Join us for our Arab Fashion Meetup at Phebe’s, the East Village institution serving as a hub for artists since 1968. Arab and Arab American fashion designers and entrepreneurs will be meeting up to share their stories, upcoming news, and their design philosophies and entrepreneurial drive. Join Monzlapur, Ego Jasmine, and Layal.Land for a behind-the-scenes fashion moment.

Maurice Louca is a renowned, world-touring artist who combines electronic music, intense live guitar performance, complex instrumental arrangements, and powerful new jazz sounds to create dense, hypnotic, and transcendental concerts. Maurice is one of the most gifted, prolific, and adventurous musicians from Egypt, described most recently as a producer of ‘transcendent beauty in an unholy racket’.

Join us in an informal gathering around authentic food and drink at the NoLita outpost of the Egyptian street food restaurant Zooba, and enjoy conversations with artists and designers from the New York Arab Festival. Learn about upcoming projects, ask about their inspiration, and explore Egyptian food while learning about contemporary artistic practices from young Arab makers and creators.

NYAF presents Nadia Khayrallah’s “Improv Jam & Creative Meet Up,” a creative meet up and improv jam session for dancers, musicians, actors-who-move, and visual artists. The event will include guided movement as well as vocalizing and drawing exercises, followed by an open jam and discussion time.

The New York Arab Festival (NYAF) in partnership with The Invisible Dog Art Center presents a series of live performances for the inaugural edition of the festival, including visual artist Manar Abdelmaaboud, choreographer and dancer Nadia Khayrallah, the Brooklyn Maqam music collective, and the choreographer and dancer Esraa Warda with her music band. An iftar meal will be provided at sunset.