Fargo Nissim Tbakhi

already everywhere

JOIN US SUNDAY 1-3pm MAKE A WAY is an exhibit of three Palestinian multidisciplinary artists working at the intersection of text and image. Palestinian thought and expression has long been calcified by the market’s capricious and violent nature, forced into simplistic and reductive narratives and easy, legible symbols. The ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people is a war of images as much as a war of text, dispersed and circulated by Zionism and its attendant, constituent support-systems (racism, imperialism, terrorism, international law). By working directly to manipulate and distort these oppressive languages (both text and image), the artists in MAKE A WAY seek to subvert and reveal formal violence and gesture towards possible alternatives. Across visual poetry, painting, and video work, Carolina Ebeid, Adam Chamy, and Fargo Nissim Tbakhi enact new forms of artistic engagement with the long shadows of settler-colonial knowledge- and culture-production, in search of how liberation might be spelled, curved, illuminated. Featuring: Fargo Nissim Tbakhi Carolina Ebeid Adam Chamy Co-curated by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi and Layne Garrett Exhibit runs March 1 - 28 Opening Reception: Sunday March 1, 1-3pm Workshop (details tba): Wednesday March 11, 7pm Closing Reception / Artist Talks: Saturday March 28, 1-3pm Open during all events, or email us ([email protected]) to schedule a different time to view

Cinema from the Watchlist returns— February features two films from Iran, both engaging in surreal, beguiling, abstracted visions of the tears in communal and social fabric; a seminal Turkish neo-Western inflected by social realist filmmaking, whose prints were nearly lost during the 1980 coup; and a new restoration of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina’s epic tracing the development of the Algerian revolution across decades. Tickets on sale now at sunscinema.com

On Thursday January 22 from 7-9pm Ahmad Almallah, Mandy Shunnarah @offthebeatenshelf , Fargo Nissim Tbakhi @youknowfargo , and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenatuffaha will read as part of our 30th Showcase Exhibition reading series. For this evening’s reading, all event donations and proceeds from book sales that would otherwise benefit Poets House will be donated to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund @thepcrf The Showcase is a literary exhibition and reading series dedicated to the art and joy of published poetry all in one room. Collecting every type of poetry from every type of publisher, from hand-threaded zines to books from large commercial houses, this winter’s exhibition includes poetry works from 2024 and 2025. The Showcase will be on view and open to the public during library hours from December 13, 2025 through mid-February 2026. There is no fee to visit the library or view the exhibition. See the link in our bio for more information and to RSVP for all the events in the reading series!

this month’s Cinema from the Watchlist features an eclectic mix of films loosely oriented around the form of the prison: its aftershocks, internalizations, diffusions, and nationalizations. Featuring: Jafar Panahi’s new film, It Was Just An Accident (sold out), paired with Raed Andoni’s Ghost Hunting, one of my favorite films ever and a stunning work about performance. Cherien Dabis’ new film All That’s Left of You, paired with her first film, Amreeka. And finally, the late Peter Watkins’ incendiary masterpiece, Punishment Park, paired with Sarah Maldoror’s vital Sambizanga. All tickets on sale now at sunscinema.com

days late, dollars short, but: another year in performance— published a book, performed with the book, got canceled by the whitney, started a film series at work, joined with friends and comrades in commiseration and learning, went many places, hoped and continue to hope that i might be offering anything to anyone. more and more and more and the heart breaks and keeps on breaking each and every day. until this world dies the death it deserves, a little more, a little more

THIS SUNDAY: SUNS CINEMA —> CINEMA AL SHAMS join @pmnall and i for a Cinema from the Watchlist Yalda! screenings of two films by experimental Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari (tix still available!) @davidjcab on the decks for some music. a new signature arak cocktail, some Yalda snacks, a Palestinian rosé made from Baladi grapes and a smooth, crisp Palestinian pilsner. special guest appearance by orman, prince of mount pleasant. spend the longest night of the year with your habayeb. we love you 🫶

some images from our symposium on palestinian performance last month— beautiful and brilliant collaborators in a beautiful space <3 i’m hoping to write something further about it that can capture how meaningful the night felt. but for now just endless gratitude to my fellow artists and everyone at CPR for making it happen. OPEN DOOR: crying out we make a noise we do not recognize: a symposium of/on palestinian performance curated by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, at CPR – Center for Performance Research, November 16, 2025. Image courtesy CPR. Photos by Elyse Mertz. @e.mertz.photography

