tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82880620037301054922024-01-22T19:28:16.401-08:00A Crafty ArabA Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.comBlogger281125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-47593830686297892102016-04-15T07:00:00.000-07:002016-04-16T13:14:36.839-07:00A Crafty Arab Blogspot is moving<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I've finally decided to be serious about blogging and will be moving A Crafty Arab to Wordpress over the next few weeks.<br />
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If you are looking for a craft blog post, please stay tuned as I work on my new website.<br />
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When we were on <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/04/spring-break-2016-whidby-island.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">vacation</a>, I noticed our rental home had a Keurig coffee machine. This new gadget comes with little white cups full of flavoring of coffee or tea that you add to the machine to make a drink.<br />
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After using one of the tea cups, I noticed that the top of the cup had a hole in it.<br />
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A little light bulb went off in my head and I came up with this cute Fez* hat to hold a treat for an Eid* party. When we got home, I asked my local Buy Nothing community to save me their extras since we don't have a coffee machine.<br />
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If you have a machine, what better way to recycle these cups instead of throwing them away!?! <br />
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(A Fez hat is a felt headdress that is in the shape of a truncated cone. Eid is the Arabic word for festival or holiday) <br />
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<b>Supplies</b><br />
Prewrapped candy<br />
Paintbrush<br />
Red paint<br />
Scissors<br />
Embroidery thread<br />
Popsicle stick<br />
Used K-cups<br />
Glue<br />
Circle punch outs<br />
Gold ribbon<br />
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Paint the outside of the Kcup with red paint.<br />
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While that is drying, make your tassel. <br />
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Start by winding the embroidery thread around the popsicle stick a few times and cut it off.<br />
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Gently take off the small circle you just made and tie one end. Put your scissors on the opposite end of where you just tied and cut the circle in half.<br />
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Take another string and tie a knot at the top, right under your tied thread, to keep your tassel going downward. Cut off extra thread.<br />
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Your tassel is done.<br />
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Place the tassle in the Kcup and add a dot of glue on the inside to hold it into place.<br />
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Add a piece of candy inside. Because this is a used cup and there is glue at the top holding the
tassel, I would only recommend putting in previously wrapped candy only. <br />
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Glue your cardstock cover to hold the candy. I used a circle design that says Eid Mubarak (Blessed Eid in Arabic) I had already made for my <a href="https://www.zibbet.com/acraftyarab/4-arabesque-eid-money-envelopes-to-use-for-eidyah" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eid money envelopes</a>. To make this, I simply stamped my design on paper and cut it out with a hole punch. You can also just cut out a regular small circle out of cardstock that is the size of your K-cup.<br />
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Your Fez treat hat is ready to give out to kids. They can simply break the seal to get to the candy.<br />
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You can also try wearing it on your head but it's most likely too small. Instead, you can make this <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2012/08/egyptian-fez-party-hat.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Egyptian Fez Party Hat</a> that might be a better fit.<br />
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To enjoy more crafts from the Arab world, be sure to check out<br />
<a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2012/07/lebanese-cedar-bead-tree.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lebanese Cedar Bead Tree Tutorial </a><br />
<a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/07/pompom-kuwaiti-flag.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PomPom Kuwaiti Flag Tutorial</a><br />
<a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2013/07/clothespin-debke-dancers.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Clothespin Debke Dancers Tutorial</a><br />
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More can also be found on the A Crafty Arab Pinterest board, the <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/crafty-arab-league/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crafty Arab League.</a> A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-83441473515949934182016-04-09T07:00:00.000-07:002016-04-15T16:55:09.139-07:00Eid Puff Banner Tutorial<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The girls and I love making our own <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2014/06/ramadan-crescent-moon-pompom.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pom poms</a> and sometimes we also like to create crafts with ready make <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/07/pompom-kuwaiti-flag.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pom poms</a>.<br />
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We bought a super size bag of them recently and came up with this fun tutorial to share with you to make you own puffy Eid banner.<br />
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The word Eid is Arabic for a festive or religious day. For example, it is used to for Eid Al Fitr, which commemorates the end of Ramadan, or Eid Al Abu, which is Father's Day, or even Eid Mīlād, which is Christmas.<br />
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We used just the word Eid so we can put it up for either Eid Al Fitr or Eid Al Adha. We can even put it up for Eid Al Umm (Mother's Day) or even a birthday. So many possibilities.<br />
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<b>Supplies</b><br />
E I D letter printouts<br />
Scissors<br />
Xacto<br />
Spray paint<br />
Newspaper <br />
Hot glue gun<br />
Pom poms<br />
Hole punch<br />
Twine<br />
Cardboard<br />
Not in photo - Pencil & Ruler <br />
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Cut out the letters E I and D from the computer printouts and trace them on the cardboard. We have a lot of cardboard left over, since my living room looked like <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BCTr3wFy5kh/?taken-by=acraftyarab" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this</a> about a month ago.<br />
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Use the Xacto to cut out the letters. Use a ruler to help with the straight edges if you wish.<br />
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Spray paint the letters.<br />
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Hole punch two holes in the top of each letter.<br />
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String your twine through the holes and tie it into place in the back of the letter.<br />
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Start adding the pom poms and keep them in place with the hot glue.<br />
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We just randomly added the puff balls to your letters. Don't worry about gaps since you have the pretty silver color underneath. Here are our finished letters close up.<br />
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Once you are done, hang your letters someplace on the wall (but indoors)!<br />
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If you enjoyed this Eid Puff Banner Tutorial, be sure to check out our other banners -<br />
<a class="A0EVLSB-F-i" href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/01/oil-pastel-resist-crescent-moon-and.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Oil Pastel Resist Crescent Moon and Star Banner</a><br />
<a class="A0EVLSB-F-i" href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/12/green-mawlid-decorations-free-banner.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Green Mawlid Decorations {Free Banner}</a><br />
<a class="A0EVLSB-F-i" href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/07/ramadan-banner-tutorial.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ramadan Banner Tutorial</a><br />
<a class="A0EVLSB-F-i" href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2014/07/eid-cake-banner-tutorial.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eid Cake Banner Tutorial</a> <br />
<a class="A0EVLSB-F-i" href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2012/07/mosque-banner.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mosque Banner Tutorial</a><br />
<a class="A0EVLSB-F-i" href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2012/07/green-eid-decorations-free-printables.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Green Eid Decorations {Free Printables}</a><br />
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<br />A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-44302197259197191582016-04-05T07:00:00.000-07:002016-04-15T17:14:58.083-07:00Felt Flower Pin Tutorial<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This past weekend I attended <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BDx5623S5m3/?taken-by=acraftyarab" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Women's Wellness Weekend</a> at Camp Orkila.<br />
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I had some free time and took a class on felted flowers. I photographed the process to share below.<br />
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The steps were so easy, and the supplies are only a few, that you can make these felt flower pins in little time. Make them for girl scout swaps! Use them as a fundraiser! Hand them out at the next Eid party! So many options.<br />
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<b>Supplies</b><br />
Felt<br />
Needle<br />
Thread<br />
Scissors<br />
Button - in main photo<br />
Pinback - in last photo<br />
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Start by cutting out five felt circles. Mine were about the size of falafel.<br />
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Fold each circle in half and cut across to create half moons.<br />
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Thread your needle and sew across the bottom of one half moon. About the 2/3 point, add a second half moon and sew them togheter.<br />
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Finish off all 10 pieces.<br />
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Pull the thread to gather the felt.<br />
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Sew the middle together and add a vintage button as in the main photo. Sew a pinback to the back.<br />
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If you enjoyed this tutorial, check out other flower ideas like the <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/07/today-was-tough-one-i-must-admit.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eid Puff Flowers </a> or <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2012/07/arabic-newspaper-hairclip.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arabic Newspaper Hairclip</a>. If you'd like to make another pin, be sure to try the <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2011/08/couscous-heart-pin.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Couscous Heart Pin</a> or these <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2011/06/flower-swaps.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Flower SWAPs</a>.</div>
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I'm going to go make falafel because now I can't stop thinking about them.</div>
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A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-88938157427884252022016-03-25T07:00:00.000-07:002016-04-16T15:26:20.144-07:005 ways to teach Arab children cultural pride<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The Arab community is very large, encompassing <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-mankind-with-love-from-middle-east.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">22 countries</a> in the Middle East and North Africa, a region called MENA.<br />
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Each of these countries in MENA has its own traditional customs, clothing, and religion. Some have histories full of colonization, while others have had their fill of <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2011/03/libya-101.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dictators</a>. <br />
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While MENA is full of beauty, intelligence, history, smells,
and people, what ties them all together is language.<br />
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The Arabic <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-mankind-with-love-from-middle-east.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">language</a> is one of the most beautiful to hear and speak. It not only binds us to each other but also to our grandparents, with the lands they loved so much.<br />
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Arabs
have always had wanderlust and have made many countries in the world
their homes. One of those is the United States of America, when an Arab first arrived in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/opinion/the-founding-muslims.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1528</a>.<br />
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In an election year, the American biased media has bombarded the public
with negative press about Arabs. Below are 5 ways to teach Arab children to be have cultural
pride in their heritage. This post does contain affiliate links.<br />
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The media loves to lump the Arabs with the
Islamic religion, no matter if they happen to be Christian, Jewish,
Buddhist or Bahá'í. If you were to believe the right wing television news, all Arabs are responsible for 9/11,
the conflict in Israel, creating Daesh, blah, blah, blah (three words
made famous by an <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/142426406936911084/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arab</a>). They are confused with the Sikhs, spoken to in Spanish when they are in California, and have GO HOME spray painted on their cars. <br />
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Show children this educational book on Arabs and their positive and long contribution to American <a href="http://amzn.to/21NG0O7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">history</a>.<br />
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Years ago it would have been hard to imagine, but in today's politically charged reality,
children are becoming victims at school. Schools that should be safe places where children are taught tolerance and respect. <br />
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Enough, I say. Show children that it takes all kinds of people to make a society, just like it takes all kinds of <a href="http://amzn.to/1ZFMlMe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">apples</a>.<br />
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I hope you enjoy the 5 ways that I wanted to show my daughters to be proud of about our community. I want to teach them that it's important to be proud of roots, because they ground you.<br />
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<b><u>1. Arab Food</u> </b><br />
Hospitality is big to Arabs. Big.<br />
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It's common practice that you must refuse any food three times before your hostess leaves you alone.<br />
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Would you like another helping of couscous? No thank you. Would you like another helping of couscous? No thank you. Would you like another helping of couscous? No thank you.</blockquote>
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Arab food is the best cuisine in the world. The MENA world is known for spices, grains, sauces, hummus (an Arabic word that means crushed chickpeas) and desserts.<br />
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On this blog, I've posted a number of Arab food recipes you can try with your own children. <br />
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<a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/01/shakshuka-in-country-of-men.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shakshuka </a></div>
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<a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/11/hot-algerian-lasagna.html">Hot Algerian Lasagna</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/10/amandas-plate-lebanese-lentil-soup-goes.html">Lebanese Lentil Soup </a></div>
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<a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/06/guest-blogger-post-libyan-sharmoula.html">Libyan Sharmoula </a></div>
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<a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2013/11/palestinian-spinach-and-lentil-soup.html">Palestinian Spinach and Lentil Soup</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2013/11/egyptian-tomato-and-chickpea-soup.html">Egyptian Tomato and Chickpea Soup</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2012/07/libyan-mbattan.html">Libyan Mubatan</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2012/06/baklawa-pops.html">BaklaWa Pops</a><br />
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More can be found on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/yummy-arabic-food/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yummy Arabic Food</a><span style="color: #0000ee;">.</span><br />
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<a href="http://amzn.to/1XWvuD7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">This</a> is a favorite Arabic cookbook that is manageable with kids. The illustrations are eye pleasing and the font is easy for them to read.<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">2. <b>Arab Music</b></span></u></b><br />
Most Arabs love music.<br />
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Arabic beat is characterized by an emphasis on melody and rhythm, as
opposed to harmony. I tell my daughters to compare it to
American jazz. Many first heard of MENA music when it hit main stream as Sting performed with Cheb
Mami, a raï performer from Algeria, in his song <a href="http://amzn.to/22Ril1H" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Desert Rose</a>.<br />
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There are many more modern day Arab <a href="http://amzn.to/1UQvt5O" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">musicians</a>. Arab traditional music has been around since the times of the <a href="http://amzn.to/1oeFdbY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">crusades</a>.</div>
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Many musical instruments were first invented in the MENA. For example, the oud is the modern day ancestor of the guitar. <br />
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While most Arabs are not fans of <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2014/03/why-i-cant-stand-any-belly-dancers.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bellydance</a>, many Arab countries have traditional dance customs. In the North Africa, the <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2012/05/shamm-el-nessim.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tahtib</a> is performed, while in Levant it is the <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2013/07/clothespin-debke-dancers.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dabke</a>.<br />
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A great way to introduce Arabic music to young children is <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2011/07/grandpas-farm-translated-into-arabic.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nursery rhymes</a>.
