ABOUT AANM NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD + STAFF OCT. 1, 2019 - SEPT. 30, 2020

National Advisory Board AANM Staff

Honorary Members Diana Abouali, PhD | Director Her Majesty Queen Noor Al-Hussein of Jumana Salamey, AuD | Deputy Director Congresswoman Debbie Dingell Cushla J. (Hendry) Ahmad | Executive Assistant Yousif B. Ghafari Rasha Almulaiki | Educator Irene Hirano * Lejla Bajgoric | Community Events Organizer Secretary Ray LaHood Elizabeth Barrett-Sullivan | Curator of Exhibits Patricia Mooradian Amal Beydoun | Development Manager Kathy Najimy Brandon Coulter | Communications Specialist Congressman Nick Rahall Greta Anderson Finn | Grant Writer Betty Sams Aziza Ghanem | Administrative Assistant Tony Shalhoub Kathryn Grabowski | Curator of Public Programming George Takei Ahmed Jamalaldin | Maintenance Technician Elizabeth Karg | Librarian Executive Committee Ayah Krisht | Media Designer Fawwaz Ulaby, Chair Crystal McColl | Curatorial Specialist Ismael Ahmed Edwina Murphy | Archivist Raghad Farah Lujine Nasralla | Communications Specialist Edward M. Gabriel Iman Saleh | Administrative Support Sandra Gibson Dave Serio | Educator & Public Programming Specialist Leila Hilal Ruth Ann Skaff | Senior Outreach Advisor Sharif Hussein Matthew Jaber Stiffler, PhD | Research & Content Manager Manal Saab, Ex Officio Danya Zituni | Educator Aziz Shaibani Mouna Haddad Khoury, Chair, Friends of AANM

General Membership Evelyn Alsultany Since opening its doors in 2005, the Arab American National Museum (AANM) remains the nation’s only cultural institution Anan Ameri that documents, preserves and presents the history, culture and contributions of Arab Americans. Located in Dearborn, Nazeeh Aranki Michigan, amid one of the largest concentrations of Arab Americans in the United States, AANM presents original Bassam Barazi exhibitions, cutting-edge art, film screenings and performances in Michigan and in major cities across the U.S., and Maya Berry continually documents the history and experiences of Arab Americans. Ahmad Chebbani

Evon Ebeid AANM is one of just six Michigan Affiliates of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. AANM is a founding member of the area arts collective CultureSource as well as Haitham Eid the Immigration and Civil Rights Network of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience and the Michigan Alliance for Inea B. Engler Cultural Accessibility, and is a member of the National Performance Network. AANM is an institution of ACCESS, the largest George Jalinos Arab American community nonprofit in the nation, founded in 1971. Ronnie Jallad Adib Kassis Ihsen Ketata Albert Mokhiber Rima Nashashibi Ziad S. Ojakli Wafa Salah George Salem Helen Samhan * The late Irene Hirano passed away in April 2020.

On cover: Fiber etchings by Yasmine Nasser Diaz, 2020, from the soft powers exhibition at AANM. Front: Call Waiting. Back: Noxzema & Lipliner (detail). 2019-2020 Annual Report 2 FROM THE AANM DIRECTOR FROM THE NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD CHAIR

Dear friends, Dear friends,

A little under a year ago, I wrote a letter to our supporters As you can see in the pages of this report, we slowly On December 31, 2020, I completed my final year as chair This year, my appreciation for AANM's community is as part of an Arab American National Museum adjusted to the “new normal” we were thrust into, —and my 15th year as a member—of the National Advisory heightened to an exceptional level. On behalf of the entire campaign. It was late April, and the Museum’s outlook was pivoting to exclusively online programs successfully, Board of the Arab American National Museum. Because of AANM Advisory Board, I would like to thank those who grim as a financial crisis loomed amid a rapidly spreading even though AANM had never attempted them before. COVID-19, it was a difficult year for everyone concerned, lifted the Museum through 2020 including our generous pandemic. In that letter, I mentioned an Arabic saying that We reached new national and international audiences. but thanks to the steadfast leadership of the Museum donors, Friends of the Arab American National Museum comes to my mind when I’m going through a particularly We partnered with Arab American cultural organizations and the dedication of its staff, the Museum adapted its Committee and the inspiring Arab American community. rough patch, and especially when things seem irreversibly nationwide and coproduced fantastic events, offering our practices and came through for the community. I must also express my resounding gratitude to director dire. That saying is, tafa’alu bil-khayr tajiduh, which roughly audiences the emotional fulfillment that only the arts can Dr. Diana Abouali and the entire AANM staff for saving translates as, “hope for good things and you will find them.” give. AANM staff worked tirelessly all year with unwavering In spite of the pandemic, the Museum's innovative practices the Museum during COVID-19 with a quick pivot to virtual commitment to our mission, buoyed by supporters like transformed a situation of isolation to community. As programming. To all of you, your generous service and I’ve repeated that saying many times these past twelve you. And in the end, we received wonderfully good news: we shut the doors of our galleries and moved into virtual our lovely memories together made my job fulfilling for months, whether in the mornings with hours of back-to- AANM was designated as one of America’s Cultural rooms, I realized this institution's resilience is not only many years. back Zoom meetings ahead of me or in the evenings after Treasures by the Ford ! measured by overcoming obstacles but also in honoring endlessly writing and rewriting grant applications. I would these challenges as part of our story. My time at the Museum, especially this past year, has think of it when I entered the quiet and solemn AANM We must move forward while acknowledging the historical taught me that our community surpasses the physical building, seeing the darkened exhibits that were once hardships of this past year, as well as celebrating the AANM continues to lead the way in uplifting the Arab walls of our institution. It is greater than that. It is our art, sparkling with the boundless energy of school children. I successes. We dare to hope that the lessons we have American voice. In 2020, our virtual film screenings fostered innovation, allyship and friendship. As I leave you in the said it when we made difficult and impactful decisions, and learned from both will carry us onward. I look forward to a sense of camaraderie and the online open mics kept our capable hands of my successor, Leila Hilal, I am honored when I walked past the offices of former colleagues. I thought anticipating, with you, all the good things that are in store spirits alive. We hosted several artists-in-residence who that you individually and together define for me my sense of it as I read about scientists working to develop a COVID-19 for the Arab American National Museum in the coming year. extended their talents past our circumstances' limitations of a “true community.” vaccine while the death toll amounted, and as Black Lives with their beautiful work. This year we were also reminded Matter protests spread across the nation and the world. Sincerely, of our institution's role in connecting the Arab American Sincerely, community to our allies. As discussions on racial inequity The saying became this secular supplicant’s prayer; each rose to the surface, the Museum honored its responsibility time I said it, my mind refocused on a future that I had to to listen to the Black community and host programming on believe would be brighter, healthier, more just. And— accountability, education and race. eventually—it bore true. Good things were indeed found. Fawwaz Ulaby Diana Abouali

