Art has the power to transcend time, geography, and history, creating bridges between the past and the present. Monya Riachi’s latest exhibition, Safe Waters, is a testament to this. Opened on 7th February 2025 at Lewisham Arthouse, this exhibition marks the culmination of her time on the Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Residency Award. Safe Waters is […]
Music holds different meanings at different times in our lives. In the Listening In podcast series, created in partnership with the Arab British Centre, Yasmeen Soudani of SouqSounds sits down with three incredible guests to explore how their love of music shapes who they are. Spanning inherited family favourites, hype songs, dancefloor staples and much […]
Films, films everywhere! Here’s our round-up of what’s screening at BFI London Film Festival 2024 this October. THANK YOU FOR BANKING WITH US (2024) Laila Abbas’ gripping tale of two sisters racing against time to assure their inheritance is an inspiring story of unity against unfair patriarchal systems. TO A LAND UNKNOWN (2024) Mahdi Fleifel’s […]
We’d like to introduce you to the brilliant participants selected for this year’s Arab Film Development Workshop as part of SAFAR Film Festival. Over a two-day workshop, SAFAR had the privilege of welcoming three brilliant early-career Arab filmmakers to develop their projects connected to or inspired by the Arab world, with support from filmmaker Saeed […]
In collaboration with the SAFAR Film Festival, Palestinian filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky will lead a free two-day project development workshop on 15 and 16 June 2024 for up to six early-career Arab filmmakers (or filmmakers working on projects connected to or inspired by the Arab world.) Applicants must apply with a film idea in mind, […]
The SAFAR Film Festival is the largest festival in the UK dedicated to cinema from the Arab world. First launched in 2012, the festival screens in London and in 8 other cities across the UK, with a programme of around 30 films. SAFAR Futures is our strand of activity that focuses on developing the next […]
The Soil and The Sea: Fragments in the Wake of Dissonance – Unveiling Lebanon’s Forgotten Mass Graves Directed and produced by Daniele Rugo in collaboration with Carmen Hassoun Abou Jaoude and NGO Act for the Disappeared Review by Marwa El-Asri With thanks to Yara El Murr and Curzon Soho for tickets to the screening. The screening took […]
After seven years as Chair and reaching the end of his term, Sir Derek Plumbly has stepped down from the Board of Trustees of the Arab British Centre. Sir Derek first joined the Centre as Chair in 2016 after being recommended by then-Board member Brian Constant who knew him from his time at the Foreign […]
We have compiled a list of resources exploring Palestine: its history, its culture and its struggle. This list of course only covers a tiny fraction of that which is out there, but we have tried to include some that are free, which are widely available (e.g. on Netflix), which focus on Gaza specifically, or which […]
We at The Arab British Centre have been deeply distressed at the appalling events of the past two weeks. Our hearts now are with the people of Gaza – civilians who are suffering a brutal siege, aerial bombardment and displacement, many of them now without shelter, without medical support or access to the basic essentials […]