I highly recommend <a href="http://amzn.to/1UQskTz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Layli Layli</a> by Sana’ Mouasher<br />
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<u><b>3. Arab Education </b></u><br />
Arab's dedication to education spans centuries, having been the inventors of <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2014/08/fatima-al-fihriyya-is-luminous.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">universities</a> and papyrus, a predecessor to paper.<br />
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Enter most Arab homes and you will find books in every room. Among the minority groups in American, Arabs tend to be the highest <a href="http://www.allied-media.com/Arab-American/Arab%20american%20Demographics.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">educated</a>.<br />
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You can find 99 books for children to learn more about the Arabs in the MENA on this <a href="http://amzn.to/21NG0O7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">list</a>. <br />
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My company produced an Arabic Alphabet Animals <a href="http://amzn.to/1RxKbuO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">poster</a> that would be a welcome addition to any nursery or children's playroom. The animals and letters are fun, colorful and playful, giving children a sense of joy to look at them. This past year a new Arabic <a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/09/arabic-colors-animal-poster-is-here.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">colors</a> poster also debuted.<br />
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<u><b>4. Arab Crafts</b></u><br />
Creating a craft together is a great way to learn about a new country. Check out these <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/crafty-arab-league/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arab League countries</a> crafts.<br />
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Arabs have been crafting together for thousands of years. Pick up these books to read about the painted walls of <a href="http://amzn.to/1XWxFXB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sa’dah</a>, Yemen or the intricate delicate details of <a href="http://amzn.to/1pRTM6V" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">embroidery</a> in Palestine. <br />
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Check out <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/a-crafty-arab-printables/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crafty Arab printables</a> that celebrate the MENA culture, including coloring pages in Arabic.<br />
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<u><b>5. Arab Art</b></u><br />
There are so many amazing Arab artists in the MENA history. Check out a few <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/crafty-arab-artists/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crafty Arab Artists</a>.<br />
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Arab men and <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/03/8-remarkable-arab-women-artists.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">women</a> have always felt the need to document their experiences in paint, clay, illustrations, fabric, bronze, and hundreds of other mediums. In 1994, the National Museum of Women put out a beautiful catalog to go with the<span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle"> ground breaking <a href="http://amzn.to/1MLuVWU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Forces Of Change</a> </span>exhibit <span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle">that focused on contemporary Arab art. </span></div>
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Museum walls can be great inspiration of our past. But if you want to teach children how to think outside the box, check out this <a href="http://amzn.to/1Muyy8T" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">book</a> on Arab Spring graffiti to show them how to look for art in the world around them. <br />
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Have some fun with children by creating art using Arabic letters. Start with this fun tutorial on <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/03/arabic-initial-string-art-tutorial.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arabic Initial String Art</a>.<br />
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Arab children should be taught self love,
and how to take <a href="http://amzn.to/1RmE79O" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pride</a> in the language that binds them to history. This pride will help manifest as an umbrella to deflect the negativity that is raining around them.</div>
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To celebrate Women's History Month, I've put together a list of eight remarkable artists with Arab heritage for Multicultural Kids Blog as part of their<a href="http://multiculturalkidblogs.com/womens-history-month-series-2016/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> series</a>.<br />
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Today is also Mother's Day in the Arab world, so it feels like an appropriate day to honor these women. <br />
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These female artists come from all over the world, with one common thread connecting them all together, the language of their grandmothers, Arabic.<br />
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The below eight women have helped influence our global, shared
history. They are leaders in their fields, innovators<span style="font-size: small;"> who have </span>raise<span style="font-size: small;">d</span> their voices up high.<br />
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<u>Musicians</u></h2>
<u><b>Umm Kulthum - Egypt</b></u><br />
Umm Kulthum was born on the Nile Delta in Egypt in 1898 and showed exceptional singing abilities at a very young age. Her father, a local Iman at a mosque, taught her to memorize the Quran and once disguised her as a boy, so she would be able to perform in a play he directed. At sixteen she started professional singing lessons and moved to Cairo in the 1920s to pursue singing full time.<br />
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She was introduced to French poetry, a new musical instrument, the oud, along with many famous writers and composers of the time. She stayed true to her humble backgrounds and concentrated on bettering her voice through public performances that were open to all. She formed an orchestra of accomplished musicians and took classical music that had been played in private, wealthy homes into the homes of the everyday population, which brought her many fans from all over the world.<br />
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By the 1930s <a href="http://amzn.to/1WDyQux" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Umm Kulthum</a> was also acting in Egyptian movies and her musical performances were being broadcast every Thursday to millions of listeners in the Middle East. Her songs would last for hours, sometimes a three hour concert would consist of only two or three songs. Songs would very from one performance to the next as she used the audience to engage with her in her storytelling. The streets were clear as people rushed home to listen to her magical voice singing of love, longing and loss.</div>
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When she passed away at the age of 76 in 1975, over 4 million Egyptians lined the streets of her funeral procession, turning it into a national event. She influenced many contemporary singers, inlducing the American great Bob Dylan, who once said in an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_Kulthum#Artistic_legacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">interview</a>,<i> "She's great. She really is. Really great."</i><br />
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<u><b>Fairuz - Lebanon</b></u><br />
Nouhad Haddad was born in 1934 in Lebanon to a Christian family and often sang in school performances. She was heard at the age of ten by a teacher at a music conservatory, who encouraged her to attend. Her conservative father would only let her attend if her brother accompanied her. She went on to study various styles of singing, including Tajweed, a recitative style of communicating the Quran.<br />
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Shortly after leaving school, she worked as a chorus singer at a radio station, where she picked up the name Fairuz, which is Arabic for turquoise. <a href="http://amzn.to/1ZlyCtD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fairuz </a>would soon met her husband, a musician at the same radio station. He and his brother would go on to write many of her most popular hits, including several musical operettas and concerts.<br />
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She loved performing for the common people, once getting banned from radio air time for six months for refusing to play for a private audience to royalty. This only fueled her popularity among her fans. <br />
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Fairuz went on to tour many parts of the Arab world, traveled to America in the 1970s and also performed at the Paris Olympia. Her show in Las Vegas in 1999 drew record-breaking numbers and she has stared in 20 musical plays. She posses a rare flexibility in her voice that allows her to sing both Arabic and Western modes <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">meticulously</span></span>.
