Out of the East

Out of the East into the West

Out of the East

Introduction

Let us know what you think of Out of the East into the West to help shape future exhibitions Take our short survey on the Tell Us What You Think page! Welcome to Out of the East Into the West! A collaboration between The Mixed Museum and Salma Ahmad Caller, exploring mixed Arab British histories. […]

Colonial Postcards

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Arab women

Let us know what you think of Out of the East into the West to help shape future exhibitions Take our short survey on the Tell Us What You Think page! Though relatively few Arab women migrated to Britain during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in comparison to male Arab migrants, they nevertheless […]

Fantasy and Prejudice

Representations of Arab men

Real Mixed Arab British Families

Let us know what you think of Out of the East into the West to help shape future exhibitions Take our short survey on the Tell Us What You Think page! Behind the desert novel While the desert and sheikh novels portrayed mixed Arab British romantic relationships as heady but doomed, archival accounts provide a […]

Ahmad and Jean

From Egypt to Britain

The Imaginarium artwork project

Work by the Imaginarium artist collective

Continuing the Conversation

Your stories

Tell us what you think!

We’d love to know what you think about Out of the East Into the West! We’re particulary keen to hear what aspects in the exhibition were new to you, whether the exhibition has changed your understanding about Middle Eastern and North African/Mixed British Arab histories, and whether there is anything you’d like to know more […]