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SUMMARY:Saturday Arabic School (for kids and youth)
DESCRIPTION:Our Arabic School provides those who want to learn Arabic the opportunity to fine-tune their knowledge. Our classes are held weekly at Kent Meridian High School for our kids and youth.\n​ \nProgram Eligibility Requirements:\n​ \n– Elementary or middle-school age children\n– Living in King County\n  \nWhen: Saturdays\nTime: 10-12\nWhere: Kent Meridian High School (10020 SE 256th St\, Kent\, WA 98030)\n\n \nmarwa@irccw.org
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/12322-2/
LOCATION:Kent Meridian High School\, 10020 SE 256th St\, Kent\, WA\, 98030
CATEGORIES:Language
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SUMMARY:Comedian: Ismael Loutfi (two shows)
DESCRIPTION:Ismael Loutfi is a comedian\, writer\, and actor who developed his deeply acerbic sense of humor growing up a Muslim in rural North Florida. Ismael wrote for the critically acclaimed Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj on Netflix for the entirety of its run. \nIsmael’s Comedy Central Half Hour special debuts in March of 2022. His stand up has been featured on This Week at the Cellar\, Jimmy Kimmel Live\, and he was selected by Bill Burr for his personally curated stand up series Bill Burr Presents: The Ringers. He has performed on the FOX Night of Comedy showcase and has been named a New Face of Comedy by the prestigious Just for Laughs comedy festival.Ismael can be seen in HBO’s High Maintenance\, the Sarah Silverman-produced Please Understand Me\, and multiple episodes of Comedy Central’s Ahamed’s Ramadan Diary. \n\n\nFri\, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM PDT and \nFri\, 9:30 PM – 11:00 PM PDT\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaughs Comedy Club\, Seattle\, WA\n\n\n\n\nTickets\nStarting at$15.00
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/comedian-ismael-loutfi/
LOCATION:Laughs Comedy Club\, 5220 Roosevelt Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Arabs Iftar at Shawarma Time
DESCRIPTION:Let’s celebrate the soft opening of Shawarma time and have our iftar together. The restaurant will offer dates and soup to break fasting\, and we might be up to a surprise after iftar 🤗\n(Optional) after iftar we will go to have hookah at Seattle hookah lounge.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/arabs-iftar-at-shawarma-time/
LOCATION:Shawarma Time\, 4701 Roosevelt Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gathering
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SUMMARY:Comedian: Ismael Loutfi (two shows)
DESCRIPTION:Ismael Loutfi is a comedian\, writer\, and actor who developed his deeply acerbic sense of humor growing up a Muslim in rural North Florida. Ismael wrote for the critically acclaimed Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj on Netflix for the entirety of its run. \nIsmael’s Comedy Central Half Hour special debuts in March of 2022. His stand up has been featured on This Week at the Cellar\, Jimmy Kimmel Live\, and he was selected by Bill Burr for his personally curated stand up series Bill Burr Presents: The Ringers. He has performed on the FOX Night of Comedy showcase and has been named a New Face of Comedy by the prestigious Just for Laughs comedy festival.Ismael can be seen in HBO’s High Maintenance\, the Sarah Silverman-produced Please Understand Me\, and multiple episodes of Comedy Central’s Ahamed’s Ramadan Diary. \n\n\nFri\, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM PDT and \nFri\, 9:30 PM – 11:00 PM PDT\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaughs Comedy Club\, Seattle\, WA\n\n\n\n\nTickets\nStarting at$15.00
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/comedian-ismael-loutfi-two-shows-4/
LOCATION:Laughs Comedy Club\, 5220 Roosevelt Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Reflections on Jerusalem: A century of lost opportunities (via Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Rothchild will provide a personal exploration of the ancient city of Jerusalem\, with a special focus on East Jerusalem and the surrounding areas of greater Jerusalem\, which have experienced decades of “Judaization” and erasure of the Palestinian presence.  What are the costs of these policies\, not only to Palestinians\, but also to Jewish Israelis? How is this a mirror of the ongoing occupation of Palestine?  What can we learn and what can we do? \nAlice Rothchild is a physician\, author\, and filmmaker who has focused her interest on human rights and social justice on the Israel/Palestine conflict since 1997.  She practiced Obstetrics & Gynecology for almost 40 years.  Until her retirement she served as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology\, Harvard Medical School.   She writes and lectures widely\, is the author of Broken Promises\, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience (translated into Hebrew and German); On the Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion; and Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine. \nDr. Rothchild directed the documentary film\, Voices Across the Divide. She is also on the board of the We Are Not Numbers program in Gaza and the Gaza Mental Health Foundation\, and on the steering committee of the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council. \n 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/reflections-on-jerusalem-a-century-of-lost-opportunities-via-zoom/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Other End of the Sea w/ author Alison Glick