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<u><b>Fatima Mernissi - Morocco</b></u><br />
Fatima Mernissi was born in Fez, Morocco and grew up in a harem. She was surrounded by women in her grandmother's upper class home, most of whom were illiterate. But she was encouraged to learn to read the Quran and went on to study in France and the US. She returned to Morocco to teach at a university in the mid 1970s and soon became known as an Islamic feminist.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Trespass-Tales-Harem-Girlhood/dp/0201489376/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&qid=1458594649&sr=8-1&keywords=Fatema+Mernissi&linkCode=li2&tag=acrar-20&linkId=661c42ded7eb0bc0b257cf3db5da6e4b" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="320" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0201489376&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=acrar-20" width="184" /></a>In 1975 she wrote her first of over 20 books: <a href="http://amzn.to/25fpzyM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Muslim Society</a>. In 1994 she wrote <a href="http://amzn.to/1U19Qzv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dreams of Trespass</a>, a memoir chronicling her youth living in a world of women separated by men.<br />
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Mernissi used her sociology background and her education to help those around her. She co-founded La Caravane Civique, a group of Moroccan intellectuals dedicated to the education of rural Moroccan women. She conducted field research with the Moroccan government and UNESCO and was published in many leading publications about women in Moroccan and Islamic society.<br />
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Her writing is unique in its contemporary as well as historical perspective. When she passed away in 2015, The Guardian wrote this in her <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/18/fatima-mernissi-obituary" target="_blank">obituary</a> - <br />
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<i>Though Fatima’s interpretations and deconstructions of the scriptures were iconoclastic to establishment Islam, she was not, by and large, a target of formal censure, because of her rigorous scholarship, her respect for and adherence to the Quran, her demonstrated intellectual expertise with the Quran and the Hadith (the sayings attributed to the Prophet{pbuh}) and their many concordances. Her empathetic style and her elegant use of jadal — reasoned and logical argumentation, itself a Qur’anic mode — kept the hecklers away.</i></blockquote>
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<u><b>Helen Thomas - USA</b></u><br />
Helen Thomas was born in Kentucky to two recently immigrated Lebanese parents. They moved to Michigan when Thomas was four where her father ran a grocery store and they were active in the Greek Orthodox Church. Despite her parents being illiterate upon their arrival to Ellis Island, they encouraged her to attend university and she went on to get a degree in English, as journalism wasn't yet offered as an option.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Memories-Mr-President-Wisdom/dp/0743202260/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&qid=1458594727&sr=8-8&keywords=Helen+Thomas&linkCode=li2&tag=acrar-20&linkId=c271eca850a6b64b4e6c63537ea8ff0e" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="320" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0743202260&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=acrar-20" width="208" /></a>Thomas moved to Washington, DC, and started working for newspapers, starting with writing about women's social issues and then switching to news. She has since gone on to cover the administrations of 11 United State Presidents, earning the nickname "First Lady of the Press." Her book, <a href="http://amzn.to/25fvWSI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House</a>, went on to become a best seller.<br />
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Thomas broke many barriers in the journalism field for women, becoming the first women to be a member of several press organizations. She traveled with many Presidents on their international visits and became known world wide for her blunt, outspoken voice. When Cuban leader Fidel Castro was asked in the early 2000s what was the difference between democracy in Cuba and democracy in the United States, Castro reportedly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thomas#Presidential_correspondent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">replied</a>,<i><u> </u>"I don't have to answer questions from Helen Thomas."</i><br />
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<u><b>Directors</b></u></h2>
<u><b>Moufida Tlatli - Tunisia</b></u><br />
Moufida Tlatli was
born in Tunisia in 1947 and later moved to France to graduate from a Paris film academy. She become a script supervisor for French television
and movie editor for many well known directors. She went on to become
the first Arab woman to direct a full featured-film.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Silences-Palace-VHS-Amel-Hedhili/dp/B00003E4FG/ref=as_li_ss_il?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1458597113&sr=1-2&keywords=Amel+Hedhili&linkCode=li2&tag=acrar-20&linkId=09e4799ed8d0329dac9bb840ae08be3a" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="320" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B00003E4FG&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=acrar-20" width="174" /></a>The
film, <a href="http://amzn.to/1o2Iyuq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Silence of the Palace</a>, deals with issues of gender, class and
sexuality interwoven
through the lives of two generations of women who live in a palace
harem. Through her beautiful backdrops and chilling oud tunes, Tlatli
shows the violence of patriarchy, colonialism, and poverty through a
series of flashbacks of a young wedding singer, who has returned home
to honor the death of the palace prince.<br />
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Tlatli has gone on to direct more movies, including
<a href="http://amzn.to/1o2IGKv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Season of Men</a>, which debuted in 2000 Cannes Film Festival. It
depicts an island where women are held prisoners for 11 months out of
the year, waiting for husbands who return from the mainland for a "season."
It is a story of loneliness, frustration and desperation. Tlatli used
her movies to be a champion of feminist ideologies, while at the same
time she struggles with staying within the norms of a strict society.</div>
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<u><b>Annemarie Jacir - Palestine</b></u><br />
Annemarie Jacier was born in 1974 in Palestine to one of the area's oldest Christian families. Her family moved to Saudi Arabia when she was a child and they later sent her to a private school in Texas. She eventually ended up in New York and studied film before returning to the Middle East.<br />
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Her film <b><i>Like Twenty Impossibles</i></b>, was shown at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival and was the first time a Palestinian female director walked it's red carpet. The movie tells the story of a film crew who took a remote side road, trying to avert a closed Israeli checkpoint.<br />
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Jacir has gone on to make many other movies that explore the relationship of growing up a female in a colonized, military society. Her movie, <a href="http://amzn.to/1o2Byha" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i><b>When I Saw You</b></i></a>, was nominated as Best Foreign film at the 85th Academy Awards and was considered by many to be cinematic poetry. Her film journeys through the plight of the displaced, who were kicked out of their homes in 1967, but is somewhat autobiographically in nature, as she herself has been denied re-entry into her homeland.<br />
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<u><b>Manal Al Dowayan - Saudi Arabia</b></u><br />
Manal
Al Dowaya was born in Saudi Arabia and initially went to school to be a
system analysis. She worked for an oil company before returning to her
love of art and became a full time artist in 2010. She often creates
collaborate works, inviting women from the community to come and be a
part of the voice she creates with her pieces.<br />
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Her
artwork involves photography, sculpture and installation to highlight
the sociology-cultural norms that define the daily lives of the women
around her. Her earlier work included such important pieces as “Look
Beyond the Veil” that focused on social restrictions on driving, voting
and playing music while her series "I Am" highlighted real women in
their various economic roles.<br />
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In 2011 she exhibited at
the Venice Biennale a piece titled "Suspended Together" that consisted
of 200 white, fiberglass doves. Each dove was hung in mid flight, it's
underbelly imprinted with permission slips from men guardians. She
collected them from individual prominent Saudi Arabian women, who needed
them to travel alone. Each permission slip was unique, forever weighing
down a bird that represents freedom.<br />
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Her recent work
includes going back to photography, creating a recent series called
"Crash" that highlights the dangers of female teachers in rural
villages. Unable to drive, and paid very low wages, most of the teachers
have to rely on unreliable drivers and cars. Al Dowayan spent a year
researching and documenting the accidents to humanize the struggle of
women in modern Saudi Arabian society.<br />
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<u><b>Boushra Almutawakel - Yemen</b></u><br />
Boushra
Almutawakel was born in Yemen in 1969 and went on to study photography
at university abroad. It was there that she attended a lecture by Egyptian
feminist <a href="http://amzn.to/1MjIdz5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nawal El Sadawi</a>. During the lecture, El Sadawi said
<i>"women
who wore the hijab/veil or nigab were the same as women who wore
makeup, in the sense that they all hid their true identities."</i> Somehow that stuck with Almutawakel, who would let this lead her artwork.<br />
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Almutawakel
wants to show that women were not oppressed, backwards and uneducated
for wearing the veil, rather it was advantageous and empowering in some
ways as it protects and privatizes the woman's body. Yet at the same
time, her work tries to counter the negative fuel of how the veil is
portrait in the Western media.<br />
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She has gone on to produce important works like "The Hijab / Veil
Series", which aims to explore the perceptions of the veil as it's used
to cover up more and more of a woman with her child holding a doll. The last photo has them disappear from our view all together.<br />
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I hope I've introduced you to eight remarkable Arab women, some Muslim, some Christian, who use their art to question their government, their society and their religion. I hope that by introducing you to these women, you've learned a little more about Arab women's diverse history.<br />
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A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-41821646581068839832016-03-20T07:00:00.000-07:002016-04-15T18:13:15.452-07:00Nowruz Sib Tutorial (Happy Nowruz 2016)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Tomorrow is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nowruz</a>, a holiday celebrated in Iran and by those who speak Farsi all over the world.<br />
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Part of the holiday celebration is placing a <i>half sin</i> table in your home and one of the items is <i>sīb</i>, or apples, in Persian. <br />
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Last year on our road trip through <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/08/my-family-summer-2015-vacation.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Florida</a>, my girls brought with them an origami book and covered my rental car dash with their creations. Including origami balloons that my eight year old loved making. Something about taking a flat piece of paper and turning into 3D art just by blowing was so much fun for her.<br />
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As she was making them, I couldn't help but see an apple shape in the design. So today I thought it might be fun to do a craft for kids, by taking these square balloons and turned them into apples for a <i>half sin</i> table in your home.<br />
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<u><b>Supplies</b></u><br />
Square origami paper<br />
Green card stock<br />
Scissors<br />
Bone folder<br />
Sticks<br />
Glue <br />
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Fold your square piece of paper in half. Make sure the bottom of the paper meets the top portion exactly. We like to use a bone folder to make sure our folds are crisp. You can use your fingernails too.<br />
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Fold it again in the other direction.<br />
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Fold your square piece of paper diagonally in both directions. Your paper will now have a X and a + in the middle of it. <br />
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Fold in the upper right corner. <br />
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Repeat it on the other side so that your paper now looks like an arrow shape.<br />
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Fold the side flaps to the top.<br />
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Repeat this on the other side.<br />
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Fold the right corner into the middle. <br />
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Repeat on the other side.<br />
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Turn the whole thing over and repeat on the other side until now you have a diamond shape.<br />
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Tuck the top and bottom loose flaps into the folds you just
made.<br />
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Repeat this for all four flaps. Turn the folded paper to the end that does not have any flaps. Locate the hole in the center of this side. Blow into the hole. The ball should inflate - just remember to keep those flaps tucked in.<br />
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Add a dap of glue in the opening and place your stick inside.<br />
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Cut out a small leaf design from the green cardstock.<br />
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Dap a little more glue and add the leaf.<br />
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Your <i>sīb</i> is done!<br />
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Make more to hand out to friends, neighbors or co-workers and tell them all about Nowruz and how apples represent beauty and love.<br />
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I've been wanting to try string art for while because it just looks like so much fun to do. I thought I would try it with the letter meem, the 24th letter in the Arabic alphabet.<br />
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<b>Supplies</b><br />
12x9 inch wood board<br />
Meem computer printout<br />
Hammer<br />
Embroidery thread<br />
Tape<br />
Nails<br />
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This past weekend I found a board at my local thrift shop that already had a backing and I knew the time was perfect to try this craft.<br />
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When I brought the board home, it looked like this.<br />
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After a few coats of white paint, I managed to finally get rid of the black, loving dog.<br />
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Then I painted the white with a pretty duochrome oceanic green watercolor. After it dried, I taped down my meem cut out and started nailing. I started on the end, placing a nail down on it's side to use as a sizer of where to place the next nail.<br />
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After a few rounds of "oww" and "ouch" my husband asked what I was doing. I told him that this tiny nails were impossible to hold. He suggested using pliers. Genius!<br />
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I outlined the whole letter with nails and then took off the paper and tape.<br />
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I then went around the border of the board and placed nails about one inch apart.<br />
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Once it was all finished, I tied one end of the embroidery thread onto a nail. I put in three knots to be safe.<br />
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I then started the outline of the border and the inside of the letter.<br />
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Once the outline was complete, I started doing the inside between the outlines.</div>
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I ended up using three packets of embroidery thread total and I think it came out great.</div>
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I'm so honored to have been asked to write an article on women artists for Multicultural Kids Blog.<br />
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Please visit <a href="http://multiculturalkidblogs.com/2016/03/01/women-artists/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">7 Women Artists Who Changed History</a> to find out about some of my favorite creatives from around the world.<br />
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A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-69691918381701630072016-02-29T07:00:00.000-08:002016-04-16T15:47:04.962-07:00Multicultural Toys & Activities For Kids - Arabic Alphabet coloring pages: Za is for ZabiHappy Leap Day (2016)!<br />
