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 […]
SHORT FILM PROGRAMME + Q&A with curator Joseph Fahim LILI | Marwan Hamed | 2001 | Egypt | 40 min HER MAN | Ayten Amin | 2006 | Egypt | 10 min I | Al Al Anssari | 2012 | Qatar | 17 min A MAN IN A CUP | Yahya Alabdallah | 2006 | Jordan […]
THE LAND / El Ard + Q&A with curator Joseph Fahim and writer Ahdaf Soueif Youssef Chahine | Egypt | 1969 | 130 min World Premiere of the Restored Version This 1969 masterpiece – voted 4th in Dubai Film Festival’s 2013 greatest Arab movies poll – is Egyptian film maker Youssef Chahine’s most beloved work in his home […]
FALLEN ANGELS PARADISE/Gannat Al Shayateen + Q&A with Joseph Fahim Oussama Fawzi | Egypt | 1999 | 79 min A middle-aged man dies of a drug overdose in a shabby Cairo bar, surrounded by his young thug brethren and his prostitute mistress. The man, the mistress reveals, has a wife and a daughter whom he deserted […]
WAJIB + Q&A with director Annemarie Jacir and curator Joseph Fahim Annemarie Jacir | Palestine | 2017 | 96 min Director Annemarie Jacir announces a new chapter of Palestinian cinema with her sensitively realized third feature. Her road movie stars veteran Palestinian thespian Mohammed Bakri in the role of a teacher, known and respected within his […]
SCHEHERAZADE’S DIARY/Yawmiyat Scheherazade + Q&A with curator Joseph Fahim Zeina Daccache | Lebanon | 2013 | 78 min The women inmates of Lebanon’s Baabda Prison mine the depths of personal experience and confront patriarchy as they prepare and present the first theatre performance staged inside an Arab women’s prison. Filmed during and after the ten-month drama […]