My Name is the People of Palestine: cultural event
2020-10-24 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
“My Name is the People of Palestine” cultural event will take place on October 24-25 at 10:00am PST featuring Palestinian music and culture.

About this Event

Join us for a free online concert on Oct 24th-25th, 2020 at 10am PST/ 8pm Jerusalem to globally celebrate Palestinian music and culture together.
Music director Saleheddine Bedoui will be leading Aswat Ensemble with these featured artists:

Amal Murkus
Boutros Rouhana
Charbel Rouhana
Shadia Mansour
Reem Talhami
George Bisharat

Featured Poets:

Mourid Barghouti
Tamim Barghouti
Anis Chouehene

Two new songs by Boutros and Charbel Rouhana will premier at the concert.
This event will be streamed live on Facebook, Zoom, and Youtube, reserve your front-row seat and please share.
Translation will emailed to you and made available at Zawaya.org.
This concert is sponsored by: Zawaya, Middle East Children’s Alliance, and Palestinian Youth Movement.

Eyewitness Palestine: Virtual Delegations: Heirloom Seed Library
2020-10-25 11:00 - 13:00, 2020-10-28 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Throughout the month of September we will hold Virtual Delegations to visit the Heirloom Seed Library with:
Vivien Sansour – Artist and Conservationist
Vivien uses image, sketch, film, soil, seeds, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in contemporary presentations and to advocate for the protection of biodiversity as a cultural and political act. As the founder of Palestine Heirloom Seed Library and the Traveling Kitchen project, she works with farmers to promote seed conservation and crop diversity.
Spend time with Vivien visiting the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library
and seeing how the seeds are being used for sustainable farming as a political act.

Arabic Meetup - Seattle: Pumpkins at Greenlake
2020-10-25 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | WA, United States
Let’s hang out in Green Lake this Sunday, the 25th to have pumpkin spice latte, and carve some pumpkin for Halloween. The weather suppose to be nice, so come join us if you are free 🙂

What to bring:
– Bring a pumpkin obviously. There is PCC store near by if you want to buy one from there,
– bring a tool/ knife for carving,
– Bring your own blanket/chair :).
**It will be outdoor, sanitizers will be available, put your mask on and keep social distance if you like, and of course we kindly ask you to NOT attend if you have/had Covid or have been around anyone who has it 🙂

Horror Movie: Madayen (2016) dir. Ayman Tamano
2020-10-27 - 2020-10-28
Available online at AFMI’s Virtual Cinema Platform: Arab Cinema ReImagined
Tuesday Oct. 28 – Sunday Nov. 1, 2020
Madayen (2016) dir. Ayman Tamano
Free – Donation encouraged.
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EventsAn Arab Film Festival Favorite
Screened at the 21st edition of the Arab Film Festival, October 13-22, 2017
With a tongue-in-cheek homage to THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, Jeddah-based filmmaker Ayman Tamano’s found footage “mock-doc” psychological horror ghost story is nevertheless a fright for sore eyes. Set in the notoriously cursed, djinn-infested Madayen Saleh ruins in the north western sector of the Kingdom – a location that has likewise been deemed a UNESCO World Heritage Site – MADAYEN holds its own as a chilling, buddy movie gone wrong campfire creepfest that never hesitates to pause, from time to time, and poke fun at itself, much less the genres it so fluently draws from.
فيلم رعب سعودي بطريقة وثائقية روائية تحكي قصة فضول ثلاث شباب في إكتشاف حقائق و أسرار ما وراء المنطقة التاريخية و قصص الجن التي تحوم حولها. و لكن فضولهم في معرفة القصص تنقلب إلى صراع للنجاة بحياتهم قبل أن ينضموا إلى قائمة قصص مدائن صالح.
إخراج: أيمن إدريس
بطولة: خالد يسلم, حكيم جمعة, عبدالله القرشي, نادية ملائكة
2016 | 66 minutes | Horror | Arabic (English subtitles)

Laila Lalami: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Event
2020-10-30
Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of four novels, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and The Other Americans, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, a best-of-2019 selection from a dozen outlets, and a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a tenured professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.

