Nahla Ink Online Journal

Caabu will be hosting an online briefing with Rania Abouzeid, who will be discussing her recent young adult book 'Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria'.Caabu particularly encourage young adults and those working in education to join this discussion.About the Book:Since the revolution-turned-civil war in Syria began in 2011, over 500,000 civilians have been killed and more than 12 million Syrians have been displaced. Rania Abouzeid, o...

The London Palestine Film Festival returns for 2020, with a great programme of films that will be shown 13-26 November, 2020.This year's festival will be screening films via Barbican Cinema on Demand and LPFF Vimeo on Demand. Some four features were scheduled to be held at the Barbican but may now be cancelled due to Covid restrictions.There are 13 films showing this year:An Unusual Summer, dir. Kamal AljafariGaza Mon Amour, dir. Tarzan and Arab Nasser200 Metre, dir. Ameen Na...

Black, anti-racist and anti-capitalist feminism is often side-lined in mainstream discourses. In their book Brenna Bhandar and Rafeef Ziadah interview some of the most powerful voices in revolutionary feminist thought to consider urgent transformations of the economy, social relations and political structures. In this live online panel, Bhandar and Ziadah are joined by two contributors – Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Vron Ware – to discuss what resistance looks like, from anti-colonialism to prison ab...

'Literature knows no frontiers and should remain a common currency between nations despite political upheavals', according to the PEN Charter.This charter acts as the guiding principles for PEN International's Centres, which defend the rights of writers and readers around the world.This panel discussion celebrates the role of translation in breaking down barriers. Chaired by Associate Editor (Culture) for the Guardian and English PEN Trustee, Claire Armitstead, it features Syrian transla...

The Leeds Palestinian Film Festival goes international for its sixth year, with tickets now on sale for its first globally accessible online programme; providing local, national and international audiences an even more accessible way to support and engage with Palestinian art, culture, history and politics through the medium of film.The festival takes place between 14-28th November, 2020.For this year, the festival has also announced ​the fourteen films and three speaker events...

Hosted from Scotland, this year the festival is taking place online between 30 October - 29 November 2020! You can choose your own ticket price!Africa in Motion (AiM) is an annual African film festival taking place in Scotland, consisting of film screenings and complementary events. Now in its fifteenth year, AiM brings the best of African cinema to Scotland—making it possible for Scottish audiences to engage with African stories and industry professionals from the continent.AiM has esta...

Hosted by the Zay Initiative, as part of a number of dialogues, 'Under the ‘Abāyah’ will be a window into the diverse Saudi fashion scene and the progressive young women behind it.GUEST: MARRIAM MOSSALLIMarriam Mossalli, a Jeddah-based female entrepreneur and luxury-goods expert, founded Niche Arabia in 2011. Her award-winning luxury communications and consulting firm has garnered international recognition for elevating the Saudi Arabian fashion industry and successfully connecting g...

On the sixth episode of ‘Arts Canteen in Conversation’, Aser El Saqqa talks to Dana Dajani (@danadajani.poetry), award-winning Palestinian writer, performer and activist. During the past decade, Dana has taken on many roles as an actress, writer, trainer and consultant within the corporate and creative worlds.She has deep roots in the UAE where she was honoured as Emirates Woman Artist of the Year and received the Young Arab Award for Entertainment in 2016.Since 2018, Dana has been invit...

Discover more about inspiring waste activism in the Middle East and explore how political forces affect the possibility of a greener future.Urban Lab Films and Bertha DocHouse present a screening and moderated discussion on two recent short films from the Middle East, to examine the role of academic and artistic production in challenging knowledge and inspiring activism around waste and toxicity.It will consider the links between contamination caused by waste and to...

The Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF) is inviting proposals for the 2021 festival edition, with the deadline for applications 4 December, 2020.The festival will be held Friday 16 – Sunday 25 July, 2021. The devastating impact of climate change is being felt across the world. Global warming is fuelling extreme weather events, rising sea levels, intense heat, natural disasters, environmental degradation, food and water insecurity, mass migration, and conflict.These consequences are alr...

Webinar: With the Author Diana Darke'Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture shaped Europe' (Hurst, 2020) uncovers a long yet often overlooked history of architectural ‘borrowing’, revealing the Arab and Islamic roots of Europe’s architectural heritage.Ideas and styles are traced as they passed from vibrant Middle Eastern centres like Damascus, Baghdad and Cairo, entering Europe via gateways like Muslim Spain, Sicily and Venice through the movement of pilgrims, bishops, merc...

