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Creative Indiscipline: Art, Exile, and Resistance

*Starts Tuesday 31 March* A six-week course exploring how artists, writers, filmmakers, and cultural practitioners in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia have developed distinctive ways of making, thinking, and imagining since independence. By creative indiscipline, the course understands insubmission as a conscious refusal of colonial legacies, patriarchal norms, religious authoritarianism, and attempts to regulate culture, bodies, and memory. The course explores how indiscipline has been practised through imagination, form, and experiment: as a way of thinking, making, and living otherwise.

CourseBy The Arab British Centre

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Decolonising Belly Dance: Theory and Practice

*Starts Tuesday 31 March* This ‘Decolonising Bellydance’ in person course is aimed at those who want to learn ‘bellydance’ beyond its bodily movement. It will look into the dance as a cultural celebration addressing its historical journey, its travel to the west and its development to the different styles we see today. It will tackle the myths that surround it, the problematic terminology and the stereotypes associated with it through the theories of Orientalism, Male & Colonial Gaze and Feminism.

CourseBy The Arab British Centre

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Islamic Geometric Pattern: Practice and Meaning

*Starts Wednesday 25 March* Traditional geometric art served as a powerful tool in contemplating the harmonic qualities of the natural world. In this course you are invited to explore the symbolism of Islamic Geometric Pattern and try your hands at the meditative practice of its construction using only pencils, a ruler and a drawing compass.

CourseBy The Arab British Centre

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Manuscript Kufic Calligraphy

*Starts 16 April* Immerse yourself in Manuscript Kufic, an early style of Arabic calligraphy that flourished during the Abbasid “golden age”. This in-person, practical course is based on the finest example of this architectural and spacious Qur’anic script which fell out of use almost a millenium ago. Under Joumana Medlej’s guidance you will learn to use the pen and gallnut ink associated with this style.

CourseBy The Arab British Centre

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Stitching Survival: Palestinian Embroidery as Ontological Resistance and Feminist Praxis

*Starts Thursday 26 March* This course explores Palestinian embroidery (tatreez) as a living cultural practice, a visual language, and a form of ontological and feminist resistance. Moving beyond craft-based readings, the course situates tatreez within broader historical, political, and decolonial frameworks, examining how stitched motifs encode memory, identity, gendered labour, and survival under conditions of displacement and colonial violence.

CourseBy The Arab British Centre

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Taqasim Music School: Oud, Darbuka and Arabic Music Theory

*New term starts in May* Taqasim Music School, founded by Iraqi Oud Master Ahmed Mukhtar, was established in 2011 to teach one of the most significant Oriental instruments called Oud, among other instruments and disciplines that represent Middle Eastern Music.

CourseBy The Arab British Centre

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