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How do we engage with the city? What can Jeddah’s visual and urban landscape tell us about everyday social encounters, mobility and routine?
Join us to celebrate the release of Jeddah Roundabouts: Circling the City (2026), a photobook co-published by Art Jameel and FLEE, documenting the remarkable architectural and sculptural roundabouts that define and continue to shape the urban imagination of the city of Jeddah.
Conceived collaboratively by photographer Hatun Al-Harthi, writer Nouf Al-Harthi, and Olivier Duport and Alan Marzo of FLEE, the project grew from their meeting during Art Jameel’s first sound research lab, Echoes of Shell: Sounds of the Red Sea, which took place at Hayy Jameel in September 2024.
The public programme unfolds with a book launch talk, along with a tour of the Jameel Library collection, highlighting titles on public art and the current exhibition, At the Edge of Renewal, by the Khaleeji Women’s Library and Archive. There will also be kids’ activities reimagining roundabouts, mapping memories and shared experiences of daily interactions, connections and nostalgia around the city.
The events are free and open to all
Programme Schedule
Saturday, November 7, 2026
Walk-In Activities
Meet & Sketch: Reimagining the Roundabouts (ages 6-18)
Jeddah’s roundabouts are living art pieces scattered across our daily journeys. Inspired by Jeddah Roundabouts: Circling the City, artist Rana Alsaggaf invites young creators to look closer at the city around them. Through a guided postcard-making and sketching activity, participants will channel their own memories of Jeddah into unique mini-artworks to share or take home.
5-8 pm | Hayy Explorers, First Floor
First-come, first-served basis; limited capacity.
Artists in Conversation
Jeddah Roundabouts: Circling the City
Hatun Al-Harthi, Nouf Al-Harthi & Alan Marzo-Strani
A conversation reflecting on the making of Jeddah Roundabouts: Circling the City, the role of photography and publishing in documenting the city, and the ways Jeddah’s landmarks, public art and everyday journeys can become part of an evolving urban archive.
Targeted at artists, researchers, designers, image-makers and visual storytellers interested in photography, photo-related media in book form, and expanding their knowledge of contemporary approaches and insights into the creative process.
7:30-9 pm | Project Space, First Floor
Online and in-person attendance (Zoom link provided in the registration form)
Limited capacity; delivered in English.
About
Hatun Al-Harthi
Hatun Al-Harthi is a Jeddah-based multidisciplinary creative director whose practice moves across photography, film direction and design. Working primarily through image-making, she develops visual narratives across a range of creative contexts, engaging with cultural experiences. Through narrative-driven processes, her practice approaches image-making as a form of storytelling, communication and visual expression.
Nouf Al-Harthi
Nouf Al-Harthi is a writer, researcher and cultural practitioner based between Saudi Arabia and the UK. Trained in social anthropology, her work draws on ethnography to explore how everyday experiences, stories and memories shape our understanding of place. Working across writing, sound and music, she is interested in how people inhabit, remember and make sense of their surroundings. Her work has been commissioned and presented in Saudi Arabia and internationally. She holds an MA in Social Anthropology from SOAS, University of London, and is currently pursuing an MMus in Musicology at the University of Edinburgh.
Alan Marzo-Strani
Alan Marzo-Strani is co-founder of the art platform and publishing house FLEE, and a France-based transdisciplinary artist and researcher. Known for his satirical style, navigating between sculpture and moving image, his films and installations have been presented in exhibitions globally, including at institutions such as Casa Castex (Buenos Aires), MAAT in Lisbon, and Sharjah Art Foundation. He regularly releases music on labels such as Bordello a Parigi and Maledetta Discoteca. His essays and writings have appeared in publications including Les Cahiers du Centre Pompidou (Cahiers du MNAM), CNRS (Cahiers européen de l’imaginaire) and Canvas Magazine.
Rana Alsaggaf
Rana Alsaggaf is a Saudi artist based in Jeddah whose practice explores the connection between art, cultural heritage, architecture and everyday stories. Through sketching and creative experiences, she invites people to observe their surroundings, connect with place and discover new ways of seeing the familiar.
