Arab American National Museum

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Words for Palestine - October 2024

Join our monthly online series “Words for Palestine”, which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. Featured readers include Darius Simpson, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, Jenna Hamed, Layla Azmi Goushey, Mira Mattar, Nada Samih Rotundo, Rewa Zeinati, Threa Almontaser and Zeina Azzam with moderator Sahara Sidi.

#WorldRefugeeDay #FromTheArchives This picture from our collection shows a man named Majid sitting on the hood of his brand new car. He bought it for himself to celebrate graduating from medical school. This photo was taken in Iraq in 1990, Majid and his family would be forced to abandon it at the Iraq-Kuwaiti border in 1991. We forget that below every headline is a foundation of stories like Majid’s, of people who made impossible, hopeful decisions in increasingly hard times. @being_c00l

Join @thowra.dabke in the Annex @ AANM for Dabke lessons every week! Every Monday (women’s only) and Tuesday. Beginner, intermidiate & advanced: All are welcomed! #thowradabke #dabke #dearborn #arabwedding

Meet George Abraham ✨🖋️📚 @intifadabatata George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet. Their debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the executive editor of Mizna @mizna_arabart , and co-editor of HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket Books, 2025). They are currently a Litowitz MFA+MA candidate at Northwestern University, and will be joining Amherst College’s English faculty as a Writer-in-Residence this fall. EVE is a collaborative performance poetry project which deconstructs John Milton’s Paradise Lost—and the Eve and Adam myth more broadly—through the lens of Palestinian liberation. EVEqueers, shatters, reimagines and stitches together several timelines: from Milton’s life to the many existential and lonely spaces of Palestinian diaspora, to space-times before Edenic origin stories. At a juncture where Ars Poetica meets myth, EVE returns to these pasts so that they may be a futurism that lives and breathes through us all. #artistinresidence #poet #paradiselost #palestinianpoetry #arabamericanartist

🎤🎵 We were honored to host the celebrated Syrian opera singer @lubana_al_quntar as our artist-in-residence for March, 2024. This clip is from her performance, “Louder Than Bombs: Songs for Our People” at AANM (3/28/24). #lubanaalquntar #arabamerican #arabicmusic #opera

Visit mizna.org/shop to purchase your copy of “A Gaza of Siege & Genocide” by @yahyaashour98 today.   “Upon arriving in the US for the Palestine Writes Conference in September 2023, Gazan poet Yahya Ashour could have never predicted the events that would unfold for Palestinians in the months to come: that an accelerated Zionist genocidal siege on Gaza would leave him without a home to return to, that he would witness the horrors of this genocide through fragmented calls with his family from within the heart of the empire directly funding these atrocities, that he would be stranded in the US and relying on his poetry for daily survival and sustenance.   As we approach the seventh month of the latest genocidal escalation on Gaza, it is with humility and profound grief that we announce the publication of Mizna Fellow Yahya Ashour’s poetry e-book ‘A Gaza of Seige & Genocide.’ Proceeds from this project will go to directly aiding Ashour’s family fleeing to safety from the Zionist assault on Gaza.” - @mizna_arabart   Video excerpts taken from Yahya’s poetry reading at U of M Dearborn in partnership with AANM, February 2024.

We got to tap in with the Malcolm X House Historical Preservation Project, led by Project We Hope Dream and Believe in Inkster. Thank you to professor Tareq Ramadan for showing us around. We can't wait to welcome this future museum to the list of amazing museums and cultural institutions that we are a part of here in Metro Detroit. #MalcolmX #historicalpreservation #museums #MichiganHistory

PART 2: More from @thekhadegamo about the lifelong connection between Malcolm X and the people of Sudan. #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #malcolmx #sudan #arabamericanheritagemonth

You don’t want to miss @lubdubtheatreco this Friday for The Magic Bullet, A Work-In-Progress. Here in the @arabamericanmuseum auditorium, 7-8:30pm ET Friday, February 23. 🎭🎭🎭

PART 2: 📚✒️ “Don’t look for hope in my words. Give me hope with your actions” -Yahya Ashour Catch Yahya at one of his many upcoming readings, including dates in Wisconsin, Florida, Boston, Dearborn, Chicago, Oregon and California. ✈️

INTRODUCING... Yahya Ashour! (PT. 1) Yahya Ashour was born in Gaza City on April 22, 1998. He’s a touring poet and an award-winning author. He’s a 2022 Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa. Yahya has published one poetry collection, titled You’re a Window, They’re Clouds, and one children’s book, titled That’s Why Ryan Walks this Way, in Arabic and he has contributed to several printed anthologies and online journals worldwide. His writing has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian and Finnish. He has delivered several creative writing workshops for children and youth in Gaza. In 2020, Yahya earned a BA in Sociology and Psychology. Follow him at @yahyaashour98