ArabishWay

The Pantry: Egyptian Street Food
2025-05-28 18:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
Join Nadia Tommalieh as she embarks on a culinary journey to the vibrant streets of Egypt! In this class you’ll dive into the world of kushari, a popular dish of rice, lentils, pasta, and chickpeas, topped with a spiced tomato sauce and crispy fried onions. No exploration of Egyptian street food is complete without ful medames—a hearty stew made from slow-cooked dried fava beans, herbs, and lemon. Also on the menu: feteer meshaltet, a flaky pastry that showcases the mastery of Egyptian baking. You’ll bake two versions of this dough: a savory one, and a sweet one with nuts, coconuts, and raisins. You’ll complete your culinary adventure with Sobia, a refreshing street drink made from coconut milk, rice, and rosewater, whose taste will transport you to the shores of the Nile.

SAFF Monthly Film: Red Path
2025-05-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
MAY SCREENING: Red Path by Lotfi Achour
🗓️ Wednesday, May 28, 7PM PDT at the @nwfilmforum
🎟️ Tickets available (link in bio)
“Based on a true story, Red Path is a dreamlike journey into the wounded psyche of a child and his incredible ability to overcome trauma. Set in Mghila Mountain, Tunisia, November 2015.”
Red Path premiered in 2024 at the Locarno Film Festival, won the audience award at the Vanguard Competition of the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Golden Tanit, the Grand Prize at the 35th Carthage Film Festival.
#RedPath #LesEnfantsRouges #LotfiAchour #TunisianCinema#Tunisia #Arabcinema #ComingofAge #SAFF2025 #Seattle#Washington

Words for Palestine
2025-05-29 16:00 - 17:15 | Virtual
Join our monthly online series “Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers TBA.
“Words For Palestine” is co-sponsored by Al Nadwa Freethinking Society, Mizna, Palestine Writes and RAWI, and is free with RSVP. We encourage you to make a donation to support the work of Palestine Legal and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Palestine Legal is an organization dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom. PCRF is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine, providing crucial and life-saving relief and humanitarian aid in Gaza.
For questions, e-mail Rewa Zeinati at rzeinati@accesscommunity.org

Arabic English Language Exchange Meetup: Chatting and Games at Lune Cafe
2025-05-29 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-06-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Lune Cafe, Lune Cafe 107 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98104
Details:
أهلا يا جماعه
هنلتقي في Lune Cafe ونتكلم بالعربي او انجليزي وممكن نلعب حاجه كمان. هاجيب معايا مواضيع للنقاش وطوله وألعاب كروت وممكن تجيبوا ألعابكو كمان
نرحب بكل اللهجات العربيه والمستويات الإنكليزيه
We’ll meet at Lune Cafe for some chatting in Arabic/English and possibly some games. I’ll bring conversation starters and games but feel free to bring your own!
All dialects and English levels welcome!
Come join us, all dialects welcome!

Comedian Abbas Wahab
2025-05-29 20:00 - 22:00 | Laughs Comedy Club, 5220 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Comedian Abbas Wahab, 18+ yrs of age & older, with doors at 7pm. There is a2 item minimum menu purchase, full bar available.

Seffarine: Benefit for the People of Gaza
2025-05-30 19:30 - 21:30 | First Unitarian Portland, 1211 SW Main St, Portland, OR, 97205
Fundraiser concert for Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. Join us for an unforgettable evening of music, laughter, and solidarity with the people of Gaza featuring: The internationally acclaimed ensemble Seffarine, whose lush vocals and energetic rhythms . . .
Fundraiser concert for Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.

Webinar on Anti-Palestinian Racism
2025-05-31 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual
The Institute for the Understanding of Anti-Palestinian Racism is hosting a virtual educational webinar on Anti-Palestinian Racism.

Here are the details:
Title: Understanding Anti-Palestinian Racism in a Time of Fear
Date: May 31, 2025
Time: 10am-11:30am PST/1pm-2:30pm EST
How to sign up: Registration link!

Our goal is to educate, raise awareness and empower people to approach their own organizations and institutions to address this form of racism.

I’ve attached the flyer as well. We are asking people to limit their posting about the webinar to groups or individuals that would benefit from this form of education and/or are interested in fighting this form of racism but please do spread the word!

Hope to see you there!

You can find out more about our research on anti-Palestinian racism here.

This is a free webinar, and while there is no charge to attend, we welcome donations to support the ongoing work of IUAPR. You may donate here.

