A series of events will be taking place from the 23rd until the 29th of September in the presence of the acclaimed Palestinian actor and director, Mohammad Bakri.

Exploring the worlds of Arabic calligraphy, its ever-changing expressions and its meaning, from proclamations of authority in the public sphere to intimate beliefs about the power of the Word.

Join us for an interactive performance highlighting Arabic letters and musical maqam.

​The artist Akil Ahmad will work on the fusion of Arabic calligraphy and its transformation into an audio-visual language.

Known as the “Arab Joan Baez” for some, the “Tracy Chapman of Africa” for others, Souad Massi has long since surpassed labels and clichés. Aesthete, composed and cultivated, the former urban architect leans towards universality. Souad Massi will be returning on stage of Music Hall this September to perform her “Best of”.

An evening of classical Arabic songs by Elie Rizkallah accompanied on the piano by Dr. John Fayyad, taking us back to the golden age of Arabic music.

This talk presents a new concept and technology, which offers a comprehensive solution suitable for broad online application, unshackled to specific corporate operating systems.

Thomas Milo: Linguist, typographerMirjam Somers: Typographer, type designer

The painter Negin Fallah will conduct a workshop to discover a unique style emerging from profound exploration in painting, drawing, and design practices, including Persian illuminations, Chinese paintings, and Indus miniatures.

The discussion will be centred around the necessity of building bridges between tradition and modernity in order to create authentic and high-quality Arabic typefaces.

The panel includes:
Lara Captan: Type designer & typographer
Kristyan Sarkis: Type and graphic designer
Onur Yazıcıgil: Typographer, educator

The audience will witness the elephant’s journey and his keeper Isaac; through their exciting adventure in the different cities, ports and coasts from Baghdad to Kairouan, and then sail to the coast of Europe, passing through the Alps down to the royal city of Aachen.

Join master calligrapher and teacher, Ali Assi for a guided tour of the Bachoura cemetery to study the history of tombstones. The tour will include a discussion on the ornamentation, dates and inscriptions used to decorate them.

Ghassan Kanafani Cultural Foundation and Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture invite you on Monday July 10th, to remember Ghassan Kanafani and Lamis Nijem on the 45th commemoration of their martyrdom.

The event includes excerpts from interviews, a short film and readings.

To mark the launch of Syrian Histories, an oral histories collection of personal narratives about culture and society in Syria in the late 20th and early 21st century, Sharq will be presenting a series of performance readings of some of the narratives.

In this intensive workshop, participants are invited to take classic Arabic poems and use them to make a typographic poetry book in Arabic. The approach is based on understanding and adapting the special qualities and characteristics of the Arabic writing system, calligraphy and typography.

Mustafa Saeed will be paying a musical tribute to Sheikh El-Akbar and taking the audience on a lyrical journey with verses of Al-Hallaj, Jamil Sudqii El-Zihawi and Omar Khayyam.

This interactive workshop invites children to explore Arabic script from an unusual perspective. Led by Studio Kawakeb, kids will be inspired to explore and engage with language and writing beyond speech and text itself.

afikra is a monthly salon-style evening in someone's home where two members of the community present about cultural and historical topics they are curious about.

Daline Jabbour will be performing music from Oum Koulthoum and Abdel Wahab repertory, in addition to Muwashahat.

How do we define calligraphy and typography? This talk is a thorough examination of the journey from contemporary calligraphy into typography.

A conversation with London-born singer - ALA.NI will take place at Dar El-Nimer to discover the artist's journey, choices and voice.

This workshop looks at samples of different calligraphic styles, observing how the tool used affects the form of a letter.