#arab american heritage month

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

Read Palestine Week

🇵🇸 Good morning, my beautiful bookish bats. Can I start by saying a huge THANK YOU for sharing my Queer Palestinian Book post? Seriously, thank you so much. Let's keep that momentum by observing Read Palestine Week (Nov 29 - Dec 5). I've compiled a list of books to help you, along with a list of upcoming events and resources you can use this week and beyond.

🇵🇸 A collective of over 350 global publishers and individuals issued a public statement expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people. Publishers for Palestine have organized an international #ReadPalestine week, starting today (International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People).

🇵🇸 These publishers have made many resources and e-books available for free (with more to come). A few include award-winning fiction and poetry by Palestinian and Palestinian diaspora authors. You'll also find non-fiction books about Palestinian history, politics, arts, culture, and “books about organizing, resistance, and solidarity for a Free Palestine.” You can visit publishersforpalestine.org to download some of the books they have available.

POETRY 🌙 Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha 🌙 Affiliation by Mira Mattar 🌙 Enemy of the Sun by Samih al-Qasim 🌙 I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti 🌙 A Mountainous Journey by Fadwa Tuqan 🌙 So What by Taha Muhammad Ali 🌙 The Butterfly’s Burden by Mahmoud Darwish 🌙 To All the Yellow Flowers by Raya Tuffaha

FICTION 🌙 Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury 🌙 Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales 🌙 Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani 🌙 Morning in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Gaze Writes Back by Young Writers in Gaze 🌙 Palestine +100:Stories from a Century after the Nakba 🌙 Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh 🌙 Out of Time by Samira Azzam

🌙 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher 🌙 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat 🌙 A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum 🌙 Salt Houses by Hala Alyan 🌙 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🌙 Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 🌙 The Woman From Tantoura by Radwa Ashour

NON-FICTION 🌙 Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour 🌙 Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh 🌙 Palestinian Art, 1850–2005 by Kamal Boullata 🌙 Palestine by Joe Sacco 🌙 The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian’s Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker by Sami Al Jundi & Jen Marlowe 🌙 Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha 🌙 Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat 🌙 The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine by Yousef Khalil Bashir

🌙 Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution by Hanan Karaman Munayyer 🌙 Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture by Salim Tamari 🌙 This Is Not a Border: Reportage and Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature 🌙 We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir, by Raja Shehadeh 🌙 Les échos de la mémoire. Une enfance palestinienne à Jérusalem, by Issa J. Boullata 🌙 A Party For Thaera: Palestinian Women Write Life In Prison 🌙 Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, 🌙 Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine

#free palestine #save palestine #books #book list #book recs #book recommendation #booklr #book blog #batty about books #battyaboutbooks #arab american heritage month #arab american writers #palestinian writers #palestinian poetry #poetry #poetry books #nonfiction #fiction books #queer fiction #queer community #queer books #muslim writers #read palestine week

[the-birth-of-art]

"There’s a lot of really interesting counter-culture happening with Bashir for the gay community and the awkward nerd community who never got a chance to express themselves. The true Trekkies. You go to a convention back in the 90s and the whole room is full of odd people, people who don’t fit in, who were probably self-professedly so. But they’re together in love for Trek, and given shelter from the storm of social expectations."

#alexander siddig #star trek #deep space nine #st:ds9 #julian bashir #arab american heritage month

[californiastatelibrary]

In honor of Arab American Heritage Month, we look at the Syrian Directory of the State of California for this month’s Discovery in the Stacks. Beginning in 1928, this directory was a means of connection for the people of the growing Arab diaspora in California. To learn more and read previous Discoveries in the Stacks visit: https://www.library.ca.gov/california-history/discoveries/.

Discoveries in the Stacks is a webpage where the California History Section's librarians share moments where they have stumbled upon materials in the collection that made them think or made them laugh or simply were too good not to share.

#california #libraries #california history #books #librarians #arab american heritage month #syria

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Did you know that April is Arab American Heritage Month?

Check out this new book display in our Children’s Room!

