Nahla Ink Online Journal

An afikra conversation with authors Randa Jarrar and Zaina Arafat.Randa Jarrar is the author of the forthcoming memoir 'Love Is An Ex-Country', the novel 'A Map of Home', and the collection of stories 'Him, Me, Muhammad Ali'. She is also a performer who has recently appeared in Hulu’s RAMY, as well as the short films GOT GAME and FINJAN.Zaina Arafat is an LGBTQ Arab-Muslim-American fiction and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the novel, 'You Exist Too Much'. Her stories and es...

Directed by Yasmin FeddaProduced by Elhum Shakerifar and Hugh Hartford AYOUNI | The Film SynopsisNoura and Machi search for answers about their loved ones - Bassel Safadi and Paolo Dall'Oglio, who are among the over 100,000 forcibly disappeared in Syria. Faced with the limbo of an overwhelming absence of information, hope is the only thing they have to hold on to. 'Ayouni' is a deeply resonant Arabic term of endearment - meaning 'my eyes' and understood as 'my love'. Filmed over 6 ye...

The fourth episode of 'Arts Canteen In Conversation', an online series with a simple but fulfilling mission: to bring more inspiring stories, deep-dive conversations, and insights into the life from the greatest minds and most passionate enthusiasts in the Arts Canteen community. The conversations will focus on topics concerning the global contemporary art scene with guests of local and international artists, gallerists, curators, architects, film makers, musicians, critics, and many other cultu...

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns to London and is scheduled for 8-10 October, 2020. Over the past seven years the 1-54 Fair has established itself as a leading voice in the global discussion on contemporary African art. The scaled down version will see around 20 international galleries representing a selection of the best contemporary African artists, including 36 exhibitors from 17 countries participating in a new blended online and offline model.Among them, 29 exhibitors ...

Exhibition Dates: 1 October, 2020—28 March, 20211The 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...

Online Exhibition Dates: 17 September-10 October, 2020Curated by Mishelle BritoArtist Jumanah Bawazir'Permanent Transience' is an architectural tool for the communication of narratives on hold. The exhibition’s intervention focuses on the limbo period after fleeing a country and before resettlement.European surveillance systems have prolonged the limbo periods between fleeing a country, and resettlement. As a consequence, 'holding places' (with all their different typologies), ha...

Adapting to the extraordinary challenges faced this year, the BFI London Film Festival will expand beyond London’s cinemas, presenting a film festival for all the UK to enjoy.You can experience the Festival online via virtual screenings and events, and in cinemas at BFI Southbank and partner London venues, as well as across the UK, in Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield.You can purchase tickets for screenings online or via 020 7928 3232....

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...