Portraits

Shubbak @ National Theatre River Stage

Fri 12 July–Sun 14 July Various times

National Theatre River Stage

Music · Outdoor & Workshops · Performance ·

10 to 10

Hassan Al-Mousaoy

Fri 28 June–Sat 13 July 10.00am–6.00pm

Bush Theatre

Music · Visual arts ·

Kahareb

Opening Party

Fri 28 June 8:00pm

Rich Mix

Music ·

Belonging, Sideways

Rima Djahnine, Mounir Gouri, Sarah Ouadah, Fethi Sahraoui & Abdo Shanan

Sat 29 June–Sun 14 July 10.00am–11.00pm

Rich Mix

Visual arts ·

The Upside Down Man (The Son of the Road)

MOHAMED TOUKABRI

Sat 29 June 7:45pm

Purcell Room, Southbank Centre

Performance ·

Shubbak @ The British Library

Presented in Partnership with the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Sun 30 June 12pm-7pm

The British Library

Literature ·

Chronicles of Majnun Layla

Amer Hlehel performs Qassim Haddad's Masterwork

Mon 1-Wed 3 July 7:00pm

Gate Theatre

Literature · Performance ·

Meet the Illustrator: Joseph Kai

Mon 1 July 7:00pm

Institut français

Literature ·

Amma Baad

Nasser Al Salem

Tue 2 July-Sat 10 Aug 11.00am–6.00pm, Mon-Sat

Delfina Foundation

Outdoor & Workshops · Visual arts ·

Translation workshop with Deena Mohamed

Workshop

Tue 2 July 5pm

Room SG32 in Paul Webley Wing, SOAS

Literature · Outdoor & Workshops ·

Portraits

A New Divan: Tyranny In Translation

Mourid Barghouti & George Szirtes

Tue 2 July 6:30pm

John Sandoe Books

Literature ·

X-ADRA

Ramzi Choukair

Tues 2 & Wed 3 July 7.30pm

Battersea Arts Centre

Performance ·

Hicham Berrada: Dreamscapes

Hicham Berrada

Wed 3 July–Sun 18 Aug 11:00am-7:00pm

Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre

Visual arts ·

Sofia

Directed Meryem Benm-barek-Aloïsi

Wed 3 July 6:30pm

Barbican Cinema

Film ·

Mette Loulou Von Kohl & Dima Mikhayel Matta

In Development: Two Bold Works on Queerness.

Thu 4 July 7:00pm

Gate Theatre

Performance ·

May He Rise And Smell The Fragrance

Ali Chahrour

Thu 4 & Fri 5 July 8:00pm

Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells

Performance ·

Panoptic

Directed by Rana Eid

Thu 4 July 8:45pm

Barbican Cinema

Film ·

Raw Queens

Fatima Mazmouz & Meriem Bennani, Curated by Yasmina Naji

Fri 5 July–Sat 14 Sep 11.00am-6.00pm

Mosaic Rooms

Visual arts ·

Ēvolvo + One Day & One Night Beirut

Yara Boustany

Fri 5 & Sat 6 July 3:00pm & 7:00pm

Gate Theatre

Outdoor & Workshops · Performance ·

Of Sheep And Men

Directed Karim Sayyad

Fri 5 July 6:30pm

Barbican Cinema

Film ·

Cosmic Analog Ensemble & Ernesto Chahaud

A Crate Digger's Dream

Fri 5 July 7:00pm (doors)

Camden Assembly

Music ·

Mehdi Annassi's mural on St. Mark’s Road, Ladbroke Grove

Mehdi Annassi

Presented in Partnership with the Bagri Foundation

From 28 June Visit any time

North Kensington

Outdoor & Workshops · Visual arts ·

Family Day

Interactive story-telling, art and cookery workshop

Sat 6 July 11.00am–5.00pm

Mosaic Rooms

Outdoor & Workshops ·

Arab British Shorts

A screening of four short films

Sat 6 July 12:30pm

Barbican Cinema

Film ·

Arab British Filmmakers

Panel Discussion

Sat 6 July 2:30pm

Barbican Cinema

Film ·

The Man Behind The Microphone

Directed by Claire Belhassine

Sat 6 July 4:00pm

Barbican Cinema

Film ·

Luminscencia

Amir Elsaffar Ensemble

Sat 6 July 5:30pm & 8:00pm

Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells

Music ·

The Blessed

Directed by Sofia Djama

Sat 6 July 8:45pm

Barbican Cinema

Film ·

Shubbak @ The British Museum

Day of events

Sun 7 July 10:00am-5.30pm

The British Museum

Visual arts ·

Geographical Child’s Play

Bricklab

Sat 29, Sun 30 June, Sun 7 July Various times

Multiple Locations

Visual arts ·

Aicha El Beloui

Presented in Partnership with the Bagri Foundation

Sat 29, Sun 30 June, Sun 7 July Various times

Multiple Locations

Outdoor & Workshops · Visual arts ·

Syria and Yemen: Making Art Today

Symposium

Sun 7 July 10:30am

British Museum

Visual arts ·

The Second Copy 2045

Youness Atbane

Sun 7 July 11.30am, 2.30pm, 4.00pm

British Museum

Performance · Visual arts ·

Erased, Ascent Of The Invisible

Directed by Ghassan Halwani

Sun 7 July 4:15pm

Barbican Cinema

Film ·

The Reports On Sarah And Saleem

Directed by Muayad Alayan

Sun 7 July 6:00pm

Barbican Cinema

Film ·

Mission Driven Design

Morag Myerscough, Abdulrahman Gazzaz, Seetal Solanki, Rebecca Ford

Mon 8 July 6:00pm

The Great Room, RSA House

Visual arts ·

Jogging

Hanane Hajj Ali

Mon 8 – Weds 10 July 7:00pm

Gate Theatre

Performance ·

Under A Low Sky image

Under A Low Sky

Wael Ali

Mon 8–Wed 10 July 9:00pm

Gate Theatre

Performance ·

Rim Banna

The Trace Of The Butterfly

A tribute to Rim Banna

Tue 9 July 8:00pm

Barbican

Music ·

Working Method

Enkidu Khaled

Thu 11 July–Sat 13 July 7:00pm

Gate Theatre

Performance ·

Halka

Groupe Acrobatique de Tanger

Thu 11 July 7:30pm

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre

Performance ·

Mo Khansa & Kabareh Cheikhats

Genre-bending performance

Fri 12 July 8:00pm

Rich Mix

Music ·

Playreadings

Ahlam, Zoukak, Sahar Assaf & Wael Kadour

Sat 13 July 12:00pm

Gate Theatre

Performance ·

Tongue Fu

Tongue Fu

Amerah Saleh, Claudine Toutoungi, Farah Chamma & Samira Saleh

Sat 13 July 8:00pm

Rich Mix

Literature ·

Grid of nine portraits of women

Becoming

Héla Ammar

Fri 28 June–Sat 13 July (excl. Sundays) 9.00am–6.00pm

Shepherd's Bush Market

Outdoor & Workshops · Visual arts ·