Collectiva Shamila
Collectiva Shamila (Arabic for inclusive) is a transnational collective of women engaged in multidimensional community building, peer-to-peer learning and co-creation. (2022-active)
Sharq magazine
a print magazine catering to a large diaspora population of Arabs in the UK and beyond. the autumn 2025 issue is currently in production. (2005-ongoing)
Vocabulary of Values
a series of collectively created explorations of positive impact values and principled behaviours (2025-ongoing)
Tarikhi story archive
Tarikhi (Arabic for ‘my history’) is an Arab/ic oral history archive. it houses 500 interviews conducted, recorded, and documented by sharq.org between 2012 and 2022, at a time when previously censored and silenced voices found strength through collective action and forged microphones from new opportunities to be heard. (2012-ongoing)
I Am Not A Vase
a theatrical play about the strength and courage of women, I Am Not a Vase is a celebration of women who refuse to be seen as vases - as decorative and devoid of societal value. (2018-ongoing)
Collectiva Souriyat
a collective of Syrian women activists initiated by sharq.org to help enhance the collaborative participation of Syrian women in peace building and politics. (2021-23)
Come Together
this series of free creative workshops and art festival facilitated and explored creative collaboration and cross-cultural harmony (2022)
collective advocacy for marginalised groups
sharq.org trained and mentored a collective of 10 activists from across the Arabic speaking region in storytelling for grassroots advocacy. the initiative included the delivery of a series of virtual workshops and the co-development of an advocacy campaign. (2022)
religious identity, activism and conversion
an oral history training programme delivered in Arabic to civil society actors who where then mentored in the production of story collections on topics related to religious identity. (2021-22)
conflict, migration and identity
a collection of 60 interviews with Syrians who remained in Syria during the years of turmoil and intense government oppression following the 2011 revolution and those who migrated to Europe asked to reflect on the impact of conflict and migration on identity and to explore the impact of their changing identity on belonging, integration, community and engagement. (2021)