Book Launch: Seloua Luste Boulbina – Les Miroirs vagabonds ou la décolonisation des savoirs January 15, 2019 | Garance French-Algerian philosopher Seloua Luste Boulbina will be hosting the book launch of her latest work this coming Saturday (19/01) at the October gallery. The aim of her new book Les Miroirs vagabonds ou la décolonisation des […]
On Tuesday, January 29th join us at the May Fair Hotel in London for the heartwarming story of SOUFRA, the first female refugee-led food truck business! Since 2013, Alfanar — the Arab world’s first Venture Philanthropy organisation — has backed the intrepid social entrepreneur Mariam Al Shaar and the ladies of the Women’s Programs Association […]
Join singer and oud player Dhafer Youssef on a sublime sonic expedition, taking in Tunisian tradition and contemporary jazz as he presents his new album. At this concert, Youssef reveals material from new album Sounds of Mirrors, which features French-Indian percussionist Stéphane Edouard, meditative Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset and Turkish clarinetist Hüsnü Senlendirici. The mix […]
Dir. Annemarie Jacir • 2018 • Palestine • Drama • 95 mins • Cert 15 • English Subtitles Join South London’s Screen25 Cinema on the fourth Wednesday of every month for Odyssey Film Club, a special strand designed to shine a light on cinema from around the world. This February take a journey to Palestine […]
Everything changed on the night of August 3rd 2014. Isis stormed Nadia Murad’s Yazidi community and killed 700 people. Men and elders were massacred, while women and children were forced into sex slavery. Nadia Murad eventually escaped and lived in a refugee camp until she came to Europe. As Nadia engages with the global media, […]
Written and directed by Ahmed Masoud | Performed by Julia Tarnoky | Designed by Dima Karout Hajja Souad, an 80-year old Palestinian woman living on the besieged Gaza Strip, knows about business. She has survived decades of wars and oppression through making shrouds for the dead. A compelling black comedy, The Shroud Maker delves deep […]
The BAYT بيت (Arabic for home) exhibition will be launched on 18 January 2019. The exhibition is part of an intercultural/ interfaith project and will be on a tour around the UK. The collection has been curated since 2003 by Hertfordshire resident and anthropologist Suhad Jarrar Brown who is of Palestinian descent. She has travelled […]
To celebrate the inception of Converging Paths – a series of events aimed at building bridges with the Islamic World – three eminent guest scholars will present and discuss their research on the cultural interconnections and coexistence experienced by border societies in early and Medieval Islam. The programme comprises: Convergence and Divergence in the Arts […]
Levantine Heritage Foundation cordially invites you the 29th talks gathering with guest speakers Robert Irwin ‘Strangers in a Strange Land: Western Travellers in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria’ and Raphael Cormack ‘Cairo’s multicultural interwar theatre scene’ The talks themselves are free for members of the LHF, but registration is a must for all. […]
Heralded as “the spokesman of a new generation”, DAM began working together in the late 1990s as the first Palestinian hip-hop crew and among the first to rap in Arabic. Struck by the uncanny resemblance of the reality of the streets in a Tupac video to the streets in their own neighborhood of Lyd, they […]