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Wakhtiyo Sheeko Oo Soomali Ah (Somali Story Time)
2019-08-31 17:00 - 17:30, 2019-08-17 17:00 - 17:30, 2019-08-03 17:00 - 17:30 UTC | Seattle Public Library – Rainier Beach, 9125 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
It is Somali Story Time at the Seattle Public Library – Rainier Beach! Bring your children to enjoy stories, rhymes and fun in Somali.

This event repeats weekly!

Mohanad Alshieky at Bumbershoot 2019
2019-08-30 - 2019-09-01 | Seattle Center, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
Mohanad is a standup comedian and writer living in Portland, Oregon. He was featured as one of Team Coco’s “Comics to Watch” at the 2018 New York Comedy Festival and stars in Unprotected Sets, a new docuseries special from MGM and Epix.
Born in Libya, Mohanad brings a unique, unparalleled perspective to standup comedy. He was featured by Thrillist as one of the 50 Best Undiscovered Comedians in America and has taken home both 2nd and 3rd in the prestigious Funniest Person in Portland contest. Described by the Portland Mercury as an “undisputed genius of comedy,” he also co-hosts popular local standup showcases Earthquake Hurricane and FlyAss Jokes.
He is listed in the lineup for Bumbershoot 2019!

Ramy Youssef at Bumbershoot 2019
2019-08-30 - 2019-09-01 | Seattle Center, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
RAMY YOUSSEF is a comedian from New Jersey. He made his standup debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and is currently in production on the Hulu series ‘RAMY’ which he created and stars in. He is producing the series with Jerrod Carmichael and A24, it will premiere on Hulu this year. Ramy is also starring in his first comedy special for HBO, which will tape this Spring. He was also recently seen in an arc on Mr. Robot, as well as in a supporting role in Gus Van Sant’s new film ‘Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot.’
He is listed in the lineup for Bumbershoot 2019!

KC PODCAST LISTENING PARTY: LOVING LYNN
2019-08-28 19:00 - 21:00 | The Riveter, Capitol Hill, 1517 12th Ave Suite 101, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
KC PODCAST LISTENING PARTY: LOVING LYNN
Lynn left behind her hometown village in the Philippines for a housekeeping job in Lebanon at the age of 23. It was only meant to be temporary… until she met Butros, her employer’s nephew, and they fell in love. But for Lynn, marrying Butros has meant choosing to settle down in a country where she’s always treated as an outsider.
We’ll listen to the episode, and talk about Lynn’s experience and what it’s like to fall in love, abroad. We’ll also be serving light bites.

This event is co-hosted by The Riveter (Capital Hill). The Riveter is a national membership network of community, content, resources and coworking spaces, built by women for everyone.

Tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kc-podcast-listening-party-loving-lynn-tickets-67542817385

Reclaiming History: A Panel - Brick and Mortar Book Store
2019-08-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Brick and Mortar Bookstore, 7430 164th Ave NE - Suite B105, Redmond, WA, 98052, United States
Brick and Mortar will be hosting a panel at the end of summer on Reclaiming History, delving into a range of subjects on the myriad ways marginalized people are erased and why that matters in our fiction.
There will be a brilliant group of panelists whose work all touches on this subject in different ways: Olivia Waite (The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics), Somaiya Daud (Mirage), Lauren Dane (Whiskey Sharp series), Jasmine Silvera (Grace Bloods series), and A.J. Hackwith (The Library of the Unwritten).
From forgotten queer and black history to the erasure of women’s work throughout history in artistic and scientific fields, we hope you’ll join us in interrogating the ways our society has deliberately chosen to remember and represent its history and what that means for us today, in our world and in our stories.

Arabs in Seattle Meetup
2019-08-28 17:00 - 18:30 | WA
Rotating Monthly Coffee

Hosted by Maryam

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Every 4th Wednesday of the month

Ahlan! This group is for people in Seattle who are Arab, half-Arab, or their great-great-grandmother was 12.5% from somewhere in the region. It’s also a group for you if you’re dating or married to someone from the Middle East, or you just really really love kunafa and want to hang out. Whether you were born and raised in Washington or you’re a fresh expat looking to meet new people, let’s plan some get-togethers. Welcome!
For more info/location click here: https://www.meetup.com/Arabs-in-Seattle/events/pnbrwpyzlblc/

Wakhtiyo Sheeko Oo Soomali Ah (Somali Story Time)
2019-08-27 18:30 - 19:00 | Seattle Public Library – New Holly Branch, 7058 32nd Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
It is Somali Story Time at the New Holly Branch! Bring your children to enjoy stories, rhymes and fun in Somali.

