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SUMMARY:TMR 42 • THEATRE Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here \nThis month\, TMR presents a lively and potentially contentious conversation on contemporary Arab and Arab American theatre from the viewpoint of its theatremakers in the post-Covid era. This discussion will be moderated by playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak (Iraq)\, and featuring artistic director/producer Georgina Van Welie (UK/Kuwait)\, Egyptian American playwright Yussef El Guindi (USA) and Syrian playwright Mudar Alhaggi. \nJoin us online on Thursday\, June 20th at 1pm EST/ 7pm CET/ 6pm UK. \nDiscover their work in our THEATRE issue: \n\nHassan Abdulrazzak’s centerpiece: Dare Not Speak—a One-Act Play\nYussef El Guindi’s play: As We Near the End (or What Adorno Said)\nGeorgina Van Welie’s essay: Arab Shakespeare?\nMudar Alhaggi’s play: The Return of Danton—a Play by Mudar Alhaggi & Collective Ma’louba\n\n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the speakers: \nHassan Abdulrazzak is an award-winning writer of Iraqi origin\, born in Prague and living in London. His plays include The Special Relationship; And Here I Am; Love\, Bombs and Apples; The Prophet; and Baghdad Wedding (all published by Bloomsbury). Abdulrazzak has translated numerous Arabic plays and contributed to several anthologies including Iraq +100 (Comma Press). The script of his short film A Night of Gharam won the Unsolicited Scripts Short Film Grant 2022. \nBorn in Egypt\, raised in London and now based in Seattle\, Yussef El Guindi’s work frequently examines the collision of ethnicities\, cultures and politics that face Arab/ Middle Eastern Americans and Muslim Americans. His many productions include Hotter Than Egypt at Marin Theatre Company and ACT in Seattle; People of the Book at ACT; The Talented Ones at ART in Portland; and Threesome at Portland Center Stage\, ACT\, and at 59E59 (NY). Broadway Play Publishing Inc. published a collection of short pieces entitled In A Clear Concise Arabic Tongue. He is the recipient of several honors\, including the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award\, American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink Playwriting Award\, L.A. Weekly’s Excellence in Playwriting Award\, and the Middle East America Distinguished Playwright Award. \nGeorgina Van Welie graduated from Cambridge University then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company\, where she directed three shows for their Fringe Festival before going on to found her own company Inigo Productions. Co-founder of Sabab Theatre from 2002 – 2013 she produced bilingual Arabic/English theatre productions in collaboration with prestigious performing-arts organisations that include: The Kennedy Center\, BAM New York\, Arts Emerson (USA); The Royal Shakespeare Company\, Riverside Studios\, Gate Theatre\, Shubbak Festival (UK); Le Comedie Francaise\, Bouffes du Nord (France)\, The Holland Festival\, Warsaw Festival\, Attiki Festival Greece; The Tokyo International Arts Festival\, Seoul Performing Arts Festival\, Singapore Arts Festival\, Sydney Festival; Dar al Athar Al Islamiyyah Kuwait\, Al Ain Festival\, Sharjah Biennale\, Cairo International Theatre Festival\, Le Tournesol Theatre Beirut. She is currently working on a new Shakespeare Trilogy. Georgina has also worked as story liner\, script editor and co-writer on a number of award-winning TV shows and films with Channel 4\, Pearson Television (UK) and most recently with Linked Productions Whose Country (dir. Siam Mohammed). \nMudar Alhaggi is a playwright\, dramaturg\, and cultural activist. He received a B.A in Dramatic Studies from The Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in 2005 and shortly afterwards co-established the Street Workshop for playwriting. From 2005-2011\, he designed interactive activities for children\, and trained trainers in interactive theatre methods. He participated in several writing workshops and residency programs in Europe and the Arab region. \nHe was artist in residency in “Delfina foundation \, London 2010” and in “Schlachthaus Theater Bern\, 2014.” In 2013\, Mudar moved from Damascus to Beirut\, where did many artistic projects\, he launched “KEIT KEIT KEIT” a series of writing and documentation workshops for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Then later in Europe ( Graz\, Zurich\, Dresden\, Berlin)\, he also was a dramaturge of ( above zero) performance\, produced by Koon theatre group\, and presented in Beirut\, Tunisa\, and Amsterdam. Also in 2014 Mudar directed (one thousand and one tents) performance\, produced by Ettijahat\, and presented in sunflower theatre in Beirut. In May-june Mudar was artist in residency in “Schlachthaus Theater Bern” where he wrote a daily blog for -Auawirleben theatre festival\, and started a collaporation with K.N.P.V teater group\, in producing (41 stunden) where was a drmaturg/ performer\, the show was premiered in 2016 in Kellertheatre wintertur. In 2014- 2015 Founder and artistic director (with Erik Altorfer) of Futures Stages\, a playwriting workshop for Syrian and Syrian-Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The project was supported by Ettijahat and prohelvitia. \nHis texts incude The Don Juan\, Wisal\, Bronze\, When Farah Cries\, 41 Hours\, Your Love is Fire\, Barsach\, Orura\, Just a Formality\, The Dead are Busy\, The Return of Danton. \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nRSVP here
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SUMMARY:Literary Event: "Stories from the Center of the World" with editor Jordan Elgrably