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To celebrate this special <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">day</a> that only happens every four years, I've once <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/02/multicultural-toys-activities-for-kids.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">again</a> gotten together with a few friend bloggers over at <a href="http://multiculturalkidblogs.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Multicultural Kids Blog</a> to showcase leaping activities the world.<br />
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Please visit <a href="http://www.fortheloveofspanish.com/2016/02/multicultural-toys-activities-for-kids_29.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">For the Love of Spanish</a> and <a href="http://www.marcellinamaria.my.id/index.php/9-home-educating/152-multicultural-toys-activities-for-kids-freebie-2016-leap-day-journal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marcellina Maria</a> on our blog hop today of things that leap.<br />
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Since I had already started our leap month of February with a leaping <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/02/arabic-alphabet-coloring-pagesdhad-is.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">defda'a</a> (Arabic for frog), I thought I would end it with another animal from my <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2010/11/arabic-alphabet-animal-poster-is-here.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arabic Animal Alphabet Poster</a> that leaps.<br />
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The 17th letter Za (ẓā’) is represented by Thareef the zabi, which is antelope in Arabic.<br />
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Thareef is always playing practical jokes on his friends.<br />
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Other words that use Za are zarif (elegant), zufr (fingernail), and zuhr (noon).<br />
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You can find Thareef <a href="http://www.acraftyarab.com/uploads/5/3/1/9/5319548/zabi.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Be sure to visit the Pinterest board <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/a-crafty-arab-printables/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Crafty Arab Printables</a> for more coloring pages and activities to print out for free!A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-69556849399012674102016-02-22T07:00:00.000-08:002016-04-15T17:35:10.646-07:00Khatam Gift Tag Tutorial<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Khatam Gift Tag Tutorial by A Crafty Arab </td></tr>
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We had just finished our latest large box of cereal and when I was placing it in the recycle bin, I realized I could make something out of it. I gathered some supplies and came up with this Khatam gift tag. It was so easy to do, I'm gong to make a couple to have on hand.<br>
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Double sided tape<br>
Scissors<br>
Chalk<br>
Pencil<br>
Bead<br>
String<br>
Hole punch<br>
2 pieces of 3 inch square card stock<br>
Recycled cereal box<br>
Arabesque stencil<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Khatam Gift Tag Tutorial by A Crafty Arab </td></tr>
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Place a piece of double sided tape in the middle of one of the 3 inch square card stock and offset it before placing it on the second piece to create an eight point star, also called a khatam.<br>
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Cut out one section of your cereal box and place double sided tape on one end and fold it over. Place the card stock khatam over the doubled up cereal box and trace out the design.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Khatam Gift Tag Tutorial by A Crafty Arab </td></tr>
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Cut out the shape.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Khatam Gift Tag Tutorial by A Crafty Arab </td></tr>
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Erase your pencil marks.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Khatam Gift Tag Tutorial by A Crafty Arab </td></tr>
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Place the khatam on another section of the cereal box and place the stencil over the shape. Chalk the design.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Khatam Gift Tag Tutorial by A Crafty Arab </td></tr>
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Punch holes in all eight points.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Khatam Gift Tag Tutorial by A Crafty Arab </td></tr>
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Cut off a piece of string, twine or embroidery thread about two arm lengths. Find the half way point and go through the khatam at the below two points. <br>
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Leave the top string alone for now, start going through the other holes, going back to two space from the top starting point. Then you'll go back through two space from your second entry point.<br>
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Keep stringing your star until you have a square design in the middle, like this. Your two strings should both be at the same hole, but coming in and out of different directions. <br>
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Take your longer string and redo the design, but this time creating a second square in the center. Your string should once again come to the same hole as the other string. Keep both strings tight and tie them together at the top. Go up about five inches, tie another knot and cut off the extra sting.<br>
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Wrap one of the extra string pieces around your fingers a few times.<br>
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Take the second string and tie a knot around the loop you just made.<br>
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Cut off any extra string about five inches from the top and use that to tie a little knot about a quarter inch from the top of the loop. Cut off the extra string from the second knot close to the knot.<br>
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Cut off the bottom loop of your tassel and attach your bead to the top. Make sure it has a big enough hole for two stings to go through. <br>
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Attach your tassel to the bottom of your tag.<br>
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Your tag is complete and ready to be given out with any gift. Give it alone, or add it to the <a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/02/arabic-initial-wrapping-paper-tutorial.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arabic Initial Wrapping Paper Tutorial</a> I showed you how to make last week. Here is the back of the tag, left blank so you can write To/From on it.<br>
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If you'd like to buy handmade tags without doing the work, check out these cute <a href="https://acraftyarab.zibbet.com/shop?shop_section=59574" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arabic Love Scalloped Circle Hanging Tags</a> in my Zibbet shop.<br>
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To view more tutorials made with a khatam design, visit<br>
<a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/07/kirigami-khatam-tutorial.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kirigami Khatam Tutorial </a><br>
<a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/07/origami-khatam-tutorial.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Origami Khatam Tutorial </a><br>
<a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/10/quilled-khatam-tutorial.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Quilled Khatam Tutorial</a><br>
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I have a birthday party tomorrow for a very special friend.<br />
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I've bought her a book and wanted to make my present stand out from the others on the gift table.<br />
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I decided to use the technique I used last July on this <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/07/arabic-initial-tote-tutorial.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arabic Initial Tote Bag</a> and decorate her wrapping paper. I've personalized it with the initial, Kha, the seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet and the first letter of her name.<br />
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I hope this tutorial shows you how easy it is to do so you can try it!<br />
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<b>Supplies</b><br />
Pencil with new eraser<br />
Doule sided tape<br />
Kraft wrapping paper<br />
Scissors<br />
Xacto<br />
Sharpie<br />
Ink stamp <br />
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Wrap your gift and set it aside. Mark you pencil eraser with the Sharpie so it's easy to see the cut you'll need to make with the Xacto. Cut the sides so your eraser shape is now a square.<br />
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Print out and then cut a large Arabic letter out of paper. You can used regular paper, but I made my letter out of yellow cardstock so it's easier for you to see in the photos. Use the double sided tape to add it to the front of your present. Use only a tiny bit of tape as you'll need to take the letter off. Start stamping!<br />
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Stamp all around your letter. Stamp your shapes closer together the closer you are to the letter and fade out the design as you move towards the edges of the present.<br />
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When you are happy with your stamping, remove your paper letter and present your gift!<br />
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I wasn't sure if I wanted to go with gold or silver ink so included both in the supplies photo. When I was playing around on scrap paper, I realized I liked the gold by itself. But please feel free to combine colors, just wash your eraser between colors.<br />
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If you enjoyed this craft, be sure to check out my <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/crafty-arab-ramadan-challenge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crafty Ramadan</a> Pinterest board with more Arab and Islamic diy tutorials.<br />
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A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-36253455551915734822016-02-16T07:00:00.000-08:002016-04-16T15:26:38.326-07:0099 Muslim Children Books<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Books play a major role in my life as I have always been taught that education gives you freedom.<br />
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I love gathering books from different locations I've visited and using them in my sessions as an Arab storyteller. My Instagram feed shows some of my collection under <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/craftyarabstorytelling/" target="_blank">#CraftyArabStorytelling</a>.<br />
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Recently I compiled a few of these books in a list of <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/01/99-arab-children-books.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">99 Arab Children Books</a> and then shortly after followed up with a list of <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/01/8-books-about-remarkable-muslims.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">8 Books about Remarkable Muslims</a>.<br />
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In the meantime, my list of books for <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/acrar-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Muslim children</a> in my Amazon Associates shop grew to close to 150 books. (I do get paid fees for being an associate and use them to buy tutorial materials, fyi). It's now time to put it in an easy to read list for anyone to use. <br />
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So without future ado, I present the list of 99 Muslim children books. Authors with an * next to their name have more then one book published, please check <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/acrar-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=3" target="_blank">here</a> for other books by them.<br />
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<b>Aaser(*), Amin and Mohammed.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1RQzJQQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Noor Kids School Is Out for the Summer</a>.<br />
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<b>Abdel-Fattah(*), Randa</b>. <a href="http://amzn.to/1RQzNjr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Ten Things I Hate About Me</a>.<br />
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<b>Abdullah, Noorah Kathryn. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1LvaYmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What Do We Say?: A Guide to Islamic Manners.</a><br />
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<b>Adams, Shireen. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1Toxllt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Colours of Islam.</a><br />
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<b>Addasi(*), Maha. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1OhTHgw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Time to Pray</a>.<br />
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<b>Al Mansour, Haifaa. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1PI5F7w" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Green Bicycle</a>.<br />
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<b>Al-Abasi, Hadeel.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1RQCHF0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Allah Loves Me</a>.<br />
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<b>Ali-Karamal, Sumbul. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1Tsm7wm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Growing Up Muslim: Understanding the Beliefs and Practices of Islam</a>.<br />
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<b>Al-Kalby(*), Mariam</b>. <a href="http://amzn.to/1PI6oWb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Apple Tree: The Prophet Says Series.</a><br />
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<b>Aminah, Ibrahim Ali. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1ToxsgT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Three Muslim Festivals</a>.<br />
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<b>Apple (*), Emma.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1PI6w8c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How Big Is Allah?</a><br />
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<b>Aslan, Reza.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1Tsmozc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">No god but God: The Origins and Evolution of Islam</a>.<br />
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<b>Azzam, Leila. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/248hQC4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Life of the Prophet Muhammad</a>.<br />
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<b>Barnard, Bryn. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1Tsmsz0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Genius of Islam: How Muslims Made the Modern World.</a><br />
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<b>Bellingham, Brenda. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1TsmzL3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Captain Lilly and the New Girl</a>.<br />
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<b>bint Mahmood, Ayesha.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1LvdsBA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thank You O Allah!</a> <br />
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<b>Bokhari, Raana. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1PI79yv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Allah Gave Me Two Hands and Feet</a>. <br />
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<b>Brown, Tricia. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1LvdHwk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Salaam: A Muslim American Boy's Story</a>.<br />
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<b>Broyhill Publications. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1KnTxJQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Salah Flip Book: Teach the basic salah positions with this fun flip book from Allah to Z.</a><br />
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<b>Bullard, Lisa</b>. <a href="http://amzn.to/1PI7rVX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rashad's Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr.</a><br />
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<b>Cara, Anwar.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1PI7yB1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">5 Pillars of Islam</a>. <br />
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<b>Cohen, Miriam. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1PI7Ckg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Layla's Head Scarf<b>.</b></a><br />
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<b>Conover, Sarah.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1KnTJsw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ayat Jamilah: Beautiful Signs: A Treasury of Islamic Wisdom for Children and Parents (This Little Light of Mine).</a><br />
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<b>Cunnane, Kelly. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1LvekWE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deep in the Sahara</a>.<br />
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<b>Davies, Fatimah De Vaux. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1PI7UHH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tell me about Allah</a>.<br />
