Amirah Sackett, who performs at Tampa Arab Festival at Water Works Park in Tampa, Florida on February 16, 2019. Credit: Hollis Ashby

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How do you say “Let’s party” in Arabic? Lovers of khubz, kefta, tahini, labneh, mansaf, tagine and other Arabic foods will rejoice this Saturday when the Arab-American Community Center of Florida stages an all-day festival at Water Works Park celebrating the culture of the nearly two dozen countries that make up the modern Arab world (Morocco, Egypt, Iraq and Kuwait are a few you may have heard of).

Choreographer Amirah Sackett is set to perform, but you can find us looking for the manakeesh (pizza) and fattoush (salad) until the damn thing closes at 7 p.m..

Tampa Arab Festival. Sat. Feb. 16, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.. Free to attend. Water Works Park, 1710 N. Highland Ave., Tampa. aaccflorida.org.

This article appears in Feb 14-21, 2019.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...