LATEST ARTICLES
+Editorial Notes
LATEST ARTICLES
+Editorial Notes
Alia Derouiche Cherif – Nahla Ink Artist of the Season (Autumn 2021)
Arab Cinema Shines Bright
Sudan Retold: An Art Book About the History and Future of Sudan
‘Making The Postcard Women’s Imaginarium’: Subverting colonial depictions & Orientalist fantasies of women found circulating on old postcards
June Note: In Search of Arab London + Print Isn’t Dead! + Calligraphic Rhythms + Shubbak Festival + Tribute to Rim Banna + More!
SAFAR 2016: Film Festival Solely Dedicated to Contemporary Arab Cinema
Retracing A Disappearing Landscape: Exhibition Overview + Parallel Programme
15mar(mar 15)11:0004jun(jun 4)18:00Constellations of Multiple Wishes11:00 - (june 4) 18:00

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Exhibition Dates: 17/02/2023 – 04/06/2023 Artists: Larry Achiampong, Khadeir Al Shakarji, Nika Autor, Kareem Dabbah, Inji Efflatoun, Alia Farid, KURS (Miloš Miletic and Mirjana Radovanovic), Basim Magdy and Choukri Mesli. The Mosaic
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Exhibition Dates: 17/02/2023 – 04/06/2023
Artists: Larry Achiampong, Khadeir Al Shakarji, Nika Autor, Kareem Dabbah, Inji Efflatoun, Alia Farid, KURS (Miloš Miletic and Mirjana Radovanovic), Basim Magdy and Choukri Mesli.
The Mosaic Rooms is pleased to announce Constellations of Multiple Wishes. This group exhibition contemplates entangled recent histories, from the foundations of the Non-Aligned Movement. Co-curated with Bojana Piškur, the exhibition brings together archival materials, existing and newly commissioned works that connect peripheral geographies, agitating relationships between time and memory.
Derived from the principles of the 1955 Afro–Asian Conference in Bandung, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was a political project that mobilised a desire for an alternative to the two dominant power blocks during the Cold War. Born in 1961 out of the liberation and independence movements across the globe, its ideology was rooted in anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, anti-racism and anti-capitalism. It sought to initiate infrastructures of cultural equality and expansive networks of cooperation and solidarity.
Although significantly distinct, our shared present remains burdened by deep divisions and increasing global inequalities. Though NAM continues to exist now with 120 member states, it has lost its significance and resemblance to the 1960s movement and its intentions. Avoiding the allure of nostalgia, Constellations of Multiple Wishes is inspired by the notion of ‘potential history.’ A form of being and thinking with others both living and past across time, using it to reactivate ideas, and counter the politics and poetics of memory. The exhibition refuses the position of historian; it loops, repeats, rewinds and forwards, acting as a conduit for shared ideas.
Conversing between archival materials, existing works and contemporary commissions, the works in the exhibition explore past imaginaries and words yet to be enacted, trace shared experiences, consider relationships and borderlines that have since been dissolved and that continue to displace. Laced with poetic intervention, they move through failure and anxiety, hope and solidarity and the radical potential embedded in collective action.
Shown in London for the first time, works by Inji Efflatoun, Kareem Dabbah, Choukri Mesli and Khadeir Al Shakarji, are selected by the curators of The Art Collection of Non-aligned Countries Laboratory (part of the Centre for Contemporary Art of Montenegro Fund).
As The Mosaic Rooms celebrates its 15th year, this exhibition opens a year-long programme that interrogates active solidarity, support structures and alternative models of self-organisation and collaboration.
Bojana Piskur works as a curator in the Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. Her focus of professional interest is on political issues as they relate to or are manifested in the field of art, with special emphasis on the region of post-Yugoslavia.
For more: https://mosaicrooms.org/event/constellations-of-multiple-wishes/
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Time
March 15 (Wednesday) 11:00 - June 4 (Sunday) 18:00
Location
The Mosaic Rooms
Mosaic Rooms, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW
25mar(mar 25)16:1531(mar 31)22:50The Essay Film Festival 2023 - ICA Programme16:15 - 22:50 (31)

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The Essay Film Festival, now in its seventh edition, presents a global range of contemporary and restored essayistic works, each exploring the critical and creative zone of possibilities that lies
Event Details
The Essay Film Festival, now in its seventh edition, presents a global range of contemporary and restored essayistic works, each exploring the critical and creative zone of possibilities that lies between experimental and documentary modes of filmmaking.
Taking place 25-31 March, it offers a wide-ranging selection of formally ambitious and politically engaged films of past and present. Experimental and political, the essay film calls into question the language of representation and operates at the forefront of cinema’s critical engagement with the world.
