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SUMMARY:Paradiso 17 with author Hannah Lillith Assadi
DESCRIPTION:Hannah Lillith Assadi\nWednesday March 25th\, 2026 @ 7:00PM – 8:00 PM\n\n\n\n\nNovelist Hannah Lillith Assadi visits the store for her latest book Paradiso 17\, inspired by the life of her late Palestinian father\, which follows one man’s restless search for home the world over\, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life\, grief and euphoria\, regret and hope. \nRegistration is not required\, but helps us anticipate audience size. If you’d like to RSVP\, please do so here! \n“There is something miraculous about Paradiso 17\, about the poetry that seems to guide every sentence of this exquisite novel. With stunning intimacy\, Hannah Lillith Assadi has crafted an unforgettable story about the many stunted afterlives of hyphenated belonging. In this book live some of the most complex characters I’ve read in a long time\, and a deeply nuanced exploration of exile as both event and inheritance.” —Omar El Akkad\, author of One Day\, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This \n“Paradiso 17 is remarkable. It’s a novel of unearthing\, a story of quiet explosions\, of memories lost and recovered. It’s urgent and necessary. Read it as an intimate family tale\, as mythos\, or as history—but read it\, read it\, read it.” —Rabih Alameddine\, author of The Wrong End of the Telescope \nAll his life\, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe. \nBorn in Palestine on the precipice of 1948’s Nakba\, Sufien is forced to leave the only home he’s ever known\, the one on the hill with a beautiful blue door. This is the precise moment when time stops making sense. He spends the rest of his life propelled forward\, always on the way—although in search of what\, he is never quite sure. In the dusty\, oil-rich desert of Kuwait\, he meets his first love and decides he must leave his family. In a small Italian university town\, he spends his youth wrapped up in the sweet promise of the West and the forgetful assurance of wine. When life takes him to a gritty New York\, he discovers his true vocation and falls for a Jewish woman born into a wholly different world. Finally\, he finds himself recalled to the wild\, vast open skies of the desert\, in Arizona. \nSufien’s life spans friendships lost and maintained\, a stint selling leathers at a tanner’s stall\, the ineffable company of cats\, and the freedom of the open road\, the glowing pride of fatherhood\, Sufi myths\, prophetic dreams\, and visions of the afterlife—and always\, always\, no matter how far he chases joy\, the sweet\, treacherous song of a balcony urging him to fly\, to fall\, to fall. The lyrical pages of Paradiso 17 weave in and out of time and space\, beginning at the end and ending at the beginning. They are haunting\, haunted with grief\, struck through\, as Dante once wrote\, with “the arrow that the bow of exile / shoots first\,” and yet they throb with light—not just the light that Sufien sees as he approaches his own end\, but the brilliant light of a life lived. \nLike all of our dead\, Sufien still speaks\, the book begins. Listen\, this is his story. \nHannah Lillith Assadi\, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree\, teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Pratt Institute. She is the author of Sonora\, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her second novel\, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells\, was a New Yorker and NPR best book of 2022. Raised in Arizona\, she lives in Brooklyn\, New York. (Photo credit: Jordan Ledy)
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/paradiso-17-with-author-hannah-lillith-assadi/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Seattle Arts & Lectures Youth Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebratory poetry reading featuring SAL’s talented Youth Poetry Fellows. This reading marks the end of the program\, and you are invited to come celebrate their genius with us!\n\n\nRegistration is not required\, but helps us anticipate audience size. If you’d like to RSVP\, please do so here! \nAbout SAL’s Youth Poetry Fellowship (YPF): \nThe Youth Poetry Fellowship serves a cohort of young writers committed to poetry\, performance\, civic and community engagement\, education\, and equity across the Puget Sound region. Over the course of the school year\, fellows meet regularly for workshops with the Youth Poetry Fellowship mentors. Fellows also have numerous public opportunities to share their voices\, leadership\, and love of Seattle throughout the course of the year. One of the fellows serves as the Youth Poet Laureate and writes a poetry collection published by Poetry NW Editions. \nAhsenti Alfedil (she/her) is a first-generation American of Ethio-Sudanese descent and a student at the Bush School. A multidisciplinary Piscean\, she moves fluidly between poetry\, acrylic/oil painting\, and movement—always led by curiosity and feeling. When not overwhelmed by her academic workload\, she finds joy in braiding hair\, spending hours adorning herself and loved ones in henna\, skating to her favorite playlists\, and research as a leisure activity. As a writer\, Ahsenti turns most often to poetry. Her work shows resistance to categorization because she follows her intrigue; the fleeting moments that spark inspiration to create. Through her writing\, she hopes to make space for those navigating layered identities\, vulnerability\, and for stories that make people feel seen in their most intricate and unspoken parts. \nNadia Najam is a senior at Liberty High School in Renton\, Washington. She finds joy in reading any good book she can get her hands on and spending time in nature. Through YPF\, Nadia hopes to grow more confident in sharing her writing with the world and to challenge herself to explore new themes and styles in her poetry. \nand more. \n 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-arts-lectures-youth-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Elliott Bay Book Group: Afterlife by Abdulrazak Gurmah
