round out the Moroccan adventure with a refreshing Tomato and Cucumber salad.
With gluten, nuts, and poultry.
About the instructor: Chef Ben Leonard brings together cooks from around the world to bond over cooking fresh, delicious, healthy food (with a good helping of food puns sprinkled on). He believes that our lives are made better through our relationship with food and cooking – making for greater connections with ourselves, loved ones and communities.

Amazing Mediterranean
2023-02-27 16:00 - 17:00 | Sur La Table – Kirkland, 90 Central Way, Kirkland, WA, 98033, United States
Menu

Grilled Shrimp with Chermoula Dipping Sauce
Homemade Pita Bread
Roasted Spiced Cauliflower with Cucumber and Herb Yogurt Sauce
Olive Oil Cake

Instructor: PeterL

What You Will Learn

Cooking Class Description: Join us and explore Mediterranean flavors in fun and unexpected ways. Get plenty of hands-on practice grilling shrimp, roasting cauliflower and making a cucumber herb yogurt sauce. Plus, bake up fresh pita bread to complement your meal. For a sweet ending, we’ll enjoy an olive oil cake.

What To Expect: Great cooking is about more than recipes—it’s about techniques. In our classes you’ll work together with other students in a fun, hands-on environment led by our professional chef instructors.

Classes are 2 to 2 1/2 hours, unless otherwise noted above
You will work with other students in groups of 4.
Hands-on classes are limited to 12-16 students, depending on location.
You will be standing, cooking and working for most of the class
Please wear comfortable, closed-toe shoes and have long hair tied back
Students receive a coupon good for 10% off in-store purchases the day of class

Sur La Table recipes are developed using common cooking and baking ingredients that may or may not be specified in the menu titles, including various fruits and vegetables, nuts, meats, spices, wheat flours, etc. If you have a food allergy, please check with your local Cooking School before attending the class. Adjustments to recipes cannot be made during class.

Cooking Class Description: Join us and explore Mediterranean flavors in fun and unexpected ways. Get plenty of hands-on practice grilling shrimp, roasting cauliflower and making a cucumber herb yogurt sauce. Plus, bake up fresh pita bread to complement your meal. For a sweet ending, we’ll enjoy an olive oil cake.

What To Expect: Great cooking is about more than recipes—it’s about techniques. In our classes you’ll work together with other students in a fun, hands-on environment led by our professional chef instructors.

Classes are 2 to 2 1/2 hours, unless otherwise noted above
You will work with other students in groups of 4.
Hands-on classes are limited to 12-16 students, depending on location.
You will be standing, cooking and working for most of the class
Please wear comfortable, closed-toe shoes and have long hair tied back
Students receive a coupon good for 10% off in-store purchases the day of class

Sur La Table recipes are developed using common cooking and baking ingredients that may or may not be specified in the menu titles, including various fruits and vegetables, nuts, meats, spices, wheat flours, etc. If you have a food allergy, please check with your local Cooking School before attending the class. Adjustments to recipes cannot be made during class.

Arab board games at Mox Boarding house Cafe
2023-02-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Mox Boarding House – on Leary, 5105 Leary Ave NW, Seattle, WA, 98107, United States
Let’s bring this winter weekend to live in this get together to play boardgames at Mox boarding house cafe. This place is amazing and has street parking available. Best of all it’s free on Sunday.
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 Night (in Canada)
2023-02-25 17:30 - 19:00 | Confederation Community Center, 4585 Albert St, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5C 2G6,, Canada
We are excited to announce our first event of the year.
Join us for Lebanese Night!

PCC Cooking Class: Moroccan Dinner
2023-02-24 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC – Bothell, 22621 Bothell Everett Hwy, Bothell, WA, 98021, United States

Growth: Open Mic w/ Hana Saad
2023-02-24 16:00 - 17:30
7 p.m. ET Friday, Feb. 24, 2023
Growth: Open Mic w/ Hana Saad
In-person at AANM
Free with RSVP | Register for Livestream
Please note: To share work at the Open Mic, you must attend in person. An online livestream is available for non-local residents to tune in as part of the audience only.

