Through soap making, participants will learn to extend a significant ingredient into a form that allows for sharing with a larger group over a slower time period. Participants are encouraged to consider who does this sharing extend to, what is being shared and why it is being shared.

This event is part of Jam’atna: Time, Synchrony and the Divine, a series of four online Suhoor Happenings put together by Nahla Tabbaa, exploring the communal spirit of Ramadan in a multi-dimensional way and addressing the Holy Month’s reconstruction of time. The invited hosts are inspired by our restructured eating habits, surrendering and the altering of our pace as a sacred act to synchronise with the holy month and transcend our daily urban rhythms and cycles. Each host invites participants of the happening to rethink how their own creative practices synchronise and align with the values of the Holy Month.

This event is conducted in English, and open to all ages.
To view the live Happening, please register on this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qRIXZJKLTMmu2k8oS8JmWA
To register as a participant, please fill the following form: https://forms.gle/aGFwcxLk172iCSsu9

 

 

Azim Al Ghussein

Azim is an artist and illustrator based in Dubai. He practices to research and investigate questions of value, labour, exchange and care through making, learning and teaching. Azim is an alumnus of the Sheikha Salama Emerging Artist Fellowship, the American University in Dubai, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Virginia Commonwealth School of the Arts. His practice is rooted in research of ingredients, practices and images as they migrate through various cultures and peoples. He has worked as a freelance illustrator and designer, an education coordinator and adjunct faculty in various institutions.

 

Rouba Shaath 

Rouba Shaath is a mother, fitness enthusiast and soap maker. Through the past couple of years Rouba has been developing soap making skills to create simple, accessible and thoughtfully made body care products. Her current venture, Saboona, is a social media based soap and body care shop. Rouba practices to find thoughtful ways of routine body care through responsible and small scale production. Her soap making practice allows her to share, teach and make goods that encourage a reconsideration of ingredients and how they are used, sourced and distributed. She practices from her home kitchen and soap studio in Dubai.