Tuesday 26 August, 7:30 pm UK, 8:30 pm Europe.  The great pianist and composer Maurice El-Medioni was a personal friend of film-maker and illustrator Didier Zulli. El-Medioni was one of several Jewish stars of the Algerian music hall : Line Monty,  Blond-Blond,  Salim Halali, Youssef Hagege.  Didier Zulli, who was born in Paris of Tunisian […]

Tuesday 9 September 2025, 7:30 pm UK. While European antisemitism influenced Arab nationalist politics, it was not its source. As Arab nationalism took shape, some strands of the movement saw Jewish nationalism as a threat to Arab independence.  With the creation of the Arab League in 1945, implacable opposition to Jewish self-determination had become a […]

Tuesday 30 September, 7:30 pm UK, 2:30 pm ET. Born in the US, Hakham Isaac Choua hails from a long line of Lebanese Jews. His family left Beirut in 1977, but their experiences as Jews in the Arab world have marked his life and work. In conversation with Harif's Lyn Julius, Hakham Choua will tell […]

Tuesday 21 October, 7:00 pm UK, 9:00 pm Israel. Mosul once had a thriving Jewish community with roots dating to the 8th century BCE. No Jews live there now, the community having fled for Israel in 1950 -1, but the challenge of preserving its memory and heritage remains, especially following the onslaught by ISIS in […]

Tuesday 11 November, 7:30 pm UK, 8:30 pm Europe. The daughter of oud-player Sol Basha, Madrid-based Regine Basha is an artist, curator, story-teller and  founder of the project Tuning Baghdad. This  is an audio-visual archive of music and stories recalling Regine's Iraqi-Jewish upbringing, her father´s deep relationship to Arabic music and the lost Jewish performers […]

On Thursday 20 November 2025 at 7 pm, JW3 in partnership with Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) , is hosting the official UK Commemoration of the Departure and Exodus of Jews from Arab countries and Iran, in the presence of communal leaders and diplomats. A day […]

Tuesday 9 December 2025, 7:30 pm UK; 8:30 pm Europe, 2:30 pm ET. Hanucah this year begins on 14 December and lasts for eight days. Because the festival commemorates how the oil in the Temple lasted miraculously for eight days, it is customary for Jews to eat fried foods. Ashkenazim indulge in latkes and jam […]

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 7:30 pm UK, 2:30 pm ET. The largest Jewish community in the Arab world, Jews in Morocco have a remarkable history of migration. In the 19th century they sought their fortunes in South America, settling in the Amazon. In more recent times they moved to the US and Canada.They have proved […]

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 7:30 pm. (90 minutes) Harif in partnership with JW3 is delighted to screen Episode 6 (90 minutes) of a seven-part documentary series made by the Sephardic Heritage Museum about the Jews of Syria. Episode 6: THE JEWS OF SYRIA (1930-1967) tells the dramatic story of how the Syrian Jewish community in […]

Tuesday 3 February 2026, 7:30 pm UK, 2:30 pm ET The French embassy in Baghdad was the palatial home of Ezra and Khedouri Lawee. But for 50 years, France has not paid this Jewish family a single euro in rent. The French government has refused to return the property to its rightful Jewish owners, or […]

Tuesday 24 February, 7:00 pm UK. A new book called Rachel tells the story of the author’s mother, a girl born in the Jewish Quarter of Damascus, who in 1927 wins a scholarship to study in Versailles to become a teacher with the Alliance Israelite Universelle. Posted to Baghdad, she meets Victor, a young man from […]

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 7:00 UK, 9 pm Israel time, 3 pm ET, 12 pm PT. Adiel Cohen is a social media influencer with 90, 000 followers on Instagram. He is also the grandson of Jewish refugees who fled Sana'a, the capital of Yemen and resettled in Israel in 1949. As we approach Passover, Adiel […]