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08/05/2022

Dardishi Zine Issue 3 is back in stock! In this zine, our team of Arab and North African women and non-binary writers, photographers and illustrators explore the theme of ‘Connection’ in the context of a global pandemic.

We deliver internationally 🌍

Browse here: https://www.dardishi.com/shop

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08/05/2022

Dardishi Zine Issue 3 is back in stock! In this zine, our team of Arab and North African women and non-binary writers, photographers and illustrators explore the theme of ‘Connection’ in the context of a global pandemic.

Pop to dardishi.com or follow the link in our bio to purchase the zine in print or in digital format.

27/11/2021

It’s your last chance to buy our merch in 2021! Buying our merch is a great way to support what we do - which is support the creative careers of Arab and North African women and gender minorities. We ship internationally in plastic-free packaging. All of our clothing items are made of organic cotton and our zines are printed on recycled paper. All of our products are produced locally in Scotland

26/11/2021

Ahhh Dardishi’s wee shop is featured in The Times and The Sunday Times' 2021 Christmas gift guide! To celebrate, we’ll be extending the date for pre-orders to be made until midnight on the 27th of November! You have 48 hours! Link in our bio.

SHOPPING FOR A GOOD CAUSE | INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING AVAILABLE | DESIGNED BY ARAB + NORTH AFRICAN WOMEN

Dardishi is a not-for-profit community arts project that showcases the creative work of Arab and North African women and gender minorities in Scotland. All proceeds from this shop help fund the work that we do.

All of our products are designed by our Designers in Residence and are produced by local businesses and social enterprises Tender Hands Press and Wild and Kind Studio. This year’s Dardishi Designer in Residence is Nour Elshamy!

25/11/2021

**LAST DAY FOR PRE-ORDERS!**

A reminder that the new Dardishi shop has launched which includes our BRAND NEW issue 3 of the Dardishi zine. Today is the LAST day for pre-orders.

Dardishi’s 2021 Designer in Residence is Nour Elshamy.

All proceeds from this shop help fund the work that we do and all products are designed by our Designers in Residence (this includes designers from previous years) and produced by local businesses and social enterprises Tender Hands Press and Wild and Kind Studio.

Visit https://www.dardishi.com/shop for full info

22/11/2021

A reminder that the new Dardishi shop for pre-orders including the launch of Issue 3 of our much-praised zine has launched!

Dardishi’s 2021 Designer in Residence is Nour Elshamy.

All proceeds from this shop help fund the work that we do

All products are designed by our Designers in Residence (this includes designers from previous years) and produced by local businesses and social enterprises Tender Hands Press and Wild and Kind Studio

Visit https://www.dardishi.com/shop for full info

15/11/2021

We are proud to partner with A.Mal Collective on their groundbreaking alternative programme of events happening during

17 November we continue with online Reading & Discussion Group: A Transcript on Algae Narratives

In this intimate reading group, will lead with an accompanying discussion looking into the nuances of the relationship between the lab researcher and algae bloomed daily in the lab. The catalysts, socio-cultural reasoning and positionality of both researcher and algae in close contact are up for debate.

The reading group is a space to ask more questions. Having thought about the nuances of sustainability such as decomposability or if the material is biodegradable - working with algae, particularly the red-algae of Morocco, considering the afterlife of the organism is as important as its usage.

Link to full info and how to book your place via link in bio - pay what you can afford!

Please note that spaces are limited for this event.

Full info: https://bit.ly/RG-Reading

14/11/2021

Tuesday 16 November 5-6pm GMT
Shorts (Scottish Documentary Institute)

The third in the series of .haouchine Emerging Programmer curation partnering with

Only My Voice - Dir. Myriam Rey
In an ode to freedom migrant women share their ambitions and dreams of a new life

Badrya - Dir. Asmahan Bkerat, Ban Maraqa & Doaa Nassar
An old Bedouin Palestinian woman lives with her family in the outskirts of Amman. One day she pushes away the love and attention of her life long husband for the new and unusual love of her life: Badrya, the sheep

The Dream - Dir. Rawan Burhan, Dania Ghanayem & Rabee Karzoun
Selling coffee, shining shoes are one of the few jobs available to Syrians in exile in the streets of Beirut. Ahmad pours all his energy and spare time in self -improvement to achieve the dream of a better life

Let My Body Speak - Dir. Madonna Adib
A personal and intimate journey exploring the repression experienced by the filmmaker during her childhood when she faced s*xual control in Damascus also experiencing a growing socio-political repression in the late 80s – early 90s

Tuesday 16 November 4-5pm GMT

An Introduction to DIY Documentary Filmmaking

Asmahan Bkerat is hosting an online practical documentary workshop in partnership with Scottish Documentary Institute

Pay what you can afford. For full info visit - https://www.dardishi.com/emerging-november

11/11/2021

You can now pre-order Issue 3 of our zine! The theme being 'connectivity'

It includes the work of over 25 artists - all Arab & North African women and gender minorities

Available as: physical, digital & pay it forward

Pre-order via link in bio

Designed by our Designers in Residence 2021 Nour Elshamy and produced by local businesses and social enterprises Tender Hands Press and Wild and Kind CIC/

The pay it forward zines will go to Ubuntu Women’s Shelter, Refuweegee, and Saheliya.

