The Mosaic Rooms

The A. M. Qattan Foundation is the proud sponsor of Shubbak 2013, a festival of contemporary Arab culture taking place in London this summer (22 June – 6 July).

Download the Shubbak Press Release here.
Download the Shubbak Festival Guide here.

The Mosaic Rooms/AM Qattan Foundation is looking for a part time Press & Marketing Coordinator, who will be responsible for the execution of press and marketing campaigns for our programme of exhibitions, events, collaborations and commercial activities.

We are accepting applications from 13.02.13. Please send a CV and covering letter to info@mosaicrooms.org by 21.02.13

Read the full job description here

Jesus College, University of Oxford, has awarded Rawan Yaghi the Junior Members’ Scholarship to pursue an undergraduate degree in Italian and Linguistics.

Rawan Yaghi, who lives in Gaza, was a member at the Qattan Centre for the Child, where she used online resources to start her own blog. In 2011, her love of writing and languages led her to start a degree in English Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza.

The JCJM is a full academic scholarship supported by undergrad and postgrad students at the College, the Governing Body of Jesus College, the Hoping Foundation, the A.M. Qattan Foundation, and the Hani Qaddumi Scholarship Foundation. Read the press release.

Help shape The Mosaic Rooms’ future programme by filling in this short online survey.

Those who take part will be entered into a prize draw for a chance to win a £50 voucher to spend in The Mosaic Rooms’ Bookshop.

Prize draw terms and conditions.

Last of the Dictionary Men director Tina Gharavi has been nominated for a BAFTA for her film ‘I Am Nasrine‘, in the category: ‘Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer’.

Starring Shiraz Haq and Micsha Sadeghi, I Am Nasrine is a coming of age teen drama that tells the story of a young woman who is doing her best to understand herself, find a better world and to deal with the consequences of the politics around her.

Project patron, Sir Ben Kingsley called I Am Nasrine “an important and much needed film.”

The Mosaic Rooms has commissioned a new short video to be developed by Bridge + Tunnel, which will be screened during the latter part of the Last of the Dictionary Men exhibition. This video will capture oral histories recorded from a range of participants from the Yemeni community in London, adding these stories to those of the South Shields Yemeni community.

We are currently seeking project participants from the Yemeni community in London  to share their own personal, community or family stories in an informal workshop with filmmaker Tina Ghavari in February.

If you are interested please email rachael@mosaicrooms.org,or call 020 7370 9990

The Mosaic Rooms is now closed until the New Year. Thank you to all our friends who visited and supported us this year. With your enthusiasm and interest, our audience numbers jumped by over 45% during 2012.

If you have missed any events during the course of 2012, you can listen to some of them on our recorded lecture archive or explore them in our Facebook photo albums.

Don’t forget you can still order items from our bookshop online here and from December’s pop up shop here!

We will be in contact again in the New Year with an exciting programme of exhibitions and events and a new look website! Forthcoming exhibitions are already listed online here

Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a very happy new year!

Febrik: The Watchtower of Happiness and Other Landscapes of Occupation has been extended until Saturday 15th December 2012.

Visitors can climb and discover the Watchtower structure; take photographs of themselves against a scene from the uprising; create their own make shift helmets; sit and enjoy seasonal refreshments from the café; and browse the pop up shop featuring items by contemporary Middle Eastern designers. Find out more.

Items on sale in the pop up shop will range from silverware, homeware accessories, soft furnishings, and pottery to jewellery. Find out more about the designers and items featuring in the pop up shop here!

As part of Febrik’s exhibition, Other Landscapes of Occupation will host a series of public activities. This includes a pop up shop selling items by contemporary Middle Eastern designers such as Nedda El-Asmar, Zeri Crafts, Nada Debs, Silsal, Dia Batal and Mounaya. Items on sale by the designers will range from silverware, homeware accessories, soft furnishings, and pottery to jewellery.

You can find out more about the designers and see some examples of the items we will be selling here!

The shop and café will be open throughout the exhibition opening hours, Mon-Sat 11am-6pm, 26th November until 15th December. There will be a late night opening on Thursday 6th December until 9pm.

We are delighted to announce that 2013 Edward W Said London Lecture will be given by Noam Chomsky-on:

18th March 2013 at 7pm
Venue: Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ

The title of Chomsky’s lecture for this series will be confirmed shortly-please visit our website for further information http://www.mosaicrooms.org/edward-w-said-london-lecture-2/

Tickets £12, £5 concessions BUY NOW

Once you have purchased your tickets please email rsvp@mosaicrooms.org so we can keep you up to date on the lecture details!