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The Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) has published a call for proposals to support artistic projects in the two Mediterranean capitals of culture and dialogue for 2026, Matera (Italy) and Tetouan (Morocco).

The Africa Institute, Global Studies University invites applications for the Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship, a programme that celebrates and supports literary voices engaged in the creative expression of Africa and its diaspora in all forms and genres.

Arab Fund for Arts and Culture is calling for applications from organisations in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia for the Ecologies of Culture Creative Caravans for Festivals and Touring Projects project.

ALF is seeking civil society entities, cultural groups and their affiliated creative artists capable of designing and implementing one of two types of interactive/cultural activities that will take place during AgorALF 2026.

Misk Art Residencies involves three-month visual arts residency (3 May – 25 July 2026) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, focusing the transformative role of creative expression.

The Saudi Visual Arts Commission announces the open call for Cycle 2 of the Third Edition of Intermix Residency, a fully funded, three-month art residency program based at JAX District, Diriyah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Researchers and scholars specialising in Art History, Archaeology, Museum Studies, Heritage Science, Conservation, and associated fields are encouraged to submit proposals aligned with one of the three thematic axes related to Louvre Abu Dhabi’s collections.

The new updated Orbitals programme invites participants to travel together and explore an artist’s practice as a vehicle for learning about a context, and to better understand an artist’s practice by learning about their context. For this first edition, Mophradat are inviting artists and researchers to learn with and about the work of the Uzbek artist and filmmaker Saodat Ismailova, travelling to Uzbekistan from 19 April to 3 May 2026.

Mophradat is continuing their partnership with Kunstencentrum BUDA and NEXT Festival in Belgium to offer a three-week residency (October/November 2026) for a performing artist from the Arab world.

Mophradat’s New Agents Programme brings together a group of six people from across art fields from the Arab world to collaborate and learn together and eventually co-develop and realise a proposal for a public encounter.