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 […]
About The Tatreez Forest Project 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 trees – a powerful symbol of hope and resilience in Palestinian culture – each made up of 100 individually stitched Tatreez panels. Your contribution will […]
To view the conference recordings, please visit the Our Programmes section of our website. Archiving Gaza in the Present 30th November & 1st December 2024 | 9:30 – 18:30 | Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS Organised by The Arab British Centre and The Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS This two-day conference has two main aims: […]
The Arab British Centre, Arts Canteen and Shubbak invite you to join us for an evening of community, solidarity and reflection. The past year has been devastating. We mourn the thousands of lives that have been lost as we witness with horror the continued escalations in violence across Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon and the wider Arab […]
Inspired by Separated by Millennia, our exhibition of paintings by Leicester artist Sarah al-Sarraj at Two Queens Gallery, we presented a day of activity dedicated to astronomy and Islam in collaboration with the New Crescent Society at The National Space Centre. The Programme 11:45am: Artist Talk Sarah Al-Sarraj’s talk explored world building and conceptions of […]
We are pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of our first As We Are, Might Have Been and Could Be commission: Separated by Millennia by Sarah al-Sarraj at Two Queens in Leicester this Autumn. Separated by Millennia is a body of work exploring notions of survival, deep time, ancestry and ecology. Through a series of […]
A path, a portal, an embrace. A call, a prayer, a hand on a chest, a fist, a seed, a fruit, an ocean, a star, a stone. Another Sky is a London-based festival celebrating experimental music from the SWANA (South West Asia & North Africa) region and diaspora. Over three days and nights of listening, watching, dancing […]
The UK’s largest festival of Arab cinema returns to London, screening classic and contemporary films at the Barbican, Cine Lumiere, the ICA and Garden Cinema alongside over a dozen Q&As and panel discussions. The 2024 festival brings together over 50 films from 15 countries including new releases, classics, family friendly screenings, archive films, special events […]
The UK’s largest festival of Arab cinema returns to HOME Manchester with films from Sudan, Palestine, Yemen and Jordan, plus special live events. LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL + Q&A (19 June, 18:00) Mohamed Jabaly | Norway, Palestine, Qatar | 2023 | 93’ | English, Norwegian, Arabic | Feature Documentary The young Palestinian director Mohamed Jabaly is […]
The UK’s largest festival of Arab cinema returns to Plymouth with films exploring family, exile, memory and solidarity, plus two live Q&As. LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL + Q&A (21 June, 20:30) Mohamed Jabaly | Norway, Palestine, Qatar | 2023 | 93’ | English, Norwegian, Arabic | Feature Documentary The young Palestinian director Mohamed Jabaly is visiting […]