Through visual art and memoir, the exhibition Limbs of the Lunar Disc by Sarah al-Sarraj, and the newly released book Babylon, Albion by Dalia al-Dujaili, embark on journeys across space and time. Using the land and its mythologies to explore identity, migration, and non-Western cosmologies, discover the influences and inspirations behind the two bodies of work, as well as the wider context of the contemporary Iraqi diaspora that inform them.

There will be refreshments and a Q+A.

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Tickets are £5. We are dedicated to making this event accessible, if you would like to request a free ticket based on income, or have any access requirements please email jessica@arabbritishcentre.org.uk 

Dalia al-Dujaili is an Iraqi-British writer, editor and producer based in London. She is the online editor of The British Journal of Photography. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Dazed, GQ, WePresent, Aperture, Atmos, It’s Nice That, Elephant Art and more. She is the founder of The Road to Nowhere Magazine and in 2023 she was the Producer of Refugee Week.

Sarah Al-Sarraj is a visual artist and cultural worker. Her practice centres on worldbuilding as a creative and critical process, where painting and immersive technologies are understood as portals to other worlds. Her comic ‘Sinkhole’ was selected for New Contemporaries 2022, and in 2023, she was awarded a grant from the Arts Council to develop her use of new media. Alongside her artistic practice, she currently serves on the board of the Inclusive Mosque Initiative, an intersectional feminist mosque.

Limbs of the Lunar Disc is co-commissioned by the Arab British Centre and Shubbak Festival, featuring works commissioned by the Mechatronic Library. Curated by Jessica El Mal as part of As We Are, Might Have Been and Could Be, and hosted at Mimosa House. Supported by Freelands Foundation and Arts Council England.