The Falafel Stand: Cooking Class
2021-02-01 17:00 - 19:30, 2021-02-07 17:00 - 19:30, 2021-02-22 17:00 - 19:30 UTC | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
In this class NADIA TOMMALIEH will teach you how to make pita sandwiches that will have you convinced you’ve traveled to the Mediterranean to eat them. You’ll learn about the history of the region as she shows you how to get the perfect puff on your homemade khubez (pita bread), and how to achieve flavorful, crispy, falafel every time. You’ll top your piping hot sandwiches with tarator (tahini garlic sauce), tatbeeleh (jalapeno lemon sauce), and tomato cucumber salad.
This is a live, hands-on cooking class held in your kitchen via Zoom. Class is meant to be as interactive as it would be at our table, with the instructor teaching you how to prepare each recipe. Each class ticket is for one kitchen, and we welcome group cooking on the same screen. To learn more about how class will go visit our FAQ PAGE.

You can find Nadia’s work on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/nadiatommalieh

Reconstruction, Reconsidered: Belonging and Urban Contestation In Mogadishu's 'Building Boom'
2021-02-03 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Despite a remarkable post-war building boom and returning diaspora, Somalia’s capital city remains contested. Ballooning property values and the refurbishment of public and private spaces continue to embody the politics of urban belonging, memory and violence of the past three decades.

Surer Mohamed is a David and Elaine Potter Cambridge Trust Scholar and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge.

Additional co-sponsor: Department of History

Visit Gaza City with Eyewitness Palestine
2021-02-04 11:00 - 12:30, 2021-02-07 09:00 - 10:30, 2021-02-09 09:00 - 10:30, 2021-02-17 11:00 - 12:30, 2021-02-20 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Spend FEBRUARY in the Old City of Gaza
on a Virtual Delegation
with your Guide, Mohammed Rafik

Co-sponsored by We Are Not Numbers
Choose between one of the following four tours:
February 4th, 7th, 9th, 17th, or 20th
(Dates for this series have had to be postponed from January to February, due to the closures and school schedule changes in Gaza because of COVID-19.)
For this Virtual Delegation, our guide is Mohammed Rafik, a young writer and blogger from We Are Not Numbers. He will take you on a tour around Gaza City, where many of the oldest historical places lie in the Gaza Strip and firmly show Palestinians’ historical connection and right to this land.

You will be introduced to places like the Al Basha Palace, the Great Al Omari Mosque, and the Church of Saint Porphyrius. During the walk around, Mohammed will provide you with some interesting historical information about how these places were constructed and what they mean to the Palestinians in Gaza. We will also walk with Mohammed in the streets of Gaza’s old city and learn more about the people living there.

Egyptian Rule and Canaanite Resistance as Seen from Jaffa: ARCE Lecture
2021-02-04 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The excavations of the Egyptian New Kingdom fortress in Jaffa, on the southern side of Tel Aviv were undertaken from 1956 to 2014. It was the only Egyptian fortress excavated in Canaan. Its archaeological record, particularly the evidence from several dramatic destructions, provides a unique perspective on Egyptian rule and local resistance to it from ca. 1460 to 1125 B.C. The archaeological evidence, taken together with textual sources, yields a picture of Canaanite resistance to the Egyptian military presence in Jaffa. This originated in centers located throughout the coastal plain and persisted for several centuries. This talk is drawn from excavations directed by the author and undertaken by the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project between 2011 and 2014. Dr. Aaron Burke is the Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies at UCLA.

Moorish Splendors - Online Art Workshop
2021-02-06 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Alhambra Palace is a remarkable work of architecture adorned with tiled geometric mosaics, biomorphic carving and calligraphy. Learn how to construct a geometric pattern using a compass and ruler and paint with watercolor.
Workshop includes illustrated handouts with step-by-step instructions and recording of class.
REGISTER HERE $35

Amina Quraishi is an artist and art educator based in Seattle, Washington. Her work is inspired by the beauty of traditional Islamic art and nature. She received an Honors Bachelors of Science majoring in Psychology and an Advanced Diploma in Art & Art History at the University of Toronto. With the focus mostly on European art movements she began to wonder what about art in other parts of the world. Going back to her roots as a Muslim, she felt a personal connection to the rich cultural and artistic history of the Islamic lands. She began studying and practicing Islamic art and architecture using traditional tools.
Amina has been teaching Islamic art since 2017. She hopes by sharing her love and fascination of Islamic art will work towards awareness and inclusion in art education.

