An enchanting journey back in time to Baghdad in the year 800. In his sumptuous palace, the Abbasid Caliph Harun Al-Rashid hosts emissaries sent by Emperor Charlemagne. As the foreign dignitaries prepare for their long journey back home, the Caliph offers an array of lavish gifts to be sent along, including an albino elephant, known […]
Borderless is a collective art exhibition curated by artist-curator and educator Dima Karout as part of her residency at the Migration Museum during the Room to Breathe exhibition. It features work and reflections by resident artists: Habib Sadat, The New Art Studio, Ceyda Oskay, Shorsh Saleh and Belén L. Yáñez. The artwork and texts presented […]
Branches is a Collective Art Exhibition imagined by Dima Karout to celebrate Refugee Week 2019. It invites artists and creative humans to collaborate and reflect on many possible metaphors for Branches and how it relates to our roots, identities, and connection with the light. One of the art pieces presented in the exhibition is created […]
Following its fabulous success in Paris and Berlin, Stories Art Gallery is delighted to announce the London hosting of ‘Calligraphic Rhythms’, the critically acclaimed exhibition showcasing the work of master calligrapher, Mouneer Al Shaarani. Al Shaarani is a world-class master calligrapher, designer and writer living and working in Damascus, Syria. Al Shaarani started Arabic calligraphy […]
Freedom Fields follows a group of women in post-revolution Libya dream of making it to an international football tournament. Their all-female football team is met with disapproval and endless obstacles thrown from the Libyan football federation. This inspiring documentary follow their personal lives as well as their fight to be allowed on a football field; […]
Singer-songwriter Tania Saleh, pianist Faraj Suleiman, MC Bu Kolthoum and singer Sabrine Jenhani celebrate the life and music of singer and activist Rim Banna. After a ten-year struggle with breast cancer, Palestinian singer Rim Banna’s life was cut short in March 2018. Now, a year on from her passing, a collection of her peers and […]
Part of Shubbak 2019* Mo Khansa & Kabareh Cheikhats (London Debut) Genre defying performances from Casablanca and Beirut: Popular songs meet aerial, drag and DJs in anarchic line-up. Mo Khansa/ خنسا From Beirut comes Mo Khansa: multi-genre musician, performer and aerialist. Contemporary belly-dance, drag, aerial work, middle-eastern avant-pop electronica all meet in a genre-defying performance […]
Journeying through the fascinating and bass-heavy musical landscape of the Middle East’s burgeoning electronic music scenes, Hishek Bishek has emerged as London’s most pulsing underground Arabic party. From cutting-edge pop releases to cheesy classics, killer Mahraganat tracks and hypnotic Dabke remixes from the Levant, Hishek Bishek is back at Garage this time for a night […]
A special screening of two classic short films by film maker and author Ahmed Bouanani, accompanied by a film by Touda Bouanani about her father. The films will be introduced by Marie Pierre-Bouthier. Memory 14 (1971) was created by Ahmed Bouanani at a time when he was confined to editing, prohibited from filming because of […]
London-based interior and product designer Hedayat Islam and architect-maker Mohamed Saeed are producing contemporary wooden furniture made of compressed palm ribs, traditionally burned as waste in Egyptian rural communities, and a cause of severe air pollution. This highly innovative re-use of palm ribs has been pioneered by an Egyptian researcher, Dr Hamed El-Mously who has […]