DESCRIPTION:From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature\, a sweeping\, multi-generational saga of displacement\, loss\, and love\, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. \n“A work of extraordinary power\, giving us a colonial world with utmost intimacy\, capturing its cruelties and complexities\, immersing us in vividly evoked characters\, showing us moments of incredible tenderness and beauty\, and quietly reordering our sense of history.” —Phil Klay\, author of Redeployment
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/elliott-bay-book-group-afterlife-by-abdulrazak-gurmah/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Six MENA poets at Elliott Bay Book Company
DESCRIPTION:menaheritagemonth\n\n\n\n\nJoin us at Elliott Bay Book Co as six poets from the local MENA (Middle Eastern & North African) community read selections from their own selected work followed by a talkback panel and Q&A session. Featuring Shaudi Bianca Vahdat\, Parisa Akhbari\, Sahar Fathi\, Jamal Gabobe\, Raanah Amjadi\, Samar Abulhassan. \nSaturday\, June 21\n7 – 8 PM\nDownstairs
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/19176/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Author Event: Hala Alyan w/ Gabrielle Bates
DESCRIPTION:Hala Alyan w/ Gabrielle Bates\nThursday June 19th\, 2025 @ 7:00PM – 8:00 PM\n\n\n\n\nAward-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. \nTo help us anticipate audience size\, please RSVP here! \nAfter 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. \nAs 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. \nMeanwhile\, 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? \nA 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. \nHala 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. \nGabrielle 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
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/author-event-hala-alyan-w-gabrielle-bates/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Laila Lalami presenting The Dream Hotel
DESCRIPTION:MARCH 18\, 2025 @ 7:00PM \nPresenting The Dream Hotel in Seattle \nElliott Bay Book Company \n1521 10th Avenue\nSeattle\, Washington \nhttps://lailalalami.com/events/
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/laila-lalami-presenting-the-dream-hotel/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Books/Literature/Writing
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SUMMARY:Author Laila Lalami at Elliot Bay Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami visits the store to celebrate the release of her latest novel. The Dream Hotel is a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom\, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance. \nThis event is free to the public. Please help us plan for audience size by RSVPing here. \nSara has just landed at LAX\, returning home from a conference abroad\, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams\, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety\, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. \nThe agents transfer Sara to a retention center\, where she is held with other dreamers\, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes. With every deviation from the strict and ever-shifting rules of the facility\, their stay is extended. Months pass and Sara seems no closer to release. Then one day\, a new resident arrives\, disrupting the order of the facility and leading Sara on a collision course with the very companies that have deprived her of her freedom. \nEerie\, urgent\, and ceaselessly clear-eyed\, The Dream Hotel artfully explores the seductive nature of technology\, which puts us in shackles even as it makes our lives easier. Lalami asks how much of ourselves must remain private if we are to remain free\, and whether even the most invasive forms of surveillance can ever capture who we really are. \nLaila Lalami is the author of five books\, including The Moor’s Account\, which won the American Book Award\, the Arab-American Book Award\, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; was on the longlist for the Booker Prize; and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent novel\, The Other Americans\, was a national bestseller\, won the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her books have been translated into twenty languages. Lalami’s writing appears regularly in the Los Angeles Times\, The Washington Post\, The Nation\, Harper’s\, The Guardian\, and The New York Times. She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbright Program\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/author-laila-lalami-at-elliot-bay-bookstore/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Book: To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States