This event repeats weekly!

World Language Story Time King County Library - Arabic
2019-08-26 11:00 - 11:30 | King County Library System – Redmond, 15990 NE 85th Street Redmond WA 98052, Redmond, WA, 98032, United States
World Language Story Times
Family program, all ages welcome.
Come for an interactive Story Time in Arabic that includes Early Literacy fun with books, songs and finger plays. Speakers of all languages welcome.
This event repeats every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Redmond Library.

Arabic Story Time/أوقات قراءة القصة العربية

Monday, August 26, 2019 (11:00AM – 11:30AM)
Monday, September 9, 2019 (11:00AM-11:30AM)

Monday, September 23, 2o19 (11:00AM-11:30AM)

Monday, October 14, 2019 (11:00AM-11:30AM)
Monday, October 28, 2o19 (11:00AM-11:30AM)

Monday, November 25, 2019 (11:00AM-11:30AM)
Monday, December 9, 2019 (11:00AM-11:30AM)
Monday, December 23, 2019 (11:00AM-11:30AM)

Samia at Thing Festival in Port Townsend
2019-08-25 - 2019-08-27 | Fort Warden State Park, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend, WA, 98368, 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.

Sudan Archives at Thing Festival in Port Townsend
2019-08-25 | Fort Warden State Park, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend, WA, 98368, United States
Violinist and vocalist, Sudan Archives writes, plays, and produces her own music. Drawing inspiration from Sudanese fiddlers, she is self-taught on the violin, and her unique songs also fold in elements of R&B, and experimental electronic music.
Sudan Archives grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she “messed around with instruments in the house” and took up violin in the fourth grade, eventually teaching herself how to play the instrument by ear. When she discovered the violin playing style of Northeast Africa, her eyes opened to the possibilities of the instrument. “The way they played it was different from classical music. I resonated with the style, and I was like, ‘Maybe I can use this style with electronic music,'” she says.
This fusing of folk music and electronic production was the turning point for Sudan. “I started mixing my violin into beats,” she says, “It wasn’t complicated — I’d just sing straight into the iPad.” She honed her at-home style after moving to Los Angeles aged 19 to study music technology, and after a chance encounter at a Low End Theory party with Stones Throw A&R and Leaving Records owner Matthewdavid, she signed with Stones Throw. At the very start of her musical career, she’s already won plaudits from the likes of the New York Times and Pitchfork, and played live at experimental festival Moogfest.
Her EP Sudan Archives is an extraordinary debut statement from a singular artist. Over six tracks, Sudan Archives layers harmonies, violin figures and ethereal vocals, grounding them all with the hip-hop beats.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesudanarchives
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Bedouine at Thing Festival in Port Townsend
2019-08-24 | Fort Warden State Park, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend, WA, 98368, United States
Azniv’s experience of life is extraordinary. She was born in Aleppo, Syria, and swiftly moved to Saudi Arabia where she did most of her growing up until the age of ten. Her family won a Green Card Lottery and she went to an American school and lived in an ex-pat community. Her dad was a singer and would play traditional Armenian and Arabic music at home but Azniv didn’t make the connection in familial passion there until she was much older. “My music sounds so traditionally American and I’m not sure how that happened,” she offers, recalling that it wasn’t until her twenties that she discovered ’60s folk music and picked up a guitar.
She certainly never believed that music could be a career. Serving more as a healing process than any kind of professional pursuit she worked in sound design in her own little slice of Hollywood (incidentally, where she met Gus) and wrote and wrote, and from this well of songs, she’s now arrived at more than two albums. “All my work is on the front end,” she says. “All I can do is make sure I’m doing my best, putting my best foot forward, and honoring my emotional experience, but what it does in the end can’t matter as much.” For Bedouine, the songs have already served their healing purpose. Now it’s time for them to move others.
Bird Songs of a Killjoy follows her 2017 self-titled debut album via Spacebomb Records to widespread critical acclaim including a 5/5 The Independent album review and features everywhere from Vogue and Rolling Stone to The FADERand Stereogum. In the last year, she has toured alongside Fleet Foxes, Kevin Morby, Jose Gonzalez, Father John Misty, Michael Kiwanuka, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Waxahatchee and Real Estate with sold-out headline show at New York City’s Joe’s Pub (“she sounds like a future legend — the sort of musician one will later wish to have seen back when, at a small performance like this Thursday-night show.” – New York Times).
This second album continues her creative partnership with Gus Seyffert (Beck, Michael Kiwanuka) who she met when working as a sound engineer in LA. “It’s called Bird Songs of a Killjoy, and I’m the killjoy,” Azniv grins. She describes the sometime perception of herself as a curmudgeon and a depressive. “Dare I say – a difficult woman,” she continues, laughing. “I’m taking ownership of that stereotype, proudly. The music itself however, is the farthest from curmudgeonly or depressive as could be. It’s a soundtrack to Spring blossom, to warm air on skin, to the concept of possibility.”
Amazingly, despite the successes since her debut release, Bird Songs of a Killjoy rejects any pressures to be some kind of grand evolution from before. When her self-titled debut came out in the summer of 2017, Azniv was entirely unknown, and wasn’t necessarily looking to change that. The album she wrote in her free time while dealing with some emotional trauma and locking herself away in her house, was an exercise in diarizing, in expression without expectations. Some of the songs on this second effort were from that same time period of fruitful creativity. This time however, there was more effort to concentrate on a cohesive beginning, middle and end. It was her biggest challenge, and it paid off. This is more than a mere collection of songs, and for that reason, includes a reprise of one song and features re-occurring musical motifs and hidden tracks.
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Bedouine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BedouineMusic/

