Nahla Ink Online Journal

Film Screenings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA): 21-23 September The London Palestine Festival offers an exclusive selection of films, devoting two sessions to Gaza via documentary and experimental short films. Also, the pre-festival programme revisits the definitive documentary on Israel’s chilling control of movement between territories. Gaza Gary Keane and Andrew McConnell | 2019 | 90’ TUESDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER | 18:30 ICA: THE MALL, ST. JAMES'S, SW1Y 5AH Infiltrators Kha...

London's first ever Tunisian Film Festival! 'Alyssa: Tunisian Film Festival' is founded and supported by ATUGE,  Association of top Tunisian professionals, in partnership with the Tunisian Embassy, Inspiring Tunisia and the Rich Mix venue, in Shoreditch. Launching on 25 September, 2021 Alyssa pays tribute to Tunisian cinema, often referred to as one of the most daring of all Arab cinemas. Showcasing the best independent and art cinema from Tunisia, bearing in mind the country’s first Osca...

عرض كوميدي مع علاء ابو دياب - Arabic Standup Comedy with Alaa Abu Diab "لوكداون" - عرض كوميدي مع علاء ابو دياب بعد أكثر من سنة ونصف على بداية جائحة كورونا، يعود علاء أبو دياب إلى لندن مرة أخرى بعرض ستاند أب جديد عن تجربته في فترة الإغلاق، عن العائلة والمجتمع وكيف هي الحياة في ظل الوباء ومواضيع أخرى إجتماعية تضيء على الفرق بين السويد والوطن العربي. سيفتح هذا العرض الكوميدي السوري البريطاني، جورج العين. ملاحظة: يقدم العرض باللغة العربية فقط يسهل الوصول إلى قاعة...

Exhibition Dates: 25 June-26 September, 2021 Private View: 5-8pm, 24 June, 2021 The Mosaic Rooms presents the first UK solo exhibition by Berlin-based art collective Fehras Publishing Practices. 'Borrowed Faces: Future Recall' looks at the Cold War and its effect on cultural practices in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa region, which generated one of the most fertile periods in the history of Arab culture and publishing. The exhibition is part of the 2021 Shubbak Festival. Artis...

The Mosaic Rooms presents 'A Ruined Garden', a mini-zine by London-based illustrator and printmaker Aleesha Nandhra. The zine was created in response to the current exhibition by 'Borrowed Faces: Future Recall' by Fehras Publishing Practices at The Mosaic Rooms. A Ruined Garden is inspired by a poem of the same title by Sajjad Zaheer originally published by the Afro-Asian Writer’s Association (AAWA) in their journal Lotus in 1970. Aleesha Nandhra selected this piece of writing from the arc...

The Independent Iraqi Film Festival (IIFF) is a community driven, not-for-profit platform dedicated to supporting films from and about Iraq. Through online screenings, real life festivals, educational programs, image and sound projects and various industry initiatives, the IIFF aims to uplift filmmakers, inspire audiences, and engage the film industry. The IIFF 2021 Programme will be free, online, worldwide and with English subtitles, running from 1-7 October, 2021.  For more: https://iiff...

The Arab British Centre and SAFAR Film Festival are partnering with the BFI Southbank on a new Arab Film season. 'The Time is New: Selections from Contemporary Arab Cinema' will run at the BFI Southbank in London from 27 August–5 October, 2021 with selected titles also available digitally on BFI Player Subscription. The season is programmed by Youssef Shazli and Alia Ayman, co-founders of Cairo-based Zawya, Egypt’s leading arthouse cinema and distributor. Films include a number of recent SAFA...

Part of the online Centre of African Studies Artists' Talk series, this will be a conversation between Nubian artist Fathi Hassan and London-based art curator Najlaa El-Ageli. About Fathi Hassan Fathi Hassan (aka Akkij Fathi) was born in Cairo in 1957 to Nubian-Egyptian parents. Whether in photographs, paintings, installations, drawings or, often, directly on walls, his texts are deliberately illegible intended to highlight the plight of lost languages and oral history as a result of colon...

From Palestine to Yemen: Three cunning independent artists take the Jazz Cafe stage for a thrilling evening of music. Featuring acoustic guitar hip-hop, heavy electronic beats and a jazzy blend of poetic dream pop, El Far3i, Ruba Shamshoum and Intibint bring their raw, distinct flavours to Camden. El Far3i Encapsulating a unique combination of Arabic acoustic folk and hip-hop, El Far3i is a celebrated Palestinian-Jordanian songwriter, rapper, drummer, and producer. Ruba Shamshoum ...

21 July – 10 October 2021 @ People’s History Museum in Manchester Never before have parks, fields and forests been so important to us. In the year when green space became our only outing, this co-produced mixed media installation questions who uses these spaces and how we experience them. Created across 6 workshops using photography, collage, self-portraiture and more, the art work invites you to re-question the spaces which we will never take for granted again.    This project is led by a...

