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Arab American Heritage Month

An Arabic style blanket with a silver teapot and tray of dates and tea cups. Arab American Heritage Month, April 2024.

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Bassem Youssef.

Podcast: Bassem Youssef
Exiled from Cairo: Humor as Dissent

Author Riad Sattouf

Podcast: Riad Sattouf
and Elvis Mitchell
The Arab of the Future 2

Author Hisham Aidi.

Podcast: Hisham Aidi
Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture


Author Ream Shukairy

Biographies: Arab Americans

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Family portrait of an Arab American family in Los Angeles.

Photographs: Shades of L.A.
The Arab American Community
in Los Angeles


Culture: Discover traditional recipes
popular in the Arab world

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Read

Book cover: Mishadra graphic novel
e-book: Mis(h)adra
by Iasmin Omar Ata

Book cover: The Moor's Account.
Arab American Heritage Month titles
on Overdrive/Libby

Book cover: Anatomy of a disappearance
e-book: The Anatomy of a Disappearance
by Hirsham Matar

Books for Arab American Heritage Month

Events

A teenager reclines by a sunny window while reading on her tablet
April 6, 2026 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Book Worms: Arab-American Heritage Month
Join us for a book discussion and help decorate the library for Arab-American Heritage Month! This month, we are reading the novel The...

A girl reads on her tablet by a sunny window
April 6, 2026 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Book Wyrms (Grades 6-12)
We are discussing two books, The Buried & the Bound by Rochelle Hassan and Thief of the Heights by Son M & Robyn Yao, and...

armed Arab men in traditional clothes getting ready for a battle
April 13, 2026 3:00 PM
Lion of the Desert
Directed by a Syrian-American film producer and director Moustapha Akkad, Lion of the Desert (1980) is an historical epic detailing the...

Two Book Covers: My beautiful sisters : a story of courage, hope, and the Afghan women's soccer team, and Arab in Newsland
April 16, 2026 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Book Walk and Talk
Do you like sports? Does literature speak to you? Would you like to go for a walk? Then join us on the first and third Thursdays of the...

Young boy standing in the desert holding a rifle
April 18, 2026 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Movie Showing - Theeb
In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a...

Bowl of dates and silver teapot, alongside Ibtisam Barakat's memoir "Tasting the Sky"
April 18, 2026 3:00 PM
In Conversation With Ibtisam Barakat: Author Interview Watch Party
Award-winning, Palestinian-American author, poet, translator, artist, and educator. Ibtisam Barakat (pronunciation) (Arabic spelling:...

Egyptian man in a skull cap and a woman in pigtails standing next to a fence and wooden box
April 20, 2026 3:00 PM
Cairo Station
Qinawi, a newspaper seller, falls for Hannuma, a cold drink vendor who is engaged to Abu Siri, a luggage porter. However, when Qinawi...

pattern of fabric
April 20, 2026 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Arab American and Armenian Heritage Month MakerSpace
Join us for a MakerSpace themed around Arab American Heritage Month and Armenian Heritage Month to create 3D items, sewing projects, zines...

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