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Songs of Opacity // أناشيد العتامة // ⵉⵣⵍⴰⵏ ⵏ ⵜⴰⵍⵍⴰⵙⵜ

23 - 25 July 2026
At LE 18

[For Arabic and Tamazight check pinned comments]

Entitled Songs of Opacity, this second iteration of the Complicity and Conspiracy in Film Translation program follows the program's first edition in Beirut in March 2025. It suggests the audio-visual medium as a space that can host the complex and nuanced interactions between the oral and the written. Rather than providing an unquestioned access to another language, the films in this edition focus the subtitle as a threshold of connection and meaning in unusual and unexpected ways.

Link in bio for detailed information on the program and the films.

This program is curated by Nour Ouayda in collaboration with LE 18 and Omar Berrada and is realized in the framework of NAAS’ curatorial fellowship 2025-2026.

Arabic translations: Mahammad Hoogla-Kalfat
Tamazight translations: Omar Moujane
Visual design: Meryem Fekhari

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⁨ [English in comments]
كان مشروع فريد وستيفانو « المشاعات التحتية: التخطيط الهارب والدراسة السوداء » باللغة العربية فكرة هشة، جنونية، مستحيلة وجميلة بما يكفي لجمع الهاربين والمنقطعين/المنسحبين الذين كانوا في أمس الحاجة إليها.
في أزمنة وأماكن مختلفة، تصادمت كلماتهم وصورهم وأصواتهم لتتفاعل مع سياسات غير القابل للترجمة، وبناء شروح صوتية وبصرية تربط بين العوالم، والسماح لأنفسهم بالانجراف داخل مجالات قوة ملحمية قائمة على الارتجال والاستطراد، حولت فعل الترجمة إلى أرشيف يشهد على فظاعات تتزايد باستمرار، من النهر إلى البحر.
لم نكن نعتقد أننا سننجح في الاجتماع حتى اجتمعنا. ولكن على مدار خمسة أيام في شهر ماي، اجتمعت مجموعة من غير المنضبطين لقراءة أعمال بعضهم البعض، والاستماع إلى المقالات الصوتية لشبكة، وترجمة أجزاء من الفصل الثاني للمرة الأولى حضوريا، ومناقشة مقاربات الترجمة والاختلاف حولها، والضحك، والشرب، والتعرف إلى مساهمين جدد مثل ر.أ. جودي، الذي كان عمله « الطيران القلق » قد ألهم بعض نقاشاتنا السابقة.
لا توجد كلمات كثيرة لوصف ذلك؛ ربما فقط بعض الصور، وإحساس عميق بالامتنان لفريد على كرمه، وثقته، وصداقته. وكذلك على مشاركته بعضا من أشعاره معنا، إلى جانب شبكة، في الصينية.⁩

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📖🌐 Read Hamed Ashour’s (@7amed.ashour) ‘We’ll Meet Tomorrow in the Daylight’, a selection of texts that, together, form series of portraits of people and places in Gaza amid the ongoing genocide. This is part of Writing Gaza, an editorial initiative conceived by Omar Berrada (@omarbrrd) and Shivangi Mariam Raj (@mirrorsandwater) supporting writers and artists from Gaza.

📷 Image — Ahmad Al-Adawy (@adawyahmad), A Heavy Guest (2025), digital art. Courtesy of the artist.

#IbraazPublishing #Ibraaz #WritingGaza

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Sorry to all you great Baba’s out there, Omar really takes the cake!

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Included in Danspace Project’s Journal Issue #19 is a poem by Moroccan poet and translator Omar Berrada, one of the Writers-in-Residence of Platform 2020.

This poem-sequence was written in 2025 from notes Berrada took during a solo performance by Meryem Jazouli, titled “Folkah!” presented by Danspace Project on March 9th, 2020 (part of Platform 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, co-curated by Okwui Okpokwasili and Judy Hussie-Taylor).

📷: Meryem Jazouli, Folkah! Photo: Ian Douglas

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Following the opening of ‘Elegy’ in Venice, we gathered outside the Chiesa di Sant’Antonin for a public reading of the ‘Elegy Reader’, a compilation of over 50 poems gathered from Palestine, Namibia, South Africa, Lebanon, DRC, Sudan, and other sites of imperial rupture. Over 170 artists, curators, allies and friends offered their presence and voice, activating a communal work of mourning, solidarity and care. This was a tender (but radical) intervention within the unravelling crisis of the Venice Biennale (and so much more). It was a gathering in the wake, an assembly of broken words, impossibly held - of poems, sounding in the cut, the break, the open-wound, each of them offering another breath-space to enter.

Thank you to those who read, shared and listened - I really haven’t the words. Thank you also to Ibraaz for envisioning and publishing the ‘Elegy Reader’, and to those courageous spaces, partners and friends whose efforts and care made this gathering possible.

