Contemporary Art, Design, Film, Music and Literature from the Middle East and North Africa Nour Festival of Arts Foreword
Cllr. Nicholas Paget-Brown, The Nour Festival of Arts will deliver dazzling Deputy Leader of the Royal contemporary artistic talent from the Middle East and Borough of Kensington and North Africa to London audiences during October- Chelsea, said: 1RYHPEHU)RUWKHƪUVWWLPHWKHIHVWLYDOLVWRH[SDQG beyond Leighton House Museum to include a stellar cast “In just two years the of participating cultural organisations. ERURXJKśV1RXU)HVWLYDO has grown into one of the New festival partners include the Victoria & Albert most important festivals Museum, the Science Museum, the Ismaili Centre, the H[SORULQJ0LGGOH(DVWHUQ Mosaic Rooms, Al-Manaar: the Muslim Cultural Heritage arts and culture in the UK. Centre and The Tabernacle. Not only is it part of our commitment to bringing The festival also works in collaboration with a host of international cultural London and UK partners, including the Arab British H[FHOOHQFHWRWKHERURXJK Centre, the British Egyptian Society, Bloomsbury Qatar but it also fosters closer Foundation Publishing, the London MENA Film Festival, ties and understanding London Iranian Film Festival and Arab New Trends Ltd. with this part of the world and our Arabic speaking The Nour Festival of Arts aims to: communities in the area. - UHƫHFW DQG FHOHEUDWH WKH DUWV DQG FXOWXUH RI “The involvement of the contemporary Middle Eastern and North African regions V&A, Science Museum - SURPRWH ƪOP OLWHUDWXUH PXVLF YLVXDO DUWV IDVKLRQ and other leading venues dance, cuisine 2012 Nour Festival identity, customised by Muiz is a testament to the - GHPRQVWUDWH DUWLVWLF H[FHOOHQFH DQG ZRUN WKDW LV quality of success of the thought-provoking and challenging My creation of the identity for the Nour Festival 2012 Festival to date. With their UHƫHFWVERWKWKHJORULRXVGLYHUVLW\DQGXQLW\RIRXUSDVW involvement we can reach The Nour Festival is coordinated by the Royal Borough as Arabs and Muslims, [including our historic contribution QHZDXGLHQFHVDQGH[SORUH RI .HQVLQJWRQ DQG &KHOVHD DQG UHƫHFWV WKH &RXQFLOśV and legacy of science and the arts to the world] and the new avenues into the commitment to bring the very best international traumatic, colonial carvery of our regional family into region, its cultures and art contemporary arts and culture to the borough. Nour distant, troublesome neighbours. forms.” Ř ZKLFK PHDQV ŚOLJKWś RU ŚLOOXPLQDWLRQś LQ YDULRXV 0LGGOH (DVWHUQ ODQJXDJHV Ř VHWV RXW WR H[SORUH FRQWHPSRUDU\ Our artistic heritage is one of our crowning achieve- culture from across the region and North Africa. The ments and has the capacity to piece these fragments festival was inaugurated at Leighton House Museum back together. in 2010, a building that is recognised as being an international symbol of east meeting west. Cover image, Salaam Salute by Muiz, 2009 Nour Festival of Arts ([KLELWLRQV
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Leighton House Museum 3-29 October Information: 12 Holland Park Road Open 10am-5.30pm daily Full details of admission Kensington Closed Tuesdays charges are available online: W14 8LZ Museum admission applies w: www.leightonhouse.co.uk
Nuclear Nuqta: Muiz in conversation - Saturday 20 October, 2-4pm For more information: www.leightonhouse.co.uk
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Leighton House Museum 5-30 November Information: 12 Holland Park Road Open 10am-5.30pm daily w: www.leightonhouse.co.uk Kensington Closed Tuesdays t: 020 7602 3316 W14 8LZ Museum admission applies e: [email protected]
Bradley Secker is a Ś.»WPDDQśLVWKH$UDELFIRUWKHDFWRIKLGLQJRUFRQFHDOLQJ British photojournalist 7KLV H[KLELWLRQ IRUPV SDUW RI D ƪYH\HDU SKRWRJUDSKLF and documentary SURMHFWGRFXPHQWLQJWKHUHDOLWLHVRIOLIHIRUVRPH/*%7 photographer who works individuals in the Middle East between 2010 and 2012. around themes of identity 7KHLPDJHVLQWKLVH[KLELWLRQWHOOGLYHUVHSHUVRQDOVWRULHV and human rights. His DQG UHODWH WKH H[SHULHQFHV RI WKRVH /*%7 SHRSOH ZKR work has been published DUH IRUFHG WR FODLP DV\OXP EDVHG RQ WKHLU VH[XDOLW\ widely in TIME Magazine, RU JHQGHU LGHQWLW\ 7KH H[KLELWLRQ KLJKOLJKWV WKH the New York Times and circumstances of gay Iraqi men who have since 2010 7KH*XDUGLDQDPRQJVW been forced to leave their homes due to homophobia others. He is currently and seek asylum in Syria and who are then displaced or based in Istanbul. UHVHWWOHGLQWR7XUNH\7KHH[KLELWLRQDOVRH[SORUHV/*%7 Kurdish identity in south eastern Turkey and documents how these communities are seeking legal equality and acceptance.
