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وقت القصة باللغة العربية / Arabic Story Time - KCLS
2026-07-09 17:00 - 17:30, 2026-07-16 17:00 - 17:30, 2026-07-23 17:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Enjoy stories, music, movement and rhymes in Arabic that develop your child’s early literacy skills, then stay to play, have fun and make new friends.
All ages welcome.

وقت القصة باللغة العربية
!انضموا إلينا في وقت القصة باللغة العربية عبر الإنترنت، كل يوم خميس من الساعة 5:00 مساءً حتى 5:30 مساءً
.تمتعوا بالقصص العربية، والحركات المفعمة بالحيوية، والأناشيد التي تهدف إلى تنمية مهارات القراءة والكتابة…

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Rainbow Story Time (online) w/ Lindz Amer
2026-07-10 11:00 - 11:30, 2026-07-17 11:00 - 11:30, 2026-07-24 11:00 - 11:30 | Virtual
Join Lindz Amer, the award-winning LGBTQ+ activist, author and co-host of the beloved indie web series, Queer Kid Stuff, for songs and stories that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community all-year-round.
All ages welcome with adult.
Please register:
https://kcls.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdOuqpzssGtC5XlvnFdvIAD2bwlBzP-RA

Weekly Peace Vigil
2026-07-10 16:30 - 18:00, 2026-07-17 16:30 - 18:00, 2026-07-24 16:30 - 18:00 | Percival Landing, 217 Thurston Ave NW, Olympia, WA, 98501
ONGOING LOCAL ACTIONS FOR PEACE

WEEKLY PEACE VIGIL
Every Friday 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Percival Landing in Downtown Olympia
4th & Water Street

We continue to vigil, network, and advocate for Palestinians, for peace with justice, and for our civil rights. Despite an agreed ceasefire, Israel continues to attack Gaza. Bring a sign and a friend, and join us at Percival Landing every Friday!
Thanks to the Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation for organizing these peace vigils through the years, and for inviting us to share this space as we advocate for peace.

Summer Sahras
2026-07-10 18:00 - 21:00, 2026-07-17 18:00 - 21:00 | Register for Location
Not every gathering is about the occasion. Sometimes it’s about the stories shared with an old friend or someone new, or the simple comfort of being surrounded by people who make a house feel like home.
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In a heartbreaking world that moves quickly, gatherings remind us to slow down, regroup and create moments to hold on to.
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Summer Sahras (gatherings) at Suzanne’s home on Mercer Island will be Fridays, July 10, 17 & 31, 6-9PM. Bring a plate to share, clippings from your garden for a centerpiece bouquet and/or an instrument to play. Suzanne has a piano & darbuka!
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Ya Hala will be serving refreshing Spritzers for suggested donations. Will have cards, backgammon sets, and dominoes on hand, along with a houka or two… Goal is to pause, breathe and be together. Yalla, join us!
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DM Suzanne or Hala for location.

Virtual Movie Screenings: Every Saturday with Palestine Museum US
2026-07-11 09:00 - 11:00, 2026-07-18 09:00 - 11:00, 2026-07-25 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!

Arabic Storytime @ Lake City Branch / وقت القصص بالعربية في فرع ليك سيتي
2026-07-11 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-07-18 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-07-25 10:30 - 11:30 | Lake City – Seattle Public Library, 12501 28th Ave. N.E., Seattle, Washington, 98125, United States
At storytime, children from birth through elementary school and their families can enjoy stories, songs, and fun learning activities.
Event in English and Arabic.
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في وقت القصص، يمكن للأطفال الذين تتراوح أعمارهم من حديثي الولادة وحتى سن الخامسة وعائلاتهم الاستمتاع بالقصص والأغاني وأنشطة التعلُّم المرحة.
نرحب بالعائلات من جميع الأعمار.
يُعقد الحدث باللغة الإنجليزية والعربية.
Registration is not required.

JVP Health Advisory Council webinar: Palantir in Our Hospitals
2026-07-12 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual
JVP Health Advisory Council webinar 7/12
Palantir in Our Hospitals: How the company powering the Gaza genocide and ICE surveillance is rapidly expanding into healthcare
Featuring speakers from American Friends Service Committee, No Palantir in the NHS campaign, and National Nurses United
Date: Sunday, July 12, 2026
Time: 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern
Brief description: The same company enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza and powering ICE’s surveillance systems now manages 1 in 5 U.S. hospital beds. Join us to learn about Palantir’s rapid expansion into the healthcare sector and what we can do to stop it.
Did you know that Palantir uses multiple company names for their products and you may already be using Palantir???
sign up, just click on events on the tab at the top. https://www.jvphealth.org/events

LAND STEWARDSHIP PRACTICE: MAPES CREEK
2026-07-12 11:00 - 14:00 | Register for Location
WELCOME TO MAPES CREEK
A land and culture tending practice. An ongoing series to learn the process and be in relationship. Guided by indigenous and Social Forestry principals. In collaboration with Green Seattle Partnership 💚🌲

Trillium offers this justice-oriented container as an opportunity to build connections, learn, practice, heal, create, and weave resilient communities anchored in land and water.

Keffiyah Walk at Green lake!
2026-07-13 17:30, 2026-07-20 17:30 | Greenlake Boathouse and Coffee Shop, 7351 East Green Lake Dr N #5303, Seattle, WA, 98115, United States
Monday June 1st (and every Monday!)
5:30pm (They usually start walking counter clockwise at about 5:45pm)
Starting at the Greenlake Boathouse coffee shop

Comedian: Ali Sultan
2026-07-15 18:30 - 20:30 | Emerald City Comedy Club, 210 Broadway E, Seattle, WA, 98102
Ali Sultan saw his first stand-up comedian after moving to America from Yemen at the age of 15. He developed a desire to go on stage, but first, he needed to learn English.
Ali became the first Yemeni-Ethiopian American to make a stand-up television network debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He has appeared on Comedy Central’s Hart of the City with Kevin Hart and filmed his half-hour comedy special in Dubai for Comedy Central Arabia. He has been featured on Don’t Tell comedy sets. He also represented Minnesota and won the Best in the Midwest competition at Gilda’s LaughFest. His special from Dry Bar Comedy has received 1.8 million views on YouTube and he featured on Roots of Comedy on PBS.