Ya Hala Cafe and Retail Space: Ya Hala Mornings
2025-05-31 10:00 - 13:00 | Suzanne Zahr, Art & Architecture, 2441 76th Ave SE, Ste 160, Mercer Island, WA, 98040, United States
Remember, Ya Hala’s café and retail space is open to all
📣 IMPORTANT: Some events will require registration/RSVP so you can save a spot!
Take a look ahead at the calendar and then keep an eye out for links to sign up for specific events. You won’t want to miss out.
More details about each weekend’s events will drop on the Monday before. 👀

Tattoo & Mehndi Fundraiser
2025-05-31 11:00 - 19:00 | Lilith Tattoo, 2006 E Union Street, Unit 1, Seattle, WA, 98122
Save the date for tattoo, mehndi, and sweet treats on Saturday May 31st 11-7pm at @lilithtattooseattle !
Artists + vendors will be donating 20-100% of their proceeds to fundraise for @sudansolidaritycollective and @waterislifegaza
Sign up form + flash sheets will be released in less than 2 weeks! Throw your tattoo/mehndi flash sheet design ideas in the comments below!

Ya Hala Cafe and Retail Space: Hakawati Hour: Critical Conversations: Karam Dana
2025-05-31 13:00 - 15:00 | Suzanne Zahr, Art & Architecture, 2441 76th Ave SE, Ste 160, Mercer Island, WA, 98040, United States
Karam Dana will discuss his book I Stand with Palestine
Remember, Ya Hala’s café and retail space is open to all
📣 IMPORTANT: Some events will require registration/RSVP so you can save a spot!
Take a look ahead at the calendar and then keep an eye out for links to sign up for specific events. You won’t want to miss out.
More details about each weekend’s events will drop on the Monday before. 👀

Kitsap Solidarity Presents: One Family in Gaza
2025-05-31 16:30 - 17:30 | Bainbridge Island Senior/Community Center, 370 Brien Dr. SE, Bainbridge Island, WA, 98110
An original play by Crystal Zevon
Based on texts from Yasser in Gaza
In November 2023, Crystal Zevon, a longtime activist for Palestine, began a text conversation with a young 33 year old Palestinian man in Gaza. Yasser is a civil engineer, a husband and the father of three young children under the age of seven. For more than a year, and continuing, Yasser and Crystal have exchanged texts, photos and videos on almost a daily basis. These unedited texts create the basis for telling the poignant, terrifying, and sometimes joyful story of one family’s struggle to survive through a genocide. Yasser’s texts are juxtaposed against news items of corresponding dates, and the thoughts and feelings of someone living in comfort and safety oceans away.
One Family in Gaza is a play about simply that – One Family in Gaza .
The objective for creating this play is three-fold:

To offer a play that is profound in its reliance on the truths disclosed through a relationship grounded in the reality of two distant and distinct realities, yet a play so simple that anyone can perform it anywhere – from a dining room table reading to a staged performance.

To humanize Palestinians by creating a relationship with one family whose loves, fears, hopes and dreams are not unlike yours.

To motivate those who see the play to continue the discussion, to delve beneath the media’s glossing over of a genocide and take action to expose it.
It is through identification with the basic human truths revealed in the daily life of one family that we can and must create change.

More information to come (please check website)

Ya Hala Cafe and Retail Space: Ya Hala Kids
2025-06-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Suzanne Zahr, Art & Architecture, 2441 76th Ave SE, Ste 160, Mercer Island, WA, 98040, United States
Cafe
Remember, Ya Hala’s café and retail space is open to all
📣 IMPORTANT: Some events will require registration/RSVP so you can save a spot!
Take a look ahead at the calendar and then keep an eye out for links to sign up for specific events. You won’t want to miss out.
More details about each weekend’s events will drop on the Monday before. 👀

Ya Hala Cafe and Retail Space
2025-06-01 13:00 - 15:00 | Suzanne Zahr, Art & Architecture, 2441 76th Ave SE, Ste 160, Mercer Island, WA, 98040, United States

وقت القصص العربية لعيد الأضحى Eid al-Adha Arabic Story Time - KCLS
2025-06-04 17:00 - 17:30 | Virtual
وقت القصص العربية لعيد الأضحى Eid al-Adha Arabic Story Time

Saturday, June 14, 11:30am–12:00pm

Online event

احتفلوا معنا بعيد الأضحى! شاركونا بالاستماع إلى قصص ممتعة وأنشطة ثقافية هادفة لجميع الأعمار. استمتعوا بالقصص والموسيقى والحركة والأناشيد باللغة العربية لدعم مهارات أطفالكم المبكرة في القراءة والكتابة
Celebrate Eid al-Adha

