Great to be invited along to take some photos at this year’s Liverpool Arab Arts Festival. I managed to cover the following events and took loads of photos.. I’ve published just a small selection!
The Festival Launch – Yemeni night featuring the Al-Awhadel band
St George’s Hall
“Centred on the evocative sounds of the oud, the band is led by Yaser Awdhali, an artist and composer from Aden, Yemen”
The Other Refuge – Photography Exhibition
Open Eye
“The Other Refuge reflects on the notion of belonging through the eclectic perspectives of UK-based artists of Arab origin (from Sudan, Syria, and Yemen) who have experienced displacement.”
Great to see the art and to listen to Nasma Aljizawi and Fuad Al-Gaadi talking about their work.
My Father and Qaddafi – UK Premiere and Q&A
Bluecoat
“A daughter unravels the disappearance of her father, the peaceful opposition leader to Qaddafi, and pieces together her mother’s 19-year search to find him. Without any memory of her father, she tries to reconnect with him and reconcile with her Libyan identity.”
The Refuge– Photography exhibition
Exhibition Research Lab Gallery at John Moores University
“Through the eclectic perspectives of contemporary photography artists, the group exhibition The Refuge reflects on the notion of ‘home’ in the context of today’s Arabness. Each work explores nuanced stories of displacement and longing, while revealing home as a paradox in transition – whether rooted in place and territory, carried through family and sociocultural heritage, or shaped by memory, movement, and lived geographies.”
Great to see the art and to listen to Abdulrahman Hassona and Farah Maktari talking about their work.
The Book of Damascus
Bluecoat
“An evening of readings, translations and discussions about the challenges that Damascus has survived and what lies ahead for it, in these most precarious times.
Damascus is a city of contradictions. Simultaneously the oldest city in the world, rich with Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic architecture, and one of the most modern and developed in the Middle East, it stands at a cross-roads between East and West, the past and the future, peace and war.”
