"Worldwide reading in memory of Mahmoud Darwish on 5 October 2008"
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Status: October, 5th 2008

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On 5 October the following radio stations will broadcast recordings of Darwish's poems:

  • Austria: FREIRAD 105.9 - Freies Radio Innsbruck
  • Germany: WDR 5 Cologne
  • Germany:Arabic Section Deutsche Welle Radio
  • Germany: Deutschlandradio Kultur
  • Puerto Rico: Radio Isla 1320 will broadcast the reading organized by the PEN Center in Puerto Rico
  • Senegal:West African Democracy Radio will broadcast the reading organized by the Gorče Institute
  • Slovenia: Radio Student Ljubljana


    • Here you can find the poster for the Worldwide Reading:

    Readings

    Algeria | Australia | Austria | Bangladesch | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Canada | China | Egypt | France | Germany | Hungary | India | Indonesia | Italy | Kenya | Kuwait | Lebanon | Lithuania | Macedonia | Mexico | Morocco | Nigeria | Norway | Palestine | Russia | Senegal | Spain | Sudan | South Africa | Switzerland | Syria | Taiwan | Tanzania | USA | Zimbabwe
    Algeria NN Algerian Writer's Association
    Address
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    Time
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    Australia Sydney Cultural Media in association with the NSW Writers' Centre, Naser Shakhtour
    Address
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    Time
    Friday, 3 October 2008
    Speaker
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    Austria Vienna Philipp Blom
    Address
    public library at the Urban-Loritz-Platz
    (U6, Station Stadthalle)
    Time
    4:30 pm
    Speaker
    Cornelius Obonya, Viola Raheb, Florentin Groll
    Further Information
    moderation: Philipp Blom
    voice and oud: Marwan Abado
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    Bangladesh Dhaka Liberation War Museum, Manar Badr
    Address
    Open Air Theatre ot the Literation War Museum
    Time
    NN
    Speaker
    NN
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    Bosnien und Herzegowina Sarajevo Centre André Malraux, Francis Bueb
    Address
    Centre André Malraux
    Time
    7 October
    Speaker
    NN
    Weitere Infos
    The reading will take place in the contect of the opening ceremony of the photo exhibition by Milomir Kovacevic
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    Canada Trois-Rivičres Trois Rivieres Poetry Festival
    Address
    NN
    Time
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    Speaker
    Pamela Brown
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    China Hong Kong Bei Dao
    Address
    NN
    Time
    NN
    Speaker
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    Further Information
    More than ten Chinese poets and writers will join the reading.
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    Egypt Alexandria Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Manar Badr
    Address
    Arts & Multimedia Library
    Time
    NN
    Speaker
    NN
    Further Information
    Video presentation of a poetry reading by Mahmoud Darwish held at the library Alexandrina in 2003
    Internet
    www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx
    Cairo Pen Temple Pilots, Nermeen Edrees
    Address
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    Time
    NN
    Speaker
    NN
    Internet
    groups.yahoo.com/group/Pen_
    Gudran Association for Art and Development, Mr. Abdel Rehim Youssef
    Address
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    Time
    NN
    Speaker
    NN
    Internet
    www.gudran.com
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    France Aix-En-Provençe Les Ecritures Croisées et La Cité du Livre , Annie Terrier
    Address
    NN
    Time
    NN
    Speaker
    NN
    Paris Gilles Leroy
    Address
    Les Cahiers de Colette
    23/25 rue Rambuteau
    75004 PARIS
    Time
    0:00
    Speaker
    Gilles Leroy and further French authors
    Further Information
    The reading will take place in the context of "La Nuit blanche" (October 4 - 5) at midnight
    Internet
    www.lescahiersdecolette.com
    Sarah Riggs in cooperation with Tamaas & Double Change
    Address
    Reid Hall
    Time
    NN
    Speaker
    NN
    Internet
    www.tamaas.org
    www.doublechange.com
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    Germany Berlin international literature festival berlin
    Address
    Haus der Berliner Festspiele
    Große Bühne

