As part of Safar: The Festival of Popular Arab Cinema, we brought back The Forum! This time, we put it on a Saturday and it was a great success. There were three panel discussions, each dealing with a different subject matter and the video below covers session two: REVOLUTIONARY AND REVOLUTION IN CINEMA: REFLECTING ON […]
As part of Safar: The Festival of Popular Arab Cinema, we brought back The Forum! This time, we put it on a Saturday and it was a great success. There were three panel discussions, each dealing with a different subject matter and the video below covers session one: THE NOTION OF THE POPULAR: LOOKING AT […]
The stunning actress Morjana Alaoui, who actually showed up in two of the films during Safar: The Festival of Popular Arab Cinema, came to talk to the audience in the sold out cinema for the UK premiere of Rock the Casbah. Click and enjoy! Q&A with Morjana Alaoui from The Arab British Centre on […]
The award-winning actor-turned-director came all the way from the USA to be with us for Safar: The Festival of Popular Arab Cinema. His UK premiere-directorial debut Traitors was an exciting addition to our line up and now you can watch him talk all about it! Click and enjoy! Q&A with Sean Gullette from The […]
Rising-star Nadine Khan came to rainy London for Safar: The Festival of Popular Arab Cinema to watch her debut film Chaos, Disorder premiere in the UK! Here’s the fantastic Q+A with our writer-in-residence, Malu Halasa. Click and enjoy!
During Safar: The Festival of Popular Arab Cinema we were thrilled to have with us the legendary Egyptian film director, Mohamed Khan. His film Factory Girl was our opening night premiere and completely sold out! For those who were in the audience, relive the lively Q+A here. For those who weren’t… Now you have the […]
As part of our film festival, Safar: The Festival of Popular Arab Cinema, we screened the 1999 Lebanese favourite, Around the Pink House. We were proud to bring one of the directors, Khalil Joreige, over to London to tell us more about his experiences as a director and specifically with this film. Click and enjoy! […]
Salvation Army (2013) Film Review Alberto Fernández Carbajal is Leverhulme Fellow at the School of English, University of Leicester, where he is currently working on a new project entitled Queer Diasporas: Islam, Homosexuality and a Micropolitics of Dissent, exploring representations of queer Muslims in international fiction and film. Salvation Army (2013) is a feature […]
Marjorie Ransom is a Middle East specialist who has lived and worked throughout the Arab world, where she began researching and collecting traditional silver jewelry, particularly from Yemen. Collector, curator and writer , she first showed her collection of traditional Middle Eastern silver jewellery in 2003 in Washington, D.C. It has since appeared in solo and […]
PERSONAL ENCOUNTER WITH DIRECTOR & PROFESSOR SAMIR SEIF At Nabila Hotel, Mohandiseen, Cairo, Egypt. 14th July 2013. Samir Seif, an Egyptian film and TV director who rose to prominence in the early 1980s. He was nominated for the Golden Pyramid Award at the Cairo International Film Festival twice, in 1999 and 2002. His directorial debut came in 1977 with […]