Join Jamila Boughelaf for this workshop where children will learn the basic steps of the dabke, a joyful and defiant traditional Arab folk dance.

Writer Haytham El-Wardany is in conversation with curator Azar Mahmoudian about Kalila wa Dimna, and on how we could learn from childhood.

Artist Hannah Darabi in conversation with curator Catherine David about her new artist book and archival research Enghelab Street, A Revolution Through Books: Iran 1979–1983.

Vahid Hosseini’s 90 minute documentary Bazm-e-Razm (Drums of War) tells the tumultuous story of the Iranian music scene between 1979 and 1989, featuring extensive interviews with individuals involved in the scene.

Hamed Khosravi traces the multifaceted life of a couple, who through their foundation of the Women’s Association and the Association of Iranian Architects, redefined newly conceptualised domestic spaces in Tehran as spaces of resistance.

Artist and filmmaker Mamali Shafahi in conversation with artist and writer Ashkan Sepahvand about Nature Morte, a film by the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid-Saless.

Writer and translator Khashayar Naderehvandi and writer Lucie Mercier reflect on translation as both practice and as a theoretical prism.

Artist Shirin Sabahi in conversation with curator Azar Mahmoudian about her recent publication, Pocket Folklore. The book concludes Sabahi’s long-term project around a sculpture by Noriyuki Haraguchi at TMOCA.

Artists Mahan Moalemi and Bahar Noorizadeh expand on their collaborative work in a discussion with theorist Suhail Malik.

A lecture performance by two members of Alphabet Collection (AC), Mohammad Salemy and Patrick Schabus. They illustrate the role of liberal and leftist intellectuals from the postwar period until present time, in confusing the popular and emancipatory aspects of political Islam with its more reactionary tendencies.