Join us at B7L9 Art Centre on Friday, May 8 at 6:30 PM for Gender, Art and Body Politics in the Middle East and its Diasporas a talk by Prof. Nadje Al-Ali and Prof. Kathryn Spellman Poots .Over the past three years, Nadje Al-Ali and Kathryn Poots have been in dialogue with artists from the Middle East and its diasporas whose work engages with questions of gender, body politics, resistance, and transnational solidarity. Featuring works by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Tania El Khoury, Annabel Daou, Morehshin Allahyari, Amitis Motevalli, Sama Alshaibi, Fatma Bucak, and Niga Salam, the presentation explores how artists respond to war, displacement, authoritarianism, and Islamophobia. It highlights how personal and collective experiences of loss, exile, and inequality are transformed into powerful forms of artistic expression—foregrounding art as a space of knowledge production, where alternative political imaginaries emerge, and where gender and embodiment become tools to rethink power, identity, and community. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. Friday, May 8 6:30 PM B7L9 Art Centre Registration is required— https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/ViiDm2aESK