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Symposium Program

Khatt Kufi Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture

We'll have the whole day to ourselves in the theatre of the brand new public library of Amsterdam (OBA)

Admission and registration is from 9 on and the programme starts at 10:00 sharp.

We'll have lunch at the 8th floor restaurant with an amazing view over Amsterdam.

At 17:00 we'll wrap up and move to the next-door PostCS building where we'll celebrate the opening of El HEMA at Mediamatic!

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