• Voices of the Nakba: Salman Abu Sitta, Lena Jayyusi, Mahmoud Zeidan, Diana Allan
    Nov 7 2025

    These living histories and testimonies from first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are shared by contributors the book Voices of the Nakba.


    This conversation took place as part of the Stateless Heritage exhibition by DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti at the Mosaic Rooms in London, 23 November 2021.


    Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine is released by Pluto Press.

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

    Show More Show Less
    49 mins
  • Samia Henni: French architectural violence in Algeria and the Sahara
    Aug 28 2025

    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.

    Show More Show Less
    16 mins
  • David Burns: Indigenous resistance to British nuclear “testing” in Maralinga, South Australia
    Aug 28 2025

    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.

    Show More Show Less
    13 mins
  • Maïa Tellit Hawad: Colonial toxicity and uranium mines in the Sahara
    Aug 28 2025

    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.

    Show More Show Less
    20 mins
  • Alisher Khassengaliyev: Anti-nuclear activism in Kazakhstan
    Aug 28 2025

    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.

    Show More Show Less
    15 mins
  • Nuclear Colonialism Q&A
    Aug 28 2025

    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.

    Show More Show Less
    35 mins
  • Printmaker Mohammad Omar Khalil on slowing down through printmaking
    Jun 19 2025

    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.

    Show More Show Less
    41 mins
  • Abdellatif Laâbi gives advice to young writers + readings from ‘The Bottom of the Jar’
    Apr 4 2025

    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.

    Show More Show Less
    34 mins