Nubian Stories- The Scratch Seattle Workshop Series
2019-08-22 19:30 - 21:30, 2019-08-20 19:30 - 21:30 | 18th and Union Arts Space, 1406 18th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Nubian Stories
As part of The Scratch Seattle Workshop Series.
Nuba, a Nubian woman who was forcibly relocated from her village in the south of Egypt due to its intentional flooding for the construction of the Aswan High Dam, tells the story of her people through her own incredible biography as well as through the ancient Nubian folkloric tales she grew up with. Based on a true story, Nubian Stories is a play about loss and legacy set simultaneously in the past and present. It transports us to the village for a brief moment and makes us realize how far we are from a not-so-distant history that is being erased.
Nabra Nelson is a theatre creator and community organizer from Nubia, Egypt, and California. She is also the Director of Arts Engagement at Seattle Rep. Playwriting credits include: Induced Labor (ReOrient 2019 honorable mention, Golden Thread Productions), Creation Gossip and Lillith (Heard Space Arts Collective), Nubian Stories (Br!NK New Play Festival, Renaissance Theaterworks), and Minute to Minute and Le Serious Shit (MultiCultural Drama Company). Directing credits include: BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) (Renaissance Theaterworks), 26 Miles (UW-Milwaukee), Rep Lab 2016 & 2017 (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Exile From The Land Of Gold (Tessellate Festival), and Death And The Kings Horseman (reading, American Players Theatre). Dramaturgy credits include: The Who & The What (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Br!NK New Play Festival 2016 & 2017 (Renaissance Theaterworks), and A Midsummer Nights Dream (Naked Shakes).
Mona Mohi Eddin Hassan Sherif Ali Ahmed Dawood Khalil Debbabea Kakea, also known as Mona Sherif-Nelson, is the founder of the Nubian Foundation for Preferving a Cultural Heritage and the daughter and the heir of Nubia’s cultural leader Mohi Eddin Sherif. She is the mother of Nabrashaa Michael Bennion Clifford Roy Nelson and Shamseddin Michael Bennion Clifford Roy Nelson. She has spent a lifetime studying, documenting, preserving Fadijja Nubian culture and heritage. Mrs. Nelson worked as an Arabic Language Instructor in the International Language Institute (ILI) of Cairo, Egypt and in the Royal Army Institute in the UK. Mrs. Nelson is a member of the Garden Society in Los Angeles, the Nubian Club and the Nubian Preservation Society in Egypt, and the Nubian Document Center in London. Mona is a native-born Nubian-Egyptian and is steeped in Nubian culture. She believes it is her responsibility to keep this vibrant, inspiring culture alive and to share it with people in America and everywhere.
https://thescratch.org/nubianstories
SUGGESTED DONATION | $5-10
bit.ly/TheScratchFundraiser2019

Wakhtiyo Sheeko Oo Soomali Ah (Somali Story Time)
2019-08-20 18:30 - 19:00, 2019-08-13 18:30 - 19:00, 2019-08-06 18:30 - 19:00 | Seattle Public Library – New Holly Branch, 7058 32nd Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
It is Somali Story Time at the New Holly Branch! Bring your children to enjoy stories, rhymes and fun in Somali.