DESCRIPTION:Karam Dana\nThursday February 13th\, 2025 @ 7:00PM – 8:00 PM\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Karam Dana discusses his new book To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States. It provides a new lens on activism around Palestinian issues\, demonstrating how the global Palestinian diaspora has driven transnational political movements. \nIn recent years\, attitudes in the United States toward the Palestinian cause have shifted dramatically. Although Palestinians have long been demonized in U.S. media and politics\, their struggle portrayed as illegitimate\, emergent progressive voices increasingly challenge the status quo on Israel and Palestine and express solidarity with Palestinian resistance. What accounts for this change and its evolution? \nKaram Dana explores the ways that exile has shaped Palestinian identity and allowed for new forms of global activism. He examines the social\, political\, economic\, and technological forces that have created space for Palestinian voices to be heard by wider audiences worldwide. Drawing on interviews with scholars and advocates—including members of the Palestinian diaspora and Jewish American activists—as well as public opinion data and media analysis\, Dana traces how global Palestinian communities have influenced American views. He addresses the backlash against pro-Palestinian advocacy but argues that solidarity with Palestinians—both in the United States and globally—will continue to strengthen. Timely and insightful\, To Stand with Palestine offers an inside look at how Palestinians have shared their story with the world and why sympathy for their plight is growing\, with significant implications for the global political landscape. \nKaram Dana is the Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professor of Excellence and Transformative Research and the founding director of the American Muslim Research Institute at the University of Washington Bothell.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/book-to-stand-with-palestine-transnational-resistance-and-political-evolution-in-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:National Book Award Winner: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
DESCRIPTION:Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reads from Something About Living\, her National Book Award-winning third poetry collection.\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Please help us plan for audience size by RSVPing here. \nIt’s nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time\, but Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s gorgeous and wide-ranging new collection Something About Living does just that. Her poems interweave Palestine’s historic suffering\, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will\, and the gentle delights we embrace to survive that violence. Khalaf Tuffaha’s elegant poems sing the fractured songs of Diaspora while remaining clear-eyed to the cause of the fracturing: the multinational hubris of colonialism and greed. \nThis collection is her witness to our collective unraveling\, vowel by vowel\, syllable by syllable. “Let the plural be a return of us” the speaker of “On the Thirtieth Friday We Consider Plurals” says and this plurality is our tenuous humanity and the deep need to hang on to kindness in our communities. In these poems Khalaf Tuffaha reminds us that love isn’t an idea; it is a radical act. Especially for those who\, like this poet\, travel through the world vigilantly\, but steadfastly remain heart first. —Adrian Matejka\, author of Somebody Else Sold the World \nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet\, essayist and translator. She is the author of Water & Salt (Red Hen)\, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award\, Kaan & Her Sisters (Trio House Press)\, finalist for the Firecracker Award\, and Something About Living (UAkron\, 2024)\, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award and winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry. Her writing has been published in journals including Los Angeles Review of Books\, Michigan Quarterly Revie\, the Nation\, Poets.org\, and Prairie Schooner and in anthologies including The Long Devotion and We Call to the Eye and the Night. She was the translator and curator of the 2022 series “Poems from Palestine” at the Baffler magazine. She is currently curating a year-long subscription of Palestinian poetry books with Open Books\, Seattle’s poetry-only bookstore. For more about her work\, visit www.lenakhalaftuffaha.com
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/national-book-award-winner-lena-khalaf-tuffaha/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Global Issues Book Group: Elliot Bay Book Company
DESCRIPTION:Global Issues Book Group\nTuesday\, September 10 6:30 p.m.\nThe Return\n\n\nWINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE: from Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hisham Matar\, a memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of answers to his father’s disappearance.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/global-issues-book-group-elliot-bay-book-company/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Lena Khalaf Tuffaha with Claudia Castro Luna and Rachel Edelman at Elliott Bay Book Company
