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In this artist talk, Nermine El Ansari will share her artistic practice in depth, and the methods she used while working on the sound installation Natural Scenes. Nermine started working on it in 2012, which was strongly tied to her...

In Everynothing, three dancers search for moments of stillness and clarity in a precarious world that never stops moving. They explore what it means to stay alert, yet at ease, to rest while in motion, and to find space where...

As part of its efforts to keep pace with the dynamism and growth of the Arab cultural landscape, specifically the performing arts, AFAC has commissioned an in-depth research paper led by writer, artist, and academic Driss Ksikes on the performing...

What Does it Mean to Be a Poet in War Time? is a poem by Hend Jouda, published on her Facebook in October 2023, at the height of the massacres in Gaza. Iconic and immediately viral, it was translated into...

The Documentary Comics Workshop, led by artist Mai Koraiem in collaboration with Mazg, offers a hands-on exploration of D-CAF through drawing and visual documentation. Over the course of one day, participants will move through festival spaces capturing moments, events, and...

How is contemporary Palestine constructed through personal narratives, outside perspectives, and collective memory? Bringing together journalism, literature, photography, and cinema, this panel features a conversation between Lena Mauger, Editor-in-Chief of Kometa magazine, and Jadd Hilal, a Franco-Palestinian-Lebanese author. Together, they...

Participating artists will be invited to collectively recall certain childhood memories—from before the age of ten—and create an image that closely resembles the one etched in their memory. Each participant will then share their image with the rest of the...

This improvisation workshop will rely on words, images, and the imagination to open up different ways of moving. It will explore types of movement that make sense to us and how we can move with that kind of clarity in...

What can we pass on when we have lost everything? Drawing on his memories, Palestinian artist Mohammed Al Qudwa transforms exile into words and pain into movement. Having lived through successive wars in Gaza from childhood into adulthood, he carries...