#book displays #Arab American Heritage Month #Kid Lit #Kingsbridge Library #NYPL

[totallyhussein-blog]

“Iraq, you are in our hearts”

The Awafi Kitchen is where Arab and Jewish cuisine are one. They are part of the Iraqi Jewish community and are based in Boston, USA. All of their family were displaced from Iraq between 1950 and 1970. The following statement and photograph were posted on the Facebook page of the Awafi Kitchen, and was titled ‘Our Return to Iraq’.

“Last month, after five decades away, members of our family finally walked the streets in Baghdad, the city they once called home. Out of hundreds  of us in diaspora across the world, we were the first in our family to set foot in Baghdad since our waves of displacement between the 50s and 70s.

The trip was every feeling all at once. Pure joy, gratitude, and reconnection, inextricable from the grief and pain of facing our decades of separation, and seeing much of our family’s hometown deeply changed. 

Our whole lives we’ve dreamed of witnessing the beautiful Baghdad we have been painted in memories. We found beauty, but also bore witness to the impact of decades of war, the US occupation, and ongoing resource extraction, and how this has limited the place’s ability to thrive.

That being said, the people we met were incredible. We spent two weeks surrounded by an abundance of love and warmth everywhere we went. There's beautiful new realities rebuilding. Iraqis returning, Iraqis who have stayed through it all. 

Tender moments of mutual curiosity and excitement: younger Iraqis eager to learn about the old Baghdad of our family’s youth, the lost Jewish history of the city, and in turn our family eager to learn what it’s like to live as an Iraqi in the contemporary world. And ultimately, as friends reminded us, we accomplished our goal: it was just about touching foot to earth, and that we did.

For any Iraqis considering returning like we did, know that you can count on us for advice or perspective. Don’t hesitate to reach out. And for Iraqis with a reluctance to return, for those who still cannot, we empathize with you. Iraq, you are in our hearts.”

#iraq #iraqi #baghdad #mosul #basra #boston #awafi kitchen #iraqi jews #jewish history #passover #easter #us news #manchester #london #Iraqis #arab american heritage month #arab american national museum #manchester jewish museum #travel #the middle east #synagogue #heritage #jewish heritage #remember baghdad #the wolf of baghdad

[heavenboy09]

April Is Back & You Know What That Means.

Autism Awareness Month & Earth 🌎 Month

But There Is A New Month I want Introduce You All To For The Month Of April

A Month Dedicated To The Arab Muslim ☪️ 🇦🇪 Community

National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM) takes place in April. It celebrates the Arab American heritage and culture and pays tribute to the contributions of Arab Americans and Arabic-speaking Americans.

Beginning in the 1990s, Arab American heritage was celebrated sporadically in various states at different times of the year, primarily in school districts. It wasn't until 2017 when Arab America began a national initiative to coordinate all states under National Arab American Heritage Month. On April 30, 2019, Arab American organizations asked Congresswoman Debbie Dingell to issue a congressional resolution proclaiming National Arab American Heritage Month. It was then introduced to the house on April 30, 2019, and then referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The largest and most promising achievement towards federal recognition of the month of April as the National Arab American Heritage Month was the proclamation published by the U.S. Department of State, which was accomplished on April 1, 2021, by the efforts of independent Syrian-American advocate and author, Pierre Subeh.

An identical bill was introduced in the House on May 1, 2020, to support the designation of an Arab American Heritage Month but it has not currently been passed.

Some individual states (such as the Commonwealth of Virginia) and 26 others observed April as Arab American Heritage Month early on before any federal recognition was proclaimed. It wasn't until April 19, 2021, that the first recognition on a federal level was issued, which was published as a White House letter from president Joe Biden recognizing April as the National Arab American Heritage Month, otherwise called NAAHM.

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#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #Arabic #ArabAmericans #Arab #Muslim

#Arab American Heritage Month #Arabic #Arab American #Arab #Muslim #Spotify

[starry-sky-melody]

so glad it's arab American heritage month now whenever someone even breathes towards me wrong I can tell them "EX-SQUEEZE ME.. ITS LITERALLY ARAB AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH.."