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Leighton House Museum 6-30 November Information: 12 Holland Park Road Open 10am-5.30pm daily w: www.leightonhouse.co.uk Kensington Closed Tuesdays t: 020 7602 3316 W14 8LZ Museum admission applies e: [email protected]
Dia Batal is a spatial Dia Batal will be installing pieces from her Translations designer based in London. collection throughout Leighton House, responding to +HUZRUNLVFRQWH[W WKH FRQWH[W RI WKH VSDFH DQG EXLOGLQJ RQ /HLJKWRQśV VSHFLƪFDQGGHVLJQHG own collection of objects from the Arab World. In for physical interaction. Translations Batal borrows from the traditional Arab art of Batal creates objects that ZRUNLQJZLWKWH[WWRFUHDWHSLHFHVWKDWWHOODVWRU\7KHVH function as devices to REMHFWVXVHSRVVLEOHWUDQVIRUPDWLRQVRIWKHWH[WDQGWKH LPSDFWSHRSOHśVOLYHVLQ corresponding shifts in meaning to relate to the space public and private spaces, that the object occupies, and the function of the object in relation to social, itself. cultural, and political concerns. Her recent projects Translations and Cart-og-ra-phy, have been H[KLELWHGLQDUWJDOOHULHVLQ Beirut, Manama, Paris, and in London and Liverpool.
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Light from the Middle East: New Photography
Victoria and Albert Museum 13 Nov 2012 - 7 April 2013 Information: 3RUWHU*DOOHU\ Daily 10am-5.45pm and w: www.vam.ac.uk Cromwell Road until 10pm every Friday t: 020 7942 2000 London Free SW7 2RL
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3KRWRJUDSKV E\ DUWLVWV IURP GLƩHUHQW FRXQWULHV showcase a range of creative responses to the social challenges and political upheavals that have shaped the 0LGGOH(DVWRYHUWKHSDVW\HDUV7KHH[KLELWLRQFRYHUV a wide range of techniques and subject matter, from photojournalism to staged and digitally manipulated LPDJHU\ 7KLV H[KLELWLRQ KDV EHHQ HQDEOHG WKURXJK the establishment of the Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography at the V&A and the British Museum.
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Working from Life
The Mosaic Rooms 28 Sept-16 November Information: 226 Cromwell Road Open 11am-6pm Tues-Sat w: www.mosaicrooms.org London Special Sunday opening: t: 020 7370 9990 SW5 0SW 11 November 12-5pm e: [email protected] Free
Abderrahim Yamou was The Mosaic Rooms is delighted to present Working From born outside Casablanca Life WKH ƪUVW 8. VROR H[KLELWLRQ E\ RQH RI WKH OHDGLQJ in 1959. He left Morocco contemporary Moroccan artists, Abderrahim Yamou. to study biology in 7KLV H[KLELWLRQ ZLOO IHDWXUH QHZ DQG UHFHQW SDLQWLQJV France, before changing previously unseen. to sociology with a focus on researching Yamou is inspired by the natural world, by organic contemporary Moroccan processes, continuity and change, the tensions and art. He gave up formal instabilities of boundaries and of spaces in between. studies to become Yet beneath the surface of these beautiful paintings, a self-taught artist, produced in both large and small scale, there is an working in both painting underlying sense of disquiet. and sculpture. He has H[KLELWHGZLGHO\LQ group and solo shows throughout Europe and North Africa. He lives between Paris and Casablanca.
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The Watchtower of Happiness and other landscapes of occupation
The Mosaic Rooms 26 Nov-12 December Information: 226 Cromwell Road Open 11am-6pm Tues-Sat w: www.mosaicrooms.org London Free t: 020 7370 9990 SW5 0SW e: [email protected]
Febrik, a collaborative Febrik will take over The Mosaic Rooms transforming it platform for participatory into A Watchtower of Happiness and other landscapes of art and design research, occupation. The main gallery room will be transformed seek to unravel the into an interactive space to be activated by members of politics of the right to the public using altered mobile objects, a watchtower public space. Their work structure, and landscapes of domesticity. The work considers the potential engages with the current public occupation and of curious and familiar displacement practices happening in the Middle East narratives of daily social for political and economic motives. There will be a play. Febrik was founded programme of associated events, whose highlights by Reem Charif, Mohamad include The Watchtower Of Occupation at the V&A Friday Hafeda and Joumana Late on 30 November, from 6.30-10pm. Al Jabri. For more information visit http://febrik.org/
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Palestine Spring, 2011 Nour Festival of Arts Film