DESCRIPTION:Poet and friend of the store Lena Khalaf Tuffaha returns for the launch of her latest collection\, Kaan and Her Sisters. Fellow poets Claudia Castro Luna and Rachel Edelman will join her for the reading. \nKaan and Her Sisters illuminates the work of grief and survival\, the sordid legacies of official historical record and the liberatory practice of intimate narration. Tuffaha writes in the liminal space between languages\, personifying Arabic verbs who guide the reader through a “history hurtling into the future.” Kaan and Her Sisters centers character of the Arabic teacher\, Miss Sahar\, whose progressive displacements from Palestine and across Arab cities unfold in epistles\, refashioned songs\, and glimpses into the interiors of her lost home. In these disclosures\, a study of time and a record of resistance to erasure emerges\, and at its heart\, the women who keep intergenerational memory. “Our mothers miraculous\, persevering./No maps are new to the ancestors.” \nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of Water & Salt\, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award. She is the translator and curator of the Poems from Palestine series at the Baffler magazine. She is the winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry\, for her book Something About Living (U of Akron Press\, 2024). Her second book of poems\, Kaan & Her Sisters is available now from Trio House Press. \nClaudia Castro Luna has been an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow\, the Washington State Poet Laureate\, and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet. She is the author of Cipota Under the Moon; One River\, A Thousand Voices; the Pushcart nominated Killing Marías\, shortlisted for the Washington State 2018 Book Award in poetry; and the chapbook This City. Her most recent nonfiction can be found in the anthology There’s a Revolution Outside\, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. Born in El Salvador\, she came to the United States in 1981. Living in English and Spanish\, Claudia writes and teaches in Seattle on unceded Duwamish lands where she gardens and keeps chickens with her husband and their three children. \nRachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis\, TN whose writing explores the creative work of diasporic living. Her poems have appeared in Narrative\, The Seventh Wave\, West Branch\, and many other journals\, and she has received material support from the Academy of American Poets\, the University of Washington\, Mineral School\, Crosstown Arts\, and Tin House. She teaches Language Arts in the Seattle Public Schools\, where embodiment and care root her personal\, poetic\, and pedagogical practice. Her debut book\, Dear Memphis\, will be published by River River Books in January 2024.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/lena-khalaf-tuffaha-with-claudia-castro-luna-and-rachel-edelman-at-elliott-bay-book-company/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230321T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230321T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T090055
CREATED:20230227T003133Z
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SUMMARY:Poet Charif Shanahan with Luther Hughes and Jane Wong
DESCRIPTION:Chicago poet Charif Shanahan visits Seattle on the occasion of his second published collection of poetry Trace Evidence. Two acclaimed local poets who have both read their poetry on Elliott Bay’s stage\, Jane Wong and Luther Hughes\, will join in the celebratory night of poetry.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/poet-charif-shanahan-with-luther-hughes-and-jane-wong/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230310T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230310T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T090055
CREATED:20230125T020147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T191217Z
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SUMMARY:AWP Offsite: Glossing the Margins—A Bi-lingual Arabic-English Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:AWP Offsite: Glossing the Margins—A Bi-lingual Arabic-English Poetry Reading\nFriday Mar 10 2023 7:00pm – 8:00pm\nJoin us for an evening of poetry in which the borders between languages fall away and only poetry remains. Featuring poets Deema Shehabi\, Fady Joudah\, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\, Lubna Safi\, and Zeina Hashem Beck. \nLena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of Water & Salt\, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award. She is the translator and curator of the Poems from Palestine series at the Baffler magazine. She is the winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry\, for her book Something About Living (U of Akron Press\, 2024). Her second book of poems\, Kaan & Her Sisters is forthcoming from Trio House Press in July\, 2023. \nFady Joudah has published five collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu; a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and\, most recently\, Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received the Arab American Book Award\, a PEN award\, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK\, the Griffin Poetry Prize\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is an Editor-at-Large for Milkweed Editions. He lives in Houston\, with his wife and kids\, where he practices internal medicine. \nDeema K. Shehabi is the author of Thirteen Departures From the Moon and co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here\, for which she received the Northern California Book Award’s NCBR Recognition Award. She is also co-author of Diaspo/Renga with Marilyn Hacker and the winner of the Nazim Hikmet poetry competition in 2018. \nZeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet and the author of\, most recently\, O\, named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and The New York Public Library. She’s the co-creator and co-host of Maqsouda\, a podcast about Arabic poetry produced by Sowt. \nLubna Safi is a poet\, writer\, and graduate student residing in California. Her poems and essays have been published in Guernica\, The Journal\, MIZNA\, and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection\, Your Blue and the Quiet Lament won the Walt McDonald First Book Prize in Poetry and is published by Texas Tech University Press
