In pictures: 2023 Festival

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7 Aug 2023

See some of our favourite moments and recent festival highlights

Sync Arabi – at the raw intersection of mobility and disability justice

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20 Feb 2023

Shubbak's Alia Alzougbi reflects ahead of the upcoming festival

Backstage with The Synaptik

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1 Nov 2021

Abdulisms caught up with The Synaptik just after his soundcheck at London's Jazz Cafe.

Backstage with Felukah

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25 Oct 2021

Abdulisms caught up with Felukah before she hit the stage at London's Jazz Cafe to perform her solo set and…

The Synaptik + Felukah | Shubbak Festival Commission

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1 Oct 2021

Hip Hop stars The Synaptik and Felukah collaboration commissioned by Shubbak sees the release of two singles, videos and a…

Reflecting on Shubbak Festival 2021

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27 Jul 2021

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

DJ Nooriyah’s Shubbak Festival playlist

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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20 Jun 2021

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

Watch highlights

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1 Apr 2021

Watch some of our favourite moments and recent festival highlights

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Behind ‘The Slave Yards’

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30 Mar 2021

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