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NEW COURSE – Stitching Survival: Palestinian Embroidery as Ontological Resistance and Feminist Praxis

17 February '26

This course explores Palestinian embroidery (tatreez) as a living cultural practice, a visual language, and a form of ontological and feminist resistance. Moving beyond craft-based readings, the course situates tatreez within broader historical, political, and decolonial frameworks, examining how stitched motifs encode memory, identity, gendered labour, and survival under conditions of displacement and colonial violence. […]

NEW COURSE – Decolonising Belly Dance: Theory and Practice

17 February '26

This Decolonising Belly Dance course is aimed at those who want to learn ‘belly dance’ beyond its bodily movement. It will look into the dance as a cultural celebration addressing its historical journey, its travel to the west and its development to the different styles we see today. It will tackle the myths that surround […]

NEW COURSE – Manuscript Kufic Calligraphy

17 February '26

Immerse yourself in Manuscript Kufic, an early style of Arabic calligraphy that flourished during the Abbasid “golden age”. This course is based on the finest example of this architectural and spacious Qur’anic script which fell out of use almost a millenium ago. Under Joumana Medlej’s guidance you will learn to use the pen and gallnut […]

NEW COURSE – Creative Indiscipline: Art, Exile, and Resistance in the Maghreb

17 February '26

Creative Indiscipline: Art, Exile, and Resistance in the Maghreb is a six-week, live online course exploring how artists, writers, filmmakers, and cultural practitioners in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia have developed distinctive ways of making, thinking, and imagining since independence. By creative indiscipline, the course understands insubmission as a conscious refusal of colonial legacies, patriarchal norms, […]

NEW COURSE – Islamic Geometric Pattern: Practice and Meaning

17 February '26

Islamic traditional geometric art served as a powerful tool in contemplating the harmonic qualities of the natural world. Springing from advances in mathematics, philosophy and astronomy during the early Islamic period through the Golden Age (8th-15th centuries), geometric art embodied symmetry, balance and infinite repetition. In this course you are invited to explore the symbolism of Islamic Geometric Pattern and try your hands at the […]

Display and Events: The Tatreez Forest Project

12 February '26

The Tatreez Forest: Stitching Palestinian Heritage is a community project co-developed by the Tatreez Collective and The Arab British Centre. In 2024, we launched the project to bring Palestinian textiles closer to the public through active participation. Through workshops in museums across England and a downloadable stitching guide shared on social media, we invited people […]

South by South: What Grows Between

26 November '25

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 […]

3oubour: Panel Discussions with Artists, Curators & Special Guests

29 October '25

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 […]

3oubour closing event: Sawt al Layla

29 October '25

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 […]