Written by Jasmine Naziha Jones, a British-Iraqi actress, ‘Baghdaddy’ is playing at the Royal Court Theatre until mid-December 2022. Review by Asma Ibrahim. ‘Baghdaddy’ is certainly not for the faint-hearted. It is explosive, dynamic, and unpredictable from the get-go. The play opens and ends in the familiar golden arches of McDonalds, and on both occasions […]
Read an exclusive interview with Jasmine Naziha Jones, whose first play Baghdaddy is running at the Royal Court, London, between 18 November - 17 December 2022.
Naturally, you may not think to head to the Middle East film scene for a scary movie, but the genre is slowly becoming more popular with Arab film makers. Ahead of Halloween, we’ve curated a list of films you might want to hide behind a cushion and watch!
Today was my final day working at The Arab British Centre and I have a lot of feelings about it. I am excited, anxious, and curious to see what is next for me. I love to find out what is out there, the next gripping project, new people, new concepts, perspectives, and the rest. But […]
Between Two Islands, edited by writer and poet Ali Al-Jamri, is a multilingual poetry anthology showcasing the talent of the UK’s Bahraini community. Over a series of online workshops, thirteen Bahrainis living in the UK gathered each week to express their unique diaspora community experience and learnt how to read and write poetry. Together, they […]
Lebanese-Egyptian street artist, designer, and art historian Bahia Shehab’s latest book You Can Crush the Flowers: A Visual Memoir of the Egyptian Revolution documents the 18 days of the Revolution in 2011. Her book marks the ten-year anniversary of the revolution and tells the stories that inspired her own artwork and those of her fellow-revolutionaries. As an artist and activist, Bahia combines visual […]
The Arab British Centre is delighted to announce that it is one of the independent exhibitors being supported by the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) COVID-19 Resilience Fund. After months of discussions with our curator Rabih El-Khoury and our partner cinemas, we reached the heartbreaking decision to postpone this year’s edition of SAFAR, the plans for […]
In September 2019 at the ceremony in City Hall, judge Venetia Porter awarded children’s book author and illustrator Nadine Kaadan with the Arab British Centre Award for Culture in the category of Individuals. We caught up with Nadine a few months after the Award to ask what she’s been up to, and what the next […]
Celine Luppo McDaid is the Donald Hyde curator of Dr Johnson’s House, our collaborators and host of the London’s Theatre of The East exhibition running from 8 November 2019 – 15 February 2020. This blog is taken from ‘London’s Theatre of The East: Essays on the Exhibition by Artists and Academics’, which will be available […]
A vibrant celebration of Arab Cinema, the biennial SAFAR Film Festival, returns to London this autumn for its third edition, following the phenomenal success of previous programmes in 2012 and 2014. Presented by The Arab British Centre in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), and supported by the British Council and The Corinthia […]