Time: TBA

Dodge Poetry Festival: The Compassion of Hard Truths: Zeina Hashem Beck and Others
2020-10-31 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Compassion of Hard Truths: Zeina Hashem Beck, Martín Espada, Paisley Rekdal, Seema Reza. Moderated by Martin J. Farawell
Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet with a BA and an MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. She won the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize for her second full-length collection, Louder than Hearts (Bauhan Publishing 2017), about which Naomi Shihab Nye wrote, “Everything Arabic we treasure comes alive in these poems. Readers will feel restored to so many homes, revived, amazed. Zeina Hashem Beck writes with a brilliant, absolutely essential voice.”
http://www.zeinahashembeck.com/

Movie: This is Palestine
2020-10-31 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Free Online Virtual Event
Click Here to Register for Event. Free Event but Registration is Required.
The firlm screening will be followed by a live discussion on Zoom and Facebook.
‘This Is Palestine’ follows the journey of Riverdance founder John McColgan through the West Bank and Gaza as he explores the impact of ongoing conflict and military occupation on the people who live there. The documentary features powerful interviews with people who have lost their home, land and family members as a result of the conflict. As well as meeting communities under threat, McColgan also spent time with Israeli and Palestinian peace activists working to bring this long-standing conflict to an end. ‘This Is Palestine’ was co-produced by Tyrone Productions and Trócaire to mark the 50th anniversary of the military occupation of the West Bank.

Oud Taqaseem Against Lung Cancer
2020-11-01 - 2020-11-02
Raise money for Project Equity, whose mission is “to bring together a multidisciplinary research team and community stakeholders to understand and develop strategies for addressing the underlying factors and mechanisms of lung cancer disparities among Black Americans,” by tuning in to daily concerts with classical musician Oud Taqaseem on Facebook Live.
Learn more about Project Equity here.
Daily at 10pm every day in November!

Virtual Artist Talks - A Conversation with Ayed Arafah
2020-11-01 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Virtual Artist Talks – A Conversation with Ayed Arafah

Sunday, November 1, 2020
12:00 PM 1:00 PM EST

Click here to register for this event.
Born in Jerusalem in 1983, Ayed Arafah currently lives in Dheisheh refugee camp, near Bethlehem.
Arafah studied art at the International Academy of Arts in Ramallah. His artwork spans many forms—murals, paintings, installations, video, and photography. He is open to working with a wide range of materials and is interested in recycling. To Arafah, art is a journey of searching, discovering, and finding solutions, while exploring many different materials and cultural concepts.

Online Vegetarian Spotlight: Shakshuka with Sur La Table
2020-11-06 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Class start time is listed in Eastern Time. You’ll need to download the prep packet for your class. (Click here for prep packet and shopping list) This packet contains essential shopping lists, pre-class prep guides and more. Use the shopping list to gather ingredients prior to the day of your class.

Each class is fully interactive, so feel free to ask questions while you work along.

The class fee is per household—you can have as many cooks in your kitchen as you like.

Classes are 1 1/2 to 2 hours, unless otherwise noted above.

Each class is a password-protected Zoom session. You can download Zoom at www.zoom.us

You’ll receive an email with a session ID and password 30 minutes prior to your class.

Login to the Zoom session prior to the start time—late attendees may not be admitted.

Film Screening: There is a Field
2020-11-07 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Free Film Screening “There is a Field”

Saturday, November 7, 2020
12:00 PM 2:00 PM EST

Click Here to Register for Event.
Click here to view the film trailer.
The film screening will be followed by a live discussion with film director Jen Marlowe.
In October 2000, a police officer shot and killed unarmed 17-year old Asel Asleh. His story is tragically familiar for Americans, but Asel was not killed in Ferguson, New York City, Atlanta, or Minneapolis. Asel was a Palestinian teenager who was murdered by Israeli police as he participated in a demonstration, calling for an end to the Israeli occupation and settler-colonization.
There Is A Field began as a play about Asel’s life and his death, told from the perspective of his older sister, Nardin. Through Nardin’s struggle to cope with the murder of her brother, the play offers a uniquely personal lens for learning about intersecting systems of oppression, including Zionism, Jewish supremacy and white supremacy—root causes of state-sanctioned violence and structural racism.