Reflection Session: Alert! with Andrea Assaf
2021-02-09 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
FREE with RSVP
Reflection Sessions are live, interactive, online events led by Arab American theatre artist and AANM artist-in-residence Andrea Assaf, on the second Tuesday of each month this year, leading up to the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Each session is grounded in a performance excerpt from Eleven Reflections on September*, with special guest artists who share their work, and engage in a “back stage” conversation about the themes of the month.
This February session will feature the poem Alert! by Andrea Assaf, and explore themes of surveillance, Islamophobia and drone technology in the post-9/11 era. Special guest announcement coming soon!
For questions, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski, Curator of Public Programs at kgrabowski@accesscommunity.org
*Eleven Reflections on September is a poetry/spoken word, multimedia performance on Arab American experience, Wars on/of Terror, and “the constant, quiet rain of death amidst beauty” that each autumn brings in a post-9/11 world. The annual witnessing of autumn leaves becomes a metaphor for the fallen. This trans-disciplinary project includes performances with interactive media design and live music; community dialogues; visual arts exhibits; open mics, panels and opportunities for action through partnerships with peace organizations. In 2021, this project will be re-created as a large-scale, community-based, devised performance directed by Andrea Assaf, engaging Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) and Muslim American artists and allies in San Antonio, Texas, commissioned by The Carver.

Pasadena Library discussion of The Moor’s Account
2021-02-11 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Authors & Their Journeys: Laila Lalami
Author Laila Lalami will discuss her novel The Moor’s Account and share her journey writing it.

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This event is sponsored by The Friends of the Pasadena Public Library

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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 in Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Other Americans, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and 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 full professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles. Her new book, a work of nonfiction called Conditional Citizens, was published by Pantheon in September 2020.

“No One Will Do This For Us” Intellectuals of African Descent and the Nile Valley in the Early 20th Century
2021-02-11 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The disciplinary history of Egyptology, as it is currently written, incorrectly excludes the voices of intellectuals of African descent. In the early 20th century, when Egyptology was first taught in US universities, Black scholars and writers and white Egyptologists who held university posts engaged with one another over matters related to Egypt, ancient and modern. These conversations must be recognized as integral to the formation of the discipline in the United States and to its future. Vanessa Davies is the founding organizer of the Nile Valley Collective, which promotes the Africanity of the ancient NileValley cultures. She is writing a book on the contributions of scholars of African descent in the US to the disciplinary histories of Egyptology and Nubiology. She is the author of Peace in Ancient Egypt, the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography, and the editor of The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N2500.
ONLINE MEETING LINK: us02web.zoom.us…

Virtual Screening: Rana's Wedding via Palestine Museum US
2021-02-13 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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About the Film
Rana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum delivered by her father: She must either choose a husband from a pre-selected list of eligible men, or she must accompany her father abroad. Rana’s Wedding is a romantic drama about a Palestinian girl who wants to get married to the man of her own choice. With only ten hours to find her boyfriend in occupied Jerusalem, Rana sneaks out of her father’s house at daybreak to find her forbidden love, Khalil. Facing barriers and occupation which have become an everyday reality, Rana overcomes her fears and doubts, deciding not to let anyone control her life.
by Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad

A Virtual Celebration of the Life and Art of Rajie Cook 1930 - 2021
2021-02-14 09:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
It is with heavy heart and deep sadness that we report the passing of Palestinian artist Rajie Cook.
Please join us in celebrating Rajie’s life and decades of artistic excellence.
All times listed are in the Eastern US Time Zone.
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4.3 DIALOGUES ON THE ART OF ARAB FASHION: MY LIFE’S PASSION
2021-02-16 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
4.3 DIALOGUES ON THE ART OF ARAB FASHION: MY LIFE’S PASSION
Event Description: Widad Kawar is the founder of the Tiraz Centre in Amman, Jordan, home to the biggest collection of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Arab traditional dress in the world, and the author of Threads of Identity, a record of Palestinian dress and the women who made and wore it. With her childhood and youth spent in Bethlehem and Ramallah, Widad was surrounded by traditional Palestinian weaving and embroidery. The war and displacement in Palestine encouraged her to collect not only the items but the stories and legacies of the women who lost their homes and their culture. For Widad, each item in her collection is a reminder of a person, a place, and an event. Her knowledge stems from the personal stories of the women who made and worn these dresses.
Date: 16th February 2021
Time: 11 am NYC, 4 pm London, 8 pm Dubai
Tickets: Donation
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World Premiere of 3 X 13, an interactive online performance
2021-02-18
ANNOUNCING THE WORLD PREMIERE OF 3 X 13
An Interactive Online Performance