08/11/2021

Online Screening - Tuesday 9 Nov (6pm GMT)

A Way Home/Dans La Maison - Dir. Karima Saïdi

After years of separation, the filmmaker renews her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, now su!ering from Alzheimer’s. From Brussels to Tangiers, the odyssey of a family marked by exile is evoked through discretion and confession, pain, separation, grief, and joy.

All tickets are on a pay what you can basis. All films by Arab and North African women and gender minorities. All films selected by Arab and North African women from our community.

Full info via the link below...

A WAY HOME/DANS LA MAISON Dir. Karima Saïdi Tuesday, November 9th, 6pm - 7.30pm GMT

07/11/2021

RED-GOLD REFLECTIONS - NOVEMBER 2021

Dardishi partners on a groundbreaking alternative programme of events happening during

This online programme explores Britain’s most recent eco-colonial ventures in Morocco 🇲🇦

Full info: http://dardishi.com/redgold-reflections

04/11/2021

RED-GOLD REFLECTIONS - NOVEMBER 2021

A groundbreaking alternative programme of events happening during

Dardishi partners for a month of online events is part of the public programme of the 2021 A.MAL residency, funded by The British Council Morocco & Arts Council England.

The project is running between Morocco & the UK exploring sustainability + ecological practices between our two regions.

Full info: http://ow.ly/lYZx50GFWjs

04/11/2021

NEXT ONLINE SCREENING: TUE 9 NOV

Carina’s 2nd selection for her curation this month is A Way Home (Dans La Maison) directed by Karima Saïdi

Filmmaker Karima mother has Alzheimer's. Now, they turn their thoughts back in time together, for one last time. A poetic portrait of a complex mother-daughter relationship, renewed acquaintance, and a loving farewell.

All tickets are on a pay what you can basis. All films by Arab and North African women and gender minorities. All films selected by Arab and North African women from our community.

Full info👉 https://bit.ly/dardishi-9nov

02/11/2021

Dardishi is at a pivotal and incredibly exciting moment in its development, having secured the funds from Creative Scotland to conduct an evaluation of our work from the project's inception to present. The purpose of this evaluation is a moment of pause to reflect, and learn from the past five years of Festivals, events, residencies and DIY publishing.

As part of the process of reviewing our DIY publishing, we need to hear from you - the people who contribute to, collect and read our Zine and make the Zines what they are! By answering the questions in this quick survey, you'll help us analyse the impact and success of Dardishi as a project, and help us identify any gaps that we might have in our work. We are also hoping that the data will function as a tool to advocate for further funding in order to support our community of readers and writers.

Thank you and best wishes,
Samar (dardishi founder)

To take part please visit - https://bit.ly/dardishi_evaluation

21/10/2021

📢We have a new Facebook group!

This community group and safe space from dardishi is for Arab and North African women and gender minority creatives to network, connect, promote your work, share opportunities and much more.

Discover👉http://ow.ly/qVGc50GvaS2

08/09/2021

Announcing our Emerging Programmers October month curated by Luna Issa

* Every Tuesday in October
* 6 Directors
* All North African & Arab women + gender minorities
* 6 Films
* Tickets on a sliding scale

Full info bit.ly/DardishiOct

Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and National Lottery funding from the BFI

17/08/2021

Announcing our Emerging Programmers September month curated by Hannan Jones

* Every Tuesday in September
* 7 Directors
* All North African & Arab women
* 8 Films
* Tickets on a sliding scale

Full info - bit.ly/DardishiSep

Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and National Lottery funding from the BFI.

18/06/2021

Dardishi Festival begins today 18 June - 27 June for a digital focus on Arab & North African women & gender minorities

📽️Films
🗣️Talks
✍️Workshops
🫂Community Care
🎧Sound Walk

Full info 👉 dardishi.com/2021festival

14/06/2021

Huge thanks to The Skinny and Katie Goh for this piece on Dardishi Festival. Head to their website or pick up a physical copy. 4 days to go...

dardishi.com/2021festival

We talk to Dardishi's Samar Ziadat as the platform for Arab and North African women and non-binary people prepares for an all-online edition of its Dardishi Festival.

11/06/2021

📽️A Feeling Greater Than Love - June 24📽️
93 minutes, Dir: Mary Jirmanus Saba, Lebanon, 2017

A poignant essayistic enquiry into the political activism of factory workers, especially women, in Lebanon before the outbreak of the civil war in 1975.

