4th Annual
DC Arab American Culture Festival
2026 marks the 4th annual DC Arab American Culture Festival that took place on May 9, hosted by Quartertonez Music, featuring Malikat Al Dabke. What makes this festival unique is its intentional blending of DC’s local cultural identity with Arab American culture, creating a shared space where diverse traditions come together in celebration, dialogue, and community. Now in its fourth year, the festival has become one of the DC metropolitan area’s most meaningful cultural gatherings, fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment rooted in connection, artistic expression, and community pride, and intentionally creating space for all members of the community, including queer communities and other marginalized groups across DC.
3rd Annual
DC Arab American Culture Festival
2025 marked the 3rd annual DC Arab American Culture Festival that took place, hosted by DC natives Quartertonez Music and Malikat Al Dabke. This vibrant, warm and joy-filled celebration of our heritage and local community featured an eclectic mix of vendors, performers, activists and community leaders from across the Arab/SWANA world. The event included top-notch food, entertainment and outdoor mingling where people enjoyed the diversity of our culture in the city’s backyard! A portion of the ticket sales went to Leo Organization and Heal Palestine.
2025 Festival Testimonials
“Quartertonez and Malikat Al Dabke did such a great job organizing and bringing so many people from the DC community together. I can’t believe the undertaking of not just organizing but performing too! And all of their performances were magnificent as well as all of the others who participated.”
“This whole day was an AMAZING and comprehensive production by Malikat Al Dabke and the Foty family who never cease to impress me.”
“Shoutouts to Fairouz and Fuad for bringing Arab folks singing songs of freedom to the people!”
“Difficult and isolating times but coming together to sing and dance and hold each other was extremely healing.”
“Thank you so much Fairouz and Fuad for inviting us to be a part of today. You hosted such a beautiful event that brought so many people from across the entire community together. [...] I hope you all get some well deserved rest!”