Netflix Film: The Swimmers
2022-11-23 | WA
THE SWIMMERS
A Netflix film directed and written by Sally El Hosaini

Based on a true story, THE SWIMMERS follows the journey from war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics. Two young sisters embark on a harrowing journey as refugees, putting both their hearts and champion swimming skills to heroic use.
Catch it at the Arab Film Festival before it streams!
The Swimmers will be on Netflix November 23

Super UW: Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
2022-11-29 09:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UW – HUB, 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
Join SUPER-UW on Tuesday, November 29th for an exhibit on the state-backed repression of Palestine activists! This Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, SUPER UW will be in the HUB first floor study area from 9am until 2pm learning about the repression of Palestine activism and Palestinian activists, celebrating Palestinian resistance, and making it clear that we will continue to stand against Zionism and for a free and unified Palestine. Stay tuned for a statement from SUPER about the ADL terror-tagging us earlier this fall.Wear a keffiyeh and show up, or take a photo of you in your keffiyeh and tag us in it @super_uw! If you don’t have one, order an authentic Palestinian keffiyeh from Hirbawi, made in al-Khalil, Palestine!

Iraqi Book Club | Fifteen Iraqi Poets: Dunya Mikhail
2022-11-29 10:30 - 12:00 | Virtual
We are a community group of people who have a relationship with Iraq. Some of us were born there, some of our parents were born there, some have lived and worked there and some are just curious.
Together, we aim to share our ✨ stories about Iraq and meet new people in a supportive environment. We do this by talking about books.
We talk about books written by Iraqi authors, both 📚 non-fiction and fiction. We like to read traditionally 💪 minority voices, like those of women, religious minorities and people who are queer. We do this so we can get the full picture of what it means to live in 🇮🇶 Iraq.
We meet every other month online to learn and get to know new people. Every so often we have a get-together in person somewhere in the UK. All sessions are appropriate for anyone with an open mind and heart, of any ethnicity and background!

Authors: Peter Cole and Iman Mersal (Virtual)
2022-11-29 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
If only this evening could be staged in the same room, as we range around a good part of the world in hosting three poets – Peter Cole and Iman Mersal virtually at 5 p.m. – and another, Naveen Kishore in store at 7 p.m. Between them, the U.S., Israel/Palestine, Egypt, Canada, and India, with their poetic and literary concerns extending beyond whatever borders those nationalities might pose. This 5 p.m virtual program returns poet/translator/editor Peter Cole to Elliott Bay to read from his newest collection, Draw Me After (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and it helps introduce an overdue major collection of one of the world’s major poets, Iman Mersal with her new book, The Threshold (translated from the Arabic by Robyn Creswell / Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
Peter Cole’s Draw Me After very much has ‘drawing’ in it, with work by Terry Winters, which he dares from, so to speak.
“‘Waking the letters from their slumber’: that’s Peter Cole’s mad, sublime task in these phantasmagoric poems. Every line of this book breaks the literal—the letters—into visionary scenes where sorrow marries joy and blessings almost rhyme with curse. A revelation.” —Rosanna Warren.
“Peter Cole shows himself in Draw Me After to be our great master of ekphrasis. Visually, sonically, rhythmically, semantically, his are some of the most inventive, witty, profound, and genuinely beautiful lyric poems of our moment.” —Marjorie Perloff.
Peter Cole has written several previous books of poems, including Hymns & Qualms and Rift, and he has also translated widely from Hebrew and Arabic works—both medieval and modern. With Adina Hoffman, he has co-written Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza and also published books as Ibis Editions. He is the recipient of many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, a National Jewish Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.
Joining us, we believe, from Edmonton, where she is a professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Alberta is Iman Mersal. The Threshold, translated by Robyn Creswell, draws from several of her noted earlier books of poetry ranging back nearly thirty years and coming up to the present – A Dark Alley Suitable for Dance Lessons, Walking as Long as Possible, Alternative Geography, and Until I Give Up the Idea of Home. Her most recent book, the prose work Traces of Enayat (all of these, we’re giving translated titles), received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature in 2021.
“The publication of Iman Mersal’s The Threshold is a major literary event. Long recognized throughout the Arab world and in Europe, Mersal is one of the strongest confessional (or postconfessional) poets we now have, in any language: her poems are fueled by a mordant wit, sensual vibrancy, and feminist brio. Impatient with pieties—whether political, erotic, or poetic—she writes, like Louise Glück, with emotional intensity and analytic coolness. This is poetry of earned and perfect pitch: the notations of an impassioned mind. I read The Threshold straight through; it will become a permanent companion.” —Maureen N. McLane. “Undeceived, ironic, daring, Iman Mersal’s poems are animated by a singular sensibility. They deal candidly with real life—migration, dying parents, emotional entanglements—and discover general truths among the fine particulars. Robyn Creswell’s translation is deft and subtle, and the Anglophone world is lucky to have it.” —Nick Laird.