Arabic Meetup - Seattle: Coffee at Greenlake
2020-11-07 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | WA, United States
Hello! Let’s hang out in Green Lake park next Saturday, Nov 7th to have pumpkin spice latte together. The weather suppose to be nice, so come join us if you are free :).
**It will be outdoor, so bring your own blanket/chair :). Sanitizers will be available, put your mask on and keep social distance if you like, and of course we kindly ask you NOT to attend if you have/had Covid 🙂

Amal Murkus Accompanied by Fadi Deeb, in Virtual Concert: Restreamed
2020-11-08 09:00 - 11:00 UTC
Re-Streaming of Amal Murkus Accompanied by Fadi Deeb, in Virtual Concert

Sunday, November 8, 2020
12:00 PM 1:00 PM EST

Please click here to register for the concert.

2020 Arab American Book Awards: A Ceremony of Live Readings
2020-11-11 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
6 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020
Arab American Book Awards: A Ceremony of Live Readings
FREE with RSVP or suggested $10 donation
RSVP for streaming link
Join the 2020 Arab American Book Award winners and honorable mentions for a celebratory live reading, featuring guests Stacy D. Fahrenthold, Malaka Gharib, Massoud Hayoun, Laila Lalami and Jasmine Warga from among this year’s winners, and hosted by 2016 Book Award winner Susan Muaddi Darraj!

The 17th Annual New York Arab-American Comedy Festival - Opening Night
2020-11-13 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
OPENING NIGHT ARAB COMEDY ALL STARS – 8:00 PM
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The opening night of the festival will feature a taste of all of the funny folks in the 16th Annual New York Arab American Comedy Festival. This show features 20 comedian in under 2 hours. These comics have been featured on CNN, Mr. Robot, Sirius XM, TED Talks, HBO, and more!
Maysoon Zayid – #1 Ted Talk
Aron Kader- Comedy Central’s Axis of Evil Special
Dean Obeidallah- Host of SiriusXM radio’s The Dean Obeidallah Show
Maher Matta
Sammy Obeid
Eman El Husseini
Reem Edan
Aron Kader
Go Remy
Nemr Abou Nassar

Grateful Every Day: Writing Poems Together — Youth Workshop with Naomi Shihab Nye
2020-11-14 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Online via Zoom
Registration required
How can poems help our lives? Naomi Shihab Nye, Young People’s Poet Laureate, leads this friendly writing workshop for students in grades 6, 7 and 8 — no experience in poetry necessary. This online workshop, taking place via Zoom, will involve simple strategies for writing around the general topics of attention and gratitude, with some on-the-spot note-taking and sharing of ideas and work. After two hours, participants will have rough drafts of at least 3-4 poems of their own. Bring paper and pen. Bring an open mind about your own writing powers and potential. We are all richer in resources than we think we are. How do we welcome some of our thoughts and insights onto the page? No stress. You don’t have to dress up! Register for the workshop
Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, lived in Jerusalem and now lives in San Antonio, Texas. Palestinian American, she started writing poems at the age of 6 and believes “we are all living in poems.” She has published more than 30 books of poetry and prose and conducted writing workshops all over the world since college days. Nye was named by The Poetry Foundation as the Young People’s Poet Laureate for 2019-2021, making her the first Arab American to earn this honor.

Arab-American Comedy Festival: The Legends of Arab Comedy
2020-11-14 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
THE LEGENDS OF ARAB COMEDY – 7:30 PM
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The majority of the comedians on tonight’s lineup have been performing with the New York Arab American Comedy Festival since the very first show 16 years ago. These comics have been featured on CNN, ABC’s The View, Sirius XM, TED Talks, HBO, and more!
Maysoon Zayid – #1 Ted Talk
Dean Obeidallah- Host of SiriusXM radio’s The Dean Obeidallah Show
Jameeleh Shelo
Atheer Yacoub
Majdy Fares
Mike Easmeil
Mo Kheirs
Go Remy

