Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.

These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'. 

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.

These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'. 

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.

These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'. 

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.

These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'. 

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Part of a four-part series about nuclear colonialism with David Burns, Samia Henni, Alisher Khassenaliyev and Maïa Tellit Hawad, each researching – and resisting – the ongoing damage of nuclear sites and “testing” across the Sahara, Kazakhstan and Maralinga (South Australia). They share about the ongoing physical, environmental and psychological damage of nuclear “testing”, toxicity, and extraction. They discuss the continuing struggle for justice against nuclear colonialism and its disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples.

These discussions took place as part of the exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity'. 

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The painter and printmaker Mohammad Omar Khalil speaks with writer Maya Jaggi about why he works only in black and white, making work as an embodied process, and surviving as a working artist in New York.

In 2020 the Mosaic Rooms hosted ‘Homeland Under My Nails’, an exhibition of Khalil’s prints from 1964 to now. It explores the experimentation and international sensibility of the artist, who trained in Sudan and Italy, and has lived in New York and Asilah since the early 1970s. Curated by Abed AlKadiri, the exhibition showed works from throughout Khalil’s career, some displayed for the first time.

“In black, you meditate more than in colour. Colour is fascinating, attractive, I think of it as superficial. Black and white draws you in.”

🔗 Available to listen on Spotify, Apple Music, and all other streaming platforms.

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Abdellatif Laâbi and translator André Naffis-Sahely read from Laâbi’s novel The Bottom of the Jar in its first English translation, and Laâbi reads a list of advice, wisdoms and aspirations for new writers.

The Bottom of the Jar recreates Laâbi’s childhood city of Fez, Morocco, through Nanoussa, his semi-fictional kindred spirit. It holds the energy of the final days of the French occupation, and the path to liberation.

More lectures, readings, and conversations from the Mosaic Rooms’ archive will be broadcast every month on Radio AlHara. Over the next few months, we’re digging through our recorded archives and sharing some of the voices that have echoed inside our rooms. As we step into a short pause and a moment of transformation, we want to celebrate all that has come before this next chapter. We stay connected on the airwaves.

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Human rights lawyer Raji Sourani delivers a powerful Edward W. Said London Lecture, where he confronts the reality of the ongoing Gaza genocide and Israel's assault on international law and Palestinians. Sourani fled Gaza in late 2023 when his home was bombed, and now lives with his family in Cairo. Sourani is a member of the South African delegation on the genocide case against Israel before the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ).

More lectures, readings, and conversations from the Mosaic Rooms’ archive will be broadcast every month on Radio AlHara. Over the next few months, we’re digging through our recorded archives and sharing some of the voices that have echoed inside our rooms. As we step into a short pause and a moment of transformation, we want to celebrate all that has come before this next chapter. We stay connected on the airwaves.

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Friend’s Kitchen emerges in the aftermath of Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi’s arrival to London in 2012, after a forced exile from Sudan, when he was separated from his wife and children for nearly five years. During late, uncertain nights awake in a strange city, he would write brief, mystical, often stream-of-consciousness texts to post on Facebook, his primary means of communication with loved ones in Khartoum. The midnight musings soon developed into poems.

In this episode, Al-Raddi reads from this collection, with reflections and translations from poets Bryar Bajalan and Shook.

More lectures, readings, and conversations from the Mosaic Rooms’ archive will be broadcast every month on Radio AlHara. Over the next few months, we’re digging through our recorded archives and sharing some of the voices that have echoed inside our rooms. As we step into a short pause and a moment of transformation, we want to celebrate all that has come before this next chapter. We stay connected on the airwaves.

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2020, the Mosaic Rooms hosted a conversation between Karma Nabulsi and Rashid Khalidi around Khalidi’s publication ‘The 100 Years’ War on Palestine’. Khalidi shares 50+ years of research on British imperialism in Palestine and Ireland and the frantic response to the non-violent, grassroots boycott movement. Drawing from his book that weaves together the voices of journalists, poets, and resistance leaders with his own personal experiences, Khalidi journeys us through the hundred-year-long war of occupation, dispossession and colonisation.

More lectures, readings, and conversations from the Mosaic Rooms’ archive will be broadcast every month on Radio AlHara. Over the next few months, we’re digging through our recorded archives and sharing some of the voices that have echoed inside our rooms. As we step into a short pause and a moment of transformation, we want to celebrate all that has come before this next chapter. We stay connected on the airwaves.

Mixing by Justin Tam

Design by Rand Hamdallah

Music by Dirar Kalash

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.