3 Arab American National Museum 2019-2020 Annual Report 4 OCTOBER 2019 NOVEMBER 2019

With various events and exhibitions planned, our fall season was in full swing by October. We welcomed visitors to engage Alongside ACCESS, the Center for Arab American (CAAP) and the National Network for Arab American with us through literary events with popular authors Susan Muaddi Darraj and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha; we kicked off our Communities (NNAAC), AANM was proud to co-host MOVE, the second convening of its kind bringing together over 400 SURA Arts Academy Fall semester; we partnered with the National Immigrant Integration Conference (NIIC) for a special Arab American artists, activists, philanthropists and their allies to discuss the most pressing issues facing our community. Concert of Colors performance; and we continued to make the Museum more accessible to members of our community We were also excited to announce our JAM3A summer music and arts festival on the last day of the conference, building through My Turn: Sensory Friendly Sundays (an AANM experience designed for families affected by autism and other hype for the upcoming year. Later in the month, we also welcomed many members of the Arab American community to our sensory-processing challenges). We were looking forward to the exciting events planned for the next few months as we Grand Gala, hosted by comedian and performer Chris Farah, where we successfully raised funds for underserved school headed into the new year. districts to visit and tour the Museum.

Halloween Party Dancing Identities/ Celebrating Halloween in an educational Defining Place: and inclusive space with our community, we hosted 200 people at a merry-not- How do our bodies carry and process scary Halloween celebration featuring ancestral embodied knowledge? In exhibit trick-or-treating, crafts, a story collaboration with Daring Dances, Jeremy Dutcher read aloud in English and Arabic, a Reading Coffee/ MOVE Minneapolis-based Leila Awadallah Once There Was and costume contest and more. (along with performance partner Noelle As an institution that stands on Writing the Future Throughout the conference, AANM Awadallah) and Detroit’s own Audrey Once There Was Not Anishinaabe land, AANM is committed to presented exciting and memorable Johnson took audiences on a thought- uplifting Indigenous artists and activists. On Exile What does the future look like in 50 years? events, such as an opening night provoking journey through identity, place The opening line to the quintessential So, in celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ 100 years? 1,000 years? How will people reception filled with food, music and and imagination, featuring incredible Armenian and Arabic folktale, artist-in- Day, we were honored to present award- As part of our Fall/Winter Gallery Pop-Up host social gatherings in the future? What dancing featuring a dance performance movement and multi-disciplinary residence Levon Kafafian’s exhibition, winning member of the Tobique First Series, we featured artistic documentary role will coffee play in those gatherings? by Sheeba Entertainment, as well as the elements as they attempted to answer Once There Was and Once There Was Not, Nation in New Brunswick, Jeremy Dutcher, film On Exile by Jose Carlos Teixeira, Artist-in-residence Levon Kafafian helped conference’s signature event, a staged this question. The artists' jaw-dropping was an invitation into the speculative in live concert at the Detroit Institute of investigating the SWANA refugee attendees answer these questions and reading of Lameece Issaq and Jacob dance performances explored the past, the incredibility of reality and Arts (DIA). In addition to a beautiful experience, expanding on issues of more through an informal salon-style Kader’s remarkable Food and Fadwa. historic oppression of Black and the fantastic within the mundane. performance, Dutcher was joined by migration, displacement and otherness, workshop on the social and divinatory AANM closed out MOVE on Saturday Palestinian cultures as well as queer Featuring original woven tapestries and AANM Curator of Public Programming through interviews with newcomers who practices of reading fortunes in coffee with our annual Arab American Book identity, entrancing and immersing other textile works, an altar adorned Kathryn Grabowski for a scintillating have settled in Cleveland, Ohio. grounds, a tradition common in SWANA Awards and Open Mic, holding space attendees while creating a space for with tokens and an inviting, interactive talkback, addressing topics such as (Southwest Asian/North African) cultures. for emerging and established writers to conversation, culminating in an informal lounge area, the exhibition recreated brutalities faced by Indigenous people, The coffee grounds became a format for share their work. talkback with the audience. pages from Kafafian’s forthcoming the importance of preserving all aspects storytelling about the future. Through graphic novel Portal Fire, and explored of their culture and building stronger experimentation, imagination and plenty questions of cross-cultural coexistence, solidarity between communities. of caffeine, people generated writing blurred boundaries and false borders. prompts and shared stories imagining how our collective future will unfold.

