DANCE
Dabke Class

Thur Sep 11th at 7:30pm
Manousheh Grand, Williamsburg

Some dabke moves to invigorate the body and the soul.

Tickets at $20
Zelle 305-496-3017

ART EXHIBIT
Mooncalf Grand Opening

Fri Sep 12th, 5-10pm
East Village

This is the grand opening of Mooncalf is and artist-run, experimental incubator for interdisciplinary art and ideas. They will feature various artists among them Maryam Turkey (a very cool Iraqi-American artist and a talented designer).

ART
Two Arab Minds NYC Book Release

Fri Sep 12th, 5-10pm
Derby Cup Coffee, Chinatown

Tow Arab Minds is a full-service Paris agency that offers creative direction, strategy, brand design, content creation & event production and they are releasing their first book in NYC this week.

Free
More info

CONCERT
Bahloul & Araki

Fri Sep 12th from 10pm
Barzakh Cafe, Brooklyn Heights

Bahloul & Araki bring a night of live experimentation at Barzakh Café. The evening starts with an improvisational set on electric oud and keys, exploring new sounds and textures. From 11PM, the music opens into a 6arab jam (طربجام), keeping the night going with collective grooves and melodies.

Tickets at $22

CINEMA
Our Songs Were Ready For All Wars By Nour Abed

Fri Sep 12-21st, 20min
Online

Narrated through a song composed of lyrics woven from various folk tales and performed by Palestinian singer Maya Khaldi, the film traces situated movements and collective rituals tied to notions of mourning and death. Captured through analog film and sound, the film creates a space that evokes the capacity of social formation and the possibility of recalling a memory that is capable of decentralizing images of fixity.

Suggested donation of $5
RSVP

PARTY
The RAÏ Party

Fri Sep 12th, 9pm-3am
Starr Bar, Bushwick

Step into a night where North African soul meets New York energy. From the heart of Algeria to the streets of Brooklyn, RAÏ has always been about freedom, love, rebellion, and raw emotion.

Tickets at $25

COMEDY
Nataly Aukar

Sat Sep 13th at 7:30pm & 10pm
Union Hall, Park Slope

It's that time of year where Nataly tries her new jokes with you again! Come let her know if they’re any good.

7:30pm show tickets for the 7:30pm 10pm show tickers show at $19

CONVERSATION
Anarchy, Ecology & Relationships

Sat Sep 13th, 3-5pm
Sam & Sadie Koenig Community Garden, East Village

This event explores how our relationships can help us resist oppression and imagine new ways of living together. Using mushrooms/mycelium as a metaphor for connection and resilience, the facilitators invite participants to think about love, care, and solidarity as revolutionary practices and discuss ideas like mutual aid and nontraditional approaches to relationships, and human care. Facilitators: Logina (founder of Queering Existentialism). K. Eskins (founder of Queer Philosophy NYC) and Sal Chen (artist)

Free, RSVP

FUNDRAISER
Bake Sale For Gaza

Sat Sep 13th, 12-4pm
Heirloom Supper Club, Brooklyn

A group of very talented bakers are organizing a bake sale in BK. Goods will be priced btw $4-10. All proceeds will be donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen + The Sameer Project Medical Campaign. Vendors include Pistachio milk matcha, Butter Milk Babushka, M Madi Scott, and Heirloom Supper Club.

Free, RSVP

PARTY
Tailz, Sister Wives and Visiter

Sat Sep 13th, 7-10pm
Mood Ring, Bushwick

Zoey and Duriya Rochdi are sister wives, Zoe is an American-Moroccan producer and one of the newest Artists emerging in the NYC Electronic Dance Music scene.

Free

WORKSHOP
We Never Left: Healing Circle

Sat Sep 13th, 11am-12:15pm
Online

This gathering is offered by the team behind We Never Left, a powerful documentary by Loulwa Khoury set against the backdrop of the Lebanese revolution, screening September 10th at Cobble Hill Cinema. Facilitated by Dr. Nawal Muradwij, this free online healing circle is a space to process grief, rage, and hope amidst collective struggles in the Arab region and beyond. Open to all, it centers solidarity, emotional expression, and the pursuit of a liberated future.

Free, RSVP

CONCERT
Counter ft Laila Amira

Sat Sep 13th, 4-10 pm
Lise & Vito, Greenpoint

COUNTER is a DJ series born from activism, channeling music as a force for change. Each event uplifts organizations pushing back against the harm caused by the U.S. administration. This edition features Laila Amira, a Brooklyn-based DJ, born and raised in Iran, whose genre-fluid sets flow from disco to house, techno to electro. Proceeds from this night will benefit Planned Parenthood.

Tickets at $23

ART EXHIBIT
Tierra y Cuerpo Opening Reception

Sat Sep 13th, 6-10 pm
Pa’lante Rum, Williamsburg

This exhibition is an exploration of the threads between land and body, memory and migration, spirit and resistance, This exhibit will be featuring various artists among them Amira Alsareinye of Syrian decent. Entry is donation-based with a percentage of proceeds supporting the Immigrant Defense Project.

Free, RSVP

PARTY
Deep Dish & Friends

Sun Sep 14th at 2pm
The Roof At Superior Ingredients

Deep Dish is the Grammy-winning Iranian-American DJ duo of Ali “Dubfire” Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi, pioneers of progressive and deep house since the early 1990s. Known for their iconic remixes and genre-bending album Junk Science, they helped bring underground house to global stages, they are iconic!

Tickets from $30

THEATER
Noor Theater: Highlight Party

Tue Sep 16th, 6-10pm
Cobble Fish, Sea Port

Founded in 2010, Noor Theatre brings MENA/SWANA stories to life on the NYC stage, offering readings, plays, and artist development rooted in the belief that theater can shift narratives. They are We’re throwing a party in honor of our Highlight Reading Series.

Free. RSVP  

CINEMA
There Was There Was Not

Fri Sep 19th at 7pm
Brooklyn Commons, BK Heights

The film explores the dreams and desires of women enduring war, trauma, and inequality. Set in Nagorno-Karabakh, a long-disputed region between Armenia and Azerbaijan, it offers an intimate look into the inner worlds of four women navigating life in a conflict zone. The screening will also feature the short film The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (17 min), followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

Free, RSVP

LITERATURE
Controlled Demolition By Ammiel Alcalay

Fri Sep 19th at 6pm
CUNY, Midtown

Raised in Boston by Sephardic Jewish immigrants from Belgrade, Alcalay is a poet, scholar, translator, and CUNY Distinguished Professor. Respected in pro-Palestinian, anti-colonial, and leftist intellectual, his new book Controlled Demolition is a work in four books combining three previously published poetic texts, Scrapmetal (2007), the cairo notebooks (1993), and from the warring factions (2002), with a new work, “Controlled Demolition.”

Free, RSVP

PARTY
Lunar Odyssey Ft Marjan & Mashrik

Fri Sep 19th at 10pm
House Of Yes, Bushwick

You heard it right! House of Yes is doubling the Middle Eastern magic this month with Marjan (Iranian descent) and Mashrik (Egyptian-Lebanese roots)

Tickets from $34

LITERATURE
Babylon,Albion

Fri Sep 19th, 6-8PM
Ursula Bookstore, Chelsea

Drawing from Arab mythology and Islamic tradition alongside English folklore and the Christian pastoral tradition, Al-Dujaili moves between the real and the mythical, from date palms to oak trees, from Lamassu to unicorns, inviting us to rethink how we connect with place and with the living world around us. It is, in many ways, a love letter, to Britain, to Iraq and to the earth we all share. Dalia will be signing books on the night.

Free, RSVP