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Non-profit art gallery and bookshop dedicated to supporting and promoting contemporary culture from Qattan Foundation, a registered charity number 1029450.

We believe in the importance of creating a cultural space that presents new thinking and daring creativity, illuminates ideas, inspires understanding, and interrogates contemporary issues. Our vision is for a London audience with a more informed, engaged and critical understanding of Arab culture and society. We are a non-party political, non-religious organisation, and we are a project of the A.M. Visit The Mosaic Rooms bookshop here: http://www.mosaicrooms.org/category/shop/

Find out about hiring The Mosaic Rooms for your event here: http://www.mosaicrooms.org/venue-hire-details/

Find out more about the A M Qattan Foundation here: http://www.mosaicrooms.org/a-m-qattan-foundation/

19/10/2026

Join us for a special storytelling and book launch celebrating Noor’s Heroes (Kaph Kids), the children’s book series by Myrna Ayad that introduces young readers to remarkable figures from the Arab world. Responding to sounding towards - -, the event will focus on titles from the series dedicated to iconic figures in Arab music and culture. Myrna will read from the books, followed by creative activities for children led by Wasim Al Sisi.

Myrna Ayad is a writer, editor and cultural strategist specialising in the visual arts and culture of the Arab world and Iran. Over the past two decades, she has authored, edited and contributed to numerous books and publications, collaborating with leading international publishers including Rizzoli, Skira, Silvana Editoriale, Assouline, and Kaph Books. She is the founder and author of Noor’s Heroes, a series of illustrated children’s books celebrating Arab greats who have shaped the region’s history, culture and society.

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17/10/2026

Saturday 24 October 2026, 2-4pm
Books for kids: Noor’s Heroes

Join us for a special storytelling and book launch celebrating Noor’s Heroes (Kaph Kids), the children’s book series by Myrna Ayad that introduces young readers to remarkable figures from the Arab world. Responding to sounding towards - -, the event will focus on two titles from the series dedicated to two iconic figures in Arab music and culture: Umm Kulthum and Ziad Rahbani. Myrna will read from the books, followed by creative activities for children led by Wasim Al Sisi.

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15/10/2026

Wednesday 28 October, 7pm
Session 7: Architectures of Self-Determination through Sound
Free, RSVP

In this session, we will explore the ways in which collectives of artists and avant-garde thinkers and dreamers have refused to submit to the rhythms of an oppressive system which both exploits cultural workers and commodifies the music and the artist alike. We will traverse the worlds of the savant Black Jazz and Strata East labels, as well as the feminist label Olivia. The pulse of improvisation and experimentation will be the thread that we unweave to see how new ways of being can indeed transpire.

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14/10/2026

Tiny Fridays! 23 October 12-4pm
Free, drop in

Join our open ended play sessions for under five’s and their grown ups! Using squishy, crunchy, squeaky materials, world building is brought to life.

These sessions are led by artist and play worker Zareen Islam who encourages children to take lead and shape their personal experiences of play.

Designed for ages 0-5
Older siblings are welcome

12/10/2026

A little heads-up: we’re closing early this Thursday at 5pm, so pop by before then!

Thank you for your understanding ✨

05/10/2026

Sharing a quote from Palestinian American poet and translator Fady Joudah as part of a recent interview with Egyptian author and translator Abdelrahman ElGendy, published on Wasafiri magazine’s website. In this conversation, Fady reflects on the practice versus the performance of solidarity and emphasises the need for solidarity with Palestine in the English-speaking world to move beyond its current limits as capitalist morality and symbolic gesture.

We look forward to hear more from Fady in the upcoming Edward W. Said London Lecture.

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01/10/2026

Tiny Fridays! 9 October 12-4pm
Free, drop in

Join our open ended play sessions for under five’s and their grown ups! Using squishy, crunchy, squeaky materials, world building is brought to life.

These sessions are led by artist and play worker Zareen Islam who encourages children to take lead and shape their personal experiences of play.

Designed for ages 0-5
Older siblings are welcome

30/09/2026

Wednesday 7 October, 7pm
Session 6: Space is the place: The quantum physics of Sun Ra
Free, RSVP

In this session, we will orbit around the rich and deeply beautiful cosmologies of Sun Ra. We will unearth the layers of his practice as a musician, intellectual and student of Black epistemologies. He embodied the spirit of refusal, both sonically and in his orientation to the world. Let’s orient to the spirit of Sun Ra so we can better breathe those otherwise multiverses into being.

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24/09/2026

Thursday 1 October, 7pm
Water memories readings and workshop

Bint Mbareh, Emilie Glazer and Marleen Boschen invite you to read, discuss and critique a work-in-progress article on the fragmentation of water and memory in Palestine.

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23/09/2026

We’re launching the programme songs these jaws cannot hold, songs that bear witness to disappearance.

Tracing voices from Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen and other historically entangled places, the programme reflects on the ways sound persists when other forms of presence are threatened by genocide, occupation and siege, as well as colonial and state violence. Drawing from collective vocal practices, the programme aims to open a space for grief, mourning, collective presence and imagination, not bound to a singular time.
Intibint will open the programme with new work, the performance Amman 2024. Accompanied by Kareem Samara on oud and guitar, the set will move through revolutionary Arab songs and linger in soundscapes made with field recordings from Yemen in collaboration with filmmaker Albaraa Mansour, alongside Intibint’s recordings in Jordan during her first family reunion of her family since the Yemen war began in 2015.

Join us on Friday, 25 September, 7pm. RSVP with link in bio🐚

Illustration by Awc Chuwen Wang

Address

226 Cromwell Road, Tower House
London
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Opening Hours

Tuesday	11am - 6pm
Wednesday	11am - 6pm
Thursday	11am - 6pm
Friday	11am - 6pm
Saturday	11am - 6pm
Sunday	9am - 6pm

Telephone

+442073709990

Website

http://www.mosaicrooms.org/

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