#/j #hoshiis misc. #arab american heritage month

[thecosmicpunk]

This Easter and TDOV really just showed that people have a lot of shit to say but don't know what the everloving fuck they're talking about.

"Why do Trans people need a day you have a whole month already???" Trans Visibility Day is for Trans people, Pride month is for all Queer people. It's different. But also there are other national months that have a dedicated day in a different month.

Easter is a different day every year and sometimes it's going to land on a day that already has a holiday/nationally recognized day. You gonna be mad at stoners next year for daring to have a smoke with jesus?

Why do you think February is Black History Month? Or why May is AAPI month? Or why June is Pride month?

Do people think that national months happen by closing our eyes and pointing at a calendar? Do you think we just picked a month at random and claimed it ours? Significant moments and events in history happened during those months. And it often took years for those months to be nationally recognized. History is actually so fun to learn about please read something I'm begging.

• And if you're outside of the U.S and you have different national months/holidays please let me know I'd love to read about it!

(Also I only used History.com and one AmericanBar articles because other links weren't working but I encourage you to do research from other sources as well as read the articles I linked.)

In February Black History Month was Black History week for decades:

In March Women's History Month started as Women's History Week:

April is Arab American Heritage Month:

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Month:

June is Pride Month:

Juneteenth:

July is Disability Pride Month:

September 15 to October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month:

Indigenous Peoples' Day is the second Monday in October, and November is Native American Heritage Month:

#history #black history month #womens history month #arab american heritage month #asian american and pacific islander month #aapi month #pride month #stonewall #disability pride month #hispanic heritage month #Indigenous peoples day #native american heritage month #punk #trans day of visibility #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtq #queer #trans #american history #us history #easter #juneteenth #tdov #queer history

[diedbydeath]

april is arab american heritage month.

do not let israel erase palestinian heritage.

#arab american heritage month #(i’m pretty sure) #palestine #free palestine

[roadwrkahead]

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Happy Arab American Heritage Month!!!

#arab American heritage month

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

Fiction by Arab and Arab American Authors

🦇 Happy Friday to all my bookish bats, dragons, and babes! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, whether it's spent cozying up with a good book, spring cleaning, or out with loved ones. 🦇

🌙 This month is Arab American Heritage Month; a celebration that too often falls behind the collective shadow of others. In an effort to remedy that, here are nine stories by voices in the Arab and Arab-American community that deserve a little light. These stories range from romances to suspenseful mysteries, so there's something for everyone! Consider adding a few to your ever-growing TBR in your effort to celebrate fresh voices and perspectives this year.

📖 Books Mentioned 📖

🌙 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher 🌙 Between Two Moons by Aisha Abdel Gawad 🌙 Watch Us Dance by Leïla Slimani 🌙 This Is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi 🌙 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat 🌙 The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi 🌙 Mother of Strangers by Suad Amiry 🌙 The Tale of Prince Fatima, Warrior Woman by Melanie Magidow 🌙 The Other Americans by Laila Lalami

#arab american heritage month #books #book recommendations #book recs #reading #battyaboutbooks #batty about books

[arvinsvintage]

Happy Arab American Heritage Month to Egyptian-American Rami Malek, the first person of Arab heritage to win an Oscar for best actor.

He has starred in 37 productions and counting, and is a winner of multiple major awards.

#arab american heritage month #rami malek #national arab American heritage month #egyptian #heritage #arab heritage #egyptian american #egyptian-american #Youtube

[thephoblographer]

6 of the Best Arab American Photographers Around

You'll discover someone new!

If you’re unaware, April is officially Arab American Heritage Month. With that, The Phoblographer has been celebrating the best Arab American photographers. From portrait to wildlife photographers, we’re proud to showcase leading creatives in the Arab American space. This article will look at the highlights and share the best photographers we’ve published over the last four weeks. (more…)

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#Amir Saidi #Arab American Heritage Month #best arab american photographers #Farrah Skeiky #portrait photography #rania matar #Simon Chetrit #tamara hijazi #tasneem alsultan #wildlife photography

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Stay tuned for the April displays in our Children’s Room!

