Generally, we work to put on one major event per semester, and then a few minor ones (movie screenings, small socials, etc.). Here are a selected few:

Timed to coincide with the Eid Holiday, we brought down Karim Nagi and the Sharq Ensemble from Boston and threw a true Arab party.  Hundreds danced and debkaed around the redecorated Whitman Dining Hall. Bystanders gorged themselves on Shatila pastries flown in from Dearborn.

Japanese photojournalist Ryuichi Hirokawa spent 40 years documenting and investigating the disappearance of some of the more than 420 towns and villages obliterated in the nakba. This film was screened at universities across the country.

An Arab classic produced by Rotana, this film is the biography of singer and composer Abdel Halim Hafez, one the Middle East’s most beloved figures.

Dean Obeidallah - world famous comedian from Comedy Central’s “Axis of Evil” - along with Nasri Malak and Maria Shehata and even some our own members, had the audience members in McCosh 50 laughing so hard their tarbooshes were about to fall off.

Haflat Eid

Film Screening: Halim

Film Screening: Nakba-Palestine 1948

Arab Comedy Night ft. Dean Obeidallah

Previous Events

The Arab Society of Princeton

أهلاً وسهلاً من جامعة برنستون

One of the ways in which the Arab Society seeks to make itself known is through volunteering, especially at events and with organizations that promote cultural exchange. At  left are pictured students at the Princeton Public Library’s “Aladdin” themed children’s fair.

Volunteering