Mumtalakat website launch

Thursday, January 19, 4:30-6:00 PM
4th Space, 1400 boul. de Maisonneuve O.
Free, in Arabic, French and English

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Join Emma Haraké and guests at neighbouring 4th Space for the launch and a discussion on the multilingual Mumtalakat website. Meaning possessions in Arabic, Mumtalakat centers on eight interviews between Haraké and local Arabic speakers invited to reflect on their migration experience through a selection of personal objects that accompanied them. Alongside these testimonies are images of their objects, critical texts by Hoda Adra, Abeer Esber, and May Telmissany exploring questions of displacement, language, and oral history, an introduction by Haraké, a bibliography, and interview transcriptions. Designed by DJÖYN, Mumtalakat has been developed for close listening and reading on desktop and mobile browsers, and all text content is available in Arabic, French, and English.

With Basheer Amin, Abeer Esber, Joëlle Ghanem, and Zaki Mahfoud

Mumtalakat is the culmination of a collaboration between the Ellen Art Gallery and Emma Haraké, commencing in 2017 with exhibition tours in Arabic, followed in 2019 by an exhibition in the Gallery of an initial five interviews, and a series of participatory workshops and events between ending in 2022.