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/awp-offsite-glossing-the-margins-a-bi-lingual-arabic-english-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Panel Discussion,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221111T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T090055
CREATED:20221026T202133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T202319Z
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SUMMARY:Author Danny Ramadan at Elliott Bay Book Company
DESCRIPTION:Down from his Vancouver home where\, in addition to writing\, Danny Ramadan has been an activist and advocate\, in particular for LGBTQ+ refugees from Syria and the Middle East. The author of an award-winning Canadian children’s book\, Salma the Syrian Chef\, and a debut novel that was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award\, The Clothesline Swing\, he is here tonight with his new novel\, The Foghorn Echoes (Canongate Books). Set between a Damascus riven by war and Vancouver\, with time spanning a decade\, this is an extraordinary book of hard-sought love between two young men. \n”The Foghorn Echoes is a deeply moving book about conflict both internal and external\, the ways in which cold accidents – of birth\, of place\, of time – can leave a human being at war with their own desires\, their own sense of self. Danny Ramadan is a gifted\, sensitive excavator of the things that break people and put them back together\, the past as weight and lightness. In this novel he has created a world of immense sensory and emotional precision\, at once true in its living details and yet electric with the presence of ghosts.” – Omar El Akkad.\n”The Foghorn Echoes bristles. It burns bright. It shouts into the dark with a voice that hovers between a melody and a lamentation. Danny Ramadan writes in these pages with a spellbinding urgency\, stripping bare some of the most painful and fundamental truths about displacement and grief\, about rage and betrayal. In the process\, he reminds us again and again that even the worst of memories contain redemptive powers. This novel is a tender and impassioned love story for a country\, for a people\, and for all those who refuse to disappear quietly into the land of the forgotten.” – Maaza Mengiste. \nDanny RamadanFriday Nov 11 2022 7:00pm – 8:00pm\nLive/In-Person at Elliott Bay Book Company.\n1521 10th Ave. Seattle\, WA  98122
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/author-danny-ramadan-at-elliott-bay-book-company/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220502T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T090055
CREATED:20220426T201741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T201741Z
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SUMMARY:Sanaa Seif with Sharif Abdel Kouddous (in person)
DESCRIPTION:Making this Seattle visit as part of a national\, in-person tour around the U.S. are Egyptian activist\, film editor\, and one-time political prisoner Sanaa Seif\, along with Cairo-based independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous. They will be discussing the extraordinary book of Sanaa Seif’s imprisoned brother Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s writings\, You Have Not Been Defeated: Selected Works (Seven Stories). Alaa Abd El-Fattah is probably the highest profile political prisoner currently being held in Egypt – one of many\, however\, including Sanaa Seif herself until recently. \n“You can’t jail a revolution. Alaa Abd el-Fattah is proof. These essays\, many handwritten and smuggled from a prison cell\, breathe life into the 2011 moment\, what shaped its revolutionary possibilities and terrible betrayals. This book is a memory of Tahrir Square that still reverberates like a heartbeat throughout the world.”– Nick Estes. \n“In a totalitarian system where even ideas are punishable with imprisonment\, this collection of essays from one of Egypt’s most high-profile political prisoners is like an oasis in a desolate landscape. Part manifesto\, part memoir\, and part record of some of Abd El-Fattah’s trial scenes that are more than worthy of Kafka\, the book contains passages smuggled out from Cairo’s infamous Tora prison.”– Ruth Michaelson\, The Guardian. \n“Written with blood and fire\, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated is a brilliant and devastating testament by one of Egypt’s great revolutionaries.”– Molly Crabapple. \nThis is scheduled to be a live/in-person program at Elliott Bay Book Company. Registration is optional. 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/sanaa-seif-with-sharif-abdel-kouddous-in-person/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T090055
CREATED:20211129T193426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211129T193527Z
