📬 In This Week | December 25–31
👋🏽 Ahlan / Hello
🌟 Five Events Worth Checking Out
🫶🏽 Let’s Bring Our Communities Together
One year ago at the Toronto Music Garden, Queens Quay West, Toronto | Photo by Kevin
👋🏽 Ahlan / Hello
Since launching this summer, khamsa🖐🏽 has featured 315 events and reached 417 readers, helping turn listings into real meet-ups across the city.
This week’s edition closes the year with stories, sound, and shared space. Before 2026, here are five events worth leaving home for.
🌟 Five Events Worth Checking Out
🎬 The Voice of Hind Rajab
This urgent hybrid documentary-fiction film follows the final phone call of six-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza, weaving real emergency recordings with powerful re-enactments to honour her story and the first responders who tried to save her.
🌟 Kaouther Ben Hania (director)
💬 Arabic (with English subtitles)
🗓️ Multiple screenings this week
📍 TIFF Lightbox, 350 King St W, Toronto, ON M5V 3X5
🎤 Hamoodi: Under Construction 🇮🇶
Get ready for a night of sharp, relatable comedy with Hamoodi (aka TheFob4), whose viral skits on immigrant life and cultural clashes celebrate the diaspora experience and pop culture in Canada.
🌟 Hamoodi
💬 English
🗓️ Friday, Dec 26, 7:00 pm
📍 Comedy Bar Danforth, 2800 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON M4C 1M1
🌍 Taste of the Global South @ Drom Taberna
Join us at Drom for a vibrant brunch inspired by the Global South of West Asia & the Middle East, featuring dishes from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Palestine. Enjoy live music by Rima Telmun & Hytham Farah, drinks, warm hospitality, and beautiful energy.
🌟 The Global South
💬 Arabic, English
🗓️ Sunday, Dec 28, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
📍 DROM Taberna, 458 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M5V 2A8
📚 Arabic Book Club: Marsa Fatma | مرسى فاطمة
Join the Arabic Book Club Toronto as they close the year with a thoughtful discussion on the novel "Marsa Fatma" by Eritrean author Haji Jaber. This session is a window into Eritrea's untold stories, exploring themes of survival, exile, and identity through a moving literary lens.
🌟 Arabic Book Club Toronto
💬 Arabic
🗓️ Sunday, Dec 28, 2025
📍 Toronto, ON (Location and time shared after registration)
🎶 Afro Arab Fusion NYE Party
Dive into 2026 at Tapestry’s cozy and vibrant Kensington Market lounge—a night of Afro–Arab fusion, Ampanio, Arabic House & Electro, and Afro Techno beats from Uzi, Sandwavv, and maiiii set the vibe.
🌟 Jinn & Juice
💬 English / Arabic
🗓️ Wednesday, Dec 31, 10:00 pm
📍 Tapestry, 224 Augusta Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 2L6
Don’t miss out on 24 more events this week!
With the community events calendar, you can see the latest events happening this week, share an event’s link with a friend, and get instructions on how to get there from where you are.
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🫶🏽 Let’s Bring Our Communities Together
👉🏽 Have something cool happening? Share it with me, and we will get the word out together with a free listing or a sponsorship.
👋🏽 If you’d like to support this work directly, you can buy me mint tea so I can keep curating and sharing these events.
I’ll see you on Thursday, January 1, for the next issue. Until then, salaam / peace!