Peter Cole and Iman MersalTuesday Nov 29 2022 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Virtually Hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company.
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Kahoot! Trivia: Mythology with KCLS
2022-11-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM6:00 PM to 7:00 PM | Tuesday, November 29on November 29, 2022

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Play Kahoot! Trivia featuring mythology based on various backgrounds including Greek, Egyptian and much more!
Please register. You will be emailed a link no later than one hour before the program start time. If you do not see an email, check…

Register for Kahoot! Trivia: Mythology on 11-29-2022Registration closes November 29 at 3:00pm (74 spots remaining)Register for event

Instant Pot - Tastes of Africa (online)
2022-11-30 17:00 - 18:15 | Virtual
Travel to different parts of Africa in this global cooking adventure. Learn how to use new spices and other ingredients typically found in this country’s cuisine. In this vegan cooking class, we will create deliciously fragrant salads and soups using the instant pot. Rachel will share her instant pot tips and tricks to make any meal a success.

Moroccan beet salad
15 minute North African red lentil soup
West African peanut soup with chickpeas and sweet potatoes

The Olive Oil Harvest with Nadia Tommalieh at the Pantry
2022-11-30 18:00 - 21:00 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Join NADIA TOMMALIEH as she shares the beauty, importance, and tradition of the olive harvest and olive oil pressing across the Arab world. Olive oil is a staple in most culinary cultures, and in this class you’ll learn about the different flavor profiles of olive oil, the best temperatures for cooking, and how to repurpose flavor-infused oils. You’’ll cook an array of dishes traditional to celebrate the olive harvest season, before sitting down to feast on shorabet freekeh bil hamid w zeit al-zaytoon (citrusy freekeh and olive oil soup); musakhan (roasted Cornish hens with olive oil, caramelized onions, and sumac); salatet bandora bil a’ashab (tomatoes and herbs tossed in olive oil and sumac), as well as salset laban w na’ana (garlicky yogurt, mint, olive oil sauce). Yansoonnieh, an aromatic anise and olive oil sticky cake drenched in orange blossom syrup, will close out our meal, and our love letter to the majestic olive.

Arabic Chat Hour
2022-12-01 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-08 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-15 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-22 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.

Afikra: Chef Joudie Kalla [Matbakh]
2022-12-02 07:00 - 08:00 | Virtual
“Palestine on a Plate”
Joudie Kalla is a Palestinian-British chef. She is the author of two prizewinning cookbooks. Although she identifies the food in her cookbooks as Palestinian, some of the recipes reflect British influences, such as her za’tar scones.

Heygo: The Presidential Palace - Abu Dhabi
2022-12-03 04:00 - 05:00 | Virtual
The Presidential Palace of Abu Dhabi also known as Qasr Al Watan is more than just a palace. It is an unique testament to the spirit of the United Arab Emirates’ people and its leaders. The Palace invites the world to share in our culture, knowledge and inspiring journey. It is an enriching interactive journey in a contemporary setting that reveals and reflects on governance, knowledge and craftsmanship.

Online Ticket—Poetry Reading—Out of the Ordinary Conference
2022-12-04 22:00 - 23:00 | Virtual
This public poetry reading forms part of the programme of Out of the Ordinary: On Poetry and the World, a three day conference on poetry’s relationship to the extraordinary. This carbon-neutral event will be held at the University of Canberra over December 5th, 6th and 7th 2022. For all further info: https://www.ucpoetry2022.info/
READERS:, Paul Collis, Olena Kalytiak Davis and Omar Sakr
Omar Sakr is a poet and writer born in Western Sydney to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants. He is the author of These Wild Houses (Cordite Books, 2017), and The Lost Arabs (University of Queensland Press, 2019), which won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is the first Arab-Australian Muslim to win this prestigious award. The Lost Arabs was also shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the John Bray Poetry Award, the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Literary Award, and the Colin Roderick Award; it has been released in the US and worldwide through Andrews McMeel Universal. In 2019, Omar was the recipient of the Edward Stanley Award for Poetry, and in 2020, the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Poetry. His poems have been published in English, Arabic, and Spanish. Omar’s debut novel, Son of Sin (Affirm Press), was published in 2022.
http://omarsakr.com/

Cooking Class: Arabic Holiday Cookies
2022-12-05 18:30 - 21:00 | Book Larder, 4252 Fremont Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98103, United States
Join Nadia Tommalieh as she shares with you her family holiday traditions and guides you through making festive Arabic-style cookies. Perfect as an everyday treat with coffee or tea, these cookies might also become a staple of your holiday table for years to come.

