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In advance of the exhibition Tove Jansson: Tales From the Archipelago, we take a look at the island life of this beloved author.

Poet Sean Bonney reflects on the life and work of Amiri Baraka ahead of Saturday’s conference and evening performances at the ICA.

Andy Holden and David Raymond Conroy talk to our associate curator Anna Gritz about their stage adaptation of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - a selection of pieces from David Foster Wallace's collection of short stories.

This is the final blog post by guest blogger Malu Halasa, Writer in Residence for Safar: A Journey though Popular Arab Cinema, a season of classic and contemporary Arab cinema at the ICA from 21 – 27 September 2012.

Following the interwoven lives of eight characters, Kamla Abu Zekry's compelling ensemble film One-Zero (Wahed-Sefr),takes place on the eve of the Egypt v Cameroon match in the 2008 Africa World Cup Final.

In the 1993 film, Terrorism and the Kebab (Al-irhab wal-kabab), building and architecture are more than just backdrops.

Captain Abu Raed is screening tonight at 7pm with a post-screening Q&A with star Nadim Sawalha and director Amin Matalqa.

After a 15-year-long civil war, one way Lebanese artists reflected on the experience was the use or subversion of documentary archives to somehow suggest an alternative reality.

Few Arab musicals have ever attempted to tread the ground of Bosta, a film about the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, exile, lost love and the generational struggle between tradition and modernity.

Just like today's pressures on young men and women in the Middle East to conform to an acceptable Muslim lifestyle, there were similar social pressures in the 1970s for what some would say represents the polar opposite - towards secularism and liberalism.

"Footnote 5: A Six Stage Manifesto On Action" is the fifth live event in Cally Spooner's eight month solo show "Collapsing In Parts" commissioned by International Project Space, Birmingham.

April's two-day conference event celebrated the Independent Group's legacy, here at the very institution which first fostered and encouraged it.

At our recent Culture Now: Twenty Minutes Later, Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel and George Stone discussed their involvement in creating the ground-breaking 80s virtual personality, Max Headroom.