Relevant to the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), the following will be screened at the ICA:
Saturday 25 March, 4:15pm
UK PREMIERE In Fields of Words: Conversations with Samar Yazbek + Q&A
Rania Stephan’s intimate portrait of Syrian writer and activist Samar Yazbek.
Saturday 25 March, 6:15pm
Lebanon/War + Memories for a Private Eye #1
A double-bill of works by Beirut-based artist Rania Stephan focusing on her native Lebanon.
Tuesday 28 March, 8:50pm
Non-Aligned Film Archives present: a programme dedicated to Insurrectionnelle (Farouk Beloufa, 1972) + Introduction
Thursday 30 March, 6:45pm
A tribute to the work of Jocelyne Saab presented by Mathilde Rouxel
The Essay Film Festival is proposed by Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and the ICA, with the support of CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership and in collaboration with Open City Documentary Festival.
Essay Film Festival Credits: Matthew Barrington, Michael Temple, and Emma Yapp; Kieron Corless, Ricardo Matos Cabo, Janet McCabe, Raquel Morais, and Laura Mulvey.
For information on Essay Film Festival: https://ica.art/essay-film-festival-2023
Image: The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting (La Zerda et les chants de l’oubli / El Zerda wa aghani al Nisyan), dir. Assia Djebar, Algeria 1982.
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Time
25 (Saturday) 16:15 - 31 (Friday) 22:50
Location
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), The Mall, St. James's, London SW1Y 5AH
15mar(mar 15)11:0004jun(jun 4)18:00Constellations of Multiple Wishes11:00 - (june 4) 18:00

Event Details
Exhibition Dates: 17/02/2023 – 04/06/2023 Artists: Larry Achiampong, Khadeir Al Shakarji, Nika Autor, Kareem Dabbah, Inji Efflatoun, Alia Farid, KURS (Miloš Miletic and Mirjana Radovanovic), Basim Magdy and Choukri Mesli. The Mosaic
Event Details
Exhibition Dates: 17/02/2023 – 04/06/2023
Artists: Larry Achiampong, Khadeir Al Shakarji, Nika Autor, Kareem Dabbah, Inji Efflatoun, Alia Farid, KURS (Miloš Miletic and Mirjana Radovanovic), Basim Magdy and Choukri Mesli.
The Mosaic Rooms is pleased to announce Constellations of Multiple Wishes. This group exhibition contemplates entangled recent histories, from the foundations of the Non-Aligned Movement. Co-curated with Bojana Piškur, the exhibition brings together archival materials, existing and newly commissioned works that connect peripheral geographies, agitating relationships between time and memory.
Derived from the principles of the 1955 Afro–Asian Conference in Bandung, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was a political project that mobilised a desire for an alternative to the two dominant power blocks during the Cold War. Born in 1961 out of the liberation and independence movements across the globe, its ideology was rooted in anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, anti-racism and anti-capitalism. It sought to initiate infrastructures of cultural equality and expansive networks of cooperation and solidarity.
Although significantly distinct, our shared present remains burdened by deep divisions and increasing global inequalities. Though NAM continues to exist now with 120 member states, it has lost its significance and resemblance to the 1960s movement and its intentions. Avoiding the allure of nostalgia, Constellations of Multiple Wishes is inspired by the notion of ‘potential history.’ A form of being and thinking with others both living and past across time, using it to reactivate ideas, and counter the politics and poetics of memory. The exhibition refuses the position of historian; it loops, repeats, rewinds and forwards, acting as a conduit for shared ideas.
Conversing between archival materials, existing works and contemporary commissions, the works in the exhibition explore past imaginaries and words yet to be enacted, trace shared experiences, consider relationships and borderlines that have since been dissolved and that continue to displace. Laced with poetic intervention, they move through failure and anxiety, hope and solidarity and the radical potential embedded in collective action.
Shown in London for the first time, works by Inji Efflatoun, Kareem Dabbah, Choukri Mesli and Khadeir Al Shakarji, are selected by the curators of The Art Collection of Non-aligned Countries Laboratory (part of the Centre for Contemporary Art of Montenegro Fund).
As The Mosaic Rooms celebrates its 15th year, this exhibition opens a year-long programme that interrogates active solidarity, support structures and alternative models of self-organisation and collaboration.
Bojana Piskur works as a curator in the Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. Her focus of professional interest is on political issues as they relate to or are manifested in the field of art, with special emphasis on the region of post-Yugoslavia.
