Workshop: Febrik at Southbank Centre

28 June 2026

Febrik leads The Rituals of Settling, a participatory workshop organised with Southbank Centre and Counterpoints Arts as part of Refugee Week. Drawing on the Southbank Centre Archive, the workshop uses text, storytelling and pillows to collectively imagine new rituals and policies of settling and unsettling.

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Jury Member: AFAC – Ecologies of Culture

2026 March

Mohamad Hafeda serves as a jury member for Ecologies of Culture – Creative Placemaking, a programme by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) supporting participatory artistic and cultural initiatives that reimagine spaces, foster community engagement and explore new forms of belonging across the Arab region.

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Invited Lecture: Temporal Bordering at the University of Sheffield

3 March 2026

Mohamad Hafeda presents Temporal Bordering: Displacement and the Reconfiguration of Time, an invited lecture at the University of Sheffield, exploring how displacement and borders shape experiences of time through participatory filmmaking.

Lecture and Workshop: DAAR at The Bartlett

9 February 2026

Hosting DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research) for Learning Through Displacement: Pedagogies for the Colonial Present, part of The Bartlett School of Architecture's CRUNCH series, UCL.

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Journal Editorial: Border Fictions

27 October 2025

Co-editing Border Fictions, a special issue of Architecture and Culture, with Paula McCloskey and Sam Vardy. The issue explores border fictioning as a critical and creative method for questioning and challenging borders.

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Exhibition and Artist Talk: Art in Times of War, Paris

17 March 2025

Mohamad Hafeda presents work alongside Maha Al-Daya and Nathalie Harb in Art in Times of War: Threading Spaces of Displacement, Exile and Genocide, a one-day exhibition and artist talk at Reid Hall, Paris. Organised by Hiba Bou Akar in collaboration with Sciences Po and Columbia University, the event includes a discussion moderated by Hiba Bou Akar.

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Art Commission: Touch, Inscription Journal

2024

Commissioned artwork by Mohamad Hafeda featured in Inscription: The Journal of Material Text, Issue 4, Touch, alongside contributions by artists and writers exploring the material and sensory dimensions of text.

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Exhibition: Shall We Sit Together? at The Mosaic Rooms

19 November 2023 – 12 January 2024

Febrik presents Shall We Sit Together? Settings of Care, an exhibition developed through a year-long collaboration with The Mosaic Rooms Young Collective. The project explores the political and social dimensions of sitting and working together, examining care, protection and solidarity through participatory artistic practices.

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Curatorial Project: On Rooftops and Under the Ground, Beirut

1–15 July 2023

On Rooftops and Under the Ground is a series of artistic interventions exploring Beirut's urban conditions and infrastructural challenges in times of crisis. Initiated by Hiba Bou Akar in collaboration with Mohamad Hafeda and Temporary Art Platform (TAP), the project brings together artistic and spatial practices responding to the city's changing conditions.

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Solo Exhibition: The Time While Waiting at The Art House

27 May – 24 June 2023

Mohamad Hafeda presents The Time While Waiting, a solo exhibition at The Art House, Wakefield, UK. Developed through three years of participatory research with people seeking asylum, the exhibition premieres the film of the same title alongside visual mappings and timelines exploring the temporalities of displacement and crisis in online news media.

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