Palestine Day at the Farm - Yelm
2026-07-18 | WA
Save the Date – Stay Tuned for more information

BIPOC: Wilderness Walk: Berries!
2026-07-18 12:00 - 12:30 | Register for Location
Summer berries are ripe! A wilderness walk focused on native berries, plant recognition, and indigenous food culture. Relational. Land-based. Politicized 🍒🍓🫐
As always, this is a container to honor land, connect, and expand towards justice and wellness for all.

I offer these walks in the greater context of engaging with the today’s crises: climate, ecological, and human people.
In our urban lives, hypnotized by modern culture, we are disconnected from what truly nurtures us. How can we care and prioritize something, someone from whom we are disconnected?
Wilderness is not only a place “out there, far from here”.
Wilderness is everywhere. In us, around us, and on a downtown concrete block.
When we got confused about how we are part and not apart, the destruction began.
The wilderness of our towns and cities diminished.
We have been blessed with the ability to witness this wilderness and be in choice about how to connect and nurture it.

Ride for Palestine
2026-07-19 | Register for Location
The Ride for Palestine is an annual fundraising project of the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA). MECA works to protect the lives, rights, and well-being of children in Palestine and refugee camps in Lebanon. After over 78 years of ethnic cleansing, displacement, and attacks on their lives and livelihoods, Palestinians remain steadfast on their land and fiercely committed to the cause of freedom and liberation. Riding is an act of solidarity with Palestinian communities as they struggle to protect their children’s lives and their culture from erasure.
Not in the Bay Area, or can’t attend? No problem! You can still be a part of the movement by organizing your own Ride – or any activity. Choose your own adventure!
Ride for Palestine encourages you to participate however you are able, and welcomes the support of friends from all over in raising funds for families in Palestine, in the fight against occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing working to uproot Palestinians.
To participate, purchase a Ride from Anywhere ticket under Solo Riders, Join an Existing Team or Create a New Team on the Register Now page.

Tree Tuesdays
2026-07-21 10:00 - 12:30 | Register for Location
We learn how to care for them and tend the plants that love to climb them! Sometimes too much 😅
Depending on the season, we also practice tree planting, pruning, harvesting, and soil tending.
This a land and culture tending practice. An ongoing series to learn the process and be in relationship. Guided by indigenous and Social Forestry principals. In collaboration with Green Seattle Partnership

Chef Hend Yahya at Columbia City
2026-07-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Columbia City Farmers Market, 37th Ave S & S Edmunds St, just off Rainier Ave S in South, Seattle, WA, 98118
Hend is amazing at simultaneously crafting delicious food and captivating a crowd of market goers with her knowledge. She is a true pro and PCC Markets and Whisk Bellevue Instructor and will always delight with her fresh and unique, often culturally inspired, choices. Don’t miss chatting with her. She is an excellent resource.
You can learn more about Hend on Instagram @yayacooksandtravels.
She will also be at the following Farmers Markets:

July 24 at Phinney
Chef Hend Yahya

Randa Tawil: 'Race in Transit: Tracing the Politics of Migration from Ottoman Syria through US Empire'
2026-07-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Third Place Books – Ravenna, 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, United States
The hope, struggle, and complexity of life on the move
Third Place Books welcomes University of Washington lecturer Randa Tawil to our Ravenna store for a conversation about her new book, Race in Transit: Tracing the Politics of Migration from Ottoman Syria through US Empire. Making migrants the agents of a world history that has too often relegated them to the sidelines, Race in Transit explores the social construction of race in the early twentieth century and its impacts on Syrian migrants to the United States. Maryam S. Griffin, author of Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank, joins in conversation.

This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
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Randa Tawil is a Palestinian-Lebanese researcher, writer, and lecturer at University of Washington in the Jackson School of International Studies. She holds a doctorate in American Studies from Yale University, and writes about migration, US empire, and the Middle East. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Margins, and Open Democracy, as well as scholarly journals.
Maryam S. Griffin is an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at University of Washington, Bothell. Broadly, her work examines people’s ordinary movements, both physical and political, and how they confront state power in quotidian and spectacular ways. She is the author of Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank, part of the Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality book series with Temple University Press, and the co-editor of We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics.

Chef Hend Yahya at Phinney Farmers Market
2026-07-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Phinney Farmers Market, 6532 Phinney Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98103
Hend is amazing at simultaneously crafting delicious food and captivating a crowd of market goers with her knowledge. She is a true pro and PCC Markets and Whisk Bellevue Instructor and will always delight with her fresh and unique, often culturally inspired, choices. Don’t miss chatting with her. She is an excellent resource.
You can learn more about Hend on Instagram @yayacooksandtravels.

A Mural for Ayşenur
2026-07-25 10:00 - 14:00 | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States
On Saturday, July 25th, in honor of Ayșenur’s 28th birthday, our community is coming together to each paint a section of the mural honoring her.
Created by @jameshesketh_ in the colors and spirit of who she was.
This is a public, permanent statement that the demand for justice and accountability isn’t going anywhere.
🗓️ Saturday, July 25th
📍 Cherry Street Village, Seattle  🕐 10am – 2pm – Drop in anytime
Come for the mural. Stay for the community.
🔗 More info & RSVP: Link in bio.