Join us for an Open Mic Night, hosted by AANM artist-in-residence Hana Saad! We are creating a space for writers and musicians to continue sharing their work. We invite you to reflect on the theme of Growth – both literally and figuratively. Prepare a three-minute story about your favorite plant, the ways the world has changed you, or a lamentation for the earth. Hana Saad will also share the poetry she’s created while in residency, about the flowers of the Beqaa Valley.

SAMIA - Honey Tour with Tommy Lefroy
2023-02-23 19:30 - 22:00 | The Crocodile, 2505 1st Ave, Seattle, WA, 98033, United States
There’s a line on Honey, the latest album from Nashville-via-NYC songwriter Samia, about Aspen Grove, a collection of 40,000 trees in the plains of North America, all connected by a single expansive root system. There’s no stronger metaphor for the audience the 25-year-old empathy engine has been generating since she began releasing music seven years ago. Her songs, her fans, her friends: one enormous, interconnected ecosystem. Honey, comprised of eleven new moments of catharsis, is by and for that organism. Set for release on January 23rd 2023 via Grand Jury Music, the album was recorded at North Carolina studio Betty’s –- owned and operated by Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sandborn and Amelia Meath. It was produced by Caleb Wright, part of the team that helmed Samia’s breakthrough 2020 debut The Baby, and a founding member of one of Samia’s favorite bands, The Happy Children. It features some of her nearest and dearest friends: Christian Lee Hutson, Briston Maroney, Jake Luppen, Raffaella. Its songs were surreptitiously road tested for her devotees while opening for Lucy Dacus, Courtney Barnett, and more. The end result is what Samia calls simply “a real community record.” “We tried to be as honest as possible and keep the songs as raw as possible,” Samia said. “We talked a lot about zooming out and zooming in, giving a lot of weight to the small moments and considering them as part of a big picture, how they factor into everything else that’s happening in the world.”

PCC Cooking Class: Moroccan Dinner
2023-02-22 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC-Bellevue, 11615 NE 4th St, Bellevue, WA, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States

Arab Film Series Online: Time for Ilhan
2023-02-22 - 2023-02-25 | Virtual
Ilhan Omar, a young, hijab-wearing mother of three, takes on two formidable opponents in a highly contested race for a seat in the Minnesota State Legislature. Up against a 43-year incumbent, Ilhan is the “outsider” – a Muslim, refugee, woman of color seeks to challenge the party’s status quo while simultaneously defying lingering gender norms within her own Muslim community.
TIME FOR ILHAN shadows Ilhan and her scrappy group of dedicated campaign staffers throughout the entire campaign’s dramatic uphill battle. A fresh and timely take on theclassic American Dream, the film offers an inspiring, stereotype-busting portrait of one of America’s brightest new political stars, at the start of her meteoric ascent from political newcomer to becoming one of the first Muslim Women in the U.S. Congress. Her story, part of a larger, unprecedented wave of growing diversity in elected office around the country offers a powerful and transformative reminder of the reflective, representative democracy that is truly possible.

Palestinian Classics: Maqlouba and Knafeh
2023-02-21 18:00 - 21:00, 2023-02-20 18:00 - 20:00 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Join Nadia Tommalieh as she dives into the most famous classical Palestinain family-style dishes and the memories, stories, and traditions behind them. You will learn the art of layering and flipping the perfect maqlouba , a world-renowned showstopper of upside-down chicken with roasted eggplant, cauliflower, rice, and fried nuts). You’ll enjoy it with salatet khodar w t’heeniyeh (tomato, herb, and tahini salad); qalayet bandora (spicy tomato, garlic and herb stir fry); and finish the meal with freshly made knafeh nabulsiya (shredded fine angel hair dough stuffed with sweet cheese and sweetened with orange water syrup and topped with crushed pistachio.

Arabs friend’s Valentines 💖
2023-02-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Chocolati Café, 8319 Greenwood Ave, Seattle, 98103, United States
Come enjoy hot chocolate and with friends this Valentine’s Day. Couples are welcome if you want to spend the evening with friends 🤗

PCC Cooking Class: Moroccan Dinner
2023-02-17 18:00 - 20:00 | PCC- Burien, 15840 1st Ave S, Burien, WA, 98148, United States
