We warmly welcome you to a gentle, reflective sound bath, preceded by a reading from Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning Palestinian-British filmmaker Farah Nabulsi. This is a compassionate space for reflection, healing and collective support – open to all, whether you are personally affected, supporting loved ones, bearing witness or just want to join the experience. All […]
Dhafer Youssef is recognised as a pioneering artist who has helped bring the music of the Middle East into the global jazz scene. His oud playing is genre-defying, expressive and technically brilliant. Dhafer Youssef’s innovative oud playing makes him a key figure in contemporary music. His performances are technically impressive and emotionally compelling, expressing feelings […]
Kuwaiti singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Etaf Presents their Debut Album Launch at The Orange Room. “Don’t Call Me Baby” is the powerful culmination of Etaf’s works brought together through innovative collaboration, collective queering and visionary expressionism. Etaf will be performing the album live in full, for the first time ever, inviting all free spirits of equity […]
A 90 minute concert of the music of the legendary composer / singer Abdelwahab – the Mozart of the Arabs with soprano Fatma Said & 57 musicians from The Royal philharmonic orchestra . 15 mins interval. The family of Mohamed’s Abdelwahab, diplomats and signatures will attend. One night only on 23/11/25 at 7.30pm
Calling all dabke dancers, movement lovers and Palestinian knowledge seekers! We are excited to invite you to this 90 minute dance workshop for intermediary dabke dancers under the tutelage of El-Funoun’s Shaden Qous. This unique workshop aims to reinforce the longstanding folk traditions of dabke, while fortifying physical and emotional strength through dance and movement, […]
An engaged witness to the Gaza genocide that’s being live-streamed to the world, Samer Abu Hawwash will be in the UK to launch his latest poetry collection, in English translation – FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA and other poems, translated by Robin Moger and published by Banipal Books. On 21 October he will be […]
🎉 ATUGE UK IN COLLABORATION WITH NOWART IS THRILLED TO INVITE YOU TO A UNIQUE CULTURAL MASHUP! 🇹🇳 🎥 5TH EDITION – ALYSSA FILM FESTIVAL (2 & 3 OCTOBER, 7PM) The Court House, 19-21 Great Marlborough St, London W1F 7HL ✨ Featuring: FOR ILEF by Saber Baccouch AICHA by Mehdi M. Barsaoui 👉 Each screening […]
As part of this year’s London Design Festival (LDF), V&A South Kensington presents Not Your Martyr, a memorial display by London-based Lebanese artist Ramzi Mallat, known for his evocative engagement with memory, loss and collective resistance. This display is curated by Rachel Dedman, the V&A’s Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East. Installed […]
Few instruments exert a hold on the imagination like the oud, the fretless stringed instrument from the Middle East. Instrumentalist and composer Joseph Tawadros transports it into the modern world with a solo recital exploring all facets of his musical style. In his hands the oud sings, laments, struts and swaggers. With inflections of jazz, […]
JOIN US FOR THE OPENING NIGHT OF THE EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL WITH A JAZZ REVIVAL OF 1950S AND 60S SONGS FROM THE EGYPTIAN JAZZ PROJEKT. Following last year’s sold-out concert, renowned jazz vocalist Ahmed Harfoush and his band, The Egyptian Jazz Projekt return to W2 for a specially created evening for EFG London Jazz […]