CINEMA FROM THE WATCHLIST: December Four Sundays of Palestinian film at Suns. New and old films by Annemarie Jacir and Kamal Aljafari. Documentaries by Jumana Manna and Mary Jirmanus Saba. Romcoms, historical epics, experimental documentaries. Me and Peyman behind the bar cooking up drinks and vibes. Surprises to come. Tickets at sunscinema.com. (Before you ask, yes Palestine 36 is sold out. See one of the other ones!) 12/7: PALESTINE 36 + THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY 12/14: GAZA MON AMOUR + WAJIB 12/21: WITH HASAN IN GAZA + A FIDAI FILM 12/28 FORAGERS + WILD RELATIVES + A FEELING GREATER THAN LOVE

“Reading the words of these brilliant young writers is not only a privilege but an obligation, one we all ought to fulfill.” - @youknowfargo on THE FINAL SCENE, a new zine collecting 14 letters between Jehad and Esraa, two friends in Gaza who wrote to each other throughout the war; accompanied by illustrations by Esraa. ✦ Available from the @maamoulpress  shop as a risograph printed zine, or as a PDF, all proceeds will support Esraa and Jehad. Link in bio. ✦ Order both FIREFLIGHT and THE FINAL SCENE, supporting young artists in Gaza, and get the RETURN print bundle free, available while supplies last, more details on the website.

🇵🇸THIS SUNDAY 🇵🇸Join us for crying out we make a noise we do not recognize: a symposium of/on palestinian performance curated by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi. Fargo Nissim Tbakhi: “What is a Palestinian performance in this moment of genocide, catastrophe, the world clinging to its fundamental qualities as we are annihilated? What does it do? Who does it reach? Who, sorrowfully, closes their eyes and ears and heart to its hatred, its grief, its stubborn insistence on survival? How does it circulate, make anything possible, get eaten and metabolized by the vultures of a counterrevolutionary art world? Why do we do it? Towards those questions, this event gathers Palestinian performance artists across medium, genre, place, and practice for an afternoon and evening of performance, research, and performance-research.” Curated by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, featuring work by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Mette Loulou von Kohl, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi with support by Ethan Philbrick, and Muyassar Yousef Kurdi. 💚💚💚 PROGRAM 🍉Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us | فقط أصوات ترتعش في أجسادنا is part of the ongoing project May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth. 🍉Mette Loulou von Kohl: There are no words, so may it be the end is a satirical commentary on the “counter-terror” industry of Zionist state. 🍉Fargo Nissim Tbakhi: TERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages–interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical–constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians. Featuring performance support by Ethan Philbrick. 🍉Muyassar Kurdi: “Body Poetics: Falling” is an interdisciplinary performance that weaves together sound, image, and ritual. More about the artists and their work at 🔗in bio. 💚💚💚 OPEN DOOR crying out we make a noise we do not recognize: a symposium of/on palestinian performance curated by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi Sunday, November 16, from 5-9 P.M. 🎟 Tickets: $0-$25, pay what you can, 🔗 in bio 📍 CPR, 361 Manhattan Ave, Williamsburg @youknowfargo @basel.abb @ruanne.ar #metteloulouvonkohl @muyassarkurdi @ethanphilbrick 💚💚💚 Image credits in comments.

Fargo and Peyman Present: Cinema From the Watchlist   An exercise in friendship and solidarity on the cultural front, the inaugural month of Cinema From the Watchlist pairs films from Iran and Palestine to highlight shared cultural production at the edges of imperialist brutality. It takes its inspiration from a desire to exchange and spotlight cultural approaches from distinctive historical and material contexts while responding to shared experiences on both the surveillance-punitive and the exotic-fetishizing watchlist of modernity. Showcasing a diverse range of stylistic and thematic approaches, Cinema From the Watchlist offers a space for the deeper cuts, the weirder ones, the older and the newer ones— the ones they don’t want you to see. November 9th: Crimson Gold + Salt of This Sea Class anxiety internalized and metabolized. Displacement inside and outside the bounds of empire. Ugly feelings. November 23rd: Chronicle of a Disappearance + Universal Language. Whimsy in/as the face of cruelty. Doing bits at the ends of the world. Magical realist silent film chic. November 30th: No One Knows About Persian Cats + Slingshot Hip-Hop The material circumstances of producing resistant bangers. Beats and beatdowns. Sonic front fugitives.