Triggerwords + UbuludU + Maya Marie at the High Dive
2019-08-18 20:00 - 2019-08-19 02:00 | High Dive, 513 N 36th St., Seattle, WA, United States
Triggerwords + UbuludU + Maya Marie
Triggerwords Band Members Include:

Mohammad Badeges – Vocals
Kieran Harrison – Guitar
Novatron – Beats

Their music is elements of atmospheric vapor fizzling into electro-rock pop.

Check them out here: https://www.facebook.com/triggerwordsmusic/

Doors: 8:00 PM (ends at 2:00 AM)
21 and over
$5 advance / $8 day of show

Click here for tickets: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1875050?utm_medium=ampOfficialEvent&utm_source=fbTfly

Kaleidoscope Play and Learn - Somali
2019-08-16 10:00 - 12:00 | King County Library System – Tukwila, 14380 Tukwila International Boulevard, Tukwila, WA, 98168, United States
Ages 0-5 with parent or caregiver.
Have fun singing songs, telling stories, reading books, creating art and playing. Kaleidoscope Play & Learn is in Somali and English. The facilitator is bilingual in English and Somali.
Ilmaha hada dhashay ilaa 5jir iyowaalidkood
Heeso, sheekoyin, buug akhrin, iyo farshaxan suubis ilmaha Macallimadu waxey ku hadasha laba luqadood oo Ingiriis ah iyo Soomaali.

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Kaleidoscope Play and Learn – Somali

World Language Story Time King County Library - Arabic
2019-08-12 11:00 - 11:30 | King County Library System – Redmond, 15990 NE 85th Street Redmond WA 98052, Redmond, WA, 98032, United States
World Language Story Times at the Redmond Library with Laila from ArabishWay
Family program, all ages welcome.
We’ll read some fabulous books in Arabic that will be familiar to kids (the Hungry Caterpillar, Pete the Cat!) and we’ll sing some songs and play some games and take home a craft!
Sponsored by the Friends of the Redmond Library.

Arabic Story Time/أوقات قراءة القصة العربية

Arab Festival Hafla
2019-08-10 20:00 - 23:00 | Seattle Center – Fisher Pavilion, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
The 2019 Seattle Arab Festival Special Event:
Saturday Night Hafla, August 10th, 2019
8:00 pm to midnight.
(At Fisher Pavilion Stage, Pre-Paid Tickets at $25.00 each and $10.00 for kids ages 3-12)
Music and Dance Hafla with:
Comedian Amer Zahr, Moroccan Singer Imane Karkibou with MB Orchestra, and Lebanese Star George Jabbour, with Naseem Band.
For tickets go to tiny.cc/qdzy9y
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Wakhtiyo Sheeko Oo Soomali Ah (Somali Story Time)
2019-08-10 17:00 - 17:30 | Seattle Public Library – Rainier Beach, 9125 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98118, United States

Arab Festival - Seattle Center Festál
2019-08-10 11:00 - 22:00 | Seattle Center, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
The Seattle Arab Festival (SAF), located in Washington State, is a new non-profit organization established in 2018. SAF succeeds the Arab Center of Washington, which was the founder and official sponsor of The Arab Festival, a biennial event held at Seattle Center since 1999.
Seattle Center Festál in partnership with the organization Seattle Arab Festival (SAF) presents the Seattle Arab Festival, August 10th and 11th at the Seattle Center.
Head to the Seattle Center and be transported to the Arab world. Come and savor traditional Arab foods, drinks, and desserts inside and outside the Fisher Pavilion. We will have a wide array of local and national vendors with fabulous products from or about the Arab world. And all throughout you will be delighted by Arabic music, singing, dancing and other stage performances. We promise there will be something for all ages to enjoy!
This event is free and open to the public.

