Year: 2024

  • Hishik Bishik Christmas Eid Extravaganza

    Hishik Bishik Christmas Eid Extravaganza

    It’s a Hishik Bishik Christmas Eid Extravaganza! Get ready for a fusion of drag excellence and Arab, MENA, & global rhythms as we ring in the ho ho holidays. Join us for a night of drag, dance, and pure fabulousness!  100% of profits will benefit relief efforts in Gaza and Lebanon. DragFarfashaGoldie P. CrotchMehmooniRuAfza MusicFatinFursaZNA Members,…

  • Volunteer to Become a Support Group Facilitator

    Volunteer to Become a Support Group Facilitator

    Tarab NYC aims to create confidential/safer spaces for individuals in the MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) community to share experiences, foster support, and develop strategies for coping with shared and indvidual challenges. These groups have been facilitated by dedicated community members like Wardeh Hattab and Hazem Alanani. To expand our reach and provide more…

  • Join The 2025 Tarab NYC Board!

    Join The 2025 Tarab NYC Board!

    Its soon to be a new year and we’re inviting passionate individuals to apply to join the Tarab NYC 2025 Board! If you’re dedicated to building community, fostering relationships, fundraising, managing operations, creating meaningful programs, and supporting our mission to create an inclusive and safe space for Queer MENA people, we’d love for you to…

  • Queer MENA Happy Hour: Friendsgiving

    Queer MENA Happy Hour: Friendsgiving

    Tarab NYC presents Queer MENA Happy Hour: Friendsgiving, a community potluck dinner with music by @fursafarfasha, and a speed networking session. Join us as we drink, EAT, and dance the night away or at-least till 9pm.

  • Tarab NYC & We Live in Cairo Special Performances & Events

    Tarab NYC & We Live in Cairo Special Performances & Events

    Inspired by the young Egyptians who took to the streets amidst the throes of the Arab Spring, We Live in Cairo is a play that follows six student activists using their street art, photography and song to overthrow a regime older than they are. Muslim and Christian, secular and religious, gay and straight, female and…

  • Tarab On The Beach 13!

    Tarab On The Beach 13!

    Join us for music, dancing, sun, and fun as queer Arab, Middle Eastern and North African folk take over the northern part of RIIS beach on Saturday, August 17th for Tarab On The Beach! (Rain Date, Saturday, August 24th) The 13th Annual Tarab On The Beach starts at noon and ends before sunset (around 7pm). …

  • Join Tarab NYC During Pride 2024

    Join Tarab NYC During Pride 2024

    There are a ton of pride events happening this year and Tarab NYC is bringing Queer & Trans Middle Eastern & North African fabulousness to a ton of them! This year we are centering Palestine, fighting back against pinkwashing and zionism, and celebrating Queer MENA Fabulousness. Unfortunately it costs us quite a bit to participate…

  • Meet the Tarab NYC Board

    Meet the Tarab NYC Board

    Introducing the 2024 Tarab NYC Board – these beautiful people will be guiding Tarab NYC to meet our mission of fostering an inclusive and safe community of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and/or gender non-conforming Arab, Middle Eastern, and/or North African people in the greater New York City area. Aram Aram Ronaldo is an Armenian and…

  • Support Tarab NYC’s Participation in Pride

    Support Tarab NYC’s Participation in Pride

    There are a ton of pride events happening this year and Tarab NYC is bringing Queer & Trans Middle Eastern & North African fabulousness to all of them!

  • Join the Pride Planning Committee!

    Join the Pride Planning Committee!

    There are a ton of pride events happening this year and we need your help to shape our calendar and make it happen. Register to join the planning committee and shape our participation in Pride, including how we plan to center Palestine. Meetings will take place on Tuesdays at 7PM, virtually. Sign Up (Signing up…