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  • Screening of Bahman Ghobadi’s Half Moon and Music by Mohamed Salah
    Screening of Bahman Ghobadi’s Half Moon and Music by Mohamed Salah

    Posted: Apr 28, 2025

    Live music by Mohamed Salah followed by a screening of Half Moon by Bahman Ghobadi. Date: 29 May, 7:30 pm Tickets: FREE Link to RSVP Address: Maria Hernandez Park Handball Court Brooklyn, NY 11237 We’re delighted to partner with UnionDocs and Brooklyn Maqam for a night of live music and cinema rooted in the rich sonic […]

  • Screening of Christine Gedeon’s Portrait of Michel
    Screening of Christine Gedeon’s Portrait of Michel

    Posted: Mar 26, 2025

    Screening of Portrait of Michel followed by a Q&A with director Christine Gedeon Date: 10 April, 7pm Ticket Price: $10 Link to Tickets Address: UnionDocs 352 Onderdonk Ave, Ridgewood, NY We’re delighted to partner with UnionDocs to co-present A Portrait of Michel, an evocative investigative work by Christine Gedeon! Blending archival materials, family interviews, and […]

  • Book Launch: Ariella Aïcha Azoulay’s Golden Threads
    Book Launch: Ariella Aïcha Azoulay’s Golden Threads

    Posted: Feb 28, 2025

    Book Launch: Ariella Aïcha Azoulay’s Golden Threads & Ariella Aïcha Azoulay in conversation with Michael Zalta  Sunday, March 23 at 5 pm Tickets: $5 *the price of the ticket can be used as a credit toward any purchase at Storm Books (valid day of event). Storm Books 118 Norman Ave Brooklyn, NY   ArteEast and […]

  • Hikayat: Yalda 2024 – The Longest Night of the Year
    Hikayat: Yalda 2024 – The Longest Night of the Year

    Posted: Dec 12, 2024

    Announcing the full Lineup for ArteEast’s first Hikayat program! Yalda 2024 – The Longest Night of the Year Join us for a magical night of storytelling, poetry, performance, music, and art as we celebrate our first Hikayat event: Yaldā  Night, an ancient winter solstice festival that honors the longest and darkest night of the year […]

  • Announcing HIKAYAT: Yalda 2024 – The Longest Night of the Year
    Announcing HIKAYAT: Yalda 2024 – The Longest Night of the Year

    Posted: Dec 4, 2024

    ArteEast is thrilled to announce the launch of our new program: Hikayat Save the date for the launch of HIKAYAT: Yalda 2024 – The Longest Night of the Year Friday, December 20th at Brooklyn Art Haus! HIKAYAT, which means “stories,” “tale,” or “narrative” in Arabic, Armenian, Persian, and Turkish, is a series of themed events […]

  • TRACES OF THE UNKNOWN
    TRACES OF THE UNKNOWN

    Posted: Jul 3, 2024

        TRACES OF THE UNKNOWN Featuring work by: Djibril Diop Mambety and Kaveh Nabatian Curated by Lila Nazemian, ArteEast Programs Director Screening Online: July 18 – 28 RSVP: artearchive.org FREE / $5 suggested donation Limited Availability; US/Canada + Worldwide Screening in-person: Thursday, July 18, 7 pm Screening of Sin La Habana  Followed by Q&A […]

  • THE VIDEO WORKS OF SHERKO ABBAS: Legacies of Personal Archives Made Collective
    THE VIDEO WORKS OF SHERKO ABBAS: Legacies of Personal Archives Made Collective

    Posted: May 30, 2024

    THE VIDEO WORKS OF SHERKO ABBAS: Legacies of Personal Archives Made Collective Online screening: June 20 – 30 RSVP: artearchive.org Available worldwide FREE / $5 suggested donation In-person Screening: Friday, June 21 Selections from the Video Works of Sherko Abbas Post Screening Q&A with Xeyal Qertel, Director of the NY Kurdish Film Festival Maysles Documentary […]

  • Stories From the Center of the World | Readings from Jordan Elgrably and Omar El-Akkad
    Stories From the Center of the World | Readings from Jordan Elgrably and Omar El-Akkad

    Posted: Apr 29, 2024

    Join editor Jordan Elgrably and author Omar El-Akkad for readings from their acclaimed new book, Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction. Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 6 – 7 PM End times are approximate. Events may end early or late. Location:  Tompkins Square Library 331 East 10th Street New York, NY 10009 Fully […]

  • REVOLUTION OF THE WIND
    REVOLUTION OF THE WIND

    Posted: Apr 2, 2024

    REVOLUTION OF THE WIND is a series of Syrian autobiographical fiction and documentary films exploring migration, grief, memory and history following the political instability of the Arab Spring.

  • Walid Raad’s NFT Drop
    Walid Raad’s NFT Drop

    Posted: Sep 7, 2022

    Save the date: September 24 is the next drop of artist Walid Raad’s Festival of Gratitude NFT: slices from Ayatollah Khomeini’s birthday cake! Learn more about the Festival of Gratitude collection, a series of computer-generated birthday cakes for global dictators, strongmen and strongwomen, kings and queens, princes and princesses, emirs, sheikhs and sheikhas, sultans, shahs, […]