In this hands-on class, you will learn how to make traditional Ka’ak Asawer (Palestinian-stuffed date cookies that are kneaded in olive oil and seasoned with cardamom and anise seeds); Ghraybeh (shortbread cookies with orange blossom water); and Barazek (roasted sesame and pistachio thins infused with mastic).
Class is limited to 11 people and is hands-on. Includes generous samples of cookies prepared in class (with enough to bring home!), plus a light snack, coffee or tea.

Students will be required to wear masks during the non-eating portions of class. Please note that event registration is non-refundable.

UNRWA: My Big Fat Palestinian Christmas
2022-12-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Since we can’t all be in Palestine for Christmas, we’re bringing Palestine to you, accept a *free* virtual seat at My BIG Fat Palestinian Christmas (RSVP for the link)!
Your favorite foodies are gathering next week, from Jerusalem to DC, to inject some joy and spice into our lives, and bring a month of food to 100 refugee families in Gaza! This fun and heartwarming cooking demo will be livestreamed Wednesday, December 7 at 5 pm EST.
From sahlab to mahshi, chefs Maha Kailani, Izzeldin Bukhari, Mai Kakish, Marcelle Afram, Suzanne Husseini, and Johnny Dubbaneh will walk us through how to make their favorite Palestinian dishes.
Palestinian pianist Nahed Elrayes will also dazzle us with jazzy Arab versions of your favorite Christmas tunes.

Arab Holiday Feast at the Pantry
2022-12-07 18:00 - 21:30, 2022-12-12 18:00 - 21:30, 2022-12-14 18:00 - 21:30 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Holiday tables around the globe are packed with friends, family, traditions, and hearty soulful dishes. Join NADIA TOMMALIEH as she shares the warmth of the Arab holiday feast around our table. On the menu: lahmet kharouf bi dips el romman (slow-cooked lamb shanks with pomegranate molasses and herbs) served on top of ouzi rice (seasoned basmati rice, roasted vegetables, and fried nuts); fattoush betinjan (roasted eggplant fattoush salad); labneh bil joz ((labneh, walnuts, and onion dip); and warbat bil qashta (creamy filo parcels with orange blossom syrup and pistachio).

Comedian Dina Hashem in Seattle
2022-12-09 19:30 - 21:00, 2022-12-09 21:30 - 23:00, 2022-12-10 19:30 - 21:00, 2022-12-10 21:30 - 23:00 | Laughs Comedy Club, 5220 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Dina Hashem exploded onto the New York comedy scene after winning her first appearance on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle. With her deadpan delivery and dark observations, Dina’s stand-up addresses her difficult Islamic upbringing. She was named one of Team Coco/TBS’s “Comics to Watch” at the New York Comedy Festival and made her late-night TV debut on CONAN. She has also appeared on Night Train with Wyatt Cenac (Starz), This Week at the Cellar (Comedy Central), 2 Dope Queens (WNYC), Danny’s House (Viceland), and CC: STAND UP (Comedy Central), where her set currently has almost 3 million views. Dina has performed all over the world, including at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Glasgow Comedy Festival, Bridgetown, Boston Comedy Festival, Limestone, and Comedy Central’s Clusterfest in San Francisco. Dina has participated in the prestigious Sundance Episodic Lab and was a writer on BJ Novak’s anthology series The Premise, for FX. She also writes for SEX LIVES.

A Muslim Christmas Carol
2022-12-10 | WA
by Dunya Theater

Considering Palestine in Clinical and Institutional Spaces: Four Voices
2022-12-10 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Within the realm of psychoanalysis, the topic of Palestine, and Palestinians, continues to be taboo. Fantastical projections of what makes a Palestinian “Other” and the psychological drives to contain this Other often leave Palestinians in psychoanalytic spaces feeling dissatisfied, silenced, and, in some cases, aggressed against and violated. Within this context, we present a twist on the traditional panel discussion format by creating a different space in which we as Palestinian and Arab-identifying clinicians can bring forward the reality of our experiences tackling Palestine in clinical and therapeutic spaces – with patients, therapists, supervisors, and peers. Being mindful of the normative gaze that dictates discussions on Palestine to make them more palatable to a general audience, we will provide a recording of a conversation between the four of us (Selma, Nawal, Tareq, and Bassem) merging theoretical and experiential knowledge to explore impasses at play in discussions about Palestine. After the recording there will be a short moderated discussion between panelists and moderator followed by a longer period of moderated interaction between panelists and audience where questions and issues can be further clarified and developed.

Afikra: Founder of Tatreez and Tea Wafa Ghnaim [Outline]
2022-12-14 07:00 - 08:00 | Virtual
Join us as we interview Wafa Ghnaim, who founded an educational arts initiative focused on the preservation, documentation and research of textiles in the SWANA region, on our afikra Outline series.

