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SUMMARY:Palestinian Author Safa Suleiman at Brick and Mortar presenting Hilwa's Gifts
DESCRIPTION:Safa Suleiman and Anait Semirdzhyan\, author and illustrator of HILWA’S GIFTS\n\n\n\nTuesday Apr 1st\, 2025\n\n\n6:30 PM\n\n\n–\n\n\n7:30 PM\n\nKids’ event\n\n Brick & Mortar Books\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us to welcome debut author Safa Suleiman and local illustrator Anait Semirdzhyan as we celebrate the release of their new picture book\, Hilwa’s Gifts! \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nAli has arrived in Palestine for a visit just in time for the olive harvest. His grandfather\, Seedo\, and Hilwa—his favorite tree—greet him in the grove\, where Seedo explains that Hilwa has many gifts to share. Other family members whack the trees’ branches with sticks\, singing “Zaytoon\, ya zaytoon” while cousins clap and dance and happily pick up fallen olives. (Luckily\, a gentle whack is all it takes for Hilwa’s fruits to rain down!) The next day\, at the olive press\, Ali watches the drip of gold liquid into a can\, another of Hilwa’s gifts. Later\, they picnic under the tree’s branches with hot mint tea\, pita\, and delicious olive oil swirled on hummus. Tradition is the greatest gift of all: the family gathering—generation after generation—to celebrate a bountiful harvest. Dynamic illustrations and a graceful text peppered with Arabic words\, plus a glossary and author’s note\, make for an intimate picture-book debut about a child discovering his heritage. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nSafa Suleiman is a Palestinian American educator with more than twenty years of experience in undergraduate and elementary school pedagogy. She now focuses on writing and teaching through storytelling centering the Palestinian and the American Muslim communities. Hilwa’s Gifts is her first book. She lives with her family in Colorado on the homeland of the Ute Nation. \nABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR:\nAnait Semirdzhyan is the illustrator of Just Us by Molly Beth Griffin\, Bábo: A Tale of Armenian Rug-Washing Day by Astrid Kamalyan\, The Great Banned-Books Bake Sale by Aya Khalil\, and many other acclaimed books for children. Born in Kazakhstan and raised in Armenia\, she now lives in the Seattle area with her husband and twin daughters. \n\n\n 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/17989/
LOCATION:Brick and Mortar Bookstore\, 7430 164th Ave NE - Suite B105\, Redmond\, WA\, 98052\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,For Kids
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SUMMARY:Scifi/Fantasy Book Club: This is How You Lose the Time War
DESCRIPTION:Join us for scifi/fantasy book club! Our selection this month is This is How You Lose the Time War\, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Scifi/fantasy book club aims to read a wide selection of science fiction and fantasy works. We love being transported to other worlds\, and hope you will\, too!\n\n\nScifi/Fantasy Book Club: This is How You Lose the Time War \nWednesday Jan 8th\, 2025\, 6:30 PM-7:30 PM
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/scifi-fantasy-book-club-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war/
LOCATION:Brick and Mortar Bookstore\, 7430 164th Ave NE - Suite B105\, Redmond\, WA\, 98052\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Ellie Peterson\, Anait Semirdzhyan\, & Polina Gortman
DESCRIPTION:Join us to welcome members of the Broad Stokes\, a local critique group of illustrators\, and celebrate the release of three picture books. \nEllie Peterson is a returning author guest with us\, having previously launched her picture books Bea’s Bees (written by Katherine Pryor) and It’s a Round\, Round World (the first Joulia Copernicus book) at Brick & Mortar Books. Her newest book\, The Reason for the Seasons\, is the second book in the Joulia Copernicus series and teaches all about why the seasons happen. This book releases on Feb. 11\, 2020. \nAnait Semirdzhyan is the illustrator of The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story (written by Aya Khalil)\, the story of a young girl whose poem about her grandmother’s quilt inspires her class to create its own Arabic paper quilt. This book releases on Feb. 18\, 2020. \nPolina Gortman is the illustrator of Randall and Randall (written by Nadine Poper)\, the story of a pistol shrimp and a goby fish who are friends even though they don’t see eye to eye. This book is available now.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/book-launch-ellie-peterson-anait-semirdzhyan-polina-gortman/
LOCATION:Brick and Mortar Bookstore\, 7430 164th Ave NE - Suite B105\, Redmond\, WA\, 98052\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Gathering
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming History:  A Panel - Brick and Mortar Book Store
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThere 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). \nFrom 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.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/panel-brick-and-mortar/
LOCATION:Brick and Mortar Bookstore\, 7430 164th Ave NE - Suite B105\, Redmond\, WA\, 98052\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Lecture
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SUMMARY:In-Conversation and Book Launch: Django Wexler and Somaiya Daud at Brick and Mortar Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Brick and Mortar is excited to announce an in-conversation with two fantastic YA fantasy authors: Django Wexler and Somaiya Daud! \nSomaiya Daud’s debut Mirage is one of our all-time favorite young adult fantasy novels. With a setting inspired by Morocco and in space\, questions about identity and history\, and a brewing rebellion\, this gorgeous book is not one to miss. \nThe event will also coincide with the release of Django Wexler’s new epic Wells of Sorcery trilogy launch with Ship of Smoke and Steel!  \nDjango Wexler is the author of the completed Shadow Campaigns military fantasy series for adults and the Forbidden Library series for middle readers\, and his new YA is just as epic as his work is known to be. It’s a fast-paced\, high-stakes story in an inventive world full of action and fantastic character relationships. \nWe can’t wait to hear what these two authors have to say about fantastic worlds\, stories of epic stakes and compassion\, and powerful women. We hope you can join us! \n——— \nShip of Smoke and Steel: This cinematic fantasy adventure and YA debut launches Wexler’s action-packed Wells of Sorcery trilogy\, with a fierce 18-year-old girl skilled in the art of combat magic on an epic mission to steal a ghost ship. \nMirage: “Shatter Me” meets “The Wrath and the Dawn” in this epic fantasy inspired by the author’s Moroccan heritage about a poor girl who must become the body double of a princess of a ruthless empire.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/wexler-daud-brickandmortar/
LOCATION:Brick and Mortar Bookstore\, 7430 164th Ave NE - Suite B105\, Redmond\, WA\, 98052\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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