As this year’s annual PeaceWorks conference, the Rachel Corrie Foundation hosted Olympia’s first Arab Festival on October 5th through 7th in downtown Olympia. During the planning process our excitement took over and what began as a six hour event turned into a full weekend extravaganza! Together with the Olympia community we experienced, celebrated, and learned about the diverse cultures, traditions, and lifestyles of the Arab world through food, music, dance, educational panels, children’s activities, conversations, films and so much more! With so many misconceptions and misunderstandings about the Arab world, we were excited to take on this project as a way to help dispel stereotypes and negative images as well as […]