Anath Meets Taghounja, rain calling rituals & folktales with Ahmad Nabil
Anath Meets Taghounja explores rain-calling rituals from Palestine to Morocco, revealing how distant rural communities share surprisingly similar traditions. From handmade figures to vibrant village parades, these practices reflect a deep connection to the land and sky, a collective hope for rain. Imagination and legends flow through this journey, crossing borders and time.
The presentation also highlights Ahmad Nabil’s work, including his recent collective project The Rain Collectors, in collaboration with anthropologist Emilie Glazer and architect/educator Dima Srouji. Together, they reimagined ancestral rain rituals through a contemporary artistic lens, blending folklore, legend, science, performance, and craftsmanship. Anath Meets Taghounja invites the audience into a poetic space where legend, culture, memory, and nature come alive and intertwine.
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Ahmad Nabil is a visual artist, educator, and researcher in the fields of Arab and Islamic mythology and paranormal phenomena. His work focuses on their relationship to land, natural resources, and their integration into intangible heritage for the preservation of land and collective memory. In 2015, he founded The Fiction Council in Jerusalem.