We are pleased to announce a special Taqasim Oud Club this month. The night will open with an open mic session of poetry and music performed by anyone who would like to take part. This will be followed by a performance of Babylonian music and poetry by artists Ahmed Mukhtar Oud, Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde David […]
Au-delà de l’ombre dir. Nada Mezni Hafaiedh / Tunisia 2017 / 80’ (UK premiere) Nada Mezni Hafaiedh’s Upon the Shadow follows the life of former Femen member Amina Sboui and the community of LGBTIQA+ friends she houses in her Tunisian home. This sensitive film provides unparalleled insight into life following the Arab spring, social persecution, […]
Doors & Bar 7pm, Event 7.30pm Music composed by Waseem Kotoub, Ruth Montgomery Including musicians Rihab Azar – oud, Jamal Al Sakka – percussion Textile Art by Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings Live painting with music by Rachel Gadsden Photography Stephen Iliffe Sign performer – Nadia Nadarajah Story teller in BSL Layla Fitzgerald-Woolfe plus Signly.co Audiovisability warmly invites […]
Film Africa 2017: FOREIGN BODY [JASSAD GHARIB] LONDON PREMIERE Dir. Raja Amari Tunisia, France. 2016. 92 mins. Arabic, French with English subtitles. Seeking refuge from her radical Islamist brother, Samia longs for her independence and freedom and, like hundreds before her, heads for European shores. Haunted by fears of being followed by her brother whom […]
THE BRITISH LEBANESE ASSOCIATION in collaboration with South Social Film Festival Four Lebanese film makers, four international producers. Four extraordinary films. Each a unique perspective on Lebanon, together a tapestry revealing the coming generation’s fears and hopes for their country.“I believe the concept of Factory summarises what Cinema should be, a dialogue between cultures that […]
Join Friends of Birzeit University and Oxford Ramallah Friendship Association for a talk by Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh Director of Palestine Museum of Natural History and Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University in conversation with Omar Shweiki, Director of Fobzu.
Darf Publishers & West End Lane Books would like to invite to the book launch evening of Suslov’s Daughter by Yemeni author Habib Abdulrab Sarori.
Qisetna in collaboration with Palewell Press present a moving collection of poetry and memoir by Rana Abdulfattah, a young Syrian woman writing in exile in Istanbul. In the collection, Rana charts the destructive effects of never being permitted to go home and takes the reader on her emotional journey towards a measure of peace. Rana […]
“Gaza is a microcosm of our world of cruelty and barbarism but, no less, of courage, creativity and resilience”. Noam Chomsky LIVE VIDEO CONVERSATIONS WITH GAZA writers, artists, theatre-makers, parents, teachers, filmmakers, community activists, lawyers, justice-seekers, Shakespeare students, public health experts, environmentalists, psychotherapists, young creatives and paramedics. Plus exchange between community activists in Gaza and […]
An evening of works by Vivaldi, Handel, Attia Sharara and others, performed by Laura Virtanen (Violin), Wessam Amin (Oboe) and Marko Hilpo (Piano). ‘The Finnish-Arabian Encounters’ concert series has taken the trio Laura Virtanen, Wessam Amin and Marko Hilpo to Finland, Egypt and the UK to perform ten concerts in venues such as Alexandria Bibliotheca, […]