Events
Intention of Return / Lentil Space
Friday, March 20, 2026 at 8 pm
Perdu
Kloveniersburgwal 86
1012 CZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Responding to an invitation by Perdu, we are happy to collaborate with the bookshop on an evening of food and storytelling as a live continuation of our publication Lentil Space: Recipes From Artists’ Homes. The cookbook, co-published with BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, is adapted from its namesake online program that we produced from 2021 to 2023, and includes recipes chosen and prepared by artists. It is a celebration of the varied cuisine of the Arab world and its relationship with inherited food practices and the culture of gathering and talking around food. For the event, contributing artists Jumana Emil Abboud and Mohamed Abdelkarim joined by Noor Abuarafeh will offer the audience stories from their kitchens and communities.
Alongside Lentil Space and the three artists, Perdu has invited Chilean-Palestinian artist Francisca Khamis Giacoman with her brother Andrés to screen their collaborative short film “Baisanos” (2025). Also, Iraqi-Dutch artist and writer Yusser al Obaidi will present her recent book, Intention of Return نية العودة / Relatives of Estrangement گرايب الغربة. You can read more about the event and get your tickets here.
Copies of Lentil Space: Recipes From Artists’ Homes will be available at the event at a discounted price of 15 euros. You can read more about the book here.
Lentil Space: Recipes From Artists’ Homes
Edited by Mai Abu ElDahab and Reem Shilleh
Translations by Yasmine Haj
Arabic and English
Color, softcover, 288 pages, 12.5 x 17.5 x 10 cm
Design by Studio Manuel Raeder (Manuel Raeder, Cecilia Murgia)
Co-published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE and Mophradat
Jumana Emil Abboud is a Palestinian-Canadian artist whose creative practice explores cultural memory and futures through the reanimation of folklore and interconnected gatherings. Her work spans drawing, video, textual practice, spoken word performance, and the Water Diviners project – where stories are living entities, entangled in water and relation.
Mohamed Abdelkarim is a visual artist, performer, and cultural producer from Cairo living in Rotterdam. He produces text-based performances and became committed to performative practices based on multidisciplinary research, employing and reflecting on narrating, singing, detecting, doing, fictioning, and speculating. As part of his performative practice, he established “Live Praxis,” a performance encounter that includes workshops, seminars, and performance nights.
Noor Abuarafeh is a visual artist based between Jerusalem, Rotterdam, and Vienna, working across performance, publications, and video installations. Her practice focuses on memory, history, and archives, exploring the complexities of history representations in colonial contexts, and the challenge of representing the past when it is still present.
Perdu is a poetry bookstore and publishing house in the centre of Amsterdam with a carefully curated selection of Dutch and international poetry collections, first editions, bibliophile editions, second-hand books, a substantial collection of poetic essays, and poetry-related gifts.