    Schaperstraße 24
    10719 Berlin
    Time
    7:00 pm
    Speaker
    Frank Arnold, Volker Braun, Margarita Broich, Leila Chammaa, Tina Engel, Kathleen Gallego Zapata, Astrid Gorvin, Qassim Haddad, Amal al-Jubouri, Marel Khalifa, Adel Karasholi, Naomi Krauss, Jutta Lampe, Geno Lechner, Marie Löcker, Julia Malik, Chun Mei Tan, Friedhelm Ptok, Joachim Sartorius, Roland Schäfer, Nina West and others will read Darwisch poems in German translation.
    Further Information
    Claudia Ott will tell of his life.
    tr>     		Cologne Palestinian community Cologne e. V. (PGK)
    Address
    district Kalk
    Naturfreunde Haus
    Kapellenstr.9a
    Time
    3:00 pm
    Speaker
    among others
    Moenchengladbach Rafig Zayed
    Address
    Friedhof str.39
    Time
    NN
    Speaker
    NN
    Osnabrück Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum and Erich Maria Remarque-Gesellschaft in association with the Büro für Friedenskultur
    Address
    Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
    Markt 6
    49074 Osnabrück
    Time
    7:00 pm
    Speaker
    Dieter Weishaupt and Tilman Westphalen
    Further Infos
    Music: Ulrike Hampel-Harbaum and Ismael Türker
    Stralsund LiSa Frauenladen, Sabine Heier
    Address
    NN
    Time
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    SprecherIn
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    Ravensburg Wolfram Frommlet and the Syrian-german percussionist Mahdi Milla
    Address
    evangelic town church of Ravensburg
    Time
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    SprecherIn
    NN
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    Hungary Budapest István Turczi, Vize President of the Hungarian PEN Center
    Address
    Parnasszus headquarter
    Time
    NN
    Speaker
    NN
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    Indien Mumbai Gallerie-PEN-Jnanaprabha, Bina Sarkar Ellias
    Address
    Jnanapravaha
    Queens Mansion, 3rd Floor
    G. Talwatkar Marg (Prescott Road)
    Fort, Mumbai
    Time
    18:00 Uhr
    Speaker
    Gieve Patel, Sampurna Chattarji, Prabodh Parikh, Yuki Ellias, Anand Thakore, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Bina Sarkar Ellias
    Abhidhanantar & Poetrywala, Hemant Divate
    Address
    1701/1702,6A-Whispering Palms
    Lokhandwala Township,Kandivali-east
    Mumbai-400101.
    Time
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    Speaker
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    Thrissur Thrissur Public Library and Thrissur Chalachitra kendram (Film Centre)
    Address
    Public Library
    Thrissur 680 020.
    Time
    NN
    Speaker
    Manoj Kumar
    Further Information
    The translation of the article "Death of Mahmud" by Breyten Breytenbach will be read and Godard's film OUR MUSIC, in which Darwish appears, will be screened
    Trivandrum K. Satchidanandan
    Address
    Victoria Jubilee Town Hall
    Time
    NN
    Speaker
    K. Satchidanandan
    Further Information
    Darwish's poems will be read in Malayalam; translations done by Ayyappa Paniker and K. Satchidanandan.
    Kovalam Literary Festival (October 6 - 8)
    Address
    NN
    Time
    October 7
    Speaker
    Shashi Tharoot, K. Satchidanandan and other poets will read poems by Mahmoud Darwish
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    Indonesia Denpasar Ubud Writers Festival, Janet De Neefe
    Address
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    Time
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    Speaker
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    Italy Ferrara Festival Internazionale, Shailja Patel
    Address
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    Time
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    Speaker
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    Genua Festival Internazionale di Poesia di Genova, Claudio Pozzani
    Address
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    Time
    NN
    Speaker
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    Kenya Nairobi PEN Kenya, Philo Ikonya
    Address
    Dandora Dumpsite
    Time
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    Speaker
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    Lebanon Beirut Riad El-Rayyes, publisher of Darwish
    Adresse
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    Lebanese Writers Association
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    Lithuania Vilnius Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2008, Germain Droogenbroodt
    Adresse
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    Beginn
    NN
    Sprecher
    NN
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    Macedonia Skopje National and University Library "Hl. Kliment Ohridski", Mariana Palasevska
    Address
    National and University Library "Hl. Kliment Ohridski"
    Bul. Goce Delcev, 6
    1000 Skopje
    Hofgasse 11
    8010 Graz
    Time
    7.00 pm
    Speaker
    NN
    Details
    introduction by Luan Starova (MANU)
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    Mexico Acapulco María Eugenia Soberanis; Congreso Mundial de Poetas
    Address
    Semilla Cultural A.C
    Time
    NN
    Speaker
    NN
    Mexico City Casa del Poeta
    Address
    Casa del Poeta
    Las Hormigas
    Beginn
    NN
    Speaker
    NN
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    Morocco Rabat Mohammed's V University - Agdal , Mohammed Bennis
    Address
    NN
    Time
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    Speaker
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    Further Information
    Ten poets, from the Arab world, Europe and Morocco, will participate in the reading. 
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    Nigeria Ibadan University of Ibadan, Remi Raji
    Address
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    Time
    NN
    Speaker
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    Norway Tromsø Ordkalotten Tromsø International Literature Festival
    Address
    Skansen Festival Centre
    Søndre Tollbodgate 8
    Tromsø
    Time
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    Speaker
    Lina Tibi
    Further Information
    reading of Mahmoud Darwish poems in Arabic and in Norwegian
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    Palestine Ramallah A.M. Qattan Foundation, Mahmoud Abu Hashhash
    Address
    NN
    Time
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    Speaker
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    Further Information
    project "identity of the soul": outdoor cinematic performance project presenting Mahmoud Darwish narrating his own poem “A soldier Dreams of White Lilies” and a poem of Henrick Ibsen’s “Terje Vigen”.
    Internet
    www.qattanfoundation.org
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    Puerto Rico San Juan PEN Center Puerto Rico
    Address
    NN
    Further Information
    A specialist in arabic literature and professor of the University of Puerto Rico will be part of the program. 
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    Russia Kazan reading room - Goethe Institute, Galina Pichugina
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    Time
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    Speaker
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    Senegal Dakar Goethe Institute, Uwe Rieken
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    Speaker
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    Gorèe Gorèe Institute
    Address
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    Time
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    Speaker
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    Spain León Asociación Colegial de Escritores de Espańa (VIII Congreso de Escritores de Espańa), Pedro J. de la Peńa  
    Address
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    Speaker
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    Madrid Casa Árabe–IEAM, Isaías Barreñada
    Address
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    Time
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    Speaker
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    Internetwww.casaarabe-ieam.es
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    Sudan Khartum The Sudanese Studies Center, Hayder Ibrahim
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    Sudanese Studies Center
    Time
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    Speaker
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    South Africa Durban Centre for Creative Arts and Poetry Africa
    Address
    NN
    Time
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    Speaker
    NN
    Further Information
    Poetry Africa (September 29 - October 4) will include a series of readings of Mahmoud darwish's work, probably across 4 nights of the festival.
    Internetwww.ukzn.ac.za/cca/Poetry_Africa.htm
    Potchefstroom Aardklop Fstival
    Address
    NN
    Time
    NN
    Speaker
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    Wellington Breytenbach Cultural Centre
    Address
    H/V Burger en Malherbe Straat
    Wellington
    7654
    Time
    5:00 pm
    Speaker
    Louis Esterhuizen, Charl-Pierre Naude
    Further Information
    Darwish poems will be read in their Afrikaans translation
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    Switzerland Basel Das kleine Literaturhaus
    Address
    Bachlettenstrasse 7
    4054 Basel
    Time
    5:00 pm
    Speaker
    Matthyas Jenny
    Internet
    www.literaturhausbasel.ch
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    Syria Damascus General Secretariat of Damascus Arab Capital of Culture 2008 (DACC), Yara Nseir
    Address
    NN
    Time
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    Speaker
    Abbas Alnoury (actor), Carisse Bashar (actress) and Adel Mahmoud (poet)
    Further Information
    Big Kites containing selective verses of Mamoud Darwish's poets will be flown and an olive tree will be planted in Memory of Mahmoud Darwish on the same date at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Art.
    Syrian Writers Association
    Address
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    Time
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    Speaker
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    Taiwan Taipei World Congress of Poets 
    Address
    NN
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    Speaker
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    Tanzania Mikocheni SOMA Book Café, Demere Kitunga
    Address
    SOMA Book Café
    Plot No. 53
    Mlingotini Close, off Regent Street
    Regent Estate, Mikocheni
    Time
    NN
    Speaker
    Professor Haroub Othman