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<b>D'Oyen, Fatima. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/248iakh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Islamic Manners Activity Book</a>.<br />
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<b>Durkee, Noura</b>. <a href="http://amzn.to/1OhWE0w" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Animals of Paradise</a>.<br />
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<b>El-banna, Abubakr and Sara Kabil. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1QGArLv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ameena's Ramadan Diary: A Practical Guide to Getting the Best Out of Fasting and Ramadan. </a><br />
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<b>Emerick(*), Yahiya. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1OhWMx7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My First Holy Qur'an for Little Children</a>.<br />
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<b>Faruqi, Reem. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1RQFrSQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Lailah's Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story.</a><br />
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<b>Flatt, Lizann. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1PI8ncW" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arts and Culture in the Early Islamic World</a>.<br />
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<b>Ganeri, Anita. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1RQFG0d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hajj Stories.</a><br />
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<b>George, Linda S.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/248iNtZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Golden Age of Islam</a>.<br />
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<b>Ghani, Aisha.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1RQFM89" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Can Pray Anywhere!</a> <br />
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<b>Ghazi, Suhaib Hamid. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1PI8B3L" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ramadan</a>.<br />
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<b>Gilani(*), Fawzia. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1TovrBn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr with Ama Fatima</a>.<br />
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<b>Gunes(*), Aysenur. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1LvfBx6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mosques of the World Activity Book.</a><br />
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<b>Gutta, Razeena.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1PI8IfL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Faatimah and Ahmed - We're Little Muslims</a>.<br />
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<b>Hafiz, Dilara. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1OhXo5T" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The American Muslim Teenager's Handbook.</a><br />
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<b>Haqq, Shahada Sharelle.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1LvgiGz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stories of the Prophets in the Holy Qu'ran.</a><br />
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<b>Hassan, Labiba.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1Toyx8p" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Our Religion Is Islam</a>.<br />
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<b>Heiligman, Deborah. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1Lvgohx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr.</a><br />
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<b>Hunt, Demi. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1RQGW3o" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Painting Heaven: Polishing the Mirror of the Heart</a>.<br />
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<b>Hussain, Asim. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1QGBafH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Khadijah goes to School - A story about You</a>.<br />
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<b>Hussein(*), Asmaa,</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1LvgCp1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yasmine's Belly Button.</a><br />
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<b>Ibrahim, Yasmin.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1LvgCp1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Can Say Bismillah Anywhere!</a><br />
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<b>Ibrahim, Fatimah Ashaela Moore.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1RQHdDn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Beauty Of My Hijab</a>.<br />
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<b>Iqbal S.A. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1OhY7nN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Allah to Z: An Islamic Alphabet Book.</a><br />
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<b>Ismail, Suzy.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1TsqkzX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The BFF Sisters: Jennah's New Friends</a><br />
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<b>Jalali, Reza. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1PI9HN3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moon Watchers: Shirin's Ramadan Miracle.</a><br />
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<b>Jones, Ayesha. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1RQHvKv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Allah Gave Me a Tongue to Taste.</a><br />
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<b>Katz, Karen.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1PIb5PL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My First Ramadan (My First Holiday).</a><br />
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<b>Kayani, M S. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1ToyOrZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Assalamu Alaykum</a><br />
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<b>Khan, Rukhsana.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1TsqGa1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Muslim Child: Understanding Islam Through Stories and Poems</a>.<br />
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<b>Khan, Hena. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1TsqN5j" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Night of the Moon: A Muslim Holiday Story.</a><br />
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<b>Khan, Michelle. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1LvjrpO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Hijab Boutique</a>.<br />
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<b>Khan, Aisha Karen. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1TsrifN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What You Will See Inside a Mosque.</a><br />
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<b>Khan(*), Saniyasnain</b>. <a href="http://amzn.to/1RQKAdH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Goodnight Stories from the Quran</a>.<br />
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<b>Khawaja (*), Omar S.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1PIcbLf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ilyas And Duck Search For Allah</a>. <br />
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<b>Latif, Atiya. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1PIcg1z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Islamic Prayers for Kids</a> <br />
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<b>Lymer, Elizabeth. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1PIcki0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Islamic Nursery Rhymes</a>.<br />
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<b>Mahtab(*), Mezbauddin.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1PIcm9t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Teaching Kids The Holy Quran.</a><br />
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<b>Mair(*), J. Samia. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1PIcSUQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amira's Totally Chocolate World</a>.<br />
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<b>Marchant, Kerena.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1PIcYvN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Muslim Festivals (Festival Tales).</a><br />
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<b>Marx, David F.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1RQM7QX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ramadan.</a><br />
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<b>Merchant, Zainab</b>. <a href="http://amzn.to/1Tssn7o" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Princess Siyana's Pen.</a><br />
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<b>Messaoudi, Michele.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1PIddqB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Mum is a Wonder</a>.<br />
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<b>Michigan State School of Journalism</b>. <a href="http://amzn.to/1PIdji9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">100 Questions and Answers About Muslim Americans with a Guide to Islamic Holidays.</a><br />
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<b>Mobin-Uddin(*), Asma. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1PIdvOn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Name Is Bilal</a><br />
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<b>Momin, Azra. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1PIdCtf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b> </b>Hector Hectricity and the Missing Socks</a>.<br />
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<b>Mowjood, Siraj.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1RQNhM6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Boy and the Owl: A Story About the Attributes of God Based on the Poem "The Creed of Salvation".</a><br />
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<b>Mujahid, Abdul Malik. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1RQNkHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Day in the Life of a Muslim Child</a>.<br />
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<b>Munshey, Sana.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1RQNrTS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">We're Off to Make 'Umrah.</a><br />
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<b>Musleh, Helal. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1PIdXfB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nightly News with Safa.</a><br />
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<b>Mussa(*), Yasmin. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/1KnUz8F" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Allah Knows All About Me</a>.<br />
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<b>Nura(*), Umm. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1RQNGOQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jannah Jewels Series</a>. <br />
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<b>Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1ToCqJo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Hundredth Name.</a><br />
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<b>Parveenm Solmaz.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1ToCtF4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My 30 Days of Ramadan: Activity and Coloring Workbook about Islam</a>.<br />
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<b>Payne, Geoffrey. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1QGBniU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Islamic Year: Suras, Stories, and Celebrations.</a><br />
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<b>Qamaruddin, Rizwana. </b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1ToCCs2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Allah Gave Me a Nose to Smell</a>.<br />
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<b>Qazi, Mahmoud Ahmad.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/1Tsu6cF" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Short Surahs: A Textbook for Elementary Quranic Studies.</a><br />
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<b>Rahim, Yasmeen. </b><a href="http://amzn.to/24ccohz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hassan and Aneesa Go to Madrasa</a>.<br />
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<b>Robert(*), Na'ima.</b> <a href="http://amzn.to/24ce0YG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ramadan Moon.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/2015-ramadan-crafty-challenge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crafty Arab Ramadan Challenge</a>A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-44959129700201837062016-02-11T07:00:00.000-08:002016-04-15T19:42:06.515-07:00Quilled Moon and Star TutorialQuilling is an art form that uses paper stripes and a slotted tool that looks like a sewing needle with the end clipped off.<br />
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Recently I was paid a visit by <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/12/with-spin-interview.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">With a Spin</a>, who left me with her beautiful cookie cutters. Since I'm an artist, I didn't even think of putting them in the kitchen and immediately I saw them as quilling walls to fill.<br />
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In the past, I've had to build my own walls to make<a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/quilled-eid-mubarak-card.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> letters</a> or arabesque <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/10/quilled-khatam-tutorial.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">shapes</a>. But here were walls that were reusable over and over to give me the same consistent shape. I couldn't wait to try them out.<br />
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To the disappointment of my baking daughter, the cookie cutters came into the studio.<br />
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I hope you enjoy this cookie cutter tutorial and look around your house for new, unusual, walls to fill.<br />
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<u><b>Supplies</b></u><br />
Paper crimping tool<br />
Watercolor paper<br />
White shadowbox frame<br />
Scissors<br />
Glue<br />
Quilling tool<br />
Two colors of 12 inch quilling stripes <br />
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Start by making beehive quilling stripes. Start a little bit down one end and fold the paper onto itself. Take your tool out, go down a bit more on the strip and do it again.<br />
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I made four and a half to fill the moon. For the star, I used 3 stripes, but I precut them all in half stripes before I beehived quilled them. The six small stripes fit in much better then trying to fit in the longer stripes in the star. (You'll thank me for hours of your life back, trust me.)<br />
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Wiggle them in. It's a tight space. If you have tweezers or a toothpick, use them.<br />
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Place glue dots where your paper meets.<br />
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Run a strip through your crimping tool to make the paper corrigated.<br />
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Wiggle your quilled piece out of the cookie cutter. I placed one of the same color around it first and then a contrasting color over that.<br />
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Wait for everything to dry, peel off all the glue from your fingertips, then glue your shapes to your paper.<br />
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I used watercolor paper and this blue color because I still hadn't cleaned up my workspace from our last <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/01/oil-pastel-resist-crescent-moon-and.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">art piece</a>.<br />
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You can also use colored cardstock behind your shapes to make them stand out. Your next dilemma will be to decide on placement in the frame. Put them together? Place them apart?<br />
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Of course, nothing can beat white background in a white frame. Always a classic.<br />
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For those that follow me on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/acraftyarab/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, you've already seen a sneak peek of playing around with different colors too.<br />
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There are two more shapes in the cookie cutter set. I might actually take the left over green triangles from my last <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/01/quilled-decagram.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">project</a> (did I already mention the messy workspace?) and start playing around with architecture.<br />
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Stay tuned as cookie cutter <a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/search/label/Quilling" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">quilling</a> might show up again!A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-66114595158286653882016-02-05T15:44:00.000-08:002016-04-16T15:54:02.385-07:00Multicultural Toys & Activities for Kids - Arabic Wooden Sorting GameToday I am getting together with a few of my blogging friends, and we are sharing multicultural toys and activities for kids. I wanted to introduce you to this Arabic Wooden Sorting Game.<br />
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When my children were small, my parents brought them this Arabic sorting game from one of their many travels.