DESCRIPTION:TMR presents a literary event in English\, for the release of Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction published by City Lights\, with editor Jordan Elgrably on Saturday\, June 29th at 7pm at Gazette Café in Montpellier. \nRSVP here \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the book: \nThis book brings together the best short stories published in The Markaz Review literary magazine\, with contributions from 25 emerging and/or established writers of Middle Eastern and North African origin; a unique collection of voices and points of view that illuminate life in the modern Arab world. \nThe stories cover a number of styles and genres\, from literary fiction to science fiction\, epistolary to noir. \nContributors include Salar Abdoh\, Leila Aboulela\, Farah Ahamed\, Omar El Akkad\, Sarah AlKahly-Mills\, Nektaria Anastasiadou\, Amany Kamal Eldin\, Jordan Elgrably\, May Haddad\, Malu Halasa\, Mohamad Khalil (MK) Harb\, Alireza Iranmehr\, Karim Kattan\, Hanif Kureshi\, Sahar Mustafah\, Ahmed Naji\, Mai Al-Nakib and Natasha Tynes. \nAbout the editor: \nJordan Elgrably is a Moroccan-born Franco-American writer whose stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. He is the Editor-in-Chief and Founder of The Markaz Review in Montpellier. \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nRSVP here
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldmarkaz/tevent/literary-event-stories-from-the-center-of-the-world-with-editor-jordan-elgrably/
LOCATION:Gazette Café\, 6 Rue Levat\, Montpellier\, 34000\, France
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:The Muslim Musical Mosaic Project: Creating A New American Muslim Musical Tradition
DESCRIPTION:The Markaz Review is proud to co-sponsor Muslims for Progressive Value’s event: “Creating a New American Muslim Tradition” as part of Phase I of their Muslim Musical Mosaic. \nThis event will take place at the Cats Crawl Theater in Los Angeles\, CA (660 North Heliotrope Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA 90004) on June 30\, 2024 from 5:00-6:30 pm PST. Featured speakers and performers include: Professor Mark Levine (University California-Irvine)\, Lu Fuki\, Alfred Madian\, Farah Mitha\, Tazeen Ayub\, Aiman Khan and Ani Zonneveld. \nTo learn more and register: https://mpvusa.networkforgood.com/events/71316-muslim-musical-mosaic-event
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldmarkaz/tevent/the-muslim-musical-mosaic-project-creating-a-new-american-muslim-musical-tradition/
LOCATION:Cats Crawl Theater\, 660 North Heliotrope Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90004\, United States
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SUMMARY:TMR Book Club Discusses "On the Isle of Antioch" by Amin Maalouf
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here \nJoin us online on Sunday\, June 30th at 1 pm Eastern/19:00 CET for this month’s Book Club discussion of On the Isle of Antioch by Amin Maalouf\, translated by Natasha Lehrer. \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the book: \nIn this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf\, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants\, who suddenly have to depend on each other. \nAlec\, a press artist with an impressive track record\, settles on a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean. He has little contact with his neighbor\, a solitary woman who wrote a cult book years ago\, before withdrawing from public life. That is\, until a gigantic power failure cuts them off from the rest of the world\, and all of a sudden they find themselves dependent on each other. The world appears to be on the brink of nuclear war and the collapse of civilization seems imminent. Just who are the mysterious friends of Empedocles\, the gang of otherworldly protectors who came swooping in to interfere with the US presidency and cure all illness? Should we trust them? On the Isle of Antioch is a suspenseful novel with mythological roots\, written in the dreamy language of the classics\, by internationally renowned scholar Amin Maalouf. \nPublished by World Editions. \nAbout the author: \nAMIN MAALOUF was born in Beirut and lived there until the Lebanese Civil War broke out in 1975. He settled in Paris in 1976 and published his first book\, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes\, in 1983. In 1993\, The Rock of Tanios\, his fifth novel\, won the Goncourt Prize\, the most prestigious literary award in France. Maalouf is a member of the Académie Française and in 2010 was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature for his entire oeuvre. In 2021 he was voted one of 12 International Writers by the Royal Society of Literature\, an initiative celebrating the power of literature to transcend borders and bring people together. He was awarded both the Terzani Prize and the Malaparte Prize for Adrift\, also published in English by World Editions. His work has been translated into 50 languages and his most recent bestselling novel available in English is The Disoriented. \nAbout the translator: \nNATASHA LEHRER is a prizewinning writer\, translator\, and editor. Her long-form journalism and book reviews have appeared in the Guardian\, the Observer\, the Times Literary Supplement\, the Nation\, Haaretz\, and Fantastic Man\, among others\, and she is literary editor of the Jewish Quarterly. She has contributed to several books\, including a chapter on France in Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism\, edited by Jo Glanville. The writers she has translated include Nathalie Léger\, Chantal Thomas\, Vanessa Springora\, Victor Segalen\, Robert Desnos\, and Georges Bataille. \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nRSVP here
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