7KH/RQGRQ0(1$ 0LGGOH(DVW 1RUWK$IULFD )LOP)HVWLYDOŘ/0)) Visualising The Past: $VKRUWGRFXPHQWDU\H[SORULQJWKHLQWHUHVWDQGLQVRPH Rebranding The Present II cases, love that various visitors feel towards the historic UK, 2010 city of Damascus in Syria. Leighton House Museum 31 October-2 November Information: l: 10 minutes 12 Holland Park Road Doors open 6.30pm w: www.nourfestival. d: Jessica Jacobs Kensington Films start promptly at 7pm eventbrite.co.uk W14 8LZ Tickets: £7 per person t: 020 7602 3316 Soul A mysterious man asks a sculptor for a strange request e: [email protected] UAE, 2011 Ř WR FUHDWH DQ H[DFW UHSOLFD PRGHO RI KLPVHOI LQ FOD\ l: 9 minutes $ FRQFHSWXDO ƪOP ZKLFK TXHVWLRQV WKH PHDQLQJ RI Wednesday 31 October l: length d: Fatima Abdallah H[LVWHQFHDQGWKHMRXUQH\RIDVRXO LMFF Short Film Night d: directed by Transition 7KHDQLPDWHGVWRU\RIDVQDLOZKRƪQGVKLPVHOILQDWULFN\ Iraq, 2011 situation, and the adventures which can come with l: 5 minutes change and transition. d: Abbas Al Badri
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Missing An animated story - a window opens on a child in a war- Recorded Introduction A coming of age story about a ten year old Moroccan UK / Jordan, 2010 torn area, where he longs for his past peaceful life. from Director orphan called Majid. Following recurrent nightmares, l: 3 minutes l: 5 minutes KHGLVFRYHUVWKDWKHFDQśWUHPHPEHUKLVSDUHQWVśIDFHV d: Tariq Rimawi d: Nassim Abassi anymore and there are no photographs of them apart from the charred remains of a family photo with his ,Q0\0RWKHUśV$UPV $GRFXPHQWDU\IRFXVLQJRQVRPHRIWKH,UDTZDUśVPRVW Majid SDUHQWVś KHDGV EXUQW DZD\ :LWK WKH KHOS RI KLV QHZ Iraq / UK / Nethelands, hapless victims – children. Husham works tirelessly to Morocco, 2010 IULHQG /DUEL 0DMLG GHFLGHV WR JR RQ D TXHVW WR ƪQG D 2011 protect 32 of these children in a small orphanage in one of l: 116 minutes SKRWRJUDSK RI KLV GHDG SDUHQWV ,WśV D MRXUQH\ WKDW ZLOO l: 85 minutes %DJKGDGśVPRVWGDQJHURXVGLVWULFWV:KHQWKHODQGORUG d: Nassim Abaasi take them to the big city of Casablanca where danger and d: Mohamed & Atia gives Husham and the boys just two weeks to vacate the adventure await them. Al Daradji premises, a desperate struggle ensues.
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The Mosaic Rooms Film Programme 2012 UK Iranian Film Festival [UKIFF]
The Mosaic Rooms 3 October, 7-8 November Information: Ciné Lumière 15-23 November Screenings & Times 226 Cromwell Road 7pm w: www.mosaicrooms.org 17 Queensbury Place £12 Z XNLƩRUJXN London £5 t: 020 7370 9990 South Kensington SW5 0SW e: [email protected] London SW7 2DT
7KH 0RVDLF 5RRPV ODXQFKHV LWV QHZ ƪOP SURJUDPPH The UK Iranian Film Festival is the only annual festival ZLWK VFUHHQLQJV KHOG RQ WKH ƪUVW :HGQHVGD\ RI HDFK to present Iranian cinema in the UK. The festival aims PRQWKFHOHEUDWLQJƪOPVIURPWKH0(1$UHJLRQ WR SURGXFH WKH EHVW DQG PRVW GLYHUVH ,UDQLDQ ƪOP programme in the country, and to attract as many We will launch the programme on 3rd October with an people as possible to view Iranian cinema. Regardless HYHQLQJ RI VHOHFWHG QHZ DQG UHFHQW VKRUW ƪOPV IURP of who you are, where you come from and what you do, Kuwait. WKLVLVDFXOWXUDOHYHQWZKHUH\RXFDQHQMR\DQGH[FKDQJH opinions. The Iranian Film Festival in London provides a This will be followed by three screenings – on the 7th, FKDQFHWRH[SHULHQFHHQMR\OHDUQDQGGLVFRYHU WKDQG WK1RYHPEHUŘRIƪOPVLQVSLUHGE\WKHZRUNRI Nobel Prize winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz to celebrate the centenary year of his birth.
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Selma Dabbagh: Festival Writer-in-Residence: ‘Who Are You to Write That?” In Partnership with Bloomsbury Qatar Publishing and the Arab British Centre
October-November Lectures & Workshops Information: For venues and dates, £10, £8 concessions w: www.nourfestival. please check our festival eventbrite.co.uk website for details t: 020 7361 3619 w: www.nourfestival.co.uk e: [email protected]
Selma Dabbagh is a 6HOPD'DEEDJKśVUHVLGHQF\‘Who Are You to Write That?’ British Palestinian questions the assumptions placed on writers to stick to ZULWHURIƪFWLRQEDVHG certain subjects, perspectives, national identities and LQ/RQGRQ+HUƪUVW HYHQ JHRJUDSKLFDO WHUUDLQV ZKHQ ZULWLQJ ƪFWLRQ 7KH QRYHOŚ2XWRI,WśZDV residency, through its series of lectures and workshops, published by Bloomsbury H[SORUHVKRZSROLWLFDOVXEMHFWPDWWHUFDQEHGHDOWZLWK in December 2011 to LQ ƪFWLRQ DQG FRQVLGHUV WKH ULVNV LQYROYHG LQ GRLQJ VR widespread acclaim. Drawing on the decisions taken and criticism received Her short stories have RIWKHDXWKRUśVRZQZRUNWKHUHVLGHQF\ZLOOHQFRXUDJH appeared in anthologies SDUWLFLSDQWV WR FKDOOHQJH H[SHFWDWLRQV 7KH UHVLGHQF\ SXEOLVKHGE\*UDQWD will commence with a lecture introducing the subject of International PEN and the residency itself and a follow-up lecture will cover the the British Council. She VXEMHFWRIKRZWRGHDOZLWKSROLWLFVLQƪFWLRQ:RUNVKRSV was the 2005 English PEN will focus on dialogue in prose and script as well as nominee for the David TK SORWWLQJDQGSODQQLQJƪFWLRQ Wong Short Story Award. She is currently working on a second novel and collaborating in writing DIXOOOHQJWKIHDWXUHƪOP script.
