TAQASIM Music School does Beginners Darbuka 🙌🏾

Our favourite Arab specialist music school @taqasim_music_school has added a new course to its May programme.

Call it a darbuka, a tablah, a doumbeck, or a derbeke - you can boom-tak out those dialectic differences in class!

We can’t wait to see you there..

Saturday 18 May Southbank Centre

The award-winning #Syrian #Arminian singer, songwriter @lenachamamyan and her ensemble will be performing at the iconic Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/gigs/…

Join artist Zineb Sedira for a Carte blanche to Algerian cinema with the screening of The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting + talk w/ Róisín Tapponi

8 May - 18.15 Institut français UK as part of her exhibition Whitechapel Gallery supported by #FluxusArtProjects
👉institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/art-mat…

📣 CFP

Muslims in Britain, 1800‒1970, and Beyond: Historical Approaches & Why

In collaboration with
EverydayMuslim & University of Westminster

Bringing together scholars, practitioners & communities.

Details: bit.ly/MBRN_EM2024

Really excited for this event next month! Join us by booking your ticket below

Last chance to apply! Open call closes at midnight tonight

Last chance to register! Don't miss out on our first calligraphy course of 2024 with Joumana Medlej , taking place this weekend in London.

arabbritishcentre.org.uk/courses/kufic-…

Shubbak and the Arab British Centre are publishing an Open Call, inviting artists to collaborate on a working manual against apartheid.

Applications to be emailed to [email protected] by close of Friday 15 March 2024.

More information here: shorturl.at/mHL08

REVIEW: The Soil and The Sea - The Arab British Centre ⁦Arab British Centre⁩ arabbritishcentre.org.uk/media/review-t…

Meet director Kaouther Ben Hania at the special preview of #FourDaughters , an astonishing and poignant film nominated for Best Documentary at the 2024 Academy Awards.

17 Feb at Ciné Lumière w/ ModernFilms
🎟️institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/four-da…

Due to popular demand, we’ve opened up a second Oud Beginners group as part of the upcoming @Taqasim Music School term.

Sign up now to join their 10 week introduction to playing this beautiful instrument 🎶 Classes start 27 January and run from 2-4pm.

arabbritishcentre.org.uk/courses/oud-da…

Another extraordinary book that's available free in ebook form November 29-December 4 for #ReadPalestine week is Atef Abu Saif's THE DRONE EATS WITH ME, published by Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow.

publishersforpalestine.org/2023/11/29/fre…

What will the struggle for Kurdish independence look like 100 years after the fall of Mahabad?

In Kurdistan + 100, 13 Kurdish writers envision their people's future in the first ever collection of Kurdish SF.

OUT NOW from Comma Press! commapress.co.uk/books/kurdista…

We’re back and raising money for Gaza Mutual Aid Collective!

All the products in our shop are limited edition designs made by Arab and North African women and gender minorities! Our clothing is made of organic cotton and the dye used is vegan.

dardishi.com/shop

The Arab British Centre Arts Canteen & Shubbak, joined by @ZaytounCIC @TheSonicAgent & Saqi Books invite you to #GatherForGaza - an evening of music, poetry, & in solidarity with Palestine, to raise funds for relief efforts in Gaza. shorturl.at/cyQV3

Our statement on the current situation in Gaza.