5 Arab American National Museum 2019-2020 Annual Report 6 DECEMBER 2019 JANUARY 2020

As we were wrapping up 2019, we were preparing to celebrate 15 years as an institution with our anniversary year around We entered the new year with excitement and a robust calendar of programming for our community, looking forward to the corner. While events were slowing down for the month, our planning did not. From a full residency cycle to a summer an inaugural presentation of the JAM3A summer music festival and a new Artists + Residents cycle made possible by a music festival, we were looking forward to the abundance of the new year. In the meantime, we hosted families for a generous award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. With support from the grant, AANM was to welcome a new artist Countdown to Christmas party featuring an exhibit scavenger hunt, seasonal crafts and more. We also welcomed Maya each month throughout the year to live and create in Dearborn, starting with Moroccan American filmmaker Baraa Ktiri. James as our last resident of the year. Lastly, we closed out the year with highlights from our object collections during Though news of the novel coronavirus was on the horizon, we began the year with high hopes. 2019, including vintage Palestinian dolls crafted by refugees, home videos from the Khirby family, Olympian Jordyn Wieber’s gymnastics leotard and more.

Flesh Out Al Helm: Martin For our final Arab Film Series event of Luther King in the year, we screened Flesh Out, a film that delves into themes of societal Palestine expectations, loyalty and obedience as they intersect with womanhood. Following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream expands SURA Arts Academy the traditions of her Mauritanian home, Art Liberation: The Art of Weeping beyond the U.S. It speaks to a global For Covered Girls Verida’s arranged marriage brings with it struggle and demands social change in Reception the beginning of gavage, the ritual of A Conversation with Living under occupation in Palestine is the universal march towards liberation. Women who choose to wear hijab often over-eating to attain a fuller figure more a reality best understood through a In honor of MLK Day, AANM partnered with find themselves in a position where their In celebration of the amazing work desirable to her future husband. At first, Maya James person’s first-hand experiences. Through the Charles H. Wright Museum of African personal decisions become a topic of created by SURA Arts Academy youth, she accepts the physical strain of gavage; a series of drawings, Palestinian folk American History to screen Al Helm, a public discourse. Artist-in-residence AANM hosted a reception for students’ but as the ritual’s requirements become Artist-in-residence Maya James, author singer, writer and activist Mary Hazboun documentary following a Black gospel Baraa Ktiri aimed to change that by families and friends where participants all-consuming, Verida begins to resist and illustrator of upcoming graphic novel highlighted the multilayered traumas of choir who provides the chorus to a hosting a filmed discussion with Muslim reflected on their experiences in the the intense expectations of both her LUKUMI—a story that follows the women of color—including her own lived Palestinian play about Dr. King as it tours women and girls of all ages and back- program and spoke about their approaches mother and culture. The film was a visceral relationships between Black women, their experiences—and their resistance the West Bank, preaching nonviolence. grounds that gave them a seat at the to the art of photography. We were experience for the audience, followed by environment, their history, their ancestry against the intersection of oppressive The audience had the opportunity to table. Participants unpacked themes of honored to provide our creative youth a critical conversation about the dangers and Afro-Atlantic faith—shared her systems in occupied Palestine such as explore parallels between the U.S. patriarchy, misogyny, community and with a platform to process their realities, of maintaining beauty standards. experience as a working artist, speaking the military machine, patriarchal society Civil Rights movement and Palestinian Islamophobia while centering their own discuss their work and uplift their artistic on how she retained her truth and identity and forced migration. liberation struggles, highlighting complex, personal, professional and achievements. The photographs displayed while navigating art as a business. James Black and Palestinian solidarity while political relationships with hijab. This during the reception remained on view in addressed themes of resilience, Black emphasizing that no one is free unless discussion will be included in Ktiri’s The Annex throughout the year. power, feminism and intersectionality we are all free. documentary series, For Covered Girls, in this conversation on art for the next a larger work dedicated to showcasing generation and the marginalized art the diverse practice of hijab while proving community in Michigan and abroad. that Muslim women are not a monolith. Photo courtesy of Robin Buckson, The Detroit News.