Explore the relationship between memory, loss and exile with this panel discussion running alongside Edmund de Waal's 'Library of Exile' installation, currently on show at the British Museum.The discussion will be chaired by English PEN President, Philippe Sands QC, and features contemporary artist and writer Edmund de Waal; Chilean novelist Alia Trabucco Zerán, whose debut novel 'La Resta' (The Remainder) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and British Palestinian fiction-w...

The Banipal Book Club will be online again for a meeting to read from 'Ice' by Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim, published by Seagull Books. It was published in 2011 in Arabic (as Al Jalīd) and translated into English in 2019 by Margaret Litvin.The novel is one of the nominations for the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, the shortlist for which will be announced on 24 November, 2020. Ice gives the reader a guided tour of Brezhnev-era Soviet life, through the ey...

Exhibition Dates: 26 November - 12 December 2020Curator: Mishelle Brito Artists: ElZi Collective 'Unnarrated' is an installation by the ElZi Collective which uses fragmented moving image, reflection and performance to dismantle Western notions of knowing in relation to feminine spirituality in North Africa. Unnarrated explores oral histories and notions deconstructing what is beyond language and communication within the context of North African cultures. For this exhibition, ElZi Co...

Arab Drumz presents El Far3i Real-time: A high quality live streaming concert from the specialised audio-visual audio in London T.E.N Studios. A full acoustic show, including popular songs by El Far3i and exclusive performances of new unreleased songs from his upcoming acoustic album 'Nas Min Khashab' 2021. Mixed with ...Clips from the making of El Far3i Real-time Premier of new video clip for Rap-Mahrajan Song 'El Far3i - Hayarafo Meen' in collaboration with Egyptian producer Molot...

Hosted by the Zay Initiative. Dr Reem El Mutwalli will be joined on the sofa by photographer Waleed Shah to discuss his creative project 'Mowjood - I am here, I exist'.GUEST: WALEED SHAHWaleed lives in the United Arab Emirates. He's a Chemical Engineer by education, started his career working in the oil industry, and slowly discovered his love for photography. He's had the opportunity to work with the finest establishments in the industry, talented local artists and internati...

Luxor, the film, will be released for viewing 6 November-31 December, 2020In partnership with Modern Films, the Arab British Centre (ABC) announce the UK & Ireland release of filmmaker Zeina Durra’s LUXOR, starring acclaimed British actress, Andrea Riseborough and French-Lebanese actor, Karim Saleh (star of Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven, Steven Spielberg’s Munich and Adam McKay’s Vice).Following its Sundance Film Festival World Premiere earlier this year, LUXOR has gone on to screen i...

Online Exhibition Dates: 8 October, 2020-29 January 2021Curated by Laila Abdul-Hadi, 'Art in Isolation: Creativity in the Time of Covid-19' pays tribute to the experiences and reflections of artists from the Middle East and its diaspora during a period of global crisis.The MEI Art Gallery’s first-ever open call, 'Art in Isolation', invited regional artists to submit artwork made at the height of the global pandemic around the thematic of sheltering in place. The result is a rich curatio...

The Palestinian powerhouse returns to the capital to launch their anticipated new album, enthralling and electrifying! 47Soul’s iconic ‘Shamstep’ style is a potent combination of electronic hip-hop and traditional Palestinian street music. Formed in Jordan in 2013, their signature sound and high-energy music incorporates regional bass-heavy dance beats, analogue synthesisers and hypnotic hooks.Their lyrics, sung in both Arabic and English, have come to embody a captiv...

Exhibition Dates: 1 October, 2020—28 March, 2021The Mosaic Rooms will host the first UK solo exhibition for the artist Heba Y Amin. Amin investigates how the elusive narratives of regional politics in the Middle East relate to global concerns. Her research-based, multimedia works take speculative, and sometimes satirical, approaches to understanding these historical events and processes.This exhibition presents the latest iterations of three distinct and evolving bodies of work by the ...

Taking place at Imperial War Museum (IWM) London, 'Refugees' explores refugee experiences throughout history and ongoing issues faced by those affected through two major exhibitions, a series of events and a new site-specific art commission at IWM London from world-renowned artist Ai Weiwei.Collectively, 17.5 million people have fled Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen alone, due to recent conflict. This, however, is not a new phenomenon and throughout history war has dras...