Gulf Photo Plus (GPP), SAFAR Film Festival, and Peckham 24 are teaming up to present Slidefest SAFAR—an evening of powerful visual storytelling spotlighting the spirit of resistance across five countries: Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen. Bringing together compelling presentations by artists from these regions, the event will reflect on collective struggles and solidarities in the […]
Gain an insight into the daily realities of healthcare workers in Gaza in a charity screening of Mohamed Jabaly’s award-winning documentary Ambulance (2016), raising money for the Health Workers for Palestine Solidarity Fund – supporting the bereaved families of those killed. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah. BOOK […]
The UK’s largest festival of Arab cinema returns for its 10th edition from 11-28 June. More information coming soon. Follow @safarfilmfestival on Instagram and visit the SAFAR website to join our mailing list.
Join Comma Press and the Arab British Centre to welcome celebrated Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim. Hassan will be discussing his latest book, Sololand (trans. Jonathan Wright), a collection of three darkly funny novellas set in Iraq and northern Europe. The characters in these stories all find themselves in impossible positions – from the ISIS cook […]
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 […]
Through workshops in five museums across England, along with an open call, the Arab British Centre and Tatreez Collective aim to create several large-scale Cypress tree patchworks – a powerful symbol of hope and resilience in Palestinian culture – each made up of 100+ individually stitched Tatreez panels. Your contribution will be vital to this […]
Preview: 22 May 6-9pm Worldbuilding with striking large-scale paintings and an immersive digital installation, this exhibition by Sarah Al-Sarraj invites audiences on a journey through deep time, ancestry, and the persisting impact of imperial histories. Predicated on the belief that our world was built in service of imperial violence, the show introduces new ontological systems […]
Safe Waters, an exhibition by Monya Riachi Lewisham Arthouse | 8 – 16 February 2025 | 12-6pm Opening Night | 7 February 2025 | 6-9pm Artist Talk | 7 February 2025 | 5-6pm The Arab British Centre is proud to support Safe Waters, an exhibition by Monya Riachi. The show marks the culmination of research […]
The Legend of The Looms Open Day 1 February | 12-4:45pm | Free | Family friendly Join us at an Open Day celebrating the launch of The Legend of The Looms at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, in partnership with British Textile Biennial. Ali Al-Jamri’s The Legend of the Looms is a short film and […]
The Legend of The Looms Ali Al-Jamri | Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery | 1 February – 8 March 2025 | Free Commissioned by the Arab British Centre as part of As We Are, Might Have Been, and Could Be, in partnership with British Textile Biennial Supported by Arts Council England and Freelands Foundation Working […]