Join The Arab British Centre and The Barakat Trust for a site visit and conversation with Amin Taha, Stirling Prize nominee and founder of Amin Taha + Groupwork studio. The visit will take place at the award-winning 15 Clerkenwell Close. The six-storey stone framed building block located in a historic area of London contains 8 flats as well as the […]
Join the The Arab British Centre and The Barakat Trust for an afternoon of family activities at Leighton House, as part of their In Search of Arab London event series for the London Festival of Architecture. What is ‘Home’? Is it the people you love? Is it a roof over your head? Is it a place of our own, […]
The International Fashion Showcase (IFS) is back, inviting 16 of the best emerging designers from across the globe to question, provoke, and explore their worlds through fashion. A highlight of the fashion calendar, the IFS nurtures and presents work from the most exciting fashion talent from around the world. Working in partnership over a year, British […]
Join us at Asia House for an unforgettable evening in which traditional Arabic music meets jazz and folk in this celebration of the evocative voice of the oud—the ancient Middle-Eastern lute. Aged only 34, Joseph Tawadros is a world leading oud player and composer. A virtuoso of diversity and sensitivity, he has performed on the […]
Join us on the 10 December for the Arab British Centre Open Evening, a festive opportunity to buy some gifts, get your holiday reading sorted, and explore all that the Arab British Centre has to offer in 2019. With stalls from Palestinian fair trade food organisation Zaytoun and contemporary calligrapher Joumana Medlej, you can bring […]
The Arab British Centre and Dongola Limited Editions are pleased to invite you to the UK book launch and photograph display of The Distance is Always Other, a collaborative photography artist book by British photographer Chris Coekin and Lebanese photographer Noel Nasr, with text in English and Arabic by Lebanese author and poet Fadi Tofeili. […]
How can we remember what we can’t forget? This year marks 70 years since the day of catastrophe, or Nakba, dispossessed Palestinians from their homes and lands. There is no shortage of anniversaries when it comes to Palestine; whether it’s 101 years since the Balfour declaration or a quarter of a century since the Oslo […]
IN THE LAND OF TARARANNI + Q&A with curator Joseph Fahim Férid Boughedir, Hamouda Ben Halima, and Hédi Ben Khalifa | Tunisia | 1973 | 120 min UK PREMIERE No other book has been as popular and influential as Ali Douagi’s short collection, “Sahart meno al layali” (Sleepless Nights). Widely regarded as the father of […]
Poisonous Roses + Q&A with director Ahmed Fawzi Saleh and curator Joseph Fahim Ahmed Fawzi Salef | Egypt | 2018 | 70 min The stench and coarseness of Cairo’s old tannery district is vividly evoked in Ahmed Fawzi Saleh’s “Poisonous Roses,” a film where narrative tangibility takes a backseat to mood and visual immersion. Saleh’s […]
KAHLIL GIBRAN: A Guide for Our Times is a CARAVAN peacebuilding touring exhibition that will culminate at Sotheby’s in London between 6-10 August 2018, featuring over 38 acclaimed contemporary artists from the Middle East inspired by the universal message of peace and harmony found in Kahlil Gibran’s poetry, writing and art, such as in his […]