Thursday, February 18
FREE/by donation

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Join us for the premiere of this interactive online performance co-presented by Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre and ArteEast, and receive exclusive online content from the artists, available for 48 hours.

Created by award-winning Director Eimi Imanishi and Choreographer Samar Haddad King, and produced by Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, 3 x 13 explores the singularity of the individual and the universality of the human experience. In 12 short films with original music by Lou Tides (TEEN, Here We Go Magic), 12 artists from around the globe share a journey of transformation that deeply marked their lives. These personal accounts of parenthood, loss, race, exile, dreams both realized and abandoned, all find expression through a common choreography for body and camera, offering an intimate glimpse into the performers’ inner and outer worlds.
The work culminates in an interactive 13th film that unites all 12 journeys in a virtual ensemble that invites audiences to chart their own course across 6 languages (with subtitles in Arabic and English) and 8 countries: Cuba, Egypt, France, Mali, Mexico, Palestine, South Korea, and the US.
On February 20, 3 x 13 will be widely released online for free, furthering YSDT’s mission to increase access to – and promote understanding through – the arts.

Laila Lalami & Mike Davis By UCR Writers Week 2021
2021-02-18 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
44th Annual Writers Week Conference 2021: Writers Week is the longest-running, free literary event in California and features the most renowned authors of our day alongside those at the start of promising careers. February 13 and 16-20, 2021
Laila Lalami
Contributing Editor, The Nation
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America (Knoph, 2020)
Mike Davis D. Charles Whitney Reader
Contributing Editor, The Nation
Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties (Verso, 2020)

P&P Live!: Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick — Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
2021-02-19 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Friday, February 19, 2021 – 6 p.m.

This event will be streamed online as part of our P&P Live! Series.
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and experts on U.S. policy in the region.
Hill and Plitnick provide a timely and essential intervention by examining multiple dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conversation, including Israel’s growing disdain for democracy, the effects of occupation on Palestine, the siege of Gaza, diminishing American funding for Palestinian relief, and the campaign to stigmatize any critique of Israeli occupation. Except for Palestine is a searing polemic and a cri de coeur for elected officials, activists, and everyday citizens alike to align their beliefs and politics with their values.
MARC LAMONT HILL is an award-winning journalist and the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. He is the author of multiple books, including the New York Times bestselling Nobody, and co-author (with Mitchell Plitnick) of Except for Palestine (The New Press). His newest book, We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility is a timely intervention into the popular movement for police abolition. He’s featured speaking for The Root here.
MITCHELL PLITNICK, the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy, is a political analyst and a frequent writer on the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. His past roles include vice president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, director of the U.S. Office of B’Tselem, and co-director of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Movie: Advocate via Mideast Focus Ministry
2021-02-19 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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This film provides a fascinating look at the life and work of Jewish Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented Palestinian prisoners for nearly 50 years, in Israeli courts.
The film follows Jewish-Israeli human-rights lawyer Lea Tsemel as she navigates through the Israeli judicial system in defense of Palestinian political prisoners. The film includes archival footage of past cases Tsemel was involved in over a five-decade long career; interviews with Tsemel and her family members, including her husband, Michel Warschawski and their daughter and son, as well as interns and associates at Tsemel’s law firm; and closely follows two contemporary cases represented by Tsemel and her co-counsel, Tareq Barghout.
Learn more here.
with guest speaker: TBA
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Wajib: Streaming via Palestine Museum US
2021-02-20 09:00 - 11:00 UTC
WAJIB
Palestinian architect Shadi, living in Rome, returns home to Nazareth to help his father deliver his sister’s wedding invitations. As they two men try to bridge the gap between their different lives, they rediscover the importance of finding “home” and community.