Through present-day interviews and discussions alongside archival footage, Jirmanus Saba constructs a lucid and informative conversation between past and present, questioning why this type of popular activism now seems to belong to a lost era. Drawing proudly on Lebanon’s militant filmmaking tradition, A Feeling Greater Than Love (Shu'our Akbar Min el Hob) (2017) seeks to reconstruct the spirit of the workers’ revolts, looking to the past to enquire as to how we might transform the present.

🎟️ bit.ly/feelinggreater

09/06/2021

Dardishi Festival film strand includes:

📽️The Feeling of Being Watched - June 23📽️
87 minutes, Dir: Assia Boundaoui, USA, 2018

In the Arab-American neighbourhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbours think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11, code-named “Operation Vulgar Betrayal.” With unprecedented access, The Feeling of Being Watched weaves the personal and the political as it follows the filmmaker’s examination of why her community fell under blanket government surveillance.

🎟️bit.ly/JasadQueen

07/06/2021

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07/06/2021

Dardishi Festival film strand includes:
📽️ Hollywood Harems Screening & Lecture - 22 June 📽️

24 minutes, Dir: Tania Kamal-Eldin, Egypt (1999)

Join us for a screening of Hollywood Harems, and an introductory lecture from the film’s director, Tania Kamal-Eldin.

This half-hour documentary takes critical aim at Hollywood's abiding fascination with and fantasies about all things east. Juxtaposing film clips from the 20s through the 60s, 70s, and 80s, Kamal-Eldin explores the organisation of gender, race, and s*xuality in Hollywood's portrayal of the exotic east - an indiscriminate fusion of things Arab, Persian, Chinese and Indian. She argues, convincingly, that in abridging cultural plurality and difference, these technicolor fantasies have worked both to shape and reinforce often derogative assumptions about peoples of the east while at the same time reinscribing the moral, spiritual, and cultural supremacy of the Anglo-European west.

🎟️ bit.ly/hollywoodharems

06/06/2021

Dardishi Festival film strand includes:
📽️ Jasad and the Queen of Contradictions - June 19 📽️

40 minutes, Dir: Amanda Homsi-Ottosson, UK/Lebanon (2011)

The film tackles the subject of s*xuality in Lebanon, giving insight on the rare use of the Arabic language to discuss s*x and erotica.

Lebanese poet and writer Joumana Haddad has stirred controversy in the Middle East for having founded Jasad (the Body), an erotic quarterly Arabic-language magazine. Dedicated to the body’s art, science and literature, Jasad is one of the first of its kind in the Arab world and has caused a big debate in the Arabic region not only for its explicit images, erotic articles and essays on s*x in Arabic but also for the fact that an Arab woman is behind it all.

🎟️bit.ly/JasadQueen

03/06/2021

Dardishi founder Samar Ziadat will be taking part in Shubbak Festival x afikra Rountable Series - Saturday, June 12, 7-8pm

This is ahead of our proud partnership with Shubbak as part of our upcoming festivals.

RSVP via afikra.com/events/shubbakroundtable2

03/06/2021

A big part of this year's Dardishi Festival is the theme of wellness

22 June, Thalia Khreino presents a yoga session designed to help you fully be where you are now in this moment in time. (BPOC only)

Book your place 👉 bit.ly/yogaherenow

01/06/2021

Dardishi 2021: Designer in Residence Nour Elshamy

We chatted recently with Cairo-born and based Nour about influences, creative journeys, and inspirations for this year’s designs for Dardishi Festival

✏️bit.ly/NourElshamy

01/06/2021

Dardishi Festival partners with Shubbak Festival June 26 for talk: Gender Transgression, (de-)legitimacy and Imposter Syndrome

This talk attempts to analyse the place of South West Asian and North African (SWANA) female academics and journalists in mainstream academia and media.

🔖 Full info + tickets: bit.ly/gendertransgressionde

31/05/2021

Save the date!

We are delighted to be partnering with afikra for a series of roundtable discussions featuring members of the Shubbak team, a selection of our presenting partners and dardishi, and festival artists from this summer's programme (tba).
🔴 The mini series kicks off on Saturday 5th June, 5pm (BST) with Shubbak Artistic Director, Eckhard Thiemann, Senior Programmer, Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso and Young Shubbak member, Riwa Saab in conversation with Mikey Muhanna about Shubbak Festival's 10 year history and its future.
🔴 This event is free but registration is required. Book here: https://bit.ly/3fBaqUY

28/05/2021

Dardishi Festival partners with Palestine Feminist Collective June 21 for online talk: Palestine is a Feminist Issue

This will explore asking why are Palestinian women forcibly excluded from mainstream feminism? What is the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement? Are there feminist commitments I can make to support Palestinian liberation? Join this talk and Q&A with the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) for answers to these questions and more.

🔖Full info bit.ly/PalestineFeministCollective