Samira Abed​ is a recent graduate from UC Berkeley, where she majored in English. She is of Palestinian origins, lives in the East Bay, and loves: dancing, thinking, sitting, drawing, and writing poetry. Email her at s​[email protected]

Join Vancouver, B.C.- based Canadabkeh troupe in this specially-choreographed piece, showcasing the beauty of Levantine folkloric dance! Video is pre-recorded and available for multiple viewing. Canadabkeh was founded by Haytham and Zaid Alhamaydeh, two brothers from Nablus, Palestine. After both noticing that dabke culture was not active in Vancouver, they decided to look for passionate […]

Monique Mansour is a first-generation Iraqi-Chaldean American and was born and raised in Southern California. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from UC Riverside, and a BA in Screenwriting and Sociology from Loyola Marymount University before serving as a Fulbright Scholar in Malta, where she taught Creative Writing […]

Assia Bendaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored by the FBI. When she's investigating, she exposes a surveillance program on a scale no one could have imagined. Shuruq 4.5 and Habibi Collective present a live screening of the feature film, ​The Feeling of Being Watched.​ Following […]