EVENT// I AM NASRINE BY TINA GHARAVI & JAMES RICHARD BAILLIE

I Am Nasrine is a 2012 BAFTA nominated film which is coming to our screens on Saturday 9th Feb 2013 at 2:45. 

REVIEW// AWARD WINNING MOROCCAN FILM: MAJID

I wrote about this event a while ago and despite the snow I wouldn't miss this opportunity to support Nassim Abassi or the fact that 100% of the money went directly to charity, so I ventured out into arctic conditions. Slightly dramatic I know.

JANUARY BLUES

Is it just me or is this weather making you want to get away and go on holiday?

QUOTE// A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

"As for Mariam, she remembers Nana saying once that each snowflake is a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all sighs drift up to the sky, gather into clouds, then break into tiny pieces that fall silently on the people below. “As a reminder of how women like us suffer,” she said. How quietly we endure all the falls upon us.”

Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns

EVENT// LIGHT FROM THE MIDDLE EAST: NEW PHOTOGRAPHY

Nermine Hammam, 'The Break', from the series 'Upekkha', 2011. Museum no. E. 1129-2012. The Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography at the V&A and British Museum. 

If you haven’t heard about this already, where have you been?

The photography exhibition at the V&A museum presents work by artists across MENA, who are either living in the region or diaspora.