#arabic american heritage month

[fiercynn]

it's not that i'm inherently against the booping or w/e i like fun things too but. bisan called for a global strike and mass protests and the majority of people i've seen talking about it are palestinians, plus a handful of consistent allies, many of whom are disabled or unable to be out on the streets for various reasons so are trying their hardest to get others who can be out there. but my dash is only booping memes and even LESS discussion of this fucking genocide than usual, just a few days after land day and while al-shifa hospital has been decimated. why is it always fucking on palestinian folks to keep shouting into the void for their survival? like if you must boop can you not also at least also be sharing what palestinians are saying and telling us needs to be done to make sure they and their entire country and community and culture aren't fucking erased from the planet? it feels like so fucking little to ask

#it's also fucking the beginning of both genocide awareness month AND arab american heritage month in the u.s. #so i just can't get excited about april fool's. how about all these other april things. #free palestine #genocide #zionist colonization

[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

[aropride]

huge month for arab-american autistic stoner asexual lesbians

#text #not sure if shes asexual but i have a friend who meets all the other criteria which is awesome #context: april is arab american heritage month + autism acceptance month; 4/20; today is ace day; and lesbian week is later this month

[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

[fracktastic]

last day of Arab American Heritage Month

these designs were on my Sitto's baby clothes and now they're on my sweatshirt

Excuse the cat hair - they love tatreez, too

#arab in america #tatreez #palestinian culture #palestinian diaspora #palestinian art #palestinian embroidery #arab american heritage month #Diaspora

[little-flutterss]

happy arab-american heritage month! remember to do your daily clicks on arab.org and support ibtisam and stuckinapril’s (And anyone elses) hunger strikes and check out their blogs! todays arab character is samirah al-abbas from the magnus chase series! (the art in this board is cho.ccymilk!) (i do not support or fund disney nor rick riordian at all, and i encourage you to do the same)

samiraaaahhhhh!!!!! the first arab character i ever saw in a media, and the first one who’s not just from “unnamed middle eastern country”. she’s iraqi, specifically from baghdad! samirah is a great character imo. i love her interactions with magnus, blitz, hearthstone, and amir! i overall jst rlly like her. she’s a cool character that has fun interactions, and who’s character doesnt have that many stereotypes from what i can see. most of my problems with her are less abt her and more abt her author/her overall series (which i have a lot of issues with haha)

i personally dont think she regresses or caregives, but i do think she knows abt it and def doesnt mind babysitting! i hc that all the valkyries have SOME knowledge on it, and since magnus regresses, samirah put extra time into learning abt it

#agere #sfw agere #age regression #sfw age regression #agere stimboard #happy arab american heritage month! #flutters arab character boards

[violexides]

its pretty cool that trans visibility day is immediately followed by autism awareness month bc after the 31st i watched all my friends begin to fade away like dying stars only to come back immediately the next day . YIPPEE

#ides.txt #april is also arab american heritage month so i'm here on a business trip and would be free to grab coffee next saturday if youd like? #(in case it's not clear by my phrasing btw 90% of my mutuals are trans and autistic) #(so i'm playing on the day of visibility you all can see me now kind of bit)

[gorillawithautism]

shout out to all the autistic arab americans btw

#swingset #it's autism month and arab american heritage month which means autistic arab americans are double powered up

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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 🇦🇪🇸🇦☪️🕋🕌🇪🇬🇩🇿🇮🇱🇮🇷🇲🇦🇪🇹🇵🇰

#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #Arabic #ArabAmericans #Arab #Muslim

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

[name-protection-squad]

Hi, I’m a Queer Arab during this fine day on Arab American Heritage month, I realized that an Queer Arab flag doesn’t exist,

SO I MADE ONE!!!

Here’s one without the eye:

#Arab queer #arab americans #queer Arab Americans #Arab heritage month 2023 #arab #arab heritage month #lgbtq flags #lgbtq #gay #lesbian #bisexaul

[hpd--ena]

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