Palestinian-American poet, translator, and physician Dr. Fady Joudah will deliver the annual Edward W. Said London Lecture 2026, entitled Notes on Solidarity. Drawing on his work across poetry, translation, and political thought, Joudah will examine the need for solidarity with Palestine in the English-speaking world to move beyond its current limits as capitalist morality and […]
The band’s residency culminates in this performance, staged in the garden. The performance will reflect the weeks spent inviting other musicians and thinkers into the space to collaborate and respond, and a month spent listening, building and improvising together. For the month of August, Mosaic Rooms welcomes 1000 Pounds to Survive Us (B.U.I, Matt Cargill, […]
Seasons of Return speaks of repeated journeys back to South Lebanon—journeys since halted by the ongoing Israeli occupation and destruction of over fifty villages. Artist and architect Batoul Faour will reflect on this rupture through the question of time, considering how occupation fractures temporal experience, producing parallel presents: one in which the South remains inaccessible […]
Return to Palestine follows Jad, an American-born Palestinian, on his first journey to Palestine. Seeking connection with his roots, he discovers a reality far removed from the one portrayed in the media. Directed by Micaela Miranda and devised at The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, the production was created through story-gathering with communities involved […]
When time and place lose meaning, only violence remains. We meet Mart, imprisoned at an undisclosed location – a black site. The stage is the interrogation room and we, the audience, are watching the action unfold from behind one-way glass. Mart suspects there are people watching, but Pers his impatient interrogator – vehemently denies any […]
Written and directed by Ahmed Masoud, performed by Ameena Adileh What’s the best business you can establish in Gaza? Hajja Souad has survived decades of conflict, oppression and displacement by making and selling shrouds for burying the dead. It’s the one item that is always in demand. As her past returns to haunt her she […]
Youssef, a young Palestian student newly arrived in New York, wants what so many before him have wanted: the American dream. A good education, a new life, the girl. But America has other ideas. Haunted by the ghost of Rachel Corrie – the American activist killed in Gaza in 2003 – and pulled into campus […]
El-Manshiyyeh, by playwright Samer Al-Saber, ufolds through a simple, stripped-back theatrical language in which most physical elements are intentionally absent from the stage. This deliberate minimalism invites the audience to actively engage their imagination. Everyday actions — pouring coffee, opening a cupboard — are suggested through gesture rather than realistic depiction, creating space for personal […]
“My name is Harry Harrison. I’m a detective. Private detective, if you want to get specific. Not only the best in the whole enclave – but the cheapest. The only one, anyway. The only one alive, to be exact. Well, it’s a tough job. And you go through tough times. But the toughest day for […]
In Hanna Shammas Takes it to Heart, this effortlessly charming comedian and writer combines storytelling and stand-up comedy to explore the complexities of everyday life as a Palestinian living in the 1948 territories, in the city of Haifa. During a stay in hospital he discovers he has had a hole in his heart since birth. […]