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This game has been one of our favorites over the years because it introduced children to a few words at a time to get them started learning Arabic.<br />
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The game comes in a self contained box for storage, a lid that slides in and out and 8 slots inside.<br />
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It comes with five large wood pieces and forty small ones. The five large, long wood pieces have Arabic letters, Arabic numbers, shapes, food and animals on them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arabic Wooden Sorting Game by A Crafty Arab</td></tr>
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The smaller, square pieces have the same objects, only on individual squares. <br />
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To play, you place a large wood piece in a sliding slot on the lid when the box is closed. You choose one of the smaller wood pieces and place it into the open slot.<br />
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Here the number one is getting ready to go into the number one slot.<br />
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We also used to flip the squares over and play a matching game before we created our <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/06/khatam-ramadan-matching-game.html" target="_blank">own</a> last year.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arabic Wooden Sorting Game by A Crafty Arab</td></tr>
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To see more multicultural games and toys for teaching children languages, check out
<a href="http://www.fortheloveofspanish.com/2016/02/multicultural-toys-activities-for-kids.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Multicultural Toys and Activities for Kids</a> by For the Love Of Spanish and
<a href="http://www.marcellinamaria.my.id/index.php/12-traveling/145-playing-with-traditional-music-instrument" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Playing With Traditional Music Instrument</a> by Maria Magdalena.A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-85910560121374565422016-02-04T07:00:00.001-08:002016-04-16T15:26:53.959-07:005 Ways to Say I Love You in Arabic<div style="text-align: left;">
With Valentines Day around the corner, love is in the air.</div>
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I thought it might be fun to give you ideas on how to show your hobb (Arabic for love) in another language this year to be different.<br />
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Here are 5 ways to say I love You in Arabic.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5 Ways to Say I Love You in Arabic by A Crafty Arab</td></tr>
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1. Proclaim some Hobb </h2>
Arabic is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Afroasiatic langauge</a>, and similar to it's Semitic siblings, nouns change depending on if you are talking to a girl or a boy. <br />
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Arabic is comparable to French, where nouns ending in -e tend to be feminine, or Irish, where nouns ending in -óir/-eoir and -ín are always masculine, and those ending -óg/-eog or -lann are always feminine*.<br />
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In Arabic, we use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_diacritics#Kasrah" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">diacritics</a> because our language is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">adjad</a>. We place a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_diacritics#Fat.E1.B8.A5ah" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fatḥah</a> above a letter and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_diacritics#Kasrah" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kasrah</a> below to determine the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">grammatical gender</a>.<br />
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The Arabic word for I is Ana and the word for Love is Hobb. So placing the two together is Ana Hobb, but you need to also add an ending depending on who you are addressing.<br />
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If you are saying I Love You to a woman, you place the fatḥah under the last letter:<br />
<b>أنا أحبكِ</b> - ana ahobbuki. <br />
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If you are saying I Love You to a man, you place the kasrah over the last letter:<br />
<b> أنا أحبكَ</b> - ana ahobbuka.<br />
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If you are saying I love you to a group of three or more people you add a letter to the end:<br />
<b> أنا أحبّكم</b> - ana ahobbukum.<br />
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There are also different ways to say I love you in different <a href="http://www.arabicgenie.com/2012/08/love-in-arabic-which-translation-is-correct" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">situations</a>, from love in the Bible to love for a lover. You can also hear some of them <a href="http://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-arabic/love" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Or use this <a href="http://www.everyday-arabic.com/2015/06/more-than-10-romantic-phrases-in-arabic.html" target="_blank">graphic</a>.<br />
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2. Mail some Hobb</h2>
I started my business eight years ago because I couldn't find cards to give my loved ones that were in Arabic. Since then I've created many options for others to send some love.<br />
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Here are some cards that I made in my studio this week that will all be listed in my <a href="https://acraftyarab.zibbet.com/shop?utf8=%E2%9C%93&shop_section=&keywords=love" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Zibbet shop</a> soon.<br />
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3. Sing some Hobb</h2>
<a href="http://amzn.to/1PUUaXa" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mohammed Foaud</a> is an Egyptian vocalist who has a wonderful Arabic love song called El Hob El Haqiqi, which translates to My Love That Is True. <br />
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In the song, he sings of a love that<br />
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Teaches us how to forgive and to forget about yesterday.</div>
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Teaches us to constantly think about the forthcoming days.</div>
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Listen to the full song here: <br />
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Umm Khalthom is another Egyptian vocalist who also has a fantastic song called Night of Love. I remember many nights listening to this coming from the radio in our house.<br />
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4. Eat some Hobb </h2>
A saying of the past was "A way to a man's heart is his stomach" but honestly, doesn't food work on just about anyone?<br />
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Valentine's Day is in February, which tends to be a dark, cold month for us.<br />
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How about making some Arabic soup for your loved one? You can try <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2013/11/palestinian-spinach-and-lentil-soup.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Palestinian Spinach and Lentil Soup</a>,
<a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2013/11/egyptian-tomato-and-chickpea-soup.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Egyptian Tomato and Chickpea Soup</a>
or <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/10/amandas-plate-lebanese-lentil-soup-goes.html" target="_blank">Lebanese Lentil Soup</a>.<br />
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For dessert, you can even try some <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2012/06/baklawa-pops.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Baklawa Pops</a>.<br />
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5. Read some Hobb</h2>
Looking for some poems to read to your loved one? Check out my <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/acrar-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">book section</a> in my Amazon library (I'm an affiliate member). If you are looking for love poems to read, grab this book to serenade your hobb.
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There are so many ways to say I love you in Arabic. I hope you try one of them this Valentines Day! <br />
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*Grammatically there are always exceptions to these rules and endings for all languages. Please check a dictionary or local dialects to verify. A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-56621875684280808652016-02-02T07:00:00.000-08:002016-04-16T15:42:30.156-07:00Arabic Alphabet coloring pages...Dhad is for Defda'aYesterday I decided to use one of the animals from my <a href="https://acraftyarab.zibbet.com/arabic-alphabet-game-cards" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arabic Alphabet Game Set </a>for the start of a month long photo challenge on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BBRZABgy5r_/?taken-by=acraftyarab" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>.<br />
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Doing so reminded me that I have yet to finish turning all the Arabic letters in my <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2010/11/arabic-alphabet-animal-poster-is-here.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arabic Alphabet Animal Poster</a> into coloring pages, like I had promised.<br />
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Well, I decided to fix that and today present the letter Dhad which is represented by Dhamen the defda'a, which is how you say frog in Arabic. This little guy likes to spend his days helping all his friends around the oasis where he lives.<br />
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Other words that use Dhad are dhimad (bandage), dahk (laugh), and dhabaab (mist).<br />
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Enjoy the newest coloring page to print out here: <a href="http://www.acraftyarab.com/uploads/5/3/1/9/5319548/defdaa.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Defda'a Coloring Page</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arabic Alphabet coloring pages...Dhad is for Defda'a</td></tr>
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To enjoy more free Arabic letter coloring pages, visit
<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/arabic-coloring-pages/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arabic coloring pages</a>. To enjoy more free Arab educational downloads, visit
<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/a-crafty-arab-free-printables/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Crafty Arab Free Printables</a>.<br />
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And here is Dhamen on the game card, being used in the photo challenge. The word was <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/cmwphotoaday/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#Leap</a>.<br />
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A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-57240981546357299182016-01-29T07:00:00.000-08:002016-04-16T15:47:58.164-07:00Shakshuka In the Country of Men<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My book clue met last night to discuss Hisham Matar's <a href="http://amzn.to/1Qx5hJ3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In the Country of Men</a>.<br />
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This book is about a young boy growing up in Tripoli, Libya with a father who may or may not be involved in anti government conducts and a mother who may or may not be visiting the baker for smuggled alcohol to hide her depression. With no structure at home, our protagonist relays on those around him as he witnesses the horrors of growing up with a murderous dictator.<br />
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For me the writing fell short of other Arab <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/arab-authors-on-my-shelf/" target="_blank">novels</a> I've read, however as a debut novel it does an excellent job of describing Tripoli under the terrors of the Gaddafi rule. It was even shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Matar went on to write <a href="http://amzn.to/1Qx5IDg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anatomy of a Disappearance</a>, and in my opinion that is a much better read. <br />
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I had a personal connection to this book since I distinctly remember my <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2012/01/baba.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">father</a> telling me the story of Hisham Mater's father's real life disappearance <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/08/the-return-8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">in 1990</a>.<br />
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At the time, Libyans abroad thought that Egypt was safe to travel and met family there that they were not able to see otherwise. They soon learned that Gaddafi had a detrimental reach over the border.<br />
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Everyone always assumed Matar's father was killed in the 1996
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Salim_prison" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Abu Salim</a> prison massacre. I was happy to recently read that may not have been the case. The true story of what happened may someday be told.<br />
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In our book club the host provides the main dish and everyone else brings the sides. Since our book was about my birth country, I decided to try my hand at making a common dish in Libyan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_cuisine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cuisine</a>: shashouka.<br />
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To be honest, I had forgotten about <a href="https://foodlibya.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/shakshuka-battles/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">shashuka</a>, since I hadn't eaten it in years and years. It's not a common dish here in America because it's made with Libyan gedeed, قديد ليبي, which is hard to find. If you do decide to try your hand at it, it takes a very long time to <a href="http://libyanfood.blogspot.com/2012/03/gideed-libyan-dried-meatjerky.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">make</a>. <br />
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Gedeed is dried lamb (or mutton) that is made and preserving in a unique way. The meat is cut into strips and salted and dried, with spices added to prevent bacteria. Then it is hung to cure. Anyone visiting Libya during <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/09/eid-mubarak-punch-out-bookmark-tutorial.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eid Al Adha</a>, will see thin strips
of meat hanging from lines all over town.<br />
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Last week I was trying to decide what to make for book club on a day that I knew was going to be full of parent teacher conferences and multiple auto car repair shop visits. I needed something fast and well, Libyan food is not known for being fast. Someone in one of the blooger groups I belong to mentioned shakshouka and posted a recipe. Soon others mentioned that they ate it in Tunisia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and even <a href="http://www.anglo-libyan.com/2010/02/israeli-arab-food-war.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Israel</a>.<br />
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When I looked into the history of shakshuka, I found out that it originated in North Africa, with wiki saying it is part of Tunisian, Libyan, Algerian, Moroccan, and Egyptian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakshouka#History" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cuisine</a>.<br />
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Upon future research, I found that there are several Israeli who make direct ties to bringing shashuka from <a href="http://ramadanrendezvous.com/post/55735480377/chef-sbitas-libyan-shakshuka-yum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Libya</a>:<br />