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Sudanese Poetry Evening In Ramallah, Running The Mosaic Rooms & Poetry Translation Centre
The Mosaic Rooms 18 October Information: The Mosaic Rooms 25 October Information: 226 Cromwell Road 7pm w: www.mosaicrooms.org 226 Cromwell Road 7pm w: www.mosaicrooms.org London t: 020 7370 9990 London t: 020 7370 9990 SW5 0SW e: [email protected] SW5 0SW e: [email protected]
Born in Omdurman, The Mosaic Rooms and the Poetry Translation Centre *X\0DQQHV$EERWWLV To celebrate the recent launch of In Ramallah, Running, Khartoum, Al-Saddiq present an evening with the acclaimed Sudanese poet a writer, essayist and The Mosaic Rooms is pleased to present a discussion Al-Raddi is famous in $O6DGGLT $O5DGGL ZKRVH ZRUN YLYLGO\ UHƫHFWV WKH critic, whose work often OHG E\ WKH DXWKRU *X\ 0DQQHV$EERWW 7KH ERRN LV D his native Sudan for his FRPSOH[LW\RIKLVKHULWDJHDVDQ$IULFDQSRHWZULWLQJLQ appears in visual art uniquely personal encounter with Palestine interweaving outstanding lyric poetry. Arabic. His recent residency at The Petrie Museum of FRQWH[WVPRVWUHFHQWO\ VKRUWSRHWLFWH[WVZLWKH[SORUDWRU\HVVD\V,QWHUQDWLRQDO He represented Sudan at Egyptian Archaeology has led to a series of poems in at the Folkestone artists and prominent writers have been invited to Poetry Parnassus in July response to its collection of ancient Sudanese objects. Triennial. He has taught UHVSRQG ERWK GLUHFWO\ DQG LQGLUHFWO\ WR WKH WH[WV ZLWK 2012 and his translations He will be joined by PTC Director, Sarah Maguire, who will at the Architectural QHZO\FRPPLVVLRQHGZRUNV*X\ZLOOEHMRLQHGE\DSDQHO into English have been UHDGKHUWUDQVODWLRQVRI6DGGLTśVSRHPV DQGE\-RDQQD Association School of RI VSHFLDO JXHVWV WR GLVFXVV DQG H[SORUH IXUWKHU WKH published in many leading 2\HGLUDQZKRZLOOGLVFXVV6DGGLTśVSRHWU\LQWKHFRQWH[W Architecture, London and LVVXHV WKRXJKWV DQG H[SHULHQFHV UDLVHG WKURXJK WKH journals. of Sudanese culture and politics. has given regular readings book. He will also give a short reading from the book. of his work. In Ramallah, Sarah Maguire, founder Running is published and Director of The by Blackdog Publishing Poetry Translation Centre, and co-produced by has published four highly- ArtSchool Palestine and acclaimed collections of Sharjah Art Foundation. poetry.
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*KDVVDQ=DTWDQZDVERUQ The Mosaic Rooms is pleased to celebrate the launch of in 1954 near Bethlehem *KDVVDQ=DTWDQśVPRVWUHFHQWFROOHFWLRQRISRHWU\LQLWV and lives in Ramallah. award winning English translation. In Like a Straw Bird It He has worked with the Follows Me *KDVVDQ =DTWDQśV WHQWK SRHWU\ FROOHFWLRQ Palestinian resistance translator Fady Joudah brings to English-language movement and was editor readers new work by one of the most important and of Bayader, the literary original Palestinian poets of our time. magazine of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. *KDVVDQ=DTWDQZLOOEHLQGLVFXVVLRQZLWK)DG\-RXGDK He is editor-in-chief of the quarterly poetry MRXUQDO$O6KRXDśUDDQGLV co-founder and director of the House of Poetry in Ramallah. Zaqtan also writes two weekly newspaper columns.
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Youssef Hbeisch and Ahmad Al Khatib A. M. Qattan Foundation, Beit Almusiqa, in concert with John Williams Edward Said National Conservatory of Music
Cadogan Hall 23 October Information: 5 Sloane Terrace 7.30pm w: www.mosaicrooms.org London t: 020 7370 9990 SW1X 9DQ e: [email protected]
Born in 1974, Ahmad This special concert featuring Youssef Hbeisch. Ahmad Al Al Khatib learned oud .KDWLEDQG-RKQ:LOOLDPVLVLQVXSSRUWRIWKH*D]D0XVLF with the Palestinian 6FKRRODQGWKH%HLW$OPXVLTD 6KDIDśDPU SURJUDPPH master Ahmad Abdel Qase. In 1997, he The concert opens with the renowned Maestros of joined the Edward Said the Duo Sabîl, Ahmad Al Khatib, and Youssef Hbeisch, National Conservatory performing from their own acclaimed repertoire. in Jerusalem, teaching John Williams, who has perhaps done more than any in the Oriental Music other artist to bring the classical guitar to audiences Department and soon world-wide, will then take to the stage for a solo heading it. SHUIRUPDQFH 7KH FOLPD[ RI WKH HYHQLQJ FRPHV DV DOO three artists come together for what promises to be a Born in 1967, Youssef VSHFWDFXODUƪQDOH Hbeisch lives between Paris and Haifa. He The concert is organised by the A. M. Qattan taught for 7 years at the Foundation, Beit Almusiqa, and the Edward Said National Edward Said National Conservatory of Music. Conservatory and for 10 years at Beit AlMusica *DOLOHH DQGJLYHV academic seminars and master classes on a regular basis.
