3rd Annual
DC Arab American Culture Festival
This year marks the 3rd annual DC Arab American Culture Festival that took place on Saturday, May 17, 2025, 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!
2024 vendors
Video credit: Youstine Faltas
Testimonials
“Shoutouts to Fairouz and Fuad for bringing Arab folks singing songs of freedom to the people!”
“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!”
“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.”
“Difficult and isolating times but coming together to sing and dance and hold each other was extremely healing.”
“This whole day was an AMAZING and comprehensive production by Malikat Al Dabke and the Foty family who never cease to impress me.”