Leeds Palestinian Film Festival’s sixth edition will be available online for the first time, providing local, national and international audiences an even more accessible way to support and engage with Palestinian art, culture, history and politics through the medium of film. LeedsPFF presents a programme of fourteen films and three speaker events, which will all […]
About this Event A hands-on drawing illustration workshop, allowing you to work with ‘Mapping Sanctuaries,’ artist Alaa Alsaraji, to create your own illustrations of your personal ‘sanctuaries’. Alaa is a London-based visual artist, designer and creative facilitator. Whilst maintaining her own creative practice through editorial work and exhibitions, she has also worked with various creative […]
On the fifth episode of ‘Arts Canteen in Conversation’, Aser El Saqqa talks to Oud player, composer and musical producer Adnan Joubran. Adnan was born into a family with deep-rooted passion for music and Oud making. Along with his brothers Samir and Wissam, he forms the world-renowned Le Trio Joubran. Adnan has developed his unique […]
Join a Book Club Meeting with #becauseweveread curated in response to the themes of the exhibition: ‘Mapping Sanctuaries.’We will start the event with a short tour of the exhibition, and also read excerts from ‘Emails from Scheherazad & Other Poems,’ by Mohja Kafh This event will be curated and facilitated by Maryam Abdullah, co-facilitated by […]
Join us for our next dialogue as Dr. Lina AbiRafeh, who has served as Executive Director of AiW since 2015 discusses with our Founder Dr Reem El Mutwalli: Arab Women & Stereotypes. If you cannot join on the day, a recording will be sent to all registered delegates
Joining us on the sofa for Dialogues on the Art of Arab Fashion ‘Kashmir to Paisley’ our guest, Kerry Taylor, who is a consultant to leading auction houses who sits on the UK government export review board. Kerry started at Sotheby’s 1979 and soon established her own company, Kerry Taylor Auctions, in 2003 specialising in […]
A rare chance to catch up with some very special guests from the ever-expanding queer Arab arts scene, joining your host Alice Guthrie for chats and rants, laments and laughs, dreams and schemes. Episode 4 of 4: Guest : Dima Matta Dima Mikhayel Matta is a Beirut-based writer and actress. She received a Fulbright scholarship […]
This is a two-day introductory course on the theme of religious cultural heritage (RCH) in the Middle East. It aims to contextualise RCH as the living cultural heritage of its community of users. In addition, the course attempts to present RCH as a contemporary construct of its socio-political and religious context through its connections to […]
This year’s Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation Lecture is given by the well-known Palestinian novelist, short story writer and film director, Liana Badr. This is a live online event where bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours […]
Join this Q&A with Alaa Alsaraji and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan on Instagram Live. Alaa Alsaraji is the artist behind Mapping Sanctuaries, a collection of digital illustrations and sound pieces exploring the notions of safety and the spaces that exist between isolation and belonging within Muslim communities. In her first solo exhibition, Alsaraji aims to platform the […]