Sabil CD cover by Youssef Hbeisch and Ahmad Al Khatib Nour Festival of Arts Music
Attab Haddad Ensemble
Leighton House Museum 26 October Information: 12 Holland Park Road 7.30-9.30pm w: www.nourfestival. Kensington 'RRUVRSHQDWSP eventbrite.co.uk W14 8LZ t: 020 7602 3316 £10, £8 concessions e: [email protected] (Pre-booking UHFRPPHQGHG
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Reem Kelani Nour Festival of Arts and London Arab New Trends Ltd
The Tabernacle 22 November Information: 35 Powis Square 8-9.30pm w: www.nourfestival. London 'RRUVRSHQDWSP eventbrite.co.uk W11 2AY t: 020 7361 3618 £10 advance e: [email protected] £12 door
Palestinian singer, Concert night with Reem Kelani, one of the most musician, broadcaster important female Arab singers of her generation. DQGSURXGORFDODUWLVW Reem Kelani has long “Her voice combines the poignancy of Billie Holiday with carried the banner for the glass-busting power of Aretha Franklin.” Arabic music in the The Independent, July 2011 UK, giving workshops to generations of “Reem Kelani delivered one of the best concerts seen in schoolchildren, working years at Leighton House... A truly memorable evening.” with choirs and training Nour Festival of Arts, Leighton House, Oct 2010 the best British Jazz musicians in Arabic music. >5HHP .HODQL@ KDV D JHQLXV IRU łQGLQJ WKH XQLYHUVDO LQ She has a truly global the particular ”An extraordinary musical map of Palestine following and has toured emerges from her work, more vibrant than any historical H[WHQVLYHO\ document.” The Metro, July 2007 $IWHUKHUƪUVWFULWLFDOO\ acclaimed album “Spectacular.” ŝ6SULQWLQJ*D]HOOHŞ5HHP 7KH*XDUGLDQ)HE LVZRUNLQJRQKHUQH[W album, a tribute to the www.reemkelani.com great Egyptian composer Sayyid Darwish (1892 – Reem Kelani by Saeed Taji Farouky Sharq January 2006 Nour Festival of Arts Music
Emel Mathlouthi Nour Festival of Arts and London Arab New Trends Ltd
The Tabernacle 23 November Information: 35 Powis Square 8-9.30pm w: www.nourfestival. London 'RRUVRSHQDWSP eventbrite.co.uk W11 2AY t: 020 7361 3618 £10 advance e: [email protected] £12 door
Born in Tunis, Emel (PHO0DWKORXWKLśVWUDFNVDUHDQWKHPVWRSRSXODUULVLQJV Mathlouthi is a songwriter, from the Jasmin Revolution in her home country Tunisia. composer, guitarist, and While the future still looks uncertain, her music maintains singer who is bringing its stridency. an amazing brand new sound to Tunisian Emel released her album Kelmti Horra (My Word Is music. Endowed with an )UHH HDUO\ LQ ,W TXLFNO\ EHFDPH WKH FRUQHUVWRQH outstanding voice, she of a musical genre that spread beyond Tunisia. Emel evokes Joan Baez, Sister LV 0HGLWHUUDQHDQ DQG XUEDQ ƪHU\ ZLWK D UDGLDQW YRLFH Marie Keyrouz and the Kelmti Horra comprises 10 gems, principally in Arabic Lebanese diva Fairouz. with occasional dips into French and English. With Her captivating style electro and trip hop rhythms, her music is inspired by is lyrical, and displays key moments in her life and her surroundings. Emel powerful rock, oriental Mathlouthi is a songwriter with the rare knack of turning DQGWULSKRSLQƫXHQFHV WRUPHQWDQGVXƩHULQJLQWRGUHDPV (she has formerly collaborated with Adrian “Emel Mathlouthi marries her songs of social protest to 7KDZVDND7ULFN\ electronica : a rumble of drum and bass on incendiary declarations.” Financial Times – David Honigmann
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The Tabernacle 28 November Information: 35 Powis Square 8-9.30pm w: www.nourfestival. London 'RRUVRSHQDWSP eventbrite.co.uk W11 2AY t: 020 7361 3618 £10 advance e: [email protected] £12 door
Winner of the 2000 Lebanese composer, singer and musician, Charbel ŝ0XUH[Gś2UŞMusician of Rouhana is one of the few masters to have shaped the the Year, Charbel Rouhana Arab lute and its techniques. notably conducted and arranged the BBC3 World Arguably one of the most renowned composers of his Music Awards Album of generation, oud player Charbel Rouhana created the 2007 “ Al Muwashahat” Beirut Oriental Ensemble and made himself a worldwide E\*KDGD6KEHLU5RXKDQD reputation, playing with legends like Fairuz, Marcel has performed with Arab Khalife and Magida El Roumi. Here at the Tabernacle, he legends Marcel Khalife, will perform his latest, and most sophisticated album, Fairuz, Magida El Roumi, Śś'RX[ =HQśś IRU WKH ƪUVW WLPH LQ WKH 8. DORQJ ZLWK Julia Boutros, Hariprasad Lebanese oud player Elie Khoury. Chaurasia on numerous occasions. He formed the Beirut Oriental Ensemble LQ&KDUEHOśVVW\OH is not restricted to his oriental roots – his live performances are rich in harmonies and open to improvisation.
