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Gaza a year on: Artists fight to bear truth from Palestine to UK

The Freedom Theatre’s Zoe Lafferty reflects on a year of witnessing the intimate link between the colonial violence in Palestine & the UK’s cultural repression

Zoe Lafferty

09 October, 2024

Asmaa Alanbari's Gilgamesh: Snuggling baby

Film, TV & Music

Live Story

Asmaa Alanbari's 'Gilgamesh' is a fusion of past and present

Zainab Mehdi

25 January, 2024

Blue Mist: Muslim masculinity, journalism, and shisha

Live Story

Blue Mist: Muslim masculinity, journalism, and shisha pipes

Zainab Mehdi

16 November, 2023

Live Story

Renowned Moroccan artist dies after setting himself on fire

Basma El Atti

03 April, 2023

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Live Story

The Beekeeper of Aleppo: Syrian strife in theatre form

Zainab Mehdi

17 February, 2023

Souadade

Live Story

The ever-shifting face of Syrian director Soudade Kaadan

Aman Al Bezreh

15 December, 2022

Baghdaddy: London’s first play spotlighting the ongoing trauma of Iraqis

Live Story

Baghdaddy: A fragmented spotlight on Iraqi family trauma

Zainab Mehdi

15 December, 2022

Hakawatis

Live Story

Hakawatis: Reclaiming the Arabian Nights

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Sarah Shaffi

15 December, 2022

Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill: Prize rescinded amidst attacks on Palestine

Zoe Lafferty

24 November, 2022

For a palestinian

Live Story

For a Palestinian: Translating pain and poetry in exile

Hajar Meddah

07 October, 2022

Live Story

Egyptian renowned actor Hesham Selim dies from cancer

Thaer Mansour

22 September, 2022

Derelict cinema restored as community culture space in Tripoli

Live Story

Derelict cinema restored as community space in Tripoli

Maghie Ghali

20 September, 2022

Freedom

Cultural resistance in Palestine through the eyes of women

Zoe Lafferty

17 August, 2022

Opinion - Sabreen music studio

A music studio and the destruction of Palestinian Jerusalem

Yara Hawari

15 August, 2022

Palestinians go dogging

Live Story

Palestinians Go Dogging: Intifada exhibitionism, 20 years on

Nazli Tarzi

04 July, 2022

TFT

Art at a time of siege

Zoe Lafferty

18 April, 2022

Live Story

Genocidal Friends

Hugo Goodridge

08 April, 2022