A Night with Mx. Yaffa: Conversation // Reading // Book Signing
2025-06-04 17:30 - 20:00 | SWANA Rose Culture + Community Center, 2942 NE MLK Jr. Boulevard, Portland, OR, 97203, United States
(Open to all, no registration required)
Join us in celebrating the release of Yaffa’s latest book, Sage. Sage is a poetry collection that acknowledges all transphobia is systemic but the pain of everyday interpersonal violence is still felt in our bones. A collection that highlights challenges and joy within interpersonal relationships from the perspective of a queer and trans Palestinian living at the margins of displacement, disability, immigration & ongoing genocide. Sage is a beacon of light, shedding light to wounds that have festered and rotted, and finding the paths forward as fascism claims more of who we are.
Available now in ebook and print!
The CSPP Library will be open! Get a library card, check out + return a book, and support the only community run SWANA Library.
Books will be for sale along with prints, shirts + herbal medicine from the community.
All proceeds go to Trans folks most affected by ongoing gen0cides.
Masks provided and required at @swanarosepdx – community care is a verb

Virtual Lecture: Tatreez Symbolisms Interpreting Meaning in Palestinian Embroidery Motifs & Al Naksa
2025-06-06 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Virtual Lecture: Tatreez Symbolisms Interpreting Meaning in Palestinian Embroidery Motifs & Al Naksa 🗓 Friday, June 6, 2025 ⏰ 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST 📍 Online (Zoom link sent 24 hours prior) 🎟 Sliding scale registration 👤 Instructor: Wafa Ghnaim, Dress Historian & Educator
This lecture commemorates the Six-Day War (June 5–10, 1967), which began the ongoing Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem. In the wake of this seismic event, tatreez shifted in its meaning and function as a form cultural expression. From the intimate labor of individual women’s hands to the international recognition of Palestinian embroidery by UNESCO in 2021 as Intangible Cultural Heritage, tatreez continues to serve as a vessel of collective memory and a historical record of the Palestinian people.
Photograph by @m0nastic Chris Gale
🔗 Register at the link in bio
#Tatreez #PalestinianEmbroidery#AlNaksa #WafaGhnaim #artsed#arthistory

Play: Alice in Arabialand
2025-06-06 19:30 - 21:30 | Annex Theatre, Physical Address: 1100 E. Pike St. (11th Ave. at E. Pike St.), Seattle, WA, 98122
Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

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Ticketing and Box Office
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5
The box office opens 30 minutes before curtain.
Performances
Friday, June 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Monday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. (Industry Night)
Thursday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. (PWYC)
Friday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. (Closing Night)

Virtual Movie Screenings: Every Saturday with Palestine Museum US
2025-06-07 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Check website: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/events for current showings and for registration links!
Often the screening ends with a Q&A with the director!

Play: Alice in Arabialand
2025-06-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Annex Theatre, Physical Address: 1100 E. Pike St. (11th Ave. at E. Pike St.), Seattle, WA, 98122
Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

Buy Tickets

Ticketing and Box Office
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5
The box office opens 30 minutes before curtain.
Performances
Saturday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Monday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. (Industry Night)
Thursday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. (PWYC)
Friday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. (Closing Night)

Play: Alice in Arabialand
2025-06-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Annex Theatre, Physical Address: 1100 E. Pike St. (11th Ave. at E. Pike St.), Seattle, WA, 98122
Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

Buy Tickets

Ticketing and Box Office
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5
The box office opens 30 minutes before curtain.
Performances
Monday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. (Industry Night)
Thursday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. (PWYC)
Friday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. (Closing Night)

Play: Alice in Arabialand
2025-06-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Annex Theatre, Physical Address: 1100 E. Pike St. (11th Ave. at E. Pike St.), Seattle, WA, 98122
Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

Buy Tickets

Ticketing and Box Office
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5
The box office opens 30 minutes before curtain.
Performances
Thursday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. (PWYC)
Friday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. (Closing Night)

Play: Alice in Arabialand
2025-06-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Annex Theatre, Physical Address: 1100 E. Pike St. (11th Ave. at E. Pike St.), Seattle, WA, 98122
Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

Buy Tickets

Ticketing and Box Office
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5
The box office opens 30 minutes before curtain.
Performances
Friday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. (Closing Night)

Author Safa Suleiman: Hilwa's Gifts
2025-06-14 11:30 - 13:00 | Register for Location
Author Safa Suleiman will be doing an introduction, reading of the book and Q&A with kiddos.
In Bellevue! Please register for location