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William Holman-Hunt: A Pre-Raphaelite in Jerusalem British Egyptian Society
Leighton House Museum 10 October Information: 12 Holland Park Road 7-8.30pm w: www.nourfestival. Kensington 'RRUVRSHQDWSP eventbrite.co.uk W14 8LZ £5 per person t: 020 7602 3316 e: [email protected]
Jill, Duchess of Hamilton Few people today realise that one of the founders of the has an MA in Near and Pre-Raphaelites, William Holman Hunt, owned a house in Middle East Studies from Jerusalem, spent a total of 7 years there over 40 years, SOAS at the University DQG WKDW KLV DUW ZDV PXFK LQƫXHQFHG E\ KLV GHHS ORYH of London. For the RI WKH 0LGGOH (DVW DQG WKH KRO\ FLW\ 7KLV WDON H[SORUHV SDVWƪYH\HDUVŘZKLOH his life in Jerusalem, his paintings and the house which completing her PhD – she KHEXLOWDW+DQHYLśLP6WUHHWLQ 7RKHOSDQVZHU has spent long periods the question of whether his paintings in the Middle East living in Jerusalem. She were in keeping with the Pre-Raphaelite aim of ‘objective is a regular contributor UHDOLW\ś WKLV XQLTXH SUHVHQWDWLRQ ZLOO FRPSDUH DQG to the Catholic Herald contrast his paintings of the region with photographs DQGKDVZULWWHQƪIWHHQ taken of identical scenes. Jill, Duchess of Hamilton will books including God, Guns DOVR GLVFXVV WKH UHFHQW HƩRUWV WR SUHVHUYH DQG OLVW KLV and Israel (now in its 3rd Jerusalem home. HGLWLRQ From Gallipoli to Gaza, the Desert Poets of World War One Gardens of William Morris DQGMarengo, the Myth of Napoleon’s Horse
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The Day of Rage British Egyptian Society
Leighton House Museum 15 October Information: 12 Holland Park Road 7-8.30pm w: www.nourfestival. Kensington 'RRUVRSHQDWSP eventbrite.co.uk W14 8LZ £5 per person t: 020 7602 3316 e: [email protected]
Wafaa El Saddik (Ph.D. On Friday, 28 January 2011, Egyptian young people called 9LHQQD8QLYHUVLW\ for a major demonstration in the city centre. They knew: became Director LWLVQRZRUQHYHU%XWWKHVDPHGD\ZDVDOVRWKHGD\RI *HQHUDORIWKH(J\SWLDQ WKHJUHDWHVWWUDJHG\WRKDSSHQWR(J\SWśVDQWLTXLWLHV Museum, Cairo, in 2004 destruction and looting in the world renowned Egyptian and held the post until Museum and at numerous archaeological sites. Though 2010. Dr. El Saddik is an Egypt has lived through many wars and revolutions in engaged board member the past century, never before has there been such of numerous scholarly vandalism at historical sites. and archaeological committees and 7RGD\ PRQWKV DIWHU (J\SWśV UHYROXWLRQ SULFHOHVV organisations, both antiquities are still missing from the Egyptian Museum national and international. and from innumerable storage facilities the length and Her commitment to breadth of the country. It is a huge, critical challenge today involving her young WRSURWHFW(J\SWśVFXOWXUDOKHULWDJHŘZLWKORZSDLGJXDUGV FRPSDWULRWVLQ(J\SWśV DQG LQDGHTXDWHO\ ƪQDQFHG VWDWH VHFXULW\ SHUVRQQHO Ř heritage ranges from ZKLOH WKH FRXQWU\ VXƩHUV IURP DQ HYHU GHFUHDVLQJ founding and serving as number of tourists and the resulting decline in income. SUHVLGHQWRIWKH&KLOGUHQśV This talk assesses the impact of the past 12 months on Alliance for Traditions Egyptian heritage and the challenges ahead. and Social Engagement &$76 WRWHDFKLQJDW both Cairo and Helwan Universities. Nour Festival of Arts Debates & Talks
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Leighton House Museum 19 October Information: The Mosaic Rooms 20 October Information: 12 Holland Park Road 7-8.30pm w: www.nourfestival. 226 Cromwell Road 12pm w: www.mosaicrooms.org Kensington 'RRUVRSHQDWSP eventbrite.co.uk London Free t: 020 7370 9990 W14 8LZ £5 per person t: 020 7602 3316 SW5 0SW e: [email protected] e: [email protected]