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"A Greek? Making shakshuka?” said Tzachi, a short and temperamental man with warm brown eyes and a hairy chest. “Please, that’s Moroccan food, leave it to us.” “Moroccan?” came a voice from the other end of the tent. “How dare you, punk?” It was Danny, and he wasn’t happy. Shakshuka, he said, originated from Tripoli, and was brought to Israel by Libyan Jews. Greeks and Moroccans, he said, have no right to claim it. - Liel Leibovitz, All Shakshuka Up, The Jewish Week</blockquote>
Also, if you are to eat <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g293984-d2453575-r142554198-Dr_Shakshuka-Tel_Aviv_Tel_Aviv_District.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Doktor Shakshuka</a>, in old Jaffa, you are eating at an establishment owned by a large Libyan family, who most likely migrated to Israel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Libya" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">from 1948 to 1951</a>.<br />
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A quick call to my mom (remember that yummy <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2012/07/libyan-mbattan.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Libyan Mubatan</a> she made us?) confirmed that it was indeed North African, as there is no word for it in Hebrew. Shakshouka was actually an <a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/01/happy-yennayer-2966-2016.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazigh</a> word that means "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shakshouka" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">all mixed up</a>."<br />
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She gave me her recipe for Libyan shakshouka and I decided to make it last night for book club.<br />
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We spent our evening talking about the history of Libya and we answering <a href="https://www.bookbrowse.com/reading_guides/detail/index.cfm/book_number/2005/In-the-Country-of-Men" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">questions</a> together about the book. Since I had no way of getting access to gedeed, she said I could use beef jerky instead. It actually tasted quite yummy and the pan was empty by the end of the evening.<br />
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Saha'a (to your health!) if you would like to try it.<br />
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<b>Ingredients</b><br />
tomatoes<br />
garlic<br />
olive oil<br />
onions<br />
tomato paste<br />
Libyan spices<br />
salt<br />
beef jerky<br />
parsley<br />
eggs<br />
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In a deep pan, heat up the olive oil, garlic, onions and jalapenos. I put them in whole because I didn't have time to seed them. It gives the dish the flavor, but let my guests be in charge of how spicy. <br />
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While the stuff is happening on the stove, I used kitchen scissors to cut the beef jerky into small bite size pieces and soaked them in water. This helped soften the jerky as gedeed is not "tough" in the original Libyan dish. While that is soaking, I pureed the tomatoes in a blender.<br />
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At this point the onions should be soft so I added the tomatoes to the pan and turn it on high. I removed the jerky from the water and added that also. (Discard the water.)<br />
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I'm lucky in that I have an Arab mom that stocks my kitchen with jars that simply say Libyan spices. It's our country's version of allspice, but way better. If you don't have a Libyan mom stocking your spice rack, simply mix 1 tbs turmeric, 1 tbs ground cinnamon in your pan. </div>
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I also added a 1/2 Tbsp of paprika. I cooked this for about 5
minutes on high, then turned low to simmer and mixed in one heaping Tbsp on tomato paste. Be generous, it's okay.<br />
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I let this simmer for 20 minutes and came back with four eggs. I cracked them on top, making sure to break the yoke. I put a lid over the eggs and set the timer. 5 minutes for runny centers and 10 minutes for hard centers.<br />
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I left the lid on untill you got to the table and then add a handful of parsley for color immediately before serving. Shakshuka is not eaten with utensils, rather warm bread is used to soak up the sauce, eggs and meat. <br />
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We also enjoyed sides of couscous and vegetables.<br />
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Along with <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">taboulah, kibbeh and sfiha from the local Lebanese market in town.</span></span><br />
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">After dinner we went to the living room for tea, halwa and yummy homemade fruit cake and cookies. It was a lovely night and I can't wait till we meet again next month. </span></span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"></span></span>A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-23009038089545566512016-01-27T07:00:00.000-08:002016-04-18T14:30:31.824-07:00Happy Multicultural Book Day 2016<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Today is <a href="http://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/the-2016-linky-diversity-childrens-books-reviews/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Multicultural Book Day</a> and there are over 200 bloggers participating worldwide.<br />
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The mission of today is to not only bring raise awareness for the kid’s books that celebrate diversity, but to get more of these of books into classrooms and libraries.<br />
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Check out the hashtage #ReadYourWorld on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/readyourworld/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ReadYourWorld&src=tyah" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> to read some fantastic reviews of diverse children's books. <br />
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I only heard about this day last week while researching an upcoming book list so I was not able to participate. But next year you should expect to see a review of some of these <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/01/99-arab-children-books.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arab books</a> I got in the mail this week added to the mix!<br />
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A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-55420129871746634482016-01-26T03:00:00.000-08:002016-04-15T16:48:11.826-07:00Algeria Geometric Painting<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My daughter has parent teacher conferences, so she gets out of school for three days early this week. Since there are short days for a lot of schoolwork, her teacher and I decided to put our <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2016/01/3rd-grade-art-lesson-contrast-colors-in.html" target="_blank">birch tree art</a> project on hold.<br />
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However, not having art at school doesn't mean that we can't have art at home! I pulled out the watercolors and we spent our afternoon learning how to make a geometric painting of Algeria.<br />
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From wiki -<br />
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Algeria (Arabic: الجزائر al-Jazā'ir; Berber: ⵍⵣⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer), officially People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast. Its capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the country's far north. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest in Africa and the Arab world. Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the west by Morocco, to the southwest by Western Sahara, Mauritania, and Mali, to the southeast by Niger, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country is a semi-presidential republic consisting of 48 provinces and 1,541 communes. Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been President since 1999. </blockquote>
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I'm sharing our tutorial so you can try to make an Algerian geometric watercolor painting also.<br />
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<u><b>Supplies</b></u><br />
Outline map of Algeria <br />
Watercolor paper<br />
Watercolor paint<br />
Scissors<br />
Cutting mat<br />
Water containter<br />
Pin<br />
Paintbrush<br />
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Start by cuting out the outline of the Algerian map but don't worry about the little coastal details. <br />
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Place your cutting mat under your watercolor paper. Add the map on top and use your pin to mark out the outline. Add a few more random holes in the middle of the country also.<br />
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Start connecting the holes to each other, forming triangles as you go. <br />
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Keep connecting the dots, adding more as needed. Turn your paper around to see different holes or add dots with your paintbrush as you paint. <br />
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Keep going until your Algeria is connected. Lay flat to dry and it should be ready to frame in just a few hours. We have decided to keep going and see what other countries we can find on the internet to print out!<br />
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A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-69697724559423543562016-01-22T03:00:00.000-08:002016-04-16T15:27:07.200-07:008 Books about Remarkable Muslims<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For hundreds of years, books have been a wonderful resource to bring to light new views.<br />
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So it's no surprise that if you want to expose children to Islam, it's best to turn to books at an early age.<br />
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The following eight children books do a great job of introducing remarkable Muslims from times past and modern society. I would recommend them as a must for any children's library, not just ones in Muslim homes, to expose children to the rich, vast civilization of Islam.<br />
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The Muslims in these books were pioneers that greatly impacted the world. I took some books from an old list I created back in 2010 of
<a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2010/09/list-of-childrens-books-aboutfor-arab.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Children’s Books about/for Arab Children</a>, but have expanded on it to include newly published books.<br />
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I am an Amazon affiliate member and you can find my list of books <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/acrar-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Feel free to buy any of these books there and shukran (Arabic for thank you) for continuing to support my research.<br />
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<b><a href="http://amzn.to/1SAowVg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words</a>
by Karen Leggett Abouraya</b><br />
The inspiring, true story of Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani girl
who stands up and speaks out for every child’s right to education.
Though she and two of her schoolmates were targeted by a Taliban gunman,
a life-threatening injury only strengthened her resolve. Malala spoke
at the U.N. on her 16th birthday in 2013, nine months after she was
shot. Author and journalist Karen Leggett Abouraya, author of Hands
Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books, brings Malala’s
story to life for young readers. Malala’s story is more than a biography
of a brave and outspoken teenager. It is a testament to the power of
education to change the world for boys and girls everywhere. "Winner of
the California Reading Association's 2015 EUREKA! Honor Award"<br />
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<b><a href="http://amzn.to/1SAoAUT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Al-Ghazali</a>
By Demi</b><br />
The importance of al-Ghazali in the intellectual and spiritual history
of both the Western and Islamic world cannot be too highly estimated. He
is considered to be the savior of Islam because in his 40-volume opus
magnum, <i>The Revival of the Religion Sciences</i>, he clarifies the
spiritual meanings and inner purposes of every aspect of the Islamic
faith. This book, an illustrated biography for both parents and
children—with adjacent text for both—presents this inspiring life with
exquisite miniatures in the Persian style. The biography covers his
humble birth and education, rise to fame, spiritual crisis, and
subsequent journeying to find the Truth in Syria, Palestine, and Mecca
before returning home, having purified his heart. The text is distilled
from his own autobiography, <i>Deliverance from Error</i>, written in the 11th century CE and from other scholarly biographies.<br />
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<b><a href="http://amzn.to/1QhNEwG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Extraordinary Women from the Muslim World</a>
By Natalie Maydell </b><br />
Multi-award winning picture book chronicling the
lives of 13 Muslim women in history who have lived extraordinary lives
and influenced their communities in a positive way, often overcoming
extreme hardship and inaccurate stereotypes that have been placed on the
role of women in Islam. The following women are profiled in the book:
1) Khadija bint Khuwaylid - Arabia - First Wife of the Prophet (pbuh);
2) Aisha bint Abi Bakr - Arabia - Wife of the Prophet (pbuh); 3)
Al-Khansa - Arabia - Poet; 4) Rabi a al-Adawiyya - Iraq - Woman Saint;
5) Arwa bint Ahmed al-Sulayhiyya - Yemen - Queen of Yemen; 6) Sultan
Razia - India - Warrior Queen of Delhi; 7) Nana Asmau - Nigeria -
Scholar and Poet; 8) Tjut Njak Dien - Indonesia - Guerrilla Leader; 9)
Halide Edib Adivar Turkey - Novelist and Activist; 10) Umm Kulthum -
Egypt - Singer; 11) Sabiha Gokcen - Turkey - Military Pilot; 12) Chaibia
Tallal - Morocco - Painter; and 13) Shirin Ebadi - Iran - Nobel Peace<br />
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<b><a href="http://amzn.to/1TaqcEf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Prophet Muhammad (S)</a> By Yasmin Mussa</b><br />
My Prophet Muhammad (S) encapsulates the timeless story of the life of
the best and final Messenger of Allah, Muhammad (S). Designed for early
childhood, this rendering of the Seerah serves as an ideal first
acquaintance with the miraculous story of Allah s finest creation. With
its vivid illustrations and appropriately rendered authorship, this book
is designed to increase your child s knowledge, appreciation and love
for the Prophet Muhammad (S). My Prophet Muhammad (S) is a picture board
book, containing 24 pages, a soft sponge cover with special glitter,
varnish and metallic shine effects.<br />
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<b><a href="http://amzn.to/1SAnOHH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1001 Inventions and Awesome Facts from Muslim Civilization</a> By National Geographic</b><br />
We often think that people from a
thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages. But from the 7th
century onward in Muslim civilization there were amazing advances and
inventions that still influence our everyday lives. People living in the
Muslim world saw what the Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Greek, and
Romans had discovered and spent the next one thousand years adding new
developments and ideas. Inventors created marvels like the elephant
water clock, explorers drew detailed maps of the world, women made
scientific breakthroughs and founded universities, architects built huge
domes larger than anywhere else on earth, astronomers mapped the stars
and so much more! This book takes the wining formula of facts, photos,
and fun, and applies it to this companion book to the 1001 Inventions
exhibit from the Foundation for Science, Technology, and Civilization.
