OFFSCREEN EXPEDITIONS: JOURNEY TO SAUDI ARABIA Film 05: Paint the Way The team spends some time with a young Saudi artist based in Jeddah who uses graffiti to express herself and share her thoughts with the wider world. We follow her with her stencil partner as they spray their art around the city. www.offscreenexpedition.com/2012_sa/ ABOUT […]
Al Jazeera English Presents: WITNESS: MOHAMED AT ETON In September 2010, 16-year-old Palestinian refugee Mohamad Fahed arrives at London’s Heathrow airport and is taken to Britain’s most prestigious private school, Eton College. Here, thanks to an all-expenses paid scholarship, he will spend the next two years, adopting the mantle of a public schoolboy in an […]
DISCOVER ARABIC ONLINE with arabiconline.eu ArabicOnline.eu is an interactive online language learning software that offers a beginners’ course in Modern Standard Arabic for self-study or classroom use. It was developed with support of the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme. Access is free for all. The course ‘de-mystifies’ Arabic and proves that learning the language is […]
TRAILER: The Shatila THEATRE Project The Shatila Project was established in 2008 when writer Peter Mortimer spent two months living on the Shatila Refugee Camp in Lebanon. Peter worked alongside children from the camp to produce a play, ‘Croak, the King and a Change in the Weather’. The children then visited the UK to perform […]
TRAILER: The Shatila THEATRE Project The Shatila Project was established in 2008 when writer Peter Mortimer spent two months living on the Shatila Refugee Camp in Lebanon. Peter worked alongside children from the camp to produce a play, ‘Croak, the King and a Change in the Weather’. The children then visited the UK to perform […]
OFFSCREEN EXPEDITIONS: JOURNEY TO SAUDI ARABIA Film 03: Pilgrimage to Makkah With the Hajj exhibition taking place in the British Museum right now, Awais shares his account of what it felt like travelling from the UK to perform Umrah. Arabia Offscreen, an international creative competition attracted more than 500 entries from talented young artists, designers, […]
OFFSCREEN EXPEDITIONS: JOURNEY TO SAUDI ARABIA Film 06: Fragments: A Spiritual Journey The source of any creativity is life experiences. The Arabia Offscreen journey in Saudi Arabia left an impact on all those involved. This shared experience proved that the most inspirational characters are hidden, sometimes within ourselves. Saudi Arabia is definitely a golden hub […]
OFFSCREEN EXPEDITIONS: JOURNEY TO SAUDI ARABIA Film 04: Challenging the Stereotypes of Saudi Ridiculously wealthy, arrogant mindsets and a backward culture. Is this really true? Or will this journey open Awais’s eyes to things that go beyond the headlines? Arabia Offscreen, an international creative competition attracted more than 500 entries from talented young artists, designers, […]
OFFSCREEN EXPEDITIONS: JOURNEY TO SAUDI ARABIA Film 02: Development vs. Tradition Contemplating the backstreets and alleys of the Balad, the old town in Jeddah, Marouan examines the contrasts of life and if there is a struggle between tradition and modernity. Arabia Offscreen, an international creative competition attracted more than 500 entries from talented young artists, […]
Arts Council in partnership with the BBC Present: RICHARD II IN PALESTINIAN ARABIC AVAILABLE TO WATCH ONLINE In May 2012 The Ashtar Theatre performed Shakespeare’s Richard II in Palestinian Arabic as part of the Globe to Globe Festival. The play is now available to watch online, free of charge, at The Space. The Space is […]