Play: Alice in Arabialand
2025-06-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Annex Theatre, Physical Address: 1100 E. Pike St. (11th Ave. at E. Pike St.), Seattle, WA, 98122
Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

Buy Tickets

Ticketing and Box Office
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5
The box office opens 30 minutes before curtain.
Performances
Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. (Closing Night)

Author Event: Hala Alyan w/ Gabrielle Bates
2025-06-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, 98122, United States
Hala Alyan w/ Gabrielle Bates
Thursday June 19th, 2025 @ 7:00PM – 8:00 PM

Award-winning Palestinian American poet and novelist Hala Alyan discusses her debut memoir, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, in which Alyan’s experience of motherhood via surrogacy forces her to reckon with her own past, and the legacy of her family’s exile and displacement, all in the name of a new future. She’s joined alongside poet Gabrielle Bates.
To help us anticipate audience size, please RSVP here!
After a decade of yearning for parenthood, years marked by miscarriage after miscarriage, Hala Alyan makes the decision to use a surrogate. In this charged time, she turns to the archetype of the waiting woman—the Scheherazade who tells stories to ensure another dawn—to confront her own narratives of motherhood, love, and inheritance.
As her baby grows in the body of another woman, in another country, Hala finds her own life unraveling—a husband who wants to leave; the cost of past traumas and addictions threatening to resurface; the city of her youth, Beirut, on the brink of crisis. She turns to family stories and communal myths: of grandmothers mapping their lives through Palestine, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon; of eradicated villages and invading armies; of places of refuge that proved only temporary; of men that left and women that stayed; of the contradictions of her own Midwestern childhood, and adolescence in various Arab cities.
Meanwhile, as the baby grows from the size of a poppyseed to a grain of rice, then a lime, and beyond, Hala gathers the stories that are her legacy, setting down the ones that confine, holding close those that liberate. It is emotionally charged, painstaking work, but now the stakes are higher: how to honor ancestors and future generations alike in the midst of displacement? How to impart love for those who are no longer here, for places one can no longer touch?
A stunningly lyrical and brutally honest quest for motherhood, selfhood, and peoplehood, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home is a powerful story of unraveling and becoming, of destruction and redemption, and of homelands lost and recreated.
Hala Alyan is the author of the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists’ City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.
Gabrielle Bates‘s poetry collection Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023) was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR and Electric Lit and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. In addition to freelance writing and editing, she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium; co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon; and serves occasionally as faculty for the University of Washington Rome Center, the Tin House Writers’ Workshops, and Brooklyn Poets. The recipient of support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Artist Trust, her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Believer, Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. www.gabriellebat.es

Farah Siraj at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival
2025-06-20 14:00 - 16:00 | West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr, West Vancouver, British Columbia, V7V 1J8, Canada
Vivacious Jordanian flamenco-jazz artist Farah Siraj has sung in English, Arabic, and Spanish on some of the world’s most prestigious stages, such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre, and at events like the Nobel Prize Awards, World Economic Forum, and United Nations World Peace Day. The singer-songwriter and guitarist leads an ethnically diverse quartet of musicians from the Middle East, Europe, United States, and South America.
Presented in association with North Shore Jazz.
Special thanks to West Vancouver Memorial Library.

Ground Zero
2025-06-20 17:30 - 20:30 | First United Methodist Church (Oak Harbor), 1050 SE Ireland St, Oak Harbor, WA, 98277
FREE MOVIE SCREENING in OAK HARBOR!
Experience a night of powerful storytelling and community spirit in support of one Palestinian family. Be in community and watch “From Ground Zero” on Friday, June 20th (doors open 5:30pm) at First United Methodist Church in Oak Harbor, WA.
Free entry and refreshments! RSVP for tickets using the link in bio 🍉

Yoga for Palestine
2025-06-21 14:00 - 15:30 | Studio in Bellingham, 1412 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham, WA, 98225
Use this link to sign up:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe07z62brmX2jPePxY5JPsUJUHPPBYvXBASaw0y48Y1Ud9TJQ/viewform

Tatreez Workshop
2025-06-21 18:00 - 21:00 | UW – the Quad, Pierce Ln, Seattle, WA, 98195
Mark your calendars! Come join us for a fun workshop where you will learn about the significance of Tatreez in Palestinian culture and how to stitch your own design!
Please RSVP with the link in bio!
Hope to see you there!
#tatreez #tatreezembroidery #tatreezandtea#tatreezworkshop #tatreezdesign #freepalesti̇ne