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I remember the beginning
a dream ancient as dawn
a dream of destiny drumming up the blood
the flesh
this earth
a dream we were once one
soul

- ‘Soul’, by Assotto Saint

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Special thanks to Lina Lazaar, Maneo Mohale, Niamh Dunphy, Odessa Warren, Omar Berrada, Zoé Samudzi, Ghazal Mosadeq, Hammad Nasar, Nazli Akhtari, Anthony Downey, Alex Fletcher, So Mayer, Sara Hamed, Luke Roberts, and all those who helped in the compilation and production of this extraordinary volume. And above all, my utmost thanks to the poets and publishers who lovingly availed their words and work 🖤

Video by @domenicopalma_1
Photo by @lucameneghel_
Design by @naadirapatel____

#berthafoundation @ibraazlondon @ica_milano @galleriaraffaellacortese #friendsofelegy

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Join us for a collective public reading of the Elegy Reader in Venice.

It has been a joy and privilege to compile this collection of tender, searing, grieving voices with the Ibraaz community, and of course my beloved collaborator on ‘Elegy - for a poet’ @maneomohale

Introducing the Elegy Reader

Gabrielle Goliath’s much anticipated independent exhibition of ‘Elegy’ in Venice will be expanded by the Elegy Reader. Presented by Ibraaz Publishing, this collective publication gathers poems from sites of rupture across the global south, from Palestine to Lebanon, Sudan, South Africa, and beyond.

On Thursday, 7 May, 5–7PM, a public gathering will take place outside Chiesa di Sant’Antonin. Artists, contributors, and guests will read from the Elegy Reader, activating a communal work of mourning that foregrounds solidarity, resilience, survival, and collective creative expression. Copies of the reader will be freely available at the event.

The launch of the Elegy Reader in Venice is intended as an insurgent intervention within the Biennale context, asserting voice, presence and poetry against conditions of violence and disregard. As a collective assembly, the Elegy Reader brings together over 50 poems, comprising works by Heba Abunada, Forough Farrokhzad, Danielle Legros Georges, Maneo Mohale, amongst many others. This collection has been shaped alongside Nazli Akhtari, Omar Berrada, So Mayer, Maneo Mohale, Ghazal Mosadeq, Zoé Samudzi, among others.

Conceived not as an accompaniment but as an extension of ‘Elegy’, the reader opens a shared space for mourning, insisting on grief as a collective and political act. Bringing together voices responding to histories of displacement, colonialism, and genocide, this gathering centres mourning as a radical basis for community, forging connections in and across difference.

How to Participate:

Offer your presence and voice for a 1-minute reading. Register for a 30-minute slot and join us on the 7th to read your selected poem from the Elegy Reader. See link in bio to register.

@ibraazlondon @kamel_lazaar_foundation www.elegyinvenice.com

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برزخيات…
📸 @promotheus_1492

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Read Batool Abu Akleen’s (@batool_abu_akleen) haunting essay, ‘Hunger is Hunting Me’, on Ibraaz Publishing.

The essay is part of Writing Gaza, an editorial initiative conceived by Omar Berrada (@omarbrrd) and Shivangi Mariam Raj (@mirrorsandwater) supporting writers and artists from Gaza.

🔗 Read on Ibraaz Publishing via the link in bio.

📸 Image by Batool Abu Akleen

#Ibraaz #IbraazPublishing #WritingGaza

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Read Haidar Al-Ghazali's (@haidar.ghazali) powerful short story, ‘Won’t the Body of This Endless Night Decay?’, on Ibraaz Publishing.

This story is part of Writing Gaza, an editorial initiative that supports writers and artists living in Gaza, conceived by Omar Berrada (@omarbrrd) and Shivangi Mariam Raj (@mirrorsandwater).

🔗📖 Read on Ibraaz Publishing via the link in bio.

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Drawing by Haidar Al-Ghazali (detail). Courtesy of the artist.

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Morocco, in focus this month.
And this one if for you @zinalouhaichy

From Gnawa-infused psychedelic concerts to literature conversations and film screenings, this is a curation of Moroccan-led events across NYC, layered, varied, and very much alive.

If you’ve been looking for Moroccan events in NYC or something that moves between music, film, and conversation, start here.

#Moroccan #MoroccanNYC #Gnawa #moroccanmovie #arabnyc

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Etel Adnan once told Marie Regan that if you want to meet Omar & Sarah, just go to the place Jemma el Efna in Marrakech, and ask for them (or something like that). Happy Anniversary Love this month in all the places we are and wish we could be 💕💕 We fell in love trying to stop war in Iraq and though it seems war is stronger, it is, in fact, LOVE

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