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On Sunday, August 20th at the Tamayo Museum
Writer and activist Joumana Haddad will give the talk Read and write after Sherezade
August 15, 2017Writer and cultural and human rights activist Joumana Haddad (Lebanon), considered one of the most influential women in the Arab world, will arrive in the Mexican capital to offer the talk Read and write after Sherezade on Sunday August 20th at the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum.
The poet and journalist, author of I killed Sherezade. Confessions of a furious Arab woman, will speak about what this book of essays, translated into more than a dozen languages, has generated in her life, particularly in the field of letters, where her prestige was consolidated worldwide.
The event, aimed especially at young people, is part of the actions of the Book and Reading Promotion Program coordinated by the Department of Culture of the Government of the Republic and organized in collaboration with the Secretariat of Culture of Mexico City.
In I killed Sherezade, considered a defiant text, Haddad presents that although in the Arab world there are subordinate women with burka, there also insubordinate women without burka in control of themselves, blurring the image of the existence of a Unique Arab woman.
Also a poet and translator, Joumana Haddad is recognized around the world for her work as editor of the An Nahar newspaper, the main Lebanese newspaper, and for having founded Jasad, the first erotic now defunct magazine in Arabic. She is the author of several books translated into different languages, in which she has raised an allegation against the prejudices towards the Arab woman.
The author who speaks seven languages, has published books into some of them and made translation works, among which there is an anthology of modern Lebanese poetry, published in Spain and Latin America, and an anthology of 150 suicide poets of the 20th century.
Born in Beirut, she has taught creative writing at the American Lebanese University, is a women's rights activist and a member of the Advisory Committee of March Lebanon, a Non-Governmental Organization that fights for freedom of expression in Lebanon.
She has won multiple awards in the world. It highlights the International Norte Sur awards of the Pescarabruzzo Foundation (Italy), in the category of poetry in 2009; Blue Metropolis for Arabic Literature in Montreal, in 2010; María Grazia Cutuli for journalism in Catania, Italy, in 2012; and the Poetic Career awarded by the Archicultura Foundation of Italy in 2014. She was also appointed Honorary Ambassador for Culture and Human Rights of the City of Naples in the Mediterranean in 2013.
In Spanish, she has published the poems: Allí donde el río se incendia (There, where the river burns) (2005); The return of Lilith (2007), and Mirrors of the fugaces (2010); the erotic story Lovers should wear moccasins (2011); the children's book The Seven Lives of Luca (2011), and I killed Sherezade (2011).
In her journalistic trajectory she has interviewed important writers such as Umberto Eco, Paul Auster, José Saramago, Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek.
The talk Read and write after Sherezade will be held at 2:00 pm, in the Auditorium of the Tamayo Museum, Paseo de la Reforma Ave. 51, Bosque de Chapultepec, Primera Sec.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