7 Arab American National Museum 2019-2020 Annual Report 8 FEBRUARY 2020 MARCH 2020

This month, we focused on sharing our stories and giving a platform for others to share their own. Partnering with folks COVID-19 was spreading across the nation, yet Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer’s decision to issue a stay-at-home from our neighboring city of Cleveland, we welcomed Masrah Cleveland Al-Arabi's cast members into our Museum and order mid-March still came as a surprise. The pandemic shook our world and quickly shaped our programming, forcing us community to tell their immigration stories through a powerful play that left not a dry eye in the house. With the help of to make the difficult decision to close the Museum to the public. Though it was the right choice, it was not an easy one, artist-in-residence Alia Taqieddin, we expanded our oral history collection, accessible to the public at any time. We were especially when our institution serves as a local community space. With the safety and health of our guests, staff and also excited to feature the performance art piece As Far As My Fingertips Will Take Me, the last of our Fall/Winter Gallery volunteers a top priority, we spent the month assessing the best way to engage with our community and continue to be a Pop-Up Series. safe space for people to process, escape and connect during such an isolating time. Our goal was to be virtually welcomed into the homes of our community and provide relief, joy and comfort.

As Far As My Food Distribution Fingertips Will As schools closed, AANM partnered with ACCESS to supplement food distribution Take Me services and provide free grab-and-go meals to children 18 years and under. Through a gallery wall, song, paint and The Museum was one of the locations to Masrah Cleveland ink, Basel Zaraa tells the migration story Futures, Archived soft powers serve meals, helping families meet basic SURA Arts Academy of his sisters’ journey from Syria to needs in this uncertain and difficult time. Al-Arabi’s And Then Sweden as they escaped conflict. Dearborn’s demographic landscape has Two beds, a telephone, a television set, Spring Semester Commissioned by Tania El Khoury and changed plenty over time, yet there are a diary and posters of famous stars from We Met… presented in collaboration with the still many stories untold. February artist- the 90s. These are some of the items Brooklyn Inshallah AANM's SURA Arts Academy, in Institute for the Humanities, UMS and in-residence Alia Taqieddin asked the on display in March artist-in-residence partnership with , AANM was excited to host two sold-out The Hinterlands, this performance art important question: what voices are left Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s solo exhibition, Being in a presidential election year, invited immigrant and refugee students performances of And Then We Met..., a piece relied solely on touch, sound and unheard? Through an open conversation soft powers. The exhibition includes AANM turned the spotlight on voter for its Spring semester that infused bilingual play created by, for and with trust between performer and audience with historically marginalized community never-before-seen fiber etchings based suppression in the U.S. while emphasizing photography lessons with art therapy, Cleveland’s Arab community via a member to explore empathy and members, Taqieddin captured narratives on photographs collected by Diaz that the importance of mobilizing under- empowering them to explore their new resident ensemble of Cleveland Public whether we need to literally “feel” of Dearborn that will become part of the reflect on Yemeni American girlhood represented communities. In partnership homes, make sense of new and foreign Theatre. Based on the cast’s personal a refugee in order to understand the collective memory of the city. Presented while addressing subjects familiar to with ACCESS’ Campaign to TAKE ON HATE experiences and share their stories through stories, the play explores the immigrant effect of border discrimination on as part of Taqieddin’s curated audio many children of immigrants, including (TOH), AANM hosted the Michigan photography. This semester met a unique struggle of balancing responsibilities to peoples’ lives. showcase at the reception of And Then code-switching, plural identities and premiere of the documentary Brooklyn challenge halfway through: COVID-19. family, country and to ourselves. Cast Photo courtesy of UMS. We Met..., these narratives also form conflicting loyalties. Unfortunately, the Inshallah. Our last event to take place Our team successfully navigated a shift members were grateful for the intimate part of AANM’s permanent oral history exhibition’s public opening remains inside the Museum prior to the stay-at- to online instruction—our first public and rare experience of sharing their collection and will continue to shape the suspended due to COVID restrictions; home order, AANM welcomed over 100 program to shift online—ending with an stories with the majority Arab city of future of the Dearborn community. however, AANM worked with the artist attendees to the screening, which was online exhibition that featured students’ Dearborn as both cast and audience to produce a video preview of the followed by a lively discussion with documented experiences with resettlement members saw themselves reflected in exhibition with behind-the-scenes shots director Ahmad Mansour and a panel of in the U.S., allowing audiences to see each other on both sides of the stage. and commentary by Diaz. advocacy leaders in metro Detroit. through the students’ unique lens.

