An hour with Iman Mersal, as part of the Arabofolies festival of music, arts, and ideas organised by Institut du Monde Arabe
Date June, 19 2021
Location Institut du Monde Arabe Library, and live-streamed on Institut du Monde Arabe Facebook page
In a literary conversation entitled 'An hour with... Iman Mersal', the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2021 Literature winner, highlighted the historical and personal journey behind her award-winning book (In The Footsteps of Enayat Al Zayat). The event was held on June 19 at 6:30 PM GST as part of the Arabofolies festival of music, arts, and ideas organised by Institut du Monde Arabe, recipient of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2018 Cultural Personality Award.
The literary meeting, featuring writer and journalist Bernard Magnier and actress Farida Rahouadj, took place in person at the Institut du Monde Arabe Library (level 1) and was live-streamed on the Institut du Monde Arabe Facebook page.
Speakers
Bernard Magnier
Writer and Journalist
Iman Mersal
Egyptian poet, writer, academic and translator. She works as an Associate professor of Arabic literature and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Alberta, Canada and currently resides in Marseille, France, where she holds the Albert Camus chair at IMéRA, the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University until July 2021, while working on a book entitled Al Laknah: Al Sawt fee Ghair Makaneh (Accent: the Displaced Voice). An anthology of her works was translated into more than twenty languages and she has five poetry collections published. Her most recent published works include Hatta Atakhlla Aan Fekrat Al Boyot (Until I Abandon the Idea of Homes) in 2013, Kayfa Taltaem: Aan Al Omoma wa Askhbahuha (How to Amend: On Motherhood and its Ghosts) in 2017, and Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat) in 2019. Her book, Mamar Moetem Yasloh fee Talom Al Raks (A Dark Path Suitable for Learning to Dance), is one of the most important poetry books issued by the generation of the nineties in Arabic poetry.
Farida Rahouad
Actress