PositiveNegatives in partnership with SOAS presents: A Perilous Journey: Stories of Migration A Perilous Journey is an exhibition drawing upon a selection of PositiveNegatives rich ethnographic portfolio around refugee migration stories. Concentrating on contemporary real-life stories from Syria and Iraq, we follow two men and two women on their long difficult journeys fleeing conflict and […]
Directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum, Letters from Baghdad tells the story of Gertrude Bell who left the confines of Edwardian England to seek freedom and independence in the Arabian desert and became the most powerful woman of her day in the British Empire. In the aftermath of WWI, Bell helped to draw the borders of […]
How does one survive under military occupation? How do young people see the situation? Do they try to resist it? Run away? Give up? What do they care about most? Four young Palestinians had the right ideas; they survived through staring danger in the face. Camouflage is a new, daring play, which looks at the […]
‘Thread of Light’ is a two week group art exhibition, a combination of colour, light and creativity inspired by the Middle East and North Africa. From the 17th to the 31st May 2017, Iraqi born artist and curator Asmaa Alanbari showcases artwork with heritage or interest in the Middle East at P21 Gallery London. She […]
Marsm is extremely pleased to present Lena Chamamyan’s highly anticipated London launch of her new album Lawnan. After a sold-out concert at the Barbican in 2014, she is back to present Lanwan as well as a special selection of some of the famous songs from her past four albums. An award-winning singer, song-writer and multi-instrumentalist […]
Curious Flamingo Presents: Egyptian Extravaganza What happens when you disturb the tomb of a notorious pharaoh? The world goes totally Tut mad! Travel back in time to 1920s Egypt where King Tut engages archaeologists in a battle of wit and witticisms over what is the ‘real’ Egypt. Join a night of new old fashioned intrigue […]
The artists Etel Adnan and Joana Hadjithomas met at the end of the 1990s. They quickly grew close, bound by links to a city they had never been to: Smyrna (today’s Izmir). Joana’s paternal Greek family were forced into exile from Smyrna by the Turkish armies after the end of the Ottoman Empire. Etel’s Greek […]
Arnolfini presents The Stars Were Aligned For a Century of New Beginnings, the first UK solo exhibition by Egyptian artist Basim Magdy. Basim Magdy’s work is rooted in dreams, scientific theory and failed utopian ambitions. Full of humour and quiet melancholy, his works on paper and in film, photography and slide projection reflect on the […]
In this exhibition, UK based artist Judy Price presents a unique and complex body of work focused on Palestine. Two multi-screen installations and a photographic piece reflect in very different ways on Palestine’s colonial past and the current lived experience of occupation. This exhibition’s subject is timely; 2017 marks 100 years since the Balfour declaration, the British colonial […]
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji is part of Moving stories: three journeys, a new multimedia exhibition at the British Museum. A selection of drawings from Alfraji’s Ali’s Boat series is featured alongside a projected animation of million-year-old footprints discovered in 2013 and a short film by the late poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant. Before travelling to the British Museum, Alfraji’s […]