LISBON'S ARABIC CULTURAL CALENDAR

Arabic Events Lisbon

فعاليات عربية في لشبونة

A shared place to discover Arabic-language and Arab-led shows, comedy, concerts, screenings, workshops and gatherings across Lisbon.

مساحة مشتركة لاكتشاف العروض والفعاليات الناطقة بالعربية والفعاليات الثقافية التي يقودها فنانون عرب في لشبونة.

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Find your next night

A curated agenda of known and verified Arabic-language and Arab-led events in Lisbon. Listings may be produced by independent organisers and are not an exhaustive calendar.

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Our Portugal-wide agenda begins with verified Lisbon listings and will expand city by city.

We screen Arabic-language and Arab-led cultural events across Portugal. Know an event that should be listed? Submit it for review.

Upcomingالفعاليات القادمة

Documentary film screening

GAZA Film Screening

Thursday 29 October 2026

Casa Palestina, Lisbon

20:00–22:00

Language: Palestinian Arabic with English subtitles

A 92-minute documentary directed by Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell.

Details & tickets

Benefit concert

Make Freedom Ring — Concert for Palestine

Wednesday 11 November 2026

Tivoli BBVA Theatre, Lisbon

21:00

A benefit concert amplifying Palestinian voices. The official page states that proceeds support Médecins Sans Frontières’ regional fund for the Occupied Palestinian Territories and neighbouring regions.

Details & tickets

Official Shaden Fakih European tour poster listing Lisbon on 19 November

Stand-up comedy

Shaden Fakih — Live in Lisbon

Thursday 19 November 2026

Casa Palestina – The Salon, R. Gilberto Rola 24, Lisbon

Doors 19:00 · Show 19:30–21:00

Lebanese comedian Shaden Fakih brings her 2026 European tour to Lisbon.

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Official Alkantara Festival photograph of Bilal El Had performing Ch’ttahh

Performance / dance

Bilal El Had — Ch’ttahh

Friday 20 to Sunday 22 November 2026

Centro Cultural de Belém, Black Box, Lisbon

Friday 21:30 · Saturday 17:00 · Sunday 17:00

Language: Minimal or no spoken language

€13

Contemporary dance rooted in Moroccan chaabi by Moroccan dancer and performer Bilal El Had, based in Brussels.

Details & tickets

Official FEENA NEHKE? artwork featuring comedian John Achkar holding a microphone

Stand-up comedy

John Achkar in Lisbon: “FEENA NEHKE?” — 2026 New Special

Thursday 26 November 2026

Teatro Bocage, Lisbon

Doors 21:00 · Show 21:30

Language: Arabic

Arabic stand-up by Lebanese comedian John Achkar.

Details & tickets

Official Alkantara Festival photograph of three performers dancing on stage during Quando Vi o Mar

Performance / dance

Ali Chahrour — Quando Vi o Mar / When I Saw the Sea

Friday 27 and Saturday 28 November 2026

TNDMII, Sala Garrett, Lisbon

Friday 21:00 · Saturday 19:00

Language: Arabic and Amharic, with Portuguese and English descriptive surtitles

A performance directed and choreographed by Beirut-born Lebanese choreographer and dancer Ali Chahrour.

Details & tickets

Concert

Saint Levant

Tuesday 1 December 2026

LAV — Lisboa Ao Vivo, Room 1, Lisbon

Doors 20:00 · Concert 21:00

A concert by Palestinian artist Saint Levant, blending hip-hop, R&B and Arabic-influenced pop.

Details & tickets

Official Teatro Nacional D. Maria II image for Al-Sirah Al-Hilaliyyah

Theatre

عرض مسرحي من فلسطين عن السيرة الهلالية، مع أغاني ورقص ومسرح ظل ودمى.

Al-Sirah Al-Hilaliyyah

Thursday 3 and Friday 4 December 2026

Sala Garrett, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Lisbon

19:00

Language: Arabic with Portuguese subtitles

Created by: Bashar Murkus and Khulood Basel / Khashabi Theatre Palestine

A theatre work from Palestine that revives the Bani Hilal epic through songs, dance, shadow theatre and puppetry.

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Recently concludedفعاليات انتهت مؤخراً

Official Casa Palestina Palestine Revealed book signing and Q&A artwork featuring Hanan Kattan and her book, 23 October 2026

Book signing and audience Q&A / cultural conversation

Concluded

PALESTINE REVEALED — Book Signing & Q&A with Hanan Kattan

Friday 23 October 2026

Casa Palestina, 24 Rua Gilberto Rola, Lisbon

20:00–22:00

Casa Palestina welcomes Palestinian-British author and award-winning film producer Hanan Kattan for a conversation about her new book, Palestine Revealed, followed by audience questions and reflections.

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Official ESTROUBIA 3al Reyi2 poster for Selva Comedy Cafe in Lisbon

Stand-up comedy

ستاند أب ساخر، ذكي، وفوضوي شوي… بس عالرايق.

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ESTROUBIA — 3al Reyi2 عالرايق

Sunday 11 October 2026

Selva Comedy Cafe · R. Luís de Camões 112 A, 1300-361 Lisboa

Doors 20:30 · Show 21:00

About the show / عن العرض

“عالرايق” عرض كوميدي لــ إسترُوبيا، بياخدكن بجولة بين السياسة، الهجرة، العلاقات، الهويّة، العيلة، وشو بعد بدكن أكتر من هيك؟ ستاند أب ساخر، ذكي، وفوضوي شوي… بس عالرّايق. متل وضع المنطقة عنا بالزبط! يلا اوكي يلا باي!

“3al Reyi2” is a stand-up comedy show by Estroubia, a Lebanese-Canadian comedian living somewhere between Montreal and Beirut airports, political crises, and existential ones. Estroubia takes you on a journey through politics, immigration, relationships, identity, family, and honestly, what more could you ask for? A stand-up performance that’s satirical, smart, and slightly chaotic, but always 3al reyi2.

Doors 20:30 · Show 21:00 · Performed entirely in Lebanese Arabic.

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