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Family Fun: Shapes of Dheisheh

06 January '22

Find shapes in the images of Dheisheh throughout the exhibition Stateless Heritage by DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti and create your own beautiful images. Use paper and 3D materials to make sculptures using the shapes, and add in your own creative details. Listen to Elias Mattar share a wonderful interactive story of a […]

Workshop: I love it when translation can be found to agree with our weird desires

06 January '22

Do you know what ‘semsiye’ means? Do you use the word ‘kirbaç’ for a whip? Discover the meaning and friendship of words in Turkish and Palestinian Arabic as spoken by Ulufer Çelik and Alaa Abu Asad. Join the artists for an evening with performance, storytelling, translation and the depiction of words that can’t be translated. […]

Workshop: Taleteller Talisman, Act III

06 January '22

Join artist Jumana Emil Abboud for a talisman-creating workshop. The workshop invites the acknowledgement of the sacred within the natural landscape through storytelling and story-giving. The session will encourage the creation of personalised charms that respond to tales from participants’ individual oral history and current experiences; with particular emphasis on the natural landscape that we […]

Gentle/Radical Book Club : Palestine Book Club with Heba Hayek

06 January '22

Join us for the second meeting of our Palestinian Book Club, part of the book club network set up by artist Gentle/Radical. Our second gathering will be led by writer Heba Hayek. We will be reading and discussing an extract(s) from her book Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies. More details will be available soon. Reading materials […]

January Film Program: Who is afraid of ideology? by Marwa Arsanios

06 January '22

Watch Who is afraid of ideology? 1, 2 & 3 (2017, 2019, 2020), three films by artist Marwa Arsanios in January, part of our monthly film programme screening in The Living Room (Al-Madafeh) during the exhibition Stateless Heritage by DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti. Marwa Arsanios’s Who is afraid of ideology? series weaves […]

Exhibition: Hayv Kahraman | Gut Feelings

06 January '22

The Mosaic Rooms presents Gut Feelings, a solo exhibition of paintings and mixed media works by Hayv Kahraman. In this new work, the artist delves into scientific research to situate the effects of trauma in the body and to investigate methodologies of physical healing and care. Developing from Kahraman’s ongoing exploration of embodied experiences of […]

Reading Tawfiq Canaan: Against Statelessness as Method, Towards a Statelessness as Technology

06 January '22

Take part in this 3 days workshop, led by researchers Khaled Malas and Nadine Fattaleh, that examines the possible meanings of an assemblage of ‘talismanic objects’ collected in the first decade of the twentieth century by Dr. Tawfiq Canaan (1882-1964) and currently housed in a British museum. Dr. Canaan was a Palestinian physician, scholar, and […]

American University of Beirut: The Story of America’s Influence in the Middle East

06 January '22

The United States is known throughout the Middle East for its military interventions, but for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries America’s primary influence in the region was educational. What began as a humble missionary school, the AUB grew to become the premier institution of higher education in the Middle East. Under the leadership […]

Weapons Of Mass Hilarity Comedy Night

07 December '21

What happens when an Assyrian, Palestinian and Iranian walk into a bar? Well join us for the 10 installment of WEAPONS OF MASS HILARITY to find out! The only show to celebrate and showcase talent from emerging and established comedians with some sort of tie to the Middle East and surrounding regions returns for 2022 […]