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Muslim Futures Festival
- Date
- Friday 12 December 2025 - Sunday 14 December 2025
- Address
- The Grey Space in the Middle
Paviljoensgracht 20–24
2512 BP The Hague
Muslim Futures Festival, The Hague
Exhibition, dance performance, and panel discussions
A journey of speculative imagination. What kind of society do we want to live in? Who gets to imagine that society into being?
In collaboration with six emerging Muslim artists, the Muslim Futures project explores possible futures where Islamic principles are not only embraced, but where they serve as blueprints for a more just, more interconnected, and more spiritually grounded world.
Artists: Wassila Aarab, Omar Abdellatif, Isshaq Albarbary, Fatima Ballah, Lamiae El Hajjaji, Ola Hassanain and Fazle Shairmahomed
Panellists include: Schirin Amir-Moazami, Nadia Fadil, Yasmin Moll, Amira Abou Taleb, Sarah Aziz, Ahab Bdaiwi and Asmaa El Maaroufi
Project leader: Sara Bolghiran
Programme
DAY 1 – FRIDAY 12 DECEMBER 2025 | OPENING EVE
18:00–18:30
Walk in: Palestinian coffee, Moroccan and Turkish teas and treats, Somali and Surinamese snacks
18:30–19:00
Dutch opening keynote / word of welcome (with English written translation)
Sara Bolghiran, project lead
followed by a reflection
Fatima Ballah, resident writer
19:00–20:00
Panel with all artists
Opening Theme: Relationality & Multiplicity: Reflecting on the Muslim in Muslim Futures (English)
Moderator: Aline Jabbari
20:00–21:30
Live music, dance performance Fazle Shairmahomed
21:30–00:00
DJ in the basement / live
DAY 2 – SATURDAY 13 DECEMBER 2025
12:00–14:00
Exhibition opens
14:00–14:45
Academic Panel: Yasmin Moll, Nadia Fadil, Schirin Amir-Moazami
Theme: Future Utopias in Studying Muslims/Islam
Moderator: Sara Bolghiran
15:05–15:45
Artist Panels
English Panel – Artists: Ola Hassanain, Isshaq Albarbary, Omar Abdellatif
Moderator: Nurul Huda Rashid
Dutch Panel – Artists: Fazle Shairmahomed, Wassila Aarab, Lamiae El Hajjaji
Moderator: Moonya Amro
16:00–17:15
Performance Isshaq Albarbary
17:30–18:15
Activism Panel – Groene Muslims: with Jumana Tuama
Theme: Imagination as Praxis
Moderator: Fazle Shairmahomed
18:15–19:00
Social wind down / live music
20:00
Close off the space
DAY 3 – SUNDAY 14 DECEMBER 2025
13:00–13:45
Academic Panel II: Asmaa El Maaroufi, Amira Abou Taleb, Ahab Bdaiwi, Sarah Aziz
Theme: Theologies of/for the Future
Moderator: Yasmin Ismail
14:00–14:45
Sofa Session – Parenting the Future
Hakima Mahyou, Mariam El Maslouhi
15:00–15:45
Team Panel
Theme: Reclaiming the Right to Dream: Muslim Refusals and Future Making
Moderator: Ouassima Laabich
15:45–16:00
Finissage: A Closing Note (English)
Ouassima Laabich
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