São Paulo – The Lebanese poet and writer Joumana Haddad, author of the book “I killed Sheherazade,” will attend a meeting with the audience on November 18th at Casa do Saber (House of Knowledge), in São Paulo. The meeting is promoted by the Institute of Arab Culture (Icarabe) and Record, the publishing house that issued her book in Brazil. The book is an account on what it means to be an Arab woman in the world today.
According to information from the Icarabe website, the author is engaged in the struggle for women’s freedom in the Middle East. In São Paulo, she will explain how she became an award-winning poet and editor of the leading Lebanese newspaper, Na-Nahar. Joumana also founded the first erotic literary magazine in the Arab world, which discusses sexuality, virginity, marriage etc.
The meeting begins at 7:30 pm and will be mediated by Soraya Smaili, the cultural director at Icarabe, featuring comments and translation by Mamede Jarouche, translator of the “Book of One Thousand and One Nights” from Arabic into Portuguese and professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of São Paulo (USP). After the event, Joumana will autograph her book at Livraria da Vila, a bookstore on the ground level of the same address.
Service
Meeting with Joumana Haddad
When: November 18th (Friday) at 7:30 pm
Where: Casa do Saber and Livraria da Vila – Rua Doutor. Mário Ferraz 414 – Jardim Paulistano
Sign up: (+55 11) 3707-8900
Promoted by ICArabe – Institute of Arab Culture and Editora Record
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
