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 […]
Arts Canteen present “Crusade” a new stand up comedy show about culture and identity hosted by Lebanese British comedian Esther Manito! Esther is an observational, stand up comedian who takes you on a whirlwind tour of what life is like for an Anglo/Lebanese mum of two…..Esther also is a writer and has contributed to the […]
Experience the atmosphere of Christmas in the Arab world as St Martin-in-the-Fields resounds with Syriac, Coptic and Byzantine chants, harking back to the time of Queen Zanubia’s Palmyra in the second century CE. Palestinian singer and broadcaster Reem Kelani, lead the evening as compere. Line up : – Najib Coutya – Merit Ariane Stephanos – […]
Join Comma Press for a morning of talks and panels offering advice and insight into the world of translation. Organised in partnership with Multilingual Manchester, this session will be an opportunity for budding translators – or those with a passion for working between languages – to learn more about the life of the literary translator […]
FREE (max. 12 spaces, see below). This workshop is aimed at would-be translators of Arabic fiction and prose. Groups will work on collaborative translations of texts across different genres, guided by experienced literary translator Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp. All workshops translate into English, therefore it is essential that all participants must have proficiency in the source […]
After a sold out screening at the Curzon Cinema, Soho – About a War returns to London for one week at the ArtHouse Cinema. Moving through the testimonies of Assad, a right wing Christian intelligence officer; Ahed, a Palestinian refugee fighter and Nassim, a Communist commander, About a War unpicks the personal and social motivations, […]
After a sold out screening at the Curzon cinema in Soho, About a War will be screening at the Curzon in Oxford as part of DocDays. Moving through the testimonies of Assad, a right wing Christian intelligence officer; Ahed, a Palestinian refugee fighter and Nassim, a Communist commander, About a War unpicks the personal and […]