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SUMMARY:Jordan Salama with Michael Shapiro (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:A journalist and TV producer who works in both English and Spanish\, Jordan Salama’s debut\, Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena (Catapult)\, received such awards as the Ricardo Piglia Award and Stanley J. Stein Prize for Best Senior Thesis at Princeton University (yes\, he’s young – this started as a senior thesis) on the way to becoming a book. \n“Jordan Salama writes with an attentiveness\, and a sense of adventure\, that many of us might envy; this engaging\, intrepid debut promises many more wonders to come. Already he’s shown himself to be a writer with a rare (and inspiring) commitment to giving us the world.” —Pico Iyer. \n“The book is more than a notable achievement in travel literature and more than a clarifying window into a misunderstood culture; it is a book of conscience and open-heartedness . . . It is a privilege to savor\, if vicariously\, this harvest of a promising writer’s vivid journeys.” —Kirkus Reviews. \n“This is a born journalist.”—John McPhee. \nJoining Jordan Salama in virtual conversation will be rafting guide\, interview journalist (Spark)\, and author Michael Shapiro. His recent book is The Creative Spark: How Musicians\, Writers\, Explorers\, and Other Artists Found Their Inner Fire and Followed Their Dreams. \nCo-presented by ORION & Elliott Bay Book Company. \nREGISTRATION/INFORMATION \n\nSyrian/Iraqi
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/jordan-salama-with-michael-shapiro-virtual/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200220T210000
DTSTAMP:20260429T090055
CREATED:20200123T093630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200123T093700Z
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SUMMARY:A.S. Hamrah at Elliott Bay Book Company
DESCRIPTION:Writer and film critic A.S. Hamrah has many admirers\, including our booksellers at Elliott Bay\, and we’re very excited to have the opportunity to host a conversation with him tonight about his work\, some of which was collected in his book\, The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing 2002-2018 (n+1). \n“Hamrah is committed to his ambivalence\, conveying it with a mixture of precision and conviction that will remind you how much more there is to be gleaned from a review than whether a movie is ‘good ’ or ‘bad ’ (even if it’s a movie you happen to deem very good or very bad indeed) . . . A political awareness imbues Hamrah’s criticism without weighing it down. He doesn’t succumb to a leaden moralizing because he pays close attention to the medium he’s writing about\, alert to what he sees and hears.” —Jennifer Szalai\, New York Times. \nA. S. Hamrah has been n+1’s film critic since 2008 and was the editor of the magazine’s film review supplement. He also writes for a number of other publications including Harper’s\, The Baffler\, and Bookforum. He has worked as a movie theater projectionist\, a semiotic brand analyst\, a political pollster\, a football cinematographer\, a zine writer\, and for the film director Raúl Ruiz. \nCo-presented with Seattle International Film Festival. \n  \n\nI couldn’t find Hamrah’s ethinicity on line BUT I am assuming with the last name Hamrah that he must be! (Please let me know if you know otherwise!)
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/8986/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200120T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260429T090055
CREATED:20200116T022859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200116T024901Z
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SUMMARY:A Winter's Evening of Music\, Poetry and Storytelling: From Struggle to Survival: Creating Beauty Out of Tragedy
DESCRIPTION:From Struggle to Survival: Creating Beauty Out of Tragedy\nA Winter’s Evening of Music\, Poetry and Storytelling with Claudia Castro Luna\, Michelle Dodson\, Hilary Field\, Merna Ann Hecht & Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. \nWeaving together original music and poetry\, classical guitarist and composer Hilary Field with poets Claudia Castro Luna and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha will share poems about struggle and their means to survive. Storyteller Merna Ann Hecht and cellist Michelle Dodson will offer stories and music with the theme of bringing hope forth in dark times with a selection little known traditional and contemporary stories. Through music and spoken word\, these writers and musicians share the nuanced beauty and vulnerability that can be found in our hearts at times of sorrow and difficulty as in times of joy\, this heightened taking place as it does on the day that commemorates the life\, work\, and example of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. \nThis event is supported by a generous grant from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/a-winters-evening-of-music-poetry-and-storytelling-from-struggle-to-survival-creating-beauty-out-of-tragedy/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191110T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191110T163000
DTSTAMP:20260429T090055
CREATED:20190919T014513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191026T022815Z
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SUMMARY:Malaka Gharib:  I Was Their American Dream
