Reflecting on Shubbak Festival 2021

Blog News

27 Jul 2021

This has been a moving and often emotional festival. Eckhard Thiemann, CEO and Artistic Director reflects on Shubbak Festival 2021.

Shubbak Festival | New Leadership Announced

Blog News

26 Jul 2021

Shubbak announces the appointment of Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso and Alia Alzougbi as joint CEO's taking over from Eckhard Thiemann.

DJ Nooriyah’s Shubbak Festival playlist

Blog

16 Jul 2021

Enjoy DJ Nooriyah's Shubbak Festival playlist. A Middle Eastern specialist DJ, she will be headlining Fierce Voices on the last…

Curating for the North African arts scene: in conversation with Toufik Douib

Blog

15 Jul 2021

By Nourhan Tewfik “A year of creative struggle can lead to a cultural democratisation.” abdellah hassak Those words mark the…

Selma Dabbagh talks about We Wrote in Symbols

Blog

13 Jul 2021

Selma Dabbagh talks to Fadi Zaghmout about We Wrote in Symbols, a priceless collection of 100 pieces of prose and…

Shubbak Festival artist spotlight | Abdulisms

Blog

6 Jul 2021

Abdulisms is a London based British born Iraqi/Irish creative director and digital producer for IRAQ-A-FELLA radio and part of Sawa,…

Shubbak Festival Artist Spotlight | Hadeel Eltayeb

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1 Jul 2021

Hadeel Eltayab is one half of Fadaa (Space) who have curated When the World Closed, five events in five cities…

Niqabi Ninja | an audio drama

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29 Jun 2021

Sara Shaarawi in conversation with Katie Goh about Niqabi Ninja, and adapting the two-hander to an audio drama which audiences…

Playlist #37 | MARSM celebrates 10 years of music at Shubbak Festival

Blog

29 Jun 2021

Listen to MARSM latest playlist #37 celebrating its collaboration with Shubbak over the last 10 years.

Shubbak Festival artist spotlight | Rayan Elnayal

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29 Jun 2021

Rayan Elnayal is the curator and moderator of Creating While Black: in the SWANA region and its diaspora, an event…

The Consensus of Seasons

Blog

23 Jun 2021

Abstracted beyond comprehension, the Afro-Arab is an elastic figure. She is whoever we need her to be. She is disappeared…

Shubbak Festival artist spotlight | Ahaad Alamoudi

Blog

20 Jun 2021

Ahaad Alamoudi is one of the artists featured in Image & Movement, a specially curated selection of works by female,…

Humanitarian aid for Occupied Palestine

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24 May 2021

There are a number of organisations accepting donations and running appeals to provide emergency relief to Occupied Palestine.

We are recruiting

Blog Opportunities

19 May 2021

Shubbak is looking to appoint a CEO to develop and shape the organisation's strategic vision for the next 5–10 years.

Volunteer at Shubbak Festival 2021

Opportunities

5 May 2021

Shubbak Festival 2021 is recruiting volunteers. Find out more.

Watch highlights

Blog

1 Apr 2021

Watch some of our favourite moments and recent festival highlights

Shubbak Festival: the first ten years

Blog News

30 Mar 2021

Jumana Al-Yasiri in conversation with Shubbak's Artistic Director, Eckhard Thiemann

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Behind ‘The Slave Yards’

Blog What’s on(line)

30 Mar 2021

Sawad Hussain interviews Najwa Bin Shatwan about her novel The Slave Yards for the Against Disappearance series.