EAF are excited to be collaborating with Haven for Artists on the UK launch of their new print publication: I Will Always Be Looking For You. This launch will be the public debut of the first print edition of what is envisioned as a continuing series of anthologies. It will be a celebration of queer resistance, Arab artistic brilliance, and the communities that sustain both.

Join Haven for Artists and EAF at Custom Lane for a panel conversation featuring:

→ Yasmine Rifaii, Editorial Director / Creative Director (Beirut)
→ Nadim Choufi, Editorial Director / Lead Researcher (Amsterdam- Beirut)
→ Rayyan Abedl Khalek, AR/EN Translator (Beirut)  
→ Dayna Ash, Team Leader (Beirut)  

The panel will be moderated by Nat Raha, creating a space for critical, personal, and political dialogue around queer Arab artmaking, archiving, and authorship.

About the Book: I Will Always Be Looking For You — A queer anthology on Arab Art

I Will Always Be Looking For You — A queer anthology on Arab Art is a radical, four-year-long project created in response to the systemic erasure of queer voices in mainstream examinations of Arab art. This anthology gathers the works of 31 artists from 13 Arabic-speaking countries, presented alongside literary responses by 24 commissioned writers from across the region and its diaspora. The writing spans a wide range of genres — poetry, essays, fiction, experimental text — each in direct dialogue with the visual artwork it accompanies.

Together, the works document and expand the definition of queerness in the Arab world — not as a fixed identity, but as a generative force, a method, a rupture, and a refusal. The anthology was curated through intensive community-based research and artistic outreach led by our Creative Director (Beirut) and Editorial Research Lead (Beirut-Amsterdam). It represents the first intentional gathering of intergenerational artistic voices in one volume, forming an archive of art that is both intimate and collective. This will be the first print edition of the anthology.

Funded by the British Council and the Doria Feminist Fund.