UK’s Most Comprehensive Exhibition of Arab Art

A year long exhibition series, billed as “the broadest single overview of Arab art to be shown in the UK to date”, will be on display in Whitechapel. The exhibitions draw from the the Barjeel Art Foundation collection. The first exhibition, running from 8 September-16 December, “explores the emergence and development of a modern Arab art …

Safar Returns

In September 2012 the Arab British Centre (in partnership with the ICA and Dubai International Film Festival) presented Safar: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema. This year, from 19-25 September, Safar returns with more screenings of Arab films accompanied by Q&As as well as "a day-long forum which will bring together some of the most …