9 Arab American National Museum 2019-2020 Annual Report 10 APRIL 2020 MAY 2020

In early April, Governor Whitmer suspended in-person learning for the rest of the school year and extended stay-at-home Entering the month of our 15th anniversary, AANM strived to keep the community connected through our monthly programs orders to the end of the month. Despite being physically closed, AANM shifted all programming to exclusively online such as the Arab Film Series, Yalla Eat! Chef Series and English-Arabic Storytime Online. Stay-at-home orders were platforms. We were venturing into unfamiliar territory, and unsure of how successful our virtual events would be. But, in extended once again, and Dearborn was struggling as community members observed the month of Ramadan, normally a the name of Arab American Heritage Month, AANM found innovative ways to celebrate and connect with the community, time for families and friends to gather and share meals and blessings, in isolation. AANM staff had to make the difficult keeping programming free and accessible. While our physical doors were closed for an indefinite amount of time, we decision to cancel or postpone all major events—including the annual Museum gala and the JAM3A music festival. opened many virtual ones for people who otherwise would not have visited the Museum in person, expanding our reach to Nonetheless, we did not allow these difficult circumstances to hinder our ability to create powerful programming. national and international audiences. To better understand and document what our community was going through, AANM Our new virtual reality certainly had a learning curve, and we were committed to mastering it. also put out a call for stories, asking community members to share their experiences living through the pandemic.

Yalla Eat! Chef Series Virtual Book Club

With many individuals experimenting in AANM launched a Virtual Book Club their home kitchens during COVID-19 opening with Bitter Almonds by Lilas Taha, lockdowns, AANM established a Yalla Eat! a work touching on displacement and series in the form of Instagram takeovers exile, family duty and honor, and the by Arab American chefs, quickly becoming universal feelings of love and loss. In a English-Arabic one of AANM’s most popular initiatives. Life is Waiting + When Two-part Short Film live discussion between Taha and Syracuse What’s On Your This program supported small restaurant University professor Carol Fadda, Taha Storytime Online and business owners by raising awareness Monaliza Smiled Program + Cairo shared her journey as a writer, her Plate? Virtual Iftar + of their brands. experience as a Syrian Palestinian raised Recognizing that many educational Bringing communities together despite Showcasing work by Arab and Arab in Kuwait who then immigrated to the Discussion experiences were taken away from physical distancing, the Arab Film Series American filmmakers, the Arab Film Series U.S., and the significance of humanizing children due to COVID-19, our staff Virtual Open Mic shifted to an online platform, with Online presented a two-part shorts the Palestinian narrative through fiction. Presented in partnership with TOH, founder explored ways to supplement children’s monthly film screenings in partnership program that gave audiences a glimpse of Dearborn’s Ramadan Suhoor Festival learning with fun, light-hearted content. As stay-at-home orders took effect and a with ArteEast, the Arab Film and Media into the complex problems and Hassan Chami, community organizer As such, AANM's popular English-Arabic global panic took hold, AANM recognized Institute and Cinetopia Film Festival. The interesting situations people can find Virtual Open Mic Pt. 2 Hanan Yahya, City of Dearborn’s Deputy Storytime quickly made a transition to the need to continue providing quality arts series quickly garnered an international themselves in, connecting audience Director of Economic & Community YouTube in April. Over 650 children ages and cultural programming to the public. following, kicking off with Life is Waiting, members tuning in from across the world Celebrating our 15th anniversary, AANM Development Hassan Sheikh and host, 2-6 and their parents tuned in for April’s With staff adapting quickly to meet the a documentary about the Western through shared experiences. Later in the held a second Virtual Open Mic, welcoming ACCESS Communications Manager Linda Storytime, featuring Young People’s Poet demand, AANM held its first ever Virtual Sahara’s struggle for freedom, and When month, we introduced our audience to seasoned and emerging writers of poetry, Samarah asked, “what’s on your plate?” Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye reading her Open Mic Night in honor of National Poetry Monaliza Smiled, a romantic comedy contemporary Egypt via the film Cairo prose, music and more hosted by Comm- in both literal and figurative ways during a 1994 children’s book Sitti’s Secrets, Month, hosted by teaching artist and poet full of nosy and quirky characters set Drive, which followed diverse residents unications Specialist and writer Lujine discussion leading into Iftar. Food demos a story about Mona, a young girl who Yasmine Rukia, ushering in a new era in present-day . Hundreds of of the massive city and displayed how Nasralla. At a time when we would have and conversations about Ramadan, travels to a Palestinian village to meet of exclusively online programming that viewers tuned in for both screenings and differences of race, faith and social celebrated together in person, we gave togetherness despite isolation and the her grandmother who, despite not garnered audiences of unprecedented engaged with the respective directors status are often erased when having to the stage to community members locally ways “community” has evolved during the speaking the same language, teaches numbers from around the world. Iara Lee and Fadi Haddad via talkbacks. share Cairo's congested roads. and across the country who help shape pandemic filled the evening as speakers Mona about her homeland. our institution and the Arab American story. and attendees broke their fast together.