#book displays #National Poetry Month #Arab American Heritage Month #Kid Lit #Kingsbridge Library #NYPL

[totallyhussein-blog]

Embracing self-love and self-determination

Huda Kattan was born in Oklahoma in 1983, and when she was two-years-old her family moved to Tennessee, and eventually Boston. Her Iraqi mother and father emigrated to the United States to teach Biology and study Mechanical Engineering, respectively.

Living in Tennessee, Kattan was known as ‘Heidi’ while her younger sister Mona was called ‘Monica.’ “I wanted to go by Huda, but people thought it was so weird. But when we moved to Massachusetts, people were like, ‘That’s such a cool name! They would even tell me, ‘You’re from Iraq; wow, that’s so cool!’” 

Kattan met her now-husband, Chris Goncalo, at the University of Michigan-Dearborn where she studied finance. The couple moved to Dubai in 2006, and welcomed their first child, Nour Gisele, shortly after.

A lifelong passion for beauty had led Huda to enrol at a prestigious make-up training school in Los Angeles, cultivating a roster of clientele including A-list celebrities and a royal family. Soon after, Huda set up her beauty blog HudaBeauty.com.

Named one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Internet by TIME Magazine and Digital Innovator of the Year by Women’s Wear Daily, Huda Kattan is Founder of Huda Beauty, one of the fastest growing beauty brands in the world and in the UK Huda Beauty can be found in all branches of Selfridges.

Kattan refuses to sit on the sidelines of progress and uses her far-reaching platform to raise awareness and generously spreads her success to enact social justice. 

“We know in order for things to change there needs to be disruption,” she confided to Vogue Arabia. “We want to support everyone as much as we possibly can and make as much impact as we possibly can. We want to be change-makers.”

#vogue arabia #arab american heritage month #arab americans #arab american national museum #iraq #iraqi #baghdad #mosul #basra #middle east #manchester #Trafford centre #beauty #make up #Vogue #shopping #Iraqi Women #womens history #USA #us news #uk news

[heavenboy09]

April Is Back & You Know What That Means.

Autism Awareness Month & Earth 🌎 Month

But There Is A New Month I want Introduce You All To For The Month Of April

A Month Dedicated To The Arab Muslim ☪️ 🇦🇪 Community

National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM) takes place in April. It celebrates the Arab American heritage and culture and pays tribute to the contributions of Arab Americans and Arabic-speaking Americans.

Beginning in the 1990s, Arab American heritage was celebrated sporadically in various states at different times of the year, primarily in school districts. It wasn't until 2017 when Arab America began a national initiative to coordinate all states under National Arab American Heritage Month. On April 30, 2019, Arab American organizations asked Congresswoman Debbie Dingell to issue a congressional resolution proclaiming National Arab American Heritage Month. It was then introduced to the house on April 30, 2019, and then referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The largest and most promising achievement towards federal recognition of the month of April as the National Arab American Heritage Month was the proclamation published by the U.S. Department of State, which was accomplished on April 1, 2021, by the efforts of independent Syrian-American advocate and author, Pierre Subeh.

An identical bill was introduced in the House on May 1, 2020, to support the designation of an Arab American Heritage Month but it has not currently been passed.

Some individual states (such as the Commonwealth of Virginia) and 26 others observed April as Arab American Heritage Month early on before any federal recognition was proclaimed. It wasn't until April 19, 2021, that the first recognition on a federal level was issued, which was published as a White House letter from president Joe Biden recognizing April as the National Arab American Heritage Month, otherwise called NAAHM.

APRIL IS

ARAB AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH 🇦🇪🇸🇦☪️🕋🕌🇪🇬🇩🇿🇮🇱🇮🇷🇲🇦🇪🇹🇵🇰

#Arab American Heritage Month #Arabic #Arab Americans #Arab #Muslim #Spotify