Malu Halasa is co-author How do people face up to dictatorship, mass killings and Dr Wolfgang Stuppy is The Moroccan artist Abderrahim Yamou will discuss his of The Secret Life of Syrian snipers? To paraphrase Jameel, the masked director a Seed Morphologist at work with the internationally renowned Dr Wolfgang Lingerie: Intimacy and of the award-winning cyber puppet series Top Goon: .HZśV6HHG&RQVHUYDWLRQ 6WXSS\ IURP WKH 5R\DO %RWDQLF *DUGHQV .HZ $UWVLQ,UDQ 3ROLWLFDOKLVWRULFDODQGVRFLDOFRQWH[W Roya Arab & Leighton House Museum Leighton House Museum 17 November Information: 12 Holland Park Road 3-5pm w: www.nourfestival. Kensington £5, £3 concessions eventbrite.co.uk W14 8LZ (Iranian tea & biscuits t: 020 77602 3316 LQFOXGHG e: [email protected] Roya Arab is Honorary The majority of people operate within the norms of the Research Assistant at the society they live in. Iran over the past three decades Institute of Archaeology, has been subject to many political and social changes, UCL. Her research which continue to impact on life on many levels. By and focuses on the uses and large, the Iranian people have adapted to the dynamic abuses of the past in the social and political changes within Iran, and have also present. had to come to terms with the changing face of Iran in the international arena. Once welcome visitors around Ladan Razeghi, was WKHZRUOGPDQ\,UDQLDQVQRZƪQGWKHPVHOYHVUHJDUGHG formerly an editor on DVQDWLRQDOVRIDŚSDULDKVWDWHś$SDQHORI,UDQLDQIHPDOH Press TV and is currently academics and artists discuss the socio/political and completing an MA in KLVWRULFDOFRQWH[WZLWKLQZKLFKDUWDQGFXOWXUHRSHUDWHLQ Digital Media at London Iran. The session is chaired by Dr Sahar Rad, of the School Metropolitan University. of Oriental and African Studies. Dr Sahar Rad studied for Shirin Shafaie received Mehrnaz Shahabi is an her PhD at SOAS, where her MSc in Middle independent researcher. she is currently a research East Politics at SOAS She is the author of partner at the Centre for where she is currently ŝ7KH2[IRUG5HVHDUFK Development Policy and completing her PhD *URXSDQGWKH:HVWśV Research and a member on critical war studies, Discourse on Iran” (Fair of the Centre for Palestine including the Iran-Iraq war 2EVHUYHU-XQH studies. and Iranian war narratives. which is a critical review RIWKH25*śVEULHƪQJ “Iran Nuclear Impasse: Breaking the Deadlock”. ‘Help me out’ by Ladan Razeghi Nour Festival of Arts Debates & Talks Day Symposium: Middle Eastern and North African Music: &RQWHPSRUDU\&RQWH[WV)XWXUH7UHQGV Ismaili Centre 24 November Information: &URPZHOO*DUGHQV 10am-4pm w: www.arabnewtrends.com South Kensington Free - limited tickets e: [email protected] London FB: Arab New Trends SW7 2SL Nour Festival and Arab 7KLV GD\ V\PSRVLXP WKH ƪUVW RI LWV NLQG WR EH KHOG LQ New Trends Ltd Europe, discusses the position of Middle Eastern and Arab music within the wider music industry of the UK and Europe. With key opinion formers, musicians, music labels, publishers and programmers from the UK and Europe, the GD\ZLOOH[SORUHWKHIXWXUHSURPRWLRQDQGGHYHORSPHQW of Arab music around three central themes: - 3URPRWLQJ 0LGGOH (DVWHUQ DQG 1RUWK $IULFDQ 0(1$ artists in the UK - Doing business in Europe with music from the MENA region - The consequences of social and cultural changes in the Arab World on the music industry. *DU\2WWH Nour Festival of Arts Special Events The Dash Café: An Arab Spring? A panel conversation and live music from U-cef and The Arab League The Flyover 25 October Information: 3 – 5 Thorpe Close Talk from 7pm w: www.nourfestival. London Music from 9pm eventbrite.co.uk W10 5XL £5 per person t: 020 7361 3618 3UHERRNLQJDGYLVHG e: [email protected] An inspiring evening of conversation and music. $OLYHO\SDQHORIMRXUQDOLVWVDFDGHPLFVDUWLVWVDQGDFWLYLVWVZLWKƪUVWKDQGH[SHULHQFH from the region, will debate how the media has shaped our ideas of the “Arab Spring”. The panel includes Dr Fatima El-Issawi, a journalist, analyst, and Research Fellow at 32/,6EDVHGDWWKH/RQGRQ6FKRRORI(FRQRPLFV DQGLVFKDLUHGE\7XUL0XQWKHIRXQGHU RIWKHFLWL]HQMRXUQDOLVPZHEVLWH'HPRWL[ '- 8&HI $QG 7KH $UDE /HDJXH ZLOO EUHZ DQ H[FHOOHQW EOHQG RI WUDGLWLRQDO 0DJKUHEL music fused with dub, jazz and fresh urban beats that will transport you from West London deep into the heart of the Sahara. Dr Fatima El-Issawi is Turi Munthe is the CEO Born and raised in Rabat, a journalist, analyst of the citizen journalism U-cef (aka Moulay Youssef and Research Fellow at ZHEVLWH'HPRWL[+HśV $GHO DEVRUEHGPXFK POLIS, the journalism been a publisher, editor, RIKLVQDWLYH0RURFFRśV and society think tank policy analyst, lecturer, traditions before moving at the London School of journalist and talking to New York and then Economics. She is leading head for CNN, BBC, NBC, WR/RQGRQ+LVƪUVW&' a research project on al-Jazeera, Asahi, Reuters, Ś+DODOLXPśZDVDPLOHVWRQH ‘Arab revolutions: Media and Sky. 