Exhibition Dates: 12 October, 2021—30 January, 2022 'Stateless Heritage' sets out to challenge mainstream narratives of refugee experience, of humanitarian crises, victim-hood and suffering. In this exhibition, artist and architectural collective DAAR proposes exile as a radical perspective which can take us beyond the limitations of the nation state. Stateless Heritage also interrogates Western definitions of heritage. The works in the exhibition focus on Dheisheh refugee camp in Palestin...

A mesmerising new project paying homage to the landscape and trajectory of Palestine’s rich music history. Debuting a mesmerising new project, internationally-renowned Palestinian composer and Oud player Saied Silbak presents a two-part concert featuring his solo compositions, and his quintet ensemble with Palestinian soprano singer Nour Darwish. In this beautiful and diverse programme Silbak pays homage to the landscape and trajectory of Palestine’s rich music histor...

The 1-54 returns to London for the ninth and largest edition yet. It will be presenting work from 47 leading international galleries from 19 countries across Europe, Africa and North America: Angola, Belgium, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Switzerland, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the United States. Among the exhibitors this year are 20 galleries from Africa, a record number of galleries from the contin...

Blending traditional Arabic music with soul, jazz and electronic sounds. Oum’s music is sensual, atmospheric and danceable. Easily recognizable by her elaborate head wraps and captivating stage presence, Oum el Ghait Benessahraoui, known as Oum, is a Moroccan singer of Saharan origins. Defined by lyrics full of social commentary, and finding inspiration in the traditional Moroccan rhythms of Gnawa, Hassani and Sufi, as much as jazz, gospel and African music, Oum is considered an ambassador of...

One of Shubbak Festival’s flagship projects for their 2021 edition, this stellar collaboration was commissioned to bring together two of the Middle East’s most captivating rappers for a double bill concert and new song debuts.  The Synaptik and Felukah will perform live together at London’s legendary Jazz Cafe, that will also be streamed for their global audiences. Enjoy an energetic evening of pioneering sound as two of the most sought-after new-wave hip-hop, rap and trap talents perfo...

A bold, uncompromising feminist manifesto on how to defy, disrupt and destroy the patriarchy! “What would the world look like if girls were taught they were volcanoes, whose eruptions were a thing of beauty, a power to behold?” Award-winning American-Egyptian journalist, activist and author Mona Eltahawy concludes Africa Writes Festival with this special headline event to discuss her latest book 'The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls' with Dr Leyla Hussein, ushering an urgent r...

The Sudanese-London collective return to the Jazz Cafe to launch their anticipated new album 'Let’s Go' with an electrifying night of funk and soul-infused afrobeat. Recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, their revamped sound combines soul, afrobeat and psychedelica that drive through the rich sounds of traditional Sudanese forms. Blending Arabic rhythms and guitar with raw Eastern funk and Western jazz, the 10-piece collective is supported by an international backing band, heav...

The renowned oud master Marcel Khalifé returns to the Barbican in a show created by his son who reinvents his much-loved music to celebrate his musical legacy. Coming as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival. Bachar Mar-Khalifé is a French Lebanese singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. Born in war-torn Lebanon, he is the son of the revered oud virtuoso and composer Marcel Khalifé, an Arab cultural icon. Bachar has collaborated on many projects that fuse jazz, Arab musics, electroni...

Arts Canteen presents 'Nay: Nature Addresses You', a solo performance by Faris Ishaq, as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival 2021. When nature reveals its secrets, imposing its truth upon us, the Nay flute reflects a shadow ignored by mankind. Dating  back to 5000 BC Ancient Egypt and existing since, it reminds us of our ancient origins. As natural as the nay is, in order for its sound to come out, a consistent reflective connection has to be made between the nay, the player and th...

Renowned oud player and composer Adnan Joubran’s compelling career has spanned the globe from Palestine to Paris and New York. Hailing from a family synonymous with the oud, Adnan comes to the EFG London Jazz Festival with his new quartet project. Joining his two older brothers in 2005 to form the now iconic Le Trio Joubran, the Trio have gone on to release award-winning albums, and compose for numerous films and documentaries, such as the Oscar-nominated 'Five Broken Cameras'. Nearly a de...

Trailblazing trumpeter Yazz Ahmed joins forces with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Festival. Coming as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival 2021. The British-Bahraini performer and composer brings her boundless musical ingenuity to a collaboration with the orchestra and its Grammy-winning Principal Conductor, Bramwell Tovey. The concert presents new orchestrations of Ahmed’s evocative, colourful works, joined by the artist and her quintet. Hear pioneering jazz on a grand scale in wha...