Arab-American Comedy Festival: World's Funniest Arabs
2020-11-14 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
WORLD’S FUNNIEST ARABS – 10 PM EST
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Your favorite Arab American comedians in one BIG show. These comics have been featured on CNN, Mr. Comedy Central, SiriusXM radio, TED Talks, HBO, and more!
Aron Kader- Comedy Central’s Axis of Evil Special
Maysoon Zayid – #1 Ted Talk
Nataly Aucar
Nina Kharoufeh
Salma Hindy
Aron Kader
Ali Al Sayed
Go Remy
Nemr Abou Nassar

Alternative Archives: Discourses and Disruptions: Session 2: Global Uprising: Indigeneity, Land, Heritage // Hawaiʻi & Palestine
2020-11-15 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Alternative Archives: Discourses and Disruptions
AANM, ArteEast and NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies are excited to come together to present Alternative Archives: Discourses and Disruptions, a series of events that will explore themes of storytelling, archiving and evolving technologies in the digital world as they relate to the SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) region. These programs are part of two broader thematic series from the Kevorkian Center titled Digital Forays and Global Uprising. For more information or to RSVP for all sessions, visit www.alternativearchives.org
3 – 4:30 p.m. EST Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020
Session 2: Global Uprising: Indigeneity, Land, Heritage // Hawaiʻi & Palestine
Online via Zoom
Registration required
How do cultivation, contractors, culture and cosmopolitics relate to land rights struggles in Palestine and Hawaiʻi? This panel will reflect on growing ecological crises, displacement from land and alienation from heritage through potential strategies or antidotes presented by education and cultural projects that bridge art, science and agriculture. Through the practice of two working artists and two academics we will think through linkages of land, lineage and laws.
Featuring panelists Nida Sinnokrot (artst), Sean Connelly (artist), and moderators Nasser Abourahme (NYU) and ‘Ilima Long (University of Hawaiʻi).

Yalla Eat! Chef Series: Sheila Mansour presents Iraqi Spiced Beef Bourek
2020-11-17 14:30 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Our Yalla Eat! Instagram Takeover Chef Series features Arab American chefs demonstrating delectable recipes, Tuesday evenings on our Instagram Stories. Tune in on Instagram to join in, and check out previous recipes on our Instagram highlights or here.

5:30 p.m. EST Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020
Sheila Mansour (Sheila’s Pitas and More) presents Iraqi Spiced Beef Bourek

Ingredients (makes 24 egg rolls):

3 pounds 10-15% fat ground beef
3 bunches chopped parsley
2 medium onions
2 bunches green onions
2 tablespoons curry spice
2 tablespoons cumin
1 tablespoon allspice
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoons pepper
3 cloves chopped garlic
1 cup small golden raisins *optional
1-2 packages of egg roll wrappers
2 eggs for an egg wash
Grapeseed oil, for frying

Details TBA: Kinan Azmeh
2020-11-18
New York, November 18 @SUNY Downstate Medical Center in duo with Guitarist Ayman Fanous , details TBA.

Online: Lake Hills Library Book Discussion Group
2020-11-18 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
Online: Lake Hills Library Book Discussion Group
Description

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

For adults.
This group is meeting on the 3rd Wednesday of the month in November due to the Veteran’s Day Holiday.
Please register by 7pm on November 17 with your email. A Zoom link will be emailed to you before the program.

Museum of the Palestinian People Global Reception
2020-11-19 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
MPP Global Reception
Thu, Nov 19th 2020 at 8:00 PM EDT · By Museum of the Palestinian People
Every year we get together at the Tabard Inn to celebrate Palestinian culture, our community and the museum’s achievements. We count on this event to bring together our community whose gifts support the museum, but this year we are understandably unable to host our reception at the Tabard Inn. Even though we can’t meet in person this year, we’re still excited to “see” you virtually and we need your help to make this reception bigger and better than ever.

We invite you to join us on November 19th for a night of Palestinian music, comedy, and an auction offering Palestinian arts, handicrafts, and even a vacation home in Palestine!

Tickets are 100% tax deductible.

