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