Arab Heritage Month Events - 911 /calendar/arab-heritage-month-events/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:20:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Humanity 5K /events/humanity-5k-2/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:19:23 +0000 /?post_type=mvcc-events&p=49713 The Muslim Student Association and Refugee Life Foundation raise funds for an orphanage in Tulkaram, Palestine, and scholarships for Moraine Valley students seeking refuge. Includes a 1.5-mile walk and a 100-yard kids’ sprint. Register at humanity5k.com

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]]> The Muslim Student Association and Refugee Life Foundation raise funds for an orphanage in Tulkaram, Palestine, and scholarships
for Moraine Valley students seeking refuge. Includes a 1.5-mile walk and a 100-yard kids’ sprint. Register at humanity5k.com

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]]> Healing Circle with Dr. Mazen Atassi /events/healing-circle-with-dr-mazen-atassi/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:18:07 +0000 /?post_type=mvcc-events&p=49711 Join Dr. Mazen Atassi for a healing circle where students share their experiences in a supportive space while drawing on the wisdom of the Qur’an, Hadith, and the Prophet’s practices. Let’s come together in prayer, dhikr, and open dialogue to nurture resilience and peace amid uncertainty. Hosted by the Muslim Student Association

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]]> Join Dr. Mazen Atassi for a healing circle where students share their experiences in a supportive space while drawing on the wisdom
of the Qur’an, Hadith, and the Prophet’s practices. Let’s come together in prayer, dhikr, and open dialogue to nurture resilience and
peace amid uncertainty.

Hosted by the Muslim Student Association

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]]> History of Street Art in Palestine with Taqi Spateen /events/history-of-street-art-in-palestine-with-taqi-spateen/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:15:13 +0000 /?post_type=mvcc-events&p=49709 Artist Taqi Spateen discusses street art in Palestine. Hosted by the Arab Student Union.

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]]> Artist Taqi Spateen discusses street art in Palestine. Hosted by the Arab Student Union.

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]]> Humanity 5K /events/humanity-5k/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:37:24 +0000 /?post_type=mvcc-events&p=49568 The Muslim Student Association is partnering with the Refugee Life Foundation to raise funds to provide urgent medical relief for Gaza through MedGlobal, as well as provide scholarships to students attending Moraine Valley who are seeking refuge from their homeland. This family event features a 1.5-mile walk and a 100-yard kids Sprint for Palestine. Teams […]

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]]> The Muslim Student Association is partnering with the Refugee Life Foundation to raise funds to provide urgent medical relief for Gaza through MedGlobal, as well as provide scholarships to students attending Moraine Valley who are seeking refuge from their homeland. This family event features a 1.5-mile walk and a 100-yard kids Sprint for Palestine. Teams are encouraged. Registration is open at . Registration starts at $35 for the general public and $20 for students.

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]]> Palestinian Freedom: Beyond A Narrow Focus on The Recent Upheaval /events/palestinian-freedom-beyond-a-narrow-focus-on-the-recent-upheaval/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:36:19 +0000 /?post_type=mvcc-events&p=49566 Join USPCN-Chicago organizer Muhammad Sankari for an informational session about the work of one of the leading Palestinian community organizations in the last four months of organizing, rallying and advocating for Palestine in the midst of the genocide in Gaza.

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]]> Join USPCN-Chicago organizer Muhammad Sankari for an informational session about the work of one of the leading Palestinian community organizations in the last four months of organizing, rallying and advocating for Palestine in the midst of the genocide in Gaza.

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]]> There’s No Such Thing as The Voiceless /events/theres-no-such-thing-as-the-voiceless/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:33:35 +0000 /?post_type=mvcc-events&p=49561 While the immediate unrest in Palestine is thousands of miles away from the college, our students with family or roots in Palestine are feeling the impact in profound ways that take the form of trauma, shock, fear, immense and ongoing sadness, grief and a sense of despair. This discussion facilitated by Souzan Naser, Moraine Valley […]

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]]> While the immediate unrest in Palestine is thousands of miles away from the college, our students with family or roots in Palestine are feeling the impact in profound ways that take the form of trauma, shock, fear, immense and ongoing sadness, grief and a sense of despair. This discussion facilitated by Souzan Naser, Moraine Valley counselor and professor, will provide a safe space for Arab students to have open exchanges about how the genocide in Gaza has impacted their emotional well-being and explore strategies to center your perspective and build on your sense of purpose and confidence.

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]]> Palestine Film Night /events/palestine-film-night/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:31:11 +0000 /?post_type=mvcc-events&p=49441 Presented in collaboration by Moraine Valley Arab Student Union, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, and Moraine Valley Foundation Get Tickets Short Film: The Olive Tree Said to Me 2022, dir. Naif Salem, 5 min. Based on the best-selling book by author Naif Salem, discover the beauty of Palestine in this short film through a young girl’s […]

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]]> Presented in collaboration by Moraine Valley Arab Student Union, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, and Moraine Valley Foundation

Short Film:
The Olive Tree Said to Me
2022, dir. Naif Salem, 5 min.
Based on the best-selling book by author Naif Salem, discover the beauty of Palestine in this short film through a young girl’s journey as she learns the tradition of the olive harvest.

Feature Film:
A STATE OF PASSION
2024, dirs. Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi
Palestine, Lebanon; 93 min.
In English and Arabic with English subtitles
After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al-Shifa and Al-Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance. With news footage of him pale and shell-shocked reverberating around the world, he spoke of a catalogue of horrors from lacerated bodies, to amputations without anesthetics, orphaned children with no surviving family, and the deliberate targeting of medics and hospital facilities.   This was Ghassan’s sixth and most horrific Gaza “war”. Why does he do it? Where does he find the strength to face it again and again? How does it impact his family? How do they process the risks he takes? The answer lies simply in their shared passion: Palestine, a passion they articulate through their support of his perilous humanitarian work.

Proceeds for to the Arab American Academic Excellence Scholarship.

For more information contact Dr. Nina Shoman-Dajani, shoman-dajanim@morainevalley.edu.

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