11 Arab American National Museum 2019-2020 Annual Report 12 JUNE 2020 JULY 2020

At a time when the Black community is already suffering disproportionately during the pandemic, we were—and still are— The month began with the good news that the state reported no new deaths from COVID-19 for the first time since March 17. outraged by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. Standing in solidarity with our Black allies While the information offered some reprieve, AANM remained closed to the public, continuing with virtual programming nationwide, we demanded justice and accountability for those and many other senseless deaths as we reckoned with our and “Museum from home” initiatives. Daily protests in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement continued across the nation’s history of systemic racism and white supremacy. AANM is, among other things, a gathering place to discuss nation, including in our neighboring city of Detroit. AANM continued its commitment to fighting anti-Blackness on the home important, difficult and uncomfortable issues facing the Arab American community as well as other marginalized front by centering programming that demonstrated solidarity and offered tools for tackling and healing from white supremacy. communities. Recognizing our critical role in helping to dismantle anti-Blackness in the Arab American community, AANM curated a series of programs that answered the demand for intentional anti-racist work and continued to ask tough questions, unpack historical legacies and amplify voices calling for a just and equitable society.

Creating a Culture of Change: Race and Community Series

Recognizing the need for Arab American leadership in unpacking the recent protests supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, AANM partnered with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture and NNAAC to host a series of virtual conversations around racism and social justice. Topics included race education, documenting community through poetry and film, leading with faith in the face of adversity and unpacking queer experiences in BIPOC communities. The Bleaching Artists + Residents Syndrome After a two-month hiatus, AANM welcomed artists-in-residence once Continuing our commitment to fighting again, leading with Mariam Bazeed and anti-Blackness in the Arab and Arab Kamelya Omayma Youssef. Recognizing American community, AANM hosted a Windows/Shababeek: that COVID had a significant economic Eccomi... Eccoti Virtual Book Club: screening of the short film, The Bleaching Protest//Protect: A impact on many, especially artists, the Syndrome. During the talkback with A Sukoon Virtual decision to continue our residency Across the globe, the LGBTQIA+ Me and White Sudanese Egyptian filmmaker Eiman Sukoon Live Reading program helped uplift artists’ work and community continues to break barriers Mirghani and special guest Sudanese Reading provided compensation during a difficult and challenge the status quo despite Supremacy American spoken word artist, activist As national demonstrations continued time. Maintaining social distancing and facing discrimination. In celebration of and community organizer Khadega in response to long-standing issues of After spending several weeks observing life following COVID-19 regulations, our Pride Month, AANM presented Eccomi... AANM’s Virtual Book Club brought Mohammed, attendees unpacked the systemic racism and injustice, AANM through our windows, AANM gathered the “pandemic residents” found creative Eccoti (Here I Am... Here You Are), a film community together for timely and crucial film’s themes of beauty standards and collaborated again with Sukoon for writing community for a live bilingual reading ways to virtually facilitate community that explores what it means to be gay in discussions about white supremacy and social norms. Everyone was moved by Protest/Protect, a live reading honoring hosted and curated by Rewa Zeinati, engagement. contemporary , and the existential racism within each of ourselves and the the panelists’ vulnerability as they spoke the global uprisings of the Black Lives founder/editor of literary magazine Sukoon. discomfort that blocks one from living as Arab American community. AANM artists- on their experiences with anti-Blackness Matter Movement. Through this event, Arab writers and poets George Abraham, their truest self. The film was followed by in-residence Kamelya Omayma Youssef and colorism, even within their own AANM and Sukoon created a platform for Zeyn Joukhadar, Zeina Hashem Beck, Philip New Website Launch an open and honest talkback with director and Mariam Bazeed (pictured) guided families. All collected were writers and activists to express the Metres, Sahar Mustafa, Zeina Azzam and Raed Rafei, a Lebanese filmmaker, writer participants through exercises from the dedicated to the Detroit Justice Center struggles, experiences and victories of the Farah Chamma shared work reflecting on AANM launched its new website in June, and multimedia journalist, and audience book, Me and White Supremacy by Layla and their work in transforming the U.S. ongoing protests in the fight for freedom. our collective time apart. Attendees were a project that increased accessibility to members as they unpacked the personal F. Saad and engaged readers in dialogue justice system. Co-curated and hosted by Sukoon encouraged to join in fundraising for The our programming as well as streamlined struggles and injustice faced by the over two sessions. The ultimate intention founder/editor Rewa Zeinati, the event Bail Project in solidarity with the Black the way our community and researchers LGBTQIA+ community. of the program was to mobilize non-Black included performers Aja Monet, Chaun community’s demand for justice and could access and view our comprehensive Arabs to fight anti-Blackness at home in Ballard, Safia Elhillo, Layla Azmi Goushey accountability for the murders of Ahmaud collections about Arab American history Arab and Arab American communities. and music from Ian Fink (pictured). Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. and culture.

13 Arab American National Museum 2019-2020 Annual Report 14 AUGUST 2020 SEPTEMBER 2020

This month, we were excited to announce the 2020 honorees of our 14th annual Arab American Book Awards, which In the last month of the fiscal year, we received wonderful news that AANM was among 20 national arts organizations included a graphic memoir, a genre awarded for the first time in competition history, and eight women authors. Also in chosen as one of America’s Cultural Treasures by the in recognition of our crucial work promoting the August, our monthly Arab Film Series, Yalla Eat! Chef Series and English-Arabic Storytime Online continued to engage history and cultures of Arab Americans. Also in September, with the presidential election a mere two months away, AANM community members of all ages. We welcomed Mona Kareem as a remote artist-in-residence while our current in-person presented programming that mobilized the community around voter engagement, including a second screening of Brooklyn resident, Ibi Ibrahim, completed a second month with us. Finally, after five thought-provoking and insightful sessions, Inshallah, a documentary following Khader El-Yateem, a Palestinian American and Lutheran pastor, as he runs for New York AANM wrapped up the Creating a Culture of Change series in partnership with Al-Bustan and NNAAC. City Council with the support of political activist Linda Sarsour. As we collectively faced a year of difficulties and loss, AANM— just like everyone else—had to learn to survive given the circumstances of the pandemic. However, no matter what came our way, our staff were committed to growing their skills to adapt for and stay connected to our special and beloved community.