For more: https://mosaicrooms.org/event/constellations-of-multiple-wishes/
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Time
March 15 (Wednesday) 11:00 - June 4 (Sunday) 18:00
Location
The Mosaic Rooms
Mosaic Rooms, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW
15mar(mar 15)11:0004jun(jun 4)18:00Constellations of Multiple Wishes11:00 - (june 4) 18:00

Event Details
Exhibition Dates: 17/02/2023 – 04/06/2023 Artists: Larry Achiampong, Khadeir Al Shakarji, Nika Autor, Kareem Dabbah, Inji Efflatoun, Alia Farid, KURS (Miloš Miletic and Mirjana Radovanovic), Basim Magdy and Choukri Mesli. The Mosaic
Event Details
Exhibition Dates: 17/02/2023 – 04/06/2023
Artists: Larry Achiampong, Khadeir Al Shakarji, Nika Autor, Kareem Dabbah, Inji Efflatoun, Alia Farid, KURS (Miloš Miletic and Mirjana Radovanovic), Basim Magdy and Choukri Mesli.
The Mosaic Rooms is pleased to announce Constellations of Multiple Wishes. This group exhibition contemplates entangled recent histories, from the foundations of the Non-Aligned Movement. Co-curated with Bojana Piškur, the exhibition brings together archival materials, existing and newly commissioned works that connect peripheral geographies, agitating relationships between time and memory.
Derived from the principles of the 1955 Afro–Asian Conference in Bandung, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was a political project that mobilised a desire for an alternative to the two dominant power blocks during the Cold War. Born in 1961 out of the liberation and independence movements across the globe, its ideology was rooted in anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, anti-racism and anti-capitalism. It sought to initiate infrastructures of cultural equality and expansive networks of cooperation and solidarity.
Although significantly distinct, our shared present remains burdened by deep divisions and increasing global inequalities. Though NAM continues to exist now with 120 member states, it has lost its significance and resemblance to the 1960s movement and its intentions. Avoiding the allure of nostalgia, Constellations of Multiple Wishes is inspired by the notion of ‘potential history.’ A form of being and thinking with others both living and past across time, using it to reactivate ideas, and counter the politics and poetics of memory. The exhibition refuses the position of historian; it loops, repeats, rewinds and forwards, acting as a conduit for shared ideas.
Conversing between archival materials, existing works and contemporary commissions, the works in the exhibition explore past imaginaries and words yet to be enacted, trace shared experiences, consider relationships and borderlines that have since been dissolved and that continue to displace. Laced with poetic intervention, they move through failure and anxiety, hope and solidarity and the radical potential embedded in collective action.
Shown in London for the first time, works by Inji Efflatoun, Kareem Dabbah, Choukri Mesli and Khadeir Al Shakarji, are selected by the curators of The Art Collection of Non-aligned Countries Laboratory (part of the Centre for Contemporary Art of Montenegro Fund).
As The Mosaic Rooms celebrates its 15th year, this exhibition opens a year-long programme that interrogates active solidarity, support structures and alternative models of self-organisation and collaboration.
Bojana Piskur works as a curator in the Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. Her focus of professional interest is on political issues as they relate to or are manifested in the field of art, with special emphasis on the region of post-Yugoslavia.
For more: https://mosaicrooms.org/event/constellations-of-multiple-wishes/
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Time
March 15 (Wednesday) 11:00 - June 4 (Sunday) 18:00
Location
The Mosaic Rooms
Mosaic Rooms, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW
03may19:3022:00Academy of Art & Arabic Heritage Choir19:30 - 22:00

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The Academy of Art & Arabic Heritage Choir take to the stage to celebrate the richness of Arabic culture and traditions through music. ‘From every garden
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The Academy of Art & Arabic Heritage Choir take to the stage to celebrate the richness of Arabic culture and traditions through music.
‘From every garden a flower is picked and from every flower comes a unique fragrance that carries many old and new stories’. It’s with this sentiment in mind that the Academy of Art & Arabic Heritage Choir presents a veritable ‘bouquet of songs’ that reflect the beauty, diversity and history of the region – with accompaniment from traditional instruments including the tablah, oud, qanoun and ney.
Formed in 2016, the choir have made it their mission to bring communities together through music. And at the helm of this pioneering ensemble is Syrian conductor and musician Basel Saleh, whose previous projects include collaborations with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Damon Albarn of Gorillaz, as well as performances at major international festivals. Join them as they take us on an incredible journey of discovery.
