Ibrahim Nehme

Ibrahim Nehme #WhatIamReadingNow ____________________ 📚Read in full on our blog 🔗 Link in bio ____________________ Biography Ibrahim Nehme is a writer, editor, and cultural organizer based in Beirut. He is the Director of Beirut Art Center and the founding editor of The Outpost magazine. His work moves between curating, publishing, and collective imagination, exploring how art can open portals toward more livable futures. Across his projects, he is committed to practices of creativity, care, and community-building that nurture new possibilities for cultural life. ____________________ Images Portrait by Joan Sousa Books courtesy Ibrahim Nehme ID in ALT text Follow @iai.ee @beirutartcenter ____________________ What I am Reading Now… invites Black practitioners and practitioners of colour to share, with a preface, a selection of five readings that are shaping their current thinking, research and practice. #DJCADCommunity #DundeeUniCulture

In February 2016, in a strange twist of fate, I found myself at the home of Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal in Paris. I had flown there for the sole purpose of meeting with Etel to record an interview with her. I had initially planned to publish our conversation in the Home issue of The Outpost, the magazine I edited and published at the time. But just before going to print, and for reasons that were not very clear to me then, I decided to pull the interview from the issue. I had a strong feeling that I should wait on it, that the time was not yet ripe for it. Patience is a virtue, I reminded myself, especially if you are sitting on a recording of Etel Adnan. In the next five years, I listened to this record several times from different angles, wondering what to do with it, often doubting my decision not to publish it when I had the chance. Yet I was still guided by the feeling that the time hadn’t come yet. The interview was expansive, like Etel herself, who lived several lives and bore witness to histories both crude and crucial. My own memories of the interview are akin to a phantasmagoric journey, yet hazy. I remember going in a little nervously with my jumble of notes and tiny white Sony recorder, which my first editor had gifted me when I went into journalism just before I turned 20. I remember the conversation being interrupted several times — by the sweet woman who comes and cooks for them, the phone, the doorbell, until Etel grew visibly agitated by those interruptions and stopped answering them. I remember emerging onto the streets of Paris after the interview in a daze. I walked for hours under light drizzle and the luminous moon, trying to grasp the immensity of what had just transpired. Etel was a giant and I am grateful to have met her. —@iai.ee Issue 1, Agency Photography by @simonefattal

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BAC Summer Rooftop Program | 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘐𝘯 𝘔𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘐𝘯 𝘔𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 transforms Beirut Art Center’s rooftop into a site for artistic and social encounter. The title, drawn from the Arabic expression «في فمي ماء» , gestures toward what remains unsaid, the tensions, constraints, and unvoiced realities shaping life in the city. Conceived as a summer program, it brings together site-specific commissions, live ciné-concerts, and practical workshops. While not strictly about water, the program takes it as a starting point to think through questions of sustainability, maintenance, and infrastructural precarity in Beirut’s urban fabric. In a city where rooftops are largely occupied by water tanks, satellite dishes, and the residue of failed planning, 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘐𝘯 𝘔𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 reclaims this overlooked terrain as a provisional public space. Through gestures that merge artistic practice with everyday know-how, the program considers how states of liquidity, whether environmental, social, or emotional, can open up spaces for resilience, interdependence, and reimagined forms of resource-sharing. 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘐𝘯 𝘔𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 borrows its name, with permission, from an exhibition by Raymond Gemayel, a title that resonates with the broader themes of our summer program. Artists and Practitioners: Anthony Sahyoun, Chehab Al Jassem, Elyse Tabet, Jad Atoui, Joseph Junior Sfeir, Joseph Kai, Lea Kayrouz, Mona Ayoub, Nathalie Harb, Nohyee El-Ard, Patrick Abi Abdallah, Ralph Chbeir, Raymond Gemayel, Rawad Kanj, Snakeskin (Julia Sabra, Fadi Tabbal), Taleb El Sajj, Wetsilhouette (Anthony Tawil, Claudia Khachan, Ziad Moukarzel). Curated by Ibrahim Nehme and Joseph Kesrouani. Visual by Robin Khalil (@rob_khalil ) Program details to follow. الترجمة في الكومنتس

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بطة وأبو بطة #daddysgirl

UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVE GENIUS with Ibrahim Nehme Saturday February 24 4:00 to 7:00 pm @beitellaffe   break through creative blocks, cultivate fresh ideas, expand your perspectives   In this workshop with @iai.ee , you will embark on a journey of self-discovery to explore the boundless potential of your creativity.   Using a mix of creative exercises, mindfulness practices, and storytelling techniques, this three-hour interactive session is designed to enhance your creative flow, unlock your creative expression, and equip you with tools to help foster a more dynamic creative process in your life.   Are you ready to stretch your imagination and unleash your creative genius? Whether you’re an artist, entrepreneur, or simply seeking to ignite your creative spark, this workshop is for you.   •DM to book your spot ————————————- Meet Ibrahim Ibrahim Nehme has spent the last 20 years exploring the infinite potentials of the creative mind and learning so much in the process. His quest has inspired a number of creative endeavors, most notably @kiteverse.app and @magofpossibilities , which The Guardian has described as a “reminder of the power of the imagination to shift perspectives.”

my grand beauty #porty

Spring Spring Spring is a poetry performance that draws on my musings in the last seven years, following a fateful encounter with poet Etel Adnan at her home in Paris during the final days of the Arab Spring.  Spring Spring Spring travels hopefully in the imagination and becomes the stage for new futures and prophecies to unravel. This body of work, which is still forming, is an attempt to prove in poetic witness that the Arab Spring has not been lost.  Commissioned by @theaterneumarkt where it premiered last month Thanks to @hayat.erdogan & @tinemilz for their trust and to @tanya_traboulsi for her flower visuals

part two: the jazz and jasmines

the summer that led to @kiteverse.app / part one: the joy