Musician Ali Gatie: Who Hurt You? Tour
2022-12-16 19:00 - 22:00 | Neptune, 1303 Northeast 45th Street, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Ali Gatie’s music is intimate in a way that almost feels private. The Toronto-raised artist’s pop-meets-R&B is often vulnerable, wounded, and yearning — listening is less like thumbing through his diary than stumbling upon the pages he’s ripped out and stuffed at the bottom of a drawer. Hits like double-platinum acoustic love letter “It’s You” and 2021 EP, The Idea of Her, demonstrate how affecting such an approach can be — he shares the contours of his emotions in hopes that listeners see themselves reflected. And his fans, The LISNers, have connected to these songs in a way that feels profound. After blossoming his sound via bigger projects like 2020’s You, he’s now accumulated over 3.5 billion streams across platforms. Gatie isn’t the type to care about such numbers, but it’s evidence of the powerfully authentic bonds he’s been able to form. The Idea of Her is full of new leaps, including a colorful collaboration with Marshmello and Ty Dolla $ign called “Do You Believe,” which makes it the perfect next step for both Gatie and The LISNers — the EP underscores his unguarded approach to songwriting while emphasizing that there are new worlds out there to explore. “I want my fans to know I’m still figuring this out,” he says of his next chapter. “I might not know for five or 10 years, but this is where I feel like I sit most comfortably. You can expect the unexpected.”

Friday, December 16, 2022
Doors at 7:00 pm
Show at 8:00 pm
General Admission
All Ages
$17.50 in advance
$22.50 day of show
(not including fees)
STG strongly encourages and recommends when attending a performance that you wear a mask. We reserve the right to require health and safety protocols for all performances. www.stgpresents.org/health

Create Art Inspired by Egypt, Ancient and Modern
2022-12-17 07:00 - 09:30 | Virtual
According to the Arab Republic of Egypt website Tourism page:
Egypt, Um-El-Dunya, literally translated as Mother of the World, is an Arabic expression which Egyptians and others have used over history in reference to the country’s ancient civilization, superlatives and achievements making it a unique tourist destination. The “Mother of the World” houses a plethora of unrivaled tourist and historical attractions and thrives with archaeological treasures and wonders rendering it a classic vintage of history and civilization. Tourists travel far and wide to explore the Pyramids and the Sphinx and trace remnants of the ancient Egyptian civilization kaleidoscope of Islamic, Coptic, Roman, Greek and Pharaonic colors.
Egypt is the cradle of ancient civilization nesting art and temples. The beautiful stretches of picturesque beaches are a magnet for sun-lovers. Every city casts its own spell, some harbor old temples while others boast of immaculate handicrafts. However, they never fail to radiate history, culture and dynamism.
Egypt is the throbbing heart of the Arab world amalgamated in beauty, fused with warmth and sanctified by holiness. It is literally a global historical archive, giving rise to civilizations and bewildering a great many people celebrating it. It is indeed the capital of art, life, culture, science and religion.
Registration is open for this unguided event. Registration closes 11:59 PM EST on Friday ,December 16.
All Skill levels welcome to this free event!
Click the register button above to sign up. The session officially lasts for two hours, but feel free to hang out afterwards and share, if you are able.
Sign up today!

Madafeh: Palestinian-American musician Ronnie Malley
2022-12-18 09:00 - 10:30 | WA
Please join us for a virtual session of open discussion about Palestinian topics.
Please join us for a conversation with and some oud playing by Chicago-based Palestinian American musician Ronnie Malley. Ronnie has just returned from Qatar where he performed and entertained the masses of the World Cup fans. He will share with us his impressions of the unprecedented support and solidarity Palestine received at the World Cup and its significance going forward.

About Ronnie Malley
Ronnie Malley is a Palestinian multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, sound designer, producer, actor, playwright, educator, and executive director of Intercultural Music Production. He is author of the acclaimed solo play, Ziryab, The Songbird of Andalusia, co-author of the Kennedy Center Citizen Artist award-winning play American Griot, and has composed and performed in regional and international productions including Disney’s The Jungle Book, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s The White Snake, and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s Macbeth. With a degree in Global Music Studies from DePaul University, Ronnie is a teaching artist with Chicago Public Schools, Global Voices Initiative, Chicago Arts Partnership in Education, a faculty member at Old Town School of Folk Music, and a guest lecturer at universities. He is currentlypursuing a graduate degree in linguistics and Semitic languages at the University of Chicago.

Show: Mohamed Salem, Hamad Al-Lithy and Essam Jamil
2022-12-23 | WA
The biggest and biggest party in Seattle Washington with the biggest star in Iraq and the Arab country Mohamed Salem #Mohamed Al-Salem and the Egyptian Arab star Hamada Al-Lithy and Seattle star Essam Jamil we wish you satisfaction kingtown entertainment December 23rd
206 539 8137 for tickets

2020 S 314th St Federal Way, WA
Mo Alsadi: 206-539-8137
Ali Shamsaldeen: 206-899-6080
