Mauritania’s Noura Mint Seymali is a griot, singer, and composer, carrying centuries of Moorish tradition into the present. Her music blends desert blues, Saharan psych-rock, and West African call-and-response, anchored by the harp-like ardine, electric guitar, bass, and percussion. An evening where ancient soundscapes meets contemporary flair through trance-like cycles, poetic storytelling, and improvisation.
A two-day exhibition on cultural belonging. For the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) 2026, The Palestine Collective is organising a two-day exhibition on cultural belonging, in collaboration with the P21 Gallery. ‘Belonging(s) Beyond Borders’ engages architects and artists who confront diaspora and displacement in their homelands through versatile expressions of cultural identity and belonging. Emerging […]
For one night only Seenaryo is staging new monologues from Lebanon, performed by acclaimed actors by acclaimed actors Juliet Stevenson, Khalid Abdalla, Denise Gough, and more… with a recorded reading by Oscar-winning Hamnet star Jessie Buckley. Audiences will have the chance to hear first hand stories of living through the latest war on Lebanon, written […]
The Arab Film Club returns to the Southbank Centre for a special Refugee Week screening. The films selected showcase the inventive ways filmmakers use the power of cinema and storytelling to humanise struggle and raise awareness through art. The screening is followed by a live Q&A hosted by Sarah Agha with the directors on stage. […]
Artist Mandy El-Sayegh and writer-curator Shumon Basar come together to discuss El-Sayegh’s practice and her mural commission at The Showroom – This is a Sign: Notes on Assembly – which employs a cut-up methodology, layering materials with poetic fragments, to explore the textures of commonality, social justice, and modes of resistance. They will consider the […]
It’s time for the next Cinema F’el Salon, and this one is a DOOZY. Our second event takes a pretty iconic pivot, out from the 50s eleganza and straight into the disco fever dream of 1981. We’re, of course, talking about Fangs/Anyab/انياب The Film: Anyab/انياب dir. Mohamed Shebl (1981) Starring: Ahmed Adawiyya, Mona Gabr, Ali […]
Join us for a special book launch of C.A.S.A. Casablanca Art School Archives 1962–1987 presented by co-editor and publisher Morad Montazami. C.A.S.A. is a landmark publication bringing together nearly ten years of research — archives, foundational texts, testimonials and contemporary essays — telling the story of the Casablanca Art School. Following Morocco’s independence in 1956, […]
Join artist and architect Lobna Sana from the Naqab desert for three days of collective building, engaging in the story of woven architecture. Hosted in our garden, the workshops draw on Bedouin Palestinian weaving traditions, At the heart of this project is a celebration of the women who built and sustained these architectures often without […]
Join us for an afternoon of poetry readings in Arabic and English. Bringing together distinct poetic voices and practices, this event features one of of Sudan’s most celebrated contemporary writers, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi. The translator of his most recent publication, A Friend’s Kitchen, Bryryar Bajalan, will read Al-Raddi’s work in English, as well as selected pieces […]
Join us for a collective reading session and launch of Bouchra Khalili’s newly published book, The Circle: Timeline for a Constellation. The publication explores the enduring legacy of the Arab Workers Movement (MTA) and its theatre troupes Al Assifa and Al Halaka. The MTA theatre troupes’ pioneering provocation to imagine how performance and storytelling can […]