Saturday, February 20, 2021
12:00 PM 2:00 PM
Palestine Museum US (map)

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Abu Shadi (Mohammad Bakri) is a divorced father and school teacher in his mid-60s who lives in Nazareth with his daughter. Now that she is about to be married, the aging patriarch is anticipating life on his own. In preparation for the wedding, his architect son, Shadi (Saleh Bakri), who lives in Rome, travels to Nazareth to help the family. As Shadi and his father spend a day together hand-delivering wedding invitations to each guest in keeping with local Palestinian custom, the tense details of their fragile relationship come to a head, while each faces the reality of their very different lives. Performed brilliantly by actual father and son Mohammad and Saleh Bakri, Wajib demonstrates Annemarie Jacir’s filmmaking mastery through its style and subtleties.

Read Woke with Cicely Lewis & Malaka Gharib
2021-02-20 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Read Woke with Cicely Lewis & Malaka Gharib
FREE with RSVP or suggested donation
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Join AANM and Dearborn Public Library for a conversation about representation, race and identity with Cicely Lewis and Malaka Gharib! Gharib is an NPR editor and author of the 2020 Arab American Book Award-winning graphic memoir I Was Their American Dream. Lewis is the founder of the Read Woke Challenge*, and also School Library Journal’s 2020 School Librarian of the Year.
*Dearborn Public Library hosts an all ages Read Woke Challenge, Jan. 11-Feb. 20, 2021. The Read Woke Challenge encourages community members to read “woke” books and engage in thoughtful dialogue surrounding the themes and topics addressed in the books. What are woke books? They are titles that focus on protagonists from underrepresented groups and/or challenge the status quo or social norms. Learn more or take the Read Woke Challenge
For questions, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski, Curator of Public Programs at

Virtual Artist Talks - A Conversation with Raghda Zaiton
2021-02-21 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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Please join us for a conversation and an online art review with the Nablus (West Bank)-based Palestinian Artis and Al-Najah University art instructor Raghda Zaiton.

Palestinian Fatayer: Hands On via ZOOM!
2021-02-22 17:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 guide you through the Palestinian take on this most perfect of mezze. You’ll layer a citrusy spinach filling into dough triangles to make fatayer sabanekh, fold cheese and herbs into boat-shaped fatayer jebneh, and make open-faced spiced beef sfeeha.

The Wandering Palestinian: A Book talk by Author and Activist Anan Ameri
2021-02-25 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Join us for a conversation between Author and Activist Anan Ameri and Professor and Activist Nadine Naber
Dr. Anan Ameri is a scholar, author, activist, and community organizer. She is the founding Director of the Arab American National Museum (AANM) and Palestine Aid Society of America. She holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Jordan, an MA from Cairo University, and a PhD from Wayne State University in Detroit. She was a fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, a visiting scholar in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and served as Interim Director of the Institute for Jerusalem Studies. The recipient of numerous awards, Anan was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame in Lansing, Michigan in 2016 and received ACCESS’s Arab American of the Year award in 2020. She enjoys writing and has authored and edited several articles and publications. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Dr. Nadine Naber is Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program and holds an affiliation with the Department of Anthropology at UIC. Dr. Naber’s research interests lie at the intersections of transnational feminisms; women of color and queer of color theory; de-colonizing feminisms; empire studies; critical race studies; and Middle East Studies; and Arab American Studies. Dr. Naber is author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (NYU Press, 2012). She is co-editor of the books Race and Arab Americans (Syracuse University Press, 2008); Arab and Arab American Feminisms, winner of the Arab American Book Award 2012 (Syracuse University Press, 2010); and The Color of Violence (South End Press, 2006). Dr. Naber is an editorial board member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, the Journal of Palestine Studies, and Al-Shabakah. Dr. Naber co- founded Arab and Muslim American Studies (an Ethnic Studies unit within the Program in American Culture) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Naber’s current book in progress focuses on radical mothering in the context of protest movements of the Egyptian revolution and Chicago’s immigrant and people of color-based movements against state violence.

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Virtual Arabic Hosted by Muhammad Alaa Eddin
2021-02-25 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Let’s catch up peeps.

What we’re about

Ahlan wa sahlan! I’m 3laa’. Benjamin is the original Organizer for the group, and Islam (Sam) allowed me to take the lead after he moved away from Washington.
This group is created as a way for those who are studying and have a good foundation in Arabic to come and practice their speaking and listening skills in lively conversation.