English-Arabic Solidarity Town Hall: Storytime Online The Blame Game

The social uprising of 2020 emphasized COVID-19 has been traumatic in many the critical need for honest discussions ways and its impact will be felt for years about racism and anti-Blackness in all of to come, especially in BIPOC communities. Live Reading + our circles, especially at home and with 10 Days Before the Naomi Shihab Nye + In partnership with TOH, MuslimARC and Lost In Translation our children. To provide parents with the Detroit Equity Action Lab (DEAL), this Workshop with resources on talking to their children Wedding Simon Shaheen in year’s Solidarity Town Hall—formerly the Launch Party about these systemic issues, storyteller 9/11 Anniversary Town Hall—themed The Mona Kareem Sari Mira presented songs, educational Imagine trying to plan your dream wedding Concert Blame Game, invited panelists to share Omar Offendum became our personal worksheets and the story Something during a war. This was the reality for their experiences and perspectives on dragoman, along with his “partner-in- A speaker of multiple languages, poet and Happened in Our Town by Drs. Marianne Rasha and Ma’moon, a young Yemeni One of the biggest voids left unfilled by how these communities, particularly thyme" Thanks Joey, as they took translator Mona Kareem’s work explores Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard. couple and the subjects of director Amr the closing of our doors was access to Asian and Black communities, have faced audience members on a musical journey the loneliness that comes with immigrating The story follows two families—one Gamal’s film, 10 Days Before the Wedding. live music and concerts. Though the racism and blame for the spread of COVID. through Los Shamgeles (a nickname for alone to another country. As an AANM white, one Black—as they discuss a Presented in partnership with Romooz experience of an in-person concert could Creating a safe space for communities the Syrian and Arab community in Los artist-in-residence, Kareem worked on police shooting of a Black man in their Foundation, the film was followed by a not be replicated exactly in a virtual to engage in dialogue about the harmful Angeles) for the release of their new Crossover, a poetry collection touching on community, aiming to answer children’s talkback with Gamal moderated by setting, AANM brought Young People’s prejudices that Arab, Muslim and album, Lost In Translation. Describing themes particular to Arab experiences in questions about such traumatic events, Romooz Foundation director and AANM Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye and numerous communities of color face on it as a celebratory love letter to their the U.S., sharing works-in-progress during and to help them identify and counter artist-in-residence Ibi Ibrahim. Gamal world-renowned virtuoso Simon Shaheen both individual and systemic levels, community, the artists held a talkback, a live bilingual reading and discussion with racial injustice in their own lives. and Ibrahim discussed the process of together for an enchanting night of audiences came together to reflect, discussing the inception and inspiration AANM Director Dr. Diana Abouali. Kareem funding a film, highlighting the obstacles exclusive live poetry and musical remember and build solidarity. for the album with moderator Arij Mikati, also led a poetry workshop, inviting of the war, and the need to share Yemeni performances. With more than 1,000 the Managing Director of Leadership & writers to explore and intertwine the stories that shatter stereotypes in viewers present from across the globe, Culture at Pillars Fund. personal with the political and contemplate Western media. All donations collected Nye and Shaheen graciously reminded what bi- and multilingual writers lose— went to Yemen Aid. audiences of the healing power that art and gain—during the translation process. has on the soul.

15 Arab American National Museum 2019-2020 Annual Report 16 ARTISTS + RESIDENTS Yasmine Nasser Diaz soft powers (multimedia)

OCT. 1, 2019 - SEPT. 30, 2020 Yasmine Nasser Diaz, a Chicago-born child of Yemeni immigrants, navigates overlapping tensions around religion, gender and third-culture identity using personal archives, found imagery and various media on paper as well as installation. During her residency, Diaz worked on soft powers, a solo exhibition that reflected on coming-of-age nostalgia and Yemeni American girlhood, featuring fiber etchings and a site-specific installation that is part of her “Teenage Bedroom” series. The exhibition addresses subjects familiar to many Levon Kafafian children of immigrants including code-switching, plural identities and conflicting loyalties.