DESCRIPTION:I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves\, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents’ ideals\, learning to code-switch between her family’s Filipino and Egyptian customs\, adapting to white culture to fit in\, crushing on skater boys\, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid. \nMalaka Gharib’s triumphant graphic memoir brings to life her teenage antics and illuminates earnest questions about identity and culture\, while providing thoughtful insight into the lives of modern immigrants and the generation of millennial children they raised. Malaka’s story is a heartfelt tribute to the American immigrants who have invested their future in the promise of the American dream. \nMALAKA GHARIB is an artist\, journalist\, and writer based in Washington\, D.C. She is the founder of The Runcible Spoon\, a food zine\, and the co-founder of the D.C. Art Book Fair. She lives in a row house with her husband Darren and her 9-year-old rice cooker.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/malaka-gharib-i-was-their-american-dream/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190807T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190807T210000
DTSTAMP:20260429T090055
CREATED:20190712T133228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190712T133411Z
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SUMMARY:Majd Mashharawi with Rania Qawasma at Elliott Bay
DESCRIPTION:Majd Mashharawi with Rania Qawasma\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRescheduled 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. \nCo-presented with ARCHITECTURE FOR REFUGEES USA and ARCHITECTS WITHOUT BORDERS.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/majd-mashharawi-with-rania-qawasma-at-elliott-bay-rescheduled/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190724T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190724T120000
DTSTAMP:20260429T090055
CREATED:20190625T232403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190625T233620Z
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SUMMARY:ArabishWay Story Time  - Elliott Bay Book Company
DESCRIPTION:Local author\, Laila Taji will have 30 minutes of stories\, games and songs in Arabic (along with highlighting her book These Chicks/ هالصيصان). It will be very hands on and interactive! \nElliott Bay Book Company has a great coffee shop within so plan to arrive a little early\, grab a coffee and meet her there. \nGreat for all ages but content generally geared towards 18 months – 3 years old.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/arabishway-storytime-elliott-bay-book-company-july2019/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Story Time
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ORGANIZER;CN="Laila Taji":MAILTO:arabishway@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190430T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190430T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T090055
CREATED:20190418T035226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190425T022005Z
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SUMMARY:Cancelled - Majd Mashharawi with Rania Qawasma at Elliott Bay
DESCRIPTION:This event was cancelled.  While\, Majd had a visa\, the Israeli government denied her a permit to exit. Very discouraging but the organizers are working to reschedule this event!\nMajd Mashharawi with Rania Qawasma\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis late addition to our April schedule helps set out a lively May in motion as 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.  https://www.fastcompany.com/person/majd-mashharawi \nCo-presented with ARCHITECTURE FOR REFUGEES USA and ARCHITECTS WITHOUT BORDERS \n\n 
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/majd-mashharawi-with-rania-qawasma-at-elliott-bay/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190309T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190309T113000
DTSTAMP:20260429T090055
CREATED:20190216T104557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190216T153309Z
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SUMMARY:ArabishWay Story Time  - Elliott Bay Book Company
DESCRIPTION:Local author\, Laila Taji will have 30 minutes of stories\, games and songs in Arabic (along with highlighting her book These Chicks/ هالصيصان). It will be very hands on and interactive! \nElliott Bay Book Company has a great coffee shop within so plan to arrive a little early\, grab a coffee and meet her there. \nGreat for all ages but content generally geared towards 18 months – 3 years old.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/arabishway-storytime-elliott-bay-book-company/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Story Time
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ORGANIZER;CN="Laila Taji":MAILTO:arabishway@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190117T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T090055
CREATED:20190102T121518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190102T121518Z
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SUMMARY:Huda Al-Marashi at Elliott Bay Book Company
DESCRIPTION:When Huda Al-Marashi meets Hadi\, the boy she will ultimately marry\, she is six years old. Both are the American-born children of Iraqi immigrants\, who grew up on opposite ends of California. Hadi considers Huda his childhood sweetheart\, the first and only girl he’s ever loved\, but Huda needs proof that she is more than just the girl Hadi’s mother has chosen for her son. Tonight Huda Al-Marashi shares the story told in her memoir\, First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story (Prometheus).  Come hear her read from parts of her book and answer questions at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle.
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/huda-al-marashi-at-elliott-bay-book-company/
LOCATION:Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Avenue\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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