Smithsonian Sampler Series: Tatreez
2021-02-26 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
For generations, Palestinian women have gathered with their daughters to work collectively on embroidery projects, bonding with one another over a cup of tea. Guided by Wafa Ghnaim, who began her training in embroidery with her mother at age 2, learn the basic Palestinian cross-stitch and how to create a tatreez sampler, using a standard size sheet of Aida cloth fabric and one that can incorporate numerous patterns and eventually become a wall-hanging.
If you have already begun a tatreez sampler, this workshop will teach you traditional patterns and stitching strategies to further develop your piece. You are not required to take all three workshops in this winter series (Jan. 29; Feb. 26; and March 12)—you may take one, or all. The purpose of the sampler series is to develop your stitching skills, introduce you to new patterns throughout the region’s history, as well as learn more about textiles produced in the Holy Land throughout the centuries.
Open to students of all skill levels, learn the history and meaning behind traditional Palestinian patterns, basics of transferring a pattern to fabric, threading a needle, various cross-stitching methodologies, how to keep the back of your cloth clean, color theory and design, project planning, and motif repetition. No experience is required.
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Beyond the Two State Solution: Book Talk and Discussion
2021-02-27 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Jonathan Kuttab’s new book is a short introduction to the crisis in Palestine-Israel, which has been characterized by the competing visions of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism. While many thought the two-state solution would offer a resolution, Jonathan explains that the two-state solution (that he supported) is no longer viable. He suggests that any solution be predicated on the basic existential needs of the two parties, which he lays out in exceptional detail. He formulates a way forward for a one-state solution that challenges both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism. This book invites readers to begin a new conversation based on reality: two peoples will need to live together in some sort of unified state. It is balanced and accessible to neophytes and to experts alike.
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Free Virtual Screening of the Film "Recollection" by Palestinian Director Kamal Aljafari
2021-02-27 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
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The following description is by Shimrit Lee writing for Warscapes.com
About the Film

Kamal Aljafari remembers when Jaffa was transformed into civil war-torn Beirut. Under the direction of Menachem Golan, the production team of The Delta Force (1986) created urban mayhem, arranging for the explosion of real buildings in the staging of a fictional battle. Aljafari recalls standing on the side of the road with a group of other children, eagerly awaiting a glimpse of Chuck Norris racing by in a van with the name of their school, “St. Joseph,” printed on the door. Years later, while flipping through television channels in a hotel room in London, Aljafari was shocked to recognize this scene. He sat on the bed mesmerized, not by the action shots but by the background: a clear documentation of the Jaffa of his childhood, a city which has since been destroyed, renovated, gentrified and rebuilt beyond recognition.
Aljafari’s latest film Recollection is composed entirely of footage from Israeli and American fiction features shot in Jaffa from the 1960s to the 1990s, primarily of the so-called bourekas genre that dramatized tense romantic relationships between Mizrahi male “thugs” and Ashkenazi female elites. Jaffa provided the perfect setting to construct new Israeli narratives on top of emptied Palestinian ruins. As Aljafari explains, Palestinians were effectively “uprooted in reality and in fiction.” In Recollection, Aljafari removes the Israeli actors to give the stage to the people who appear by chance in the background of these shots, including both Palestinians and Iraqi Jews who were settled in the city, enacting what he describes as “cinematic justice.”
Aljafari was born in neighboring Ramle in 1972 and later emigrated to Germany to attend film school. His previous films include The Roof (2006), which follows him on a return visit to the homes of his parents and grandmother in Palestine, and Port of Memory (2009), which traces the eviction of his mother’s family from their home in Ajami. Aljafari’s dark humor and silent communication style liken his work to that of Palestinian filmmakers Elia Sulieman and Michel Khleifi.
Unlike his previous films, Recollection has no central protagonist. Aljafari moves through the found-footage, creating the illusion of a dreamer sleep-walking through the city with a handheld camera. While Aljafari sometimes describes this unseen cameraman as himself, each excavated memory is shared, belonging to his grandfather, his mother, his neighbors, and others who cannot return. Each footstep holds a certain urgency; as Aljafari explains, “I walk everywhere, sometimes hesitant and sometimes lost. I wander through the city; I wander through the memories. I film everything I encounter because I know it no longer exists. I return to a lost time.”