Once There Was and Once There Was Not (multimedia)

Levon Kafafian creates tactile and sensory works on the threshold of transition, applying Mariam Bazeed & Kamelya Omayma Youssef the process of weaving beyond thread into visual, performative and social practice. Kafafian practices in the Detroit community and is co-creative director of Fringe Society, an artist Kilo Batra (scriptwriting/theatre) collective that creates experimental works toward a more just and equitable future. During their residency, Kafafian used AANM’s historical archives to research ways of life across Mariam Bazeed is a nonbinary Egyptian immigrant, writer and performer living in Brooklyn. Southwest Asia during the late Ottoman era in conjunction with the Museum’s Library & Kamelya Omayma Youssef is a writer from Dearborn, Michigan who works in various Resource Center to research future-facing narratives for a new graphic novel, Portal Fire. literary forms. Together, they are co-writing a play titled Kilo Batra, in collaboration with Detroit-based theater ensemble A Host of People and its co-director Sherrine Azab. This work is being reimagined from the world in and around Egyptian poet and playwright Ahmed Shawki’s 1927 play The Death of Cleopatra, putting it directly in conversation Maya James with issues of contemporary Arab culture and beyond.

LUKUMI (visual art/comics)

Maya James is a storyteller, spoken word poet, organizing activist and political multimedia Ibi Ibrahim artist. She regularly organizes and delivers speeches at community organizations about all forms of social injustice, but particularly the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Reclaiming Realities: The Yemeni American 2.0 (multimedia) During her residency, James worked on art for her forthcoming graphic novel, LUKUMI (Maamoul Press, 2021), which explores the relationships between Black women and Ibi Ibrahim is a Yemeni American visual artist, filmmaker and art practitioner currently their environment, history and ancestry, and Afro-Atlantic faith. living and working between the U.S. and Yemen. During his residency, Ibrahim sought to examine the Yemeni American experience through interactive activities with young Yemeni Americans currently living and working in Dearborn. Working with photography and multimedia components, Ibrahim collaborated with Yemeni American women to control how they wanted to be portrayed in a photography and video series where each Baraa Ktiri woman relayed the struggles of reclaiming her reality.

For Covered Girls (documentary series)

Baraa Ktiri, a Moroccan American photographer, writer and filmmaker, often shares Mona Kareem her personal work through a vérité, and conversational style, centering on religion, immigration and identity. Ktiri spent her residency working on a documentary series, Crossover (poetry) For Covered Girls, which explores the way hijab operates and exists within the metro Detroit area, specifically from a commercial perspective. Through a filmed roundtable Mona Kareem’s remote residency was spent finalizing Crossover, a poetry collection discussion at AANM, Ktiri centered Muslim women’s experiences and their complex, that touches on themes particular to Arab experiences in the United States: the loss or personal, professional and political relationships with hijab. gain of language, the weight of a marked body passing through airports, the lingua of immigration and bureaucratic violence, and the fetishization of Arab sexuality in visual culture and the colonial imaginary. Alia Taqieddin

Futures, Archived: Dearborn’s Memory Through Curated Audio (oral history/music)

Alia Taqieddin, a Seattle-based facilitator and DJ of mixed Shami and western European Leila Awadallah; LeilAwa descent, explores alternative archival methods as tools for narrating individual and collective ownership of change. Her residency focused on the curation of a collective TERRANEA: hakawati of the sea (dance) memory of Dearborn by those who are most intimately tethered to its past, present and future. Through a series of facilitated and recorded conversations, this project explored A Palestinian American artist, Leila Awadallah spent her residency working on weaving the complexity of immortalizing a collective imagination with the intention to create and together stories centering Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) bodies in relation solidify a narrative for Dearborn. to the sea while developing TERRANEA, in collaboration with the community. Along with dancers Anurima Kumar and Elisandra Mairym Rosario, Awadallah conceived and performed in Body Watani: soul speak, a drive-in dance performance that took place in the parking lot behind AANM. 17 Arab American National Museum WITH SINCERE GRATITUDE COMMUNITY PARTNERS

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Schedule of Revenue & Expenses (Unaudited) Contributions & Grants Individuals, Memberships and Special Events Net $566,006 Corporations $15,000 Foundations $380,242 Government $154,346 Subtotal: Contributions & Grants $1,115,594 Earned Revenue Program Fees, Gift Shop, Rentals and Admissions $87,041 AANM Endowment Fund - Distribution $159,637 Subtotal: Earned Revenue $246,678 Total Revenue $1,362,272 Operational Expenses Admin and Operations Salary and Benefits $391,510 Facility Operations $294,166 Exhibits, Education and Public Programming $675,319 Total Operational Expenses $1,360,995

AANM Endowment Fund The AANM Endowment Fund consists of six funds, three are invested with Charles Schwab and three are maintained by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (CFSEM). As of Sept. 30, 2020, the market value of the fund reported as an asset on the ACCESS balance sheet consists of the following: Funds maintained at CFSEM $1,132,815 Funds invested at Charles Schwab $2,900,895 A CAN’T-MISS FREE, 4-DAY VIRTUAL MUSIC Total $4,033,710 AND ARTS FESTIVAL CELEBRATING ARAB The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (CFSEM) has also accepted gifts from unrelated donors for the benefit of ACCESS. These assets are not reported on the balance sheet since CFSEM maintains variance power with respect to the assets contributed to them for our benefit. The total value of these assets as of Sept. 30, 2020 is $2,489,069. TALENT, COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY

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