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Melilla to Marrakech. www.u-cef.com Nour Festival of Arts Special Events V&A presents Friday Late with MasterCard: Record, Reframe, Resist Victoria & Albert Museum 30 November Information: Cromwell Road 6.30-10pm w: www.vam.ac.uk London Free t: 020 7942 2000 SW7 2RL The V&A is collaborating V&A presents Friday Late with MasterCard: Record, with numerous artists Reframe, Resist. and organisations for the Friday Late with Master- Change your vantage point – climb The Watchtower card, including Sharjah Art of Occupation WR HQFRXQWHU H[SHULHQFHV RI FRQWURO Foundation, The Mosaic VXUYHLOODQFHDQGREVHUYDWLRQ7RPDUNWKH9 $H[KLELWLRQ Rooms, Banipal, Febrik, Light from the Middle East: New Photography, you are Zeid Hamdan and Maryam invited to immerse yourself in an evening of interactive Saleh, Aya Haidar and DUW LQVWDOODWLRQV DZDUG ZLQQLQJ ƪOPV OLYH XQGHUJURXQG Lawrence Abu Hamdan. PXVLF H[SHULPHQWDO SKRWRJUDSK\ DQG D SRSXS ERRN club. Airmail byJowhara AlSaud, from the series Out of Line, 2008 Nour Festival of Arts Special Events The Mosaic Rooms Supper Club: Sarah Al-Hamad The Mosaic Rooms Supper Club: Lamees Ibrahim The Mosaic Rooms The Mosaic Rooms Secret West London 11 October Information: Secret West London 27 October Information: location: Dinner, 6.30-10.30pm 10 places – booking essential location: 11am-3pm 10 places per event to be disclosed e FRXUVHPHDO ZLQH to be disclosed Booking essential on booking on booking 21 November 11 November 12 places – booking essential 6.30-10.30pm w: www.mosaicrooms.org High Tea, 3-6pm t: 020 7370 9990 £25 w: www.mosaicrooms.org e FRXUVHPHDO ZLQH e: [email protected] t: 020 7370 9990 e: [email protected] Lamees Ibrahim was born The Mosaic Rooms launches a new programme Sarah Al-Hamad is a The Mosaic Rooms launches a new programme in Baghdad. She came to celebrating Middle Eastern food and the stories and writer, photographer, celebrating Middle Eastern food and the stories and London to study, obtain- traditions that surround cooking and eating. We are domestic cook and the traditions that surround cooking and eating. We launch ing a PhD from Kings delighted to present two culinary evenings with the author of Cardamom the programme with two intimate events led by Sarah College Hospital Medical celebrated Iraqi cook Lamees Ibrahim. With stories, and Lime: Recipes from $O+DPDG DŚ&DUGDPRP /LPHśWKHPHGWKUHHFRXUVH School. London has been discussions and demonstrations, guests will have the the Arabian Gulf (New GLQQHUDQGDQŚ$UDELDQ+LJK&KDLśZLWKVSHFLDOWHDVFDNHV her permanent home opportunity to try their hand at several recipes and enjoy +ROODQG 6KHZDVUDLVHG and savory nibbles. 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Nour Festival of Arts Special Events Yalda 2012 – Iranian celebration of the winter solstice Khayaal Theatre at Al Manaar: Tales from Arab Lands 1HZ0XVLF,UDQ 10, DQG/HLJKWRQ+RXVH0XVHXP Al Manaar: the Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre and Khayaal Theatre Leighton House Museum 1 December Information: Al ManarThe Muslim 10 November Information: 12 Holland Park Road 6.30-10pm w: www.nourfestival. Cultural Heritage Centre 6.30-8pm w: www.almanar.org.uk Kensington 'RRUVRSHQSP eventbrite.co.uk 244 Acklam Road Free W14 8LZ £7, £5 concessions t: 020 7602 3316 London Pre-booking strongly e: [email protected] :<* recommended Roya Arab is a musician Come and celebrate Yalda, with poetry music Alia Alzougbi is a BAFTA Revel in the humour, wit and wisdom of tales from the and archaeologist, and DQGƪQHIDUH Scotland nominated and Arab world performed by Alia Alzougbi, a world-class Honorary Research award-winning actress storyteller from Lebanon. Our collection of stories has Assistant at the Institute 6.30-7.15pm and storyteller of inter- been chosen to celebrate the generosity and warmth of of Archaeology, UCL. Her Hamid Navim performs popular Iranian songs national renown, with Arab culture and the Arab imagination that has shaped interests are in the socio- in the Arab Hall acclaimed stage, TV and Western notions of wonder for centuries. political and economic ƪOPUROHVWRKHUFUHGLW FRQWH[WVRIDQDUWHIDFW 7.30-8.30 pm Alia has been an associate once it has been removed Hafez hour in the studio artist with Khayaal since from, or highlighted in, 2005. the landscape, for study 9.00 -10.00pm and/or display. 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