Apply now to be one of our Future Workshop Leaders, a programme where you can grow your workshop facilitation skills, boost your confidence to run workshops independently, and build a network of likeminded creative individuals. Across our multi-year talent development programme As We Are, Might Have Been and Could Be, we have been researching the needs […]
Join us for the London premiere of this ghostly Bahraini-British poem film, followed by a conversation with poet and filmmaker Ali Al-Jamri When a visitor to a historic weaver’s house in Rossendale accidentally summons an irate Lancashire weaver’s ghost, his own ancestor, an Arab weaver from Bahrain, materialises to defend him. The ghosts spar over […]
Online | Tuesdays | 6-8pm | 3, 10, 17, 24 November | 1, 8 December What can literature tell us about Palestine? And what can Palestinian literature tell us about the world we live in?This course led by writer, educator and activist Vivi Alfonsin explores Palestinian literature through the work of different contemporary authors. The […]
Join us for an evening of storytelling, writing, and critical thinking from Syria, in association with Comma Press. Book Launch: The Book of Damascus edited by Zaher Omareen Damascus is a city of contradictions. Simultaneously the oldest city in the world, rich with Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic architecture, and one of the most modern. […]
We’re growing our team at The Arab British Centre! As we approach our 50th anniversary and build on our flagship programmes like the SAFAR Film Festival we’re looking for three brilliant people to help shape what comes next: an Office Manager to keep our operations, compliance and finance running smoothly, a Communications & Events Officer […]
Our Longsight Festival is a free three-day community festival celebrating the people and places that make Longsight, Manchester, what it is today. Having collaborated earlier this summer with Longsight Art Space on our As We Are Network Creative Exchange Day, we’re delighted to partner again to offer workshops at the Longsight Festival led by members […]
Nadine Kaadan is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator from Syria now living in London. She is published in several countries and languages and her mission is to champion empowered and inclusive representation in children’s books so that every child can see themselves in a story. Nadine is leading a six-week online course inviting writers, illustrators, […]
Join the Arab British Centre and Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution for the launch of Detainees & Disappeared, a book which traces the memories of the Syrian revolution through stories and testimonies told through art and culture. Examining themes of detention and enforced disappearances from 2011 until the end of 2020, Detainees & Disappeared […]
Join Saqi Books and the Arab British Centre to welcome celebrated Iraqi poet, novelist, translator and scholar Sinan Antoon. Sinan will be discussing his latest book, Notes From a Lost Country – a breathtaking portrait of lives rebuilt in the shadow of loss. The novel follows two Iraqi men in exile – a retired doctor slipping […]
The Third House is an in-between space between home, homeland, and the imagined future home, where Arab diaspora voices can explore identity, intergenerational memory, cultural landscapes, language, and belonging through creative practice and poetic writing. Devised and run by Amina Atiq, a Yemeni-British poet, teaching artist, and creative practitioner, this participant-led online course engages creative […]