Each page is packed with information on this little-known history, but
also shows how it still applies to our world today.<br />
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<b><a href="http://amzn.to/1QhMNfu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X</a>
By Ilyasah Shabazz</b><br />
Malcolm X grew to be one of America’s most
influential figures. But first, he was a boy named Malcolm Little.
Written by his daughter, this inspiring picture book biography
celebrates a vision of freedom and justice.<br />
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Bolstered
by the love and wisdom of his large, warm family, young Malcolm Little
was a natural born leader. But when confronted with intolerance and a
series of tragedies, Malcolm’s optimism and faith were threatened. He
had to learn how to be strong and how to hold on to his individuality.
He had to learn self-reliance.<br />
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Together with acclaimed
illustrator AG Ford, Ilyasah Shabazz gives us a unique glimpse into the
childhood of her father, Malcolm X, with a lyrical story that carries a
message that resonates still today—that we must all strive to live to
our highest potential.<br />
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<b><a href="http://amzn.to/1QhMz81" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Amazing Discoveries of Ibn Sina</a>
By Fatima Sharafeddine</b><br />
Born in Persia more than a thousand years ago, Ibn Sina was one of the
greatest thinkers of his time — a philosopher, scientist and physician
who made significant discoveries, especially in the field of medicine,
and wrote more than one hundred books. As a child, Ibn Sina was
extremely bright, a voracious reader who loved to learn and was
fortunate to have the best teachers. He memorized the Qur’an by the age
of ten and completed his medical studies at sixteen. He spent his life
traveling, treating the sick, seeking knowledge through research, and
writing about his discoveries. He came up with new theories in the
fields of physics, chemistry, astronomy and education. His most famous
work is <i>The Canon of Medicine</i>, a collection of books that were used for
teaching in universities across the Islamic world and Europe for
centuries. Ibn Sina’s story, told in the first person and beautifully
illustrated, provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of one of the
great intellects of the past.<br />
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<b><a href="http://amzn.to/1QhO5ae" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam</a> By Diane Stanley</b><br />
Forty years before the boy was born, a horde of bloodthirsty barbarians thundered out of the west and conquered his native land. They had succeeded because his people, ever at war with one another, had not fought together to defend their cities. In time the boy was destined to become the very leader that was needed, a man with the courage and vision to unite his people and face the most fearsome and brilliant warrior of the age.<br />
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The time was the twelfth century; the barbarian horde was the armies of the First Crusade; the great warrior was Richard the Lionhearted; and the leader was Saladin. This is more than the other side of a familiar Western story, the Crusades. It is the tale of an extraordinary man, remarkable for his generous and chivalrous ways, a warrior who longed for peace. Courageous in battle and merciful in victory, he would be revered even by his enemies as the "marvel of his time."<br />
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In her vibrant narrative and magnificently detailed illustrations inspired by the Islamic art of the time, Diane Stanley presents a hero whose compassion, piety, tolerance, and wisdom made him a model for his time -- and for ours.<br />
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To view more Islamic resources for children, visit these Pinterest boards:<br />
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<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/crafty-arab-99-creative-projects/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crafty Arab 99 Creative Projects</a><br />
<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/eid-fun/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crafty Arab Eid </a><br />
<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/2015-ramadan-crafty-challenge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crafty Arab Ramadan Challenge</a>A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-61196793138263207332016-01-15T07:00:00.000-08:002016-04-15T19:46:49.659-07:00Quilled DecagramSince I've started selling at <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-crafty-arab-is-at-handmade-showroom.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Handmade Showroom</a>, I've enjoyed coming up with different quilled art designs. I just finished gluing down the final circles in this Quilled Decagram.<br />
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In October, I made a <a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2015/10/quilled-khatam-tutorial.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">eight pointed star</a>, do I thought I would tackle a ten pointed star, a decagram.<br />
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I started with an outside. Each bend of the star was outlined with a dark blue quilled strip that was measured and hand cut to size.<br />
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Once that dried and set, I made the filling. I made 33 red loose coils, 33 tight red coils, 33 loose orange coils, 33 tight orange coils, 33 yellow loose coils, and you guessed it, 33 yellow tight coils. This gaves the piece a total of 99 tight coils and 99 loose coils*.<br />
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Here they are pictured in a fun designed I placed them in while I was making them on my desk. And it has given me an idea for the next quilled project!<br />
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Originally I made green triangles for the center, but my family (and the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-1i1_cS5or/?taken-by=acraftyarab" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">online</a> community) was so so on the idea. That is why there are green triangles in the heart above. Here is the original design. (Bonus tip - the dark blue circles were made by wrapping a strip around my quilling tool and then gluing down.) Here is everything before anything is glued in.<br />
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Since then I've decided to remove the green and add a flower to the center for a warmer feeling. The body of the flower is 3 dimensional, which makes it look really exceptional in the shadow box. To make the flower, I started with a small strip of red and a precut strip of pink.<br />
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I quilled my red into a tight coil and keep it on my tool, then added the pink, gluing down at the joint. I then coiled the pink, and taking off both from my tool before the final gluing. I took the circle you can see in the middle of the photo above and glued the flower inside that to give it stability. (Bonus tip - I created that solid blue circle originally by wrapping my paper around my glue bottle.)<br />
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I've set up another informal <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BAiQ2trS5tR/?taken-by=acraftyarab" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">online poll</a> on my Instagram account to see if people like the pink flower. Some have suggested leaving it off.<br />
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I have a few days to decide before I take it into Seattle for sale. I've finally found a perfect white frame for it and have taught myself how to mat cut so I can do my own framing at home.<br />
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*99 is a significant number in Islam as it's the number of names that God posses. I've been doing a number of <a href="http://www.acraftyarab.blogspot.com/search/label/99%20Creative%20Projects" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">99 projects</a> lately that you should check out.A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-75938021736568807472016-01-14T11:00:00.000-08:002016-04-19T08:30:52.335-07:00Alif Mabrouk to 2016 Oscar nominated Theeb and Ave MariaWorldwide, there are a number of people who are disappointed that the Academy Awards in 2016 will yet again be a sea of white faces with no minorities in any of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88th_Academy_Awards#Criticism_regarding_lack_of_diversity" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">major categories</a>. However, despite the lack of diversity at the top, there is some exciting news in other nominations.<br />
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I was thrilled to find out that movies Theeb ذيب and Ave Maria السلام عليك يا مريم have been nominated to represent Arab film at this year's Hollywood award ceremony.<br />
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Theeb is a 2014 Jordanian Arabic-language film written and directed by Naji Abu Nowar and is nominated for a Best Foreign Film. It is the first time a movie from Jordan has been nominated.<br />
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Ave Maria is a short film out of Palestine, France and Germany and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. <br />
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Alif Mabrouk (1,000 Congratulations in Arabic) and good luck to them both on February 28th in bringing home their Oscars!<br />
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While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb (“Wolf”) in a traditional, yet isolated, Bedouin community. The brothers’ quiet existence is interrupted when a British officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well. Theeb secretly chases, but the group soon find themselves trapped amidst threatening terrain riddled with mercenaries, revolutionaries, and outcast raiders. Naji Abu Nowar’s powerful and assured directorial debut is a wondrous “Bedouin Western” about a boy who, in order to survive, must become a man and live up to the name his father gave him.<br />
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The
silent routine of 5 Palestinian nuns in the middle of the West Bank
wilderness is disrupted when a family of Israeli settlers come knocking
at their door for help after crashing into the convent’s wall.
The Israelis can’t operate a phone to call for assistance due to the
Sabbath laws, and the Nuns have taken a vow of silence. Together they
have to come up with an unorthodox plan to help them get home.</div>
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Be sure to read about <a href="http://acraftyarab.blogspot.com/2014/01/alif-mabrouk-to-oscar-nominated-omars.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">last year's nominations</a> or visit <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/acraftyarab/arab-movies-i/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arab movies I ♥</a> for more films to enjoy.</div>
A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288062003730105492.post-2862512953223010022016-01-12T11:00:00.000-08:002016-04-16T15:27:21.206-07:00Happy Yennayer 2966 (2016)I'd like to wish everyone a very Happy Yennayer!<br />
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Today marks the beginning of the year 2966 to the Amazigh.<br />
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Amazigh are a group of people, sometimes incorrectly referred to as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers" target="_blank">Berber</a> by others, that live in the countries of Algeria, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger and Western Sahara.<br />
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Yennayer is the first month of the Amazigh calendar. There are some <a href="http://riadzany.blogspot.com/2015/01/january-13th-happy-amazigh-berber-new.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">academics</a> that are still trying to figure out the origins of today's <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/01/berbers-celebrate-amazigh-new-year-201411381613772256.html" target="_blank">celebration</a>.<br />
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The Amazigh lived the land before the Arabs arrived and still cultivate a vibrant culture, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_calendar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">calendar,</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_languages" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">language</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_cuisine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cuisine</a> and even a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_flag" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">flag</a>.<br />
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Each color corresponds to an aspect of Tamazgha, the territory inhabited by Amazigh in North Africa:<br />
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<li>blue represents the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean;</li>
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<li>green represents nature and the green mountains;</li>
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<li>yellow represents the sands of the Sahara Desert.</li>
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The yaz symbolizes the "free man", which is the meaning of the word amazigh. It is in red, the color of life, and also the color of resistance.<br />
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There are 36 million Amazigh people in the world. Morocco has the highest population at 20 million. Unfortunately their <a href="https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=berber+language+you+tube&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">language</a> is disappearing.<br />
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Although Libya boasts a population of 600K Amazigh, my first memory with an Amazigh was in America when I was a small child.<br />
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My parents were getting their Master's degrees in Oklahoma and they had heard a new Libyan couple had moved into our town. What I remember most about our first visit (of many) was how stunning the language was when the mother spoke it.<br />
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The first time I heard it, I was mesmerized by how her mouth used every muscle to make those sensational sounds.<br />
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I remembered leaning over to my mom and asking what she was saying to her kids. I thought that maybe being away from Libya for a few years had made me forget some Arabic words.<br />
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My mom said she had no idea.<br />
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I was shocked because I had been told we were visiting Libyans. How can a Libyan not be able to speak to another Libyan?<br />
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Once I learned more about this family and the Amazigh that we had in Libya, I tried to spend as much time at their house as was possible, just listening to the mom and that beautiful language.<br />
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While <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Berberism</a> is a political discussion that I'm not ready to have with my kids quite yet. I can still share with them that I think it's fantastic that in 2008, Libya officially celebrated the Amazigh new year. Now, Morocco just needs to follow <a href="http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/01/177245/morocco-celebrates-yennayer-amazigh-new-year/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">suit</a>.A Crafty Arabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834008069418887554noreply@blogger.com0