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    USA Chattanooga University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Richard Jackson
    Address
    NN
    Time
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    Speaker
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    Internetwww.utc.edu/
    New York The Bowery Poetry Club, Jill Schoolman
    Address
    NN
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    Speaker
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    San Francisco Bird & Beckett Books, Eric Whittington
    Address
    Newberry Books, Seattle
    Time
    7:00 pm
    Speaker
    NN
    Sacramento Sacramento Poetry Center; William O'Daly , Tim Kahl, Richard Hansen
    Address
    Sacramento Poetry Center
    1719 25th Street
    Sacramento, CA, USA
    Time
    6:00 pm
    Speaker
    NN
    Internetwww.sacramentopoetrycenter.org/
    Seattle PoetsWest, Glenn Evans
    Address
    Parlor of Trinity United Methodist Church
    6512-23rd Avenue Northwest
    Seattle
    Time
    7:00 pm
    Speaker
    Hanna Eady, Ed Mast and Meg Savlov
    Further Information
    Bilingual readings of Darwish's poetry in English and in Arabic
    Music on the oud by Hanna Eady and Native American flute by Peter Ali.

    Poets Against War, Sam Hamill
    Address
    Hugo House
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    Speaker
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    Internetwww.hugohouse.org/events/
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    Zimbabwe Harare Book Cafe
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