Kaleidoscope Play and Learn - Somali
2019-08-09 10:00 - 12:00 | King County Library System – Tukwila, 14380 Tukwila International Boulevard, Tukwila, WA, 98168, United States
Ages 0-5 with parent or caregiver.
Have fun singing songs, telling stories, reading books, creating art and playing. Kaleidoscope Play & Learn is in Somali and English. The facilitator is bilingual in English and Somali.
Ilmaha hada dhashay ilaa 5jir iyowaalidkood
Heeso, sheekoyin, buug akhrin, iyo farshaxan suubis ilmaha Macallimadu waxey ku hadasha laba luqadood oo Ingiriis ah iyo Soomaali.

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Kaleidoscope Play and Learn – Somali
Friday, August 16, 2019 (10:00AM – 12:00PM)

Majd Mashharawi with Rania Qawasma at Elliott Bay
2019-08-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, 98122, United States
Majd Mashharawi with Rania Qawasma

Rescheduled after a planned visit earlier this year was scuttled by visa issues, community entrepreneur Majd Mashhawari is here from her home in Gaza, Palestine where she is an engineer, the CEO of GreenCake, a startup that manufactures bricks from recycled materials, and has also helped develop a off-the-grid solar power kit called SunBox. She will discuss developments and the situation in Gaza, and will be joined in conversation here by Rania Qawasma, Seattle architect, founder of Architecture for Refugees USA and a board member of Architects Without Borders. Fast Company cited Majd Mashhawari as one of the Most Creative People in Business for 2018.
Co-presented with ARCHITECTURE FOR REFUGEES USA and ARCHITECTS WITHOUT BORDERS.

Arab Festival of Seattle Picnic
2019-08-04 15:00 - 22:00 | Magnuson Park – Shelter 1, 7400 Sandpoint Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, United States
Everyone bring a potluck side dish (salad, fruits, veggies, etc.) and your drinks.
They will have the charcoal, meat, plates, utensils, napkins, cups, garbage bags and ice.
If you have an ice bucket, please bring those with you!
And bring your musical instruments, let’s have a party and enjoy!

The Palestinian Table with Nadia Tommalieh
2019-08-04 10:30 - 13:30 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
The Palestinian Table

Laden with spices and brimming with flavor, many Palestinian dishes are centered around tradition and community. Join Nadia Tommalieh as she shows you how to bring these concepts to your table as you create a beautiful, bountiful Middle Eastern feast. You’ll make classic smooth hummus; salatet al raheb (roasted eggplant with pomegranate molasses); pita chips; sayadieh (shrimp and fish rice pilaf) with fried pine nuts, caramelized onions, and tahini sauce; salatah fallahia(Palestinian farmer’s salad with tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, and sumac); and layali lubnan(creamy semolina pudding topped with crushed pistachios and orange blossom syrup).

You can follow her work on Instagram: @nadiatommalieh

Comedian Mo Amer at the Neptune
2019-08-03 18:30 - 21:30 | Neptune, 1303 Northeast 45th Street, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
STG Presents Mo Amer at The Neptune on Saturday, August 3, 2019.
Mo Amer is an Arab American stand up comedian and writer of Palestinian descent, known for his iconic work with the comedy troupe “Allah Made Me Funny” – the longest running artistic collective of Muslim comic performers in the world.

Saturday, August 3, 2019
Doors at 6:30 pm
Show at 7:30 pm
General Admission Seating
All Ages / Bar with I.D.
$23.49 general admission seating
$43.49 VIP M&G
(not including fees)

To Purchase By Phone:
1-800-982-2787

The Palestinian Table with Nadia Tommalieh
2019-08-03 10:30 - 13:30 | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
The Palestinian Table

Laden with spices and brimming with flavor, many Palestinian dishes are centered around tradition and community. Join Nadia Tommalieh as she shows you how to bring these concepts to your table as you create a beautiful, bountiful Middle Eastern feast. You’ll make classic smooth hummus; salatet al raheb (roasted eggplant with pomegranate molasses); pita chips; sayadieh (shrimp and fish rice pilaf) with fried pine nuts, caramelized onions, and tahini sauce; salatah fallahia(Palestinian farmer’s salad with tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, and sumac); and layali lubnan(creamy semolina pudding topped with crushed pistachios and orange blossom syrup).
You can follow Nadia on Instagram: @nadiatommalieh