Upping the Stakes: Persecution and Resistance Across Contexts
2020-11-21 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
1 p.m. EST Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020
Upping the Stakes: Persecution and Resistance Across Contexts
FREE with RSVP or suggested $10 donation*
*Donate $25 or more and receive a free e-subscription of Michigan Quarterly Review!
RSVP for streaming link
Writers published in Sukoon Magazine and the Michigan Quarterly Review’s special issue on Persecution will share their work and participate in a panel discussion around the theme of persecution, injustice, displacement and disenfranchisement. Arab writers and artists will share their poetry, essays, music and film and engage in dialogue about what it means to up the stakes on human rights campaigns and artistic endeavors that transcend borders. In the shifting political and literary landscape of Arab culture, what does the future hold?
Featuring writers/artists Rahim AlHaj, Zeina Hashem Beck, Esmat Elhalaby, Mona Kareem, Ahmed Naji and Hind Shoufani, with host/emcee Rewa Zeinati and panel moderator Khaled Mattawa.

Free Screening: Love During Wartime
2020-11-28 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The recently married couple Jasmin and Assi are forced to live separated. She lives in Berlin, he in Ramallah. They want desperately to make a life together but it proves to be an impossible task. When an Israeli marries Palestinian they are beyond security offered to other members of society at every turn they are faced with a Catch 22 situation. Israeli bureaucracy filled with suspicion and a menacing Palestinian society makes their life a nightmare.
https://www.palestinemuseum.us/events/2020/loveduringwartime

Commemorating the Detroit Arab Workers Strike for Palestine
2020-11-28 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
NOV 28: “Commemorating the Detroit Arab Workers Strike for Palestine” virtual panel hosted by our Detroit chapter!

On November 28th in 1973, 2,500 Arab auto workers SHUT DOWN production at Chrysler’s Dodge Main assembly plant near Detroit, in a historic wildcat strike called for by the Arab Workers Caucus. The strike resulted in the first ever “BDS” victory in U.S. history — successfully demanding UAW divest from their State of Israel bonds (over $300k purchased with union dues money).

You don’t want to miss this event featuring a panel of 3 distinguished speakers who will discuss what took place during the strike, the political context and organizing that made it possible, as well as important lessons for our movements today.

Speakers List
GEORGE KHOURY – Nakba survivor, long-time Detroit based Palestinian leftist, labor and community organizer, and leading member of US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
JEROME SCOTT – Founding member of League of Revolutionary Black Workers member, member of LRNA, board member of General Baker Institute
MIKE SIVIWE ELLIOT – former Detroit auto worker, retired leader of UAW Local 551, member of Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR)
Moderated by Julia Kassem and Danya Zituni of USPCN-Detroit

Poster by Danya / @qamarprints on Instagram

https://www.facebook.com/events/2671486793165505

Virtually Tour the Museum for Palestinian People
2020-12-01 - 2020-12-31
The Museum of the Palestinian People is here to tell our stories; stories that encompass the rich history, vibrant arts and culture, of a people who thrive even in the face of adversity. Our stories are many, our hearts are one.
Take a virtual tour today!

Palestine Writes Conference
2020-12-02 - 2020-12-06
This conference is 4 days packed full of poets, authors, artists, cooking, comedy and more!
Susan Abulhawa, Amer Zahr and his mother, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Lena Tuffaha, Randa Jarrar, Angela Davis, Isabella Hammad, Remi Kanazi, Acrafty Arab, Wafa Ghnaim and that’s not even the half of it.
You must check out the full program so that you don’t miss a thing!
www.palestinewrites.org/program
and be sure to register and support in advance:
www.palestinewrites.vfairs.com

Story Time the ArabishWay: Me and My Family
2020-12-02 09:45 - 10:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
During this fun and engaging story time, you will learn parts of your body and some names of family members in Arabic while enjoying stories in a colloquial Levantine dialect, hear songs in Arabic and do a fun craft.
Geared for ages 3 to 6 but great for all aged learners.
This is part of the Palestine Writes Conference!
Check out the full program here.
And be sure to register and support here.
