The Raqs Sharqi Museum is mostly known for photographs, engravings, vinyl records, postcards, and many more. But alongside all of that, I have also been collecting books. Not many — but true treasures. Here I want to introduce you to six of them, with some basic description and a few pages of translation.
On the evening of Friday 29 May 2026, something that had been six years in the making finally stepped out of storage boxes and into the light. The Raqs Sharqi Museum has shown selections from its collection at festivals before — but this was different. The largest and most carefully curated exhibition to date, with the most rare items ever shown in public, each one accompanied by its own description, opening as part of the Leylet Raqs Heritage Festival at Shoonya Dance Centre
