Join us for a screening of four short films, programmed in collaboration with South London Gallery. The SLG’s longstanding South By South Film programme, dedicated to African cinema, spotlights North African film as part of our current exhibition, Yto Barrada: Thrill, Fill and Spill. This focus reflects Barrada’s deep commitment to the region and to North […]
The Arab British Centre, A.Mal Projects and Takafes present a day of panel discussions exploring the themes of 3oubour: A River Between Mountains. 1:45pm: Islamic Arts, Crafts, and Heritage, chaired by Seif El Rachidi from The Barakat Trust. Book your free ticket on Eventbrite here. 3:00pm: Crafts, Colonialism, and Ecologies, chaired by Odessa Warren curator […]
Join the Arab British Centre, A.Mal Projects and Takafes for a night of sound to close the 3oubour: A River Between Mountains exhibition. During the residency in Fes, music played a central role. Whether echoing from the Zawiyas we walked by, or hummed around the table after dinner, sharing songs was a way of connecting […]
As part of the 3oubour exhibition and residency in London, www will perform at Artsadmin’s Toynbee Studios at a collaborative event with their resident Dash Arts. We Are Free To Change The World is a new series of three Dash Cafés exploring how artists and creative activists respond to the urgency of our times. Through […]
The Dupes | 2 November | 11:30am | Cinema 2 On 2 November, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Film Lab Palestine are calling upon cinemas, festivals and organisers around the world to screen Palestinian film. This global effort is a show of solidarity with Palestine, an act of amplification for censored Palestinian voices, and […]
The Arab British Centre, A.MAL Projects and Takafes present the 3oubour: A River Between Mountains London exhibition at Crafts Council Gallery from 13 – 22 November 2025. This exhibition showcases the work created during the 3oubour residency which ran in the medina of Fes throughout September. Participating artists include www (a collaborative research project by […]
Join us for a screening of three short films programmed in collaboration with South London Gallery as part of their Yto Barrada exhibition. The SLG’s longstanding South by South Film programme, dedicated to African cinema, spotlights North African film as part of the Yto Barrada exhibition. This focus reflects Barrada’s deep commitment to the region and […]
Square Kufic, also known as Masonry Script or khatt banna’i, is a specifically central Asian style developed for brick walls or tile revetments, often on a monumental scale. Yet it is equally at home at the much smaller size of paper or textiles, and even, today, in the tiny canvas of pixel art. It is unique […]
In this online talk, Joumana Medlej shares her research into this forgotten aspect of Arabic writing history, that is also known as hisāb al-jummal. She tells the story of the Abjad numerals — their origins, how they came to be replaced with Indian numerals — and also a tutorial into how to use them. Stubborn myths […]
We are excited to announce that we will be commissioning four researchers and art writers to explore historical or new connections between crafts, technological innovation and/or environmental issues in the South West Asia and North Africa region, through the work of one of the international artists participating in our project 3oubour: A River Between Mountains […]