Featuring... has been presented at ISAM Gabès from 3 - 10 November 2025. The project was created during a residency at LA BOÎTE in 2024 and reconsiders roles within the art field, blurring the boundaries between artist and audience. For Kaabi-Linke, one key difference between artists and non-artists lies in memory. Artists preserve the creativity of childhood, while others often forget it, convinced they lack talent. Working with employees of a pharmaceutical company, she supported the realisation of their own artistic ideas. Featuring… is not a conventional artist’s journey, but a conceptual exploration of authorship, identity and shared creativity. Featuring features collaborative artprojects with Abir Ben Ali, Mohamed Hameda, Raouf Hamouda, Manel Naili, Safa Rahmen, and Sana Slama.

This exhibition brings together new works by Mohamed Abdelkarim, Laila Hida, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, and Siska, four artists who approach the port as both material reality and metaphor. Their projects grew from residencies in Liverpool in 2024, where the artists engaged with the city’s maritime infrastructures and its entanglement in slavery, trade, and migration. Each returned to their own shoreline—Alexandria, Tunis, Marrakech, and Beirut—asking what it means to live with the sediments of these legacies today.  At Beirut Art Center, the exhibition extends the conversations sparked by the rooftop program Water In My Mouth, which used water as a lens to think about sustainability, fragility, and collective resilience. Here, those questions return to the shoreline, asking what kinds of imaginaries might emerge from the city’s liquid thresholds. Exhibition Dates 9 October – 6 December 2025 Beirut Art Center  Port Cities: A collaborative project initiated by Liverpool Arab Arts Festival and British Council MENA

Cities Under Quarantine: The Mailbox Project. The collaborative artist book project curated and edited by Abed Al Kadiri and published by Dongola Publishers will be on display at the Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art in Riyadh's creative hub, the Jax District. The opening will take place place on Thursday, August 28 at 6:00 PM at SAMoCA at Jax, Riyadh.