The social commons
Nasayeb
نسايب
Nasayeb are relatives. Zawyeh is the family house, used and kept up by the extended family: long-term partners with a real say over the space and what happens in it. Not renters, not guests, not artists curated in.
They give consistency — a programme that keeps going, on its own day, over time — and a small contribution per session into the purse, usually from the donations of whoever came. Zawyeh gives the space at a nominal cost, help with what they want to build next, and a say in how the purse is spent.
Right now
- Verse & Visiona weekly poetry workshop
- Open Marginnumbered research sessions, and sonic margins listening sessions
- مشاع فنيthe professional and psychological infrastructure of making art