DESCRIPTION:Summer\, 1981—Following the death of her father\, Becky Klein\, an adventurous\, naïve young woman from the Midwest\, sets out for the Middle East\, in search of her Jewish roots. She discovers something more\, in a Gaza garden near a refugee camp by the sea. There she befriends the garden’s owner\, a Palestinian activist who has served time in Israeli jails. As their relationship grows\, Rebecca finds herself drawn into a story of roots unlike the one she had imagined. \nThe West Bank\, Cairo\, Yarmouk\, Benghazi\, Beirut—before long\, their romance careens across a region in flames\, child in tow\, wrestling with conflicting maps of love\, family and home. Moving\, yet brimming with flashes of humor\, Alison Glick’s tangle with the search for purpose and commitment yields a bracing\, radiant story for these times. \nJoin Friends of Sabeel North America in what promises to be a stirring conversation with author Alison Glick.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/the-other-end-of-the-sea-w-author-alison-glick/
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:ONLINE CLASS: Voices of Arab American Authors: Discovery and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Four Mondays and one Tuesday Bi-Weekly: April 4 and 18; May 2 and 16; and Tuesday\, May 31 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST Online\n\n\n\n\nPrice:\n\n$170.00 per person (10% off for members)\n\n\n\n\n\nHere is another series of classes under the main heading of attempting to understand the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) through literature and prose written by its authors\, advocates\, observers\, and supporters. This series of classes will be the second time that we examine literature by Arab American authors who delve into the lives and challenges of new immigrants learning to assimilate and live as Americans while keeping an homage to their roots from Syria\, Palestine\, Egypt\, Jordan\, Lebanon\, Yemen\, etc. However\, this series will venture out beyond their “comfort zone” and tackle journeys of discovery – the fascination of travel to explore and better understand home\, not relocate; Shakespearean theatre to cope with chronic pain; rediscovering the Syrian and Iraqi homeland; and discovering the future in Qatar. \nFour Mondays and one Tuesday Bi-Weekly: April 4 and 18; May 2 and 16; and Tuesday\, May 31 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST Online \n\n\n\n\n\n\nList of readings & dates: \n1) Hisham Matar (Libyan) – Month in Siena (April 4) (9780593129135) \n2) Mona Awad (Egyptian) – All’s Well (April 18) (9781982169664) \nand/or Egyptian-American Journeys: An Anthology (9781623718985) \n3) Sinan Antoon (Iraqi) – The Book of Collateral Damage (May 2nd) (9780300251753) \n4) Zeyn Joukhadar (Syrian) – Map of Salt and Stars (May 16th) 9781501169052  \nand/or Zaina Arafat (Palestinian) You Exist Too Much 9781948226509 \n5) Sophia Al-Maria (Qatar) – The Girl Who Fell to Earth (Tuesday\, 31st May) 9780061999758 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeba F. El-Shazli is an Egyptian-American and an avid lover and reader of literature from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She is an assistant professor of political science at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Master’s Degree Program at the Center for Democracy and Civil Society. Heba teaches courses on governments and politics of the Middle East and North Africa\, Islam and politics\, international relations\, and the role of civil society and social movements in democratization. She has a Ph.D. in Planning\, Governance\, and Globalization (PGG) with a specialization in Governance and International Affairs from Virginia Tech’s School of Public and International Affairs and a Master’s degree from Georgetown University. She was the Director of MENA programs at the Solidarity Center (2004-2011) and the Deputy MENA Regional Director at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) from 2001 until 2004. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (www.cfr.org) \nKaren Leggett Abouraya is a journalist and children’s author\, winning the 2013 Arab American Book Award and other honors for Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books. She is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Egypt\, and with her Egyptian-born husband\, chairs the Baltimore Luxor Alexandria Sister City Committee and the Friends of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) Maryland\, Virginia\, DC. Together they also produce the podcast American Egyptian Women of Influence.  Karen facilitates online conversations between Egyptian and American children and co-hosted a conference on informal education at the BA in 2015.  She reviewed children’s books for the New York Times\, is a past president of the Children’s Book Guild of Washington\, D.C. and has served as a judge for children’s writing contests in Egypt and Montgomery County. She earned her B.A. in international relations from Brown University.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/online-class-voices-of-arab-american-authors-discovery-and-beyond/
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