For tickets: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/event/academy-of-art-arabic-heritage-choir
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Time
(Wednesday) 19:30 - 22:00
Location
The Barbican
The Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
15mar(mar 15)11:0004jun(jun 4)18:00Constellations of Multiple Wishes11:00 - (june 4) 18:00

Event Details
Exhibition Dates: 17/02/2023 – 04/06/2023 Artists: Larry Achiampong, Khadeir Al Shakarji, Nika Autor, Kareem Dabbah, Inji Efflatoun, Alia Farid, KURS (Miloš Miletic and Mirjana Radovanovic), Basim Magdy and Choukri Mesli. The Mosaic
Event Details
Exhibition Dates: 17/02/2023 – 04/06/2023
Artists: Larry Achiampong, Khadeir Al Shakarji, Nika Autor, Kareem Dabbah, Inji Efflatoun, Alia Farid, KURS (Miloš Miletic and Mirjana Radovanovic), Basim Magdy and Choukri Mesli.
The Mosaic Rooms is pleased to announce Constellations of Multiple Wishes. This group exhibition contemplates entangled recent histories, from the foundations of the Non-Aligned Movement. Co-curated with Bojana Piškur, the exhibition brings together archival materials, existing and newly commissioned works that connect peripheral geographies, agitating relationships between time and memory.
Derived from the principles of the 1955 Afro–Asian Conference in Bandung, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was a political project that mobilised a desire for an alternative to the two dominant power blocks during the Cold War. Born in 1961 out of the liberation and independence movements across the globe, its ideology was rooted in anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, anti-racism and anti-capitalism. It sought to initiate infrastructures of cultural equality and expansive networks of cooperation and solidarity.
Although significantly distinct, our shared present remains burdened by deep divisions and increasing global inequalities. Though NAM continues to exist now with 120 member states, it has lost its significance and resemblance to the 1960s movement and its intentions. Avoiding the allure of nostalgia, Constellations of Multiple Wishes is inspired by the notion of ‘potential history.’ A form of being and thinking with others both living and past across time, using it to reactivate ideas, and counter the politics and poetics of memory. The exhibition refuses the position of historian; it loops, repeats, rewinds and forwards, acting as a conduit for shared ideas.
Conversing between archival materials, existing works and contemporary commissions, the works in the exhibition explore past imaginaries and words yet to be enacted, trace shared experiences, consider relationships and borderlines that have since been dissolved and that continue to displace. Laced with poetic intervention, they move through failure and anxiety, hope and solidarity and the radical potential embedded in collective action.
Shown in London for the first time, works by Inji Efflatoun, Kareem Dabbah, Choukri Mesli and Khadeir Al Shakarji, are selected by the curators of The Art Collection of Non-aligned Countries Laboratory (part of the Centre for Contemporary Art of Montenegro Fund).
As The Mosaic Rooms celebrates its 15th year, this exhibition opens a year-long programme that interrogates active solidarity, support structures and alternative models of self-organisation and collaboration.
Bojana Piskur works as a curator in the Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. Her focus of professional interest is on political issues as they relate to or are manifested in the field of art, with special emphasis on the region of post-Yugoslavia.
For more: https://mosaicrooms.org/event/constellations-of-multiple-wishes/
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Time
March 15 (Wednesday) 11:00 - June 4 (Sunday) 18:00
Location
The Mosaic Rooms
Mosaic Rooms, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW
TWEETS & SOCIAL
Exhibitions alert, this is the final week to view 'The Future of Traditions: Writing Pictures'. Curated by @RoseIssaPro and held at @BruneiGallery, covering the evolution of the Arabic vernacular Lettrism movement from 1960s onwards. For more: soas.ac.uk/about/event/fu…
Sneak exhibit from #TheLibyanPantry, recovering forgotten stories/histories associated with the uniquely Libyan consumer culture from 1960s-1990s. #Libya #Libyanart #tripoli #consumerculture #popart #oldmedinatripoli #installation #noonartsprojects #hadiagana #allabudabbus twitter.com/NahlaInk/statu… pic.twitter.com/NBclOJ3byv
Warm invite to the Tripolitanians, this evening sees the opening of #TheLibyanPantry exhibition, an artistic collaboration b/t @a_budabbus, Hadia Gana and Najlaa El-Ageli (Noon Arts Projects). From 5pm onwards at the Turkish Prison, Old Medina, pls do join! pic.twitter.com/POCxu3SkR9
To the Libyanos, this is the coolest invite you'll ever receive! If you are in Tripoli next week, all welcome to attend the launch of #TheLibyanPantry art project. Details in the quoted tweet, the design by pop-artist and creative @a_budabbus. Wish I could be there! twitter.com/a_budabbus/sta…
Friday is time to refresh your @NahlaInk screens, as the #ArabAboutLondon events listing has been updated for you, to plan ahead your Arab-inspired art and culture fix in the coming days. See exhibitions, music, dance, comedy and much more! Check it via nahlaink.com pic.twitter.com/oB6EZ4HBN4