Scholar, writer and poet Leonardo Tonus will participate in events celebrating the Portuguese language next week in the capital city of Tunisia.
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The in-person launch event at the Palestinian restaurant will be this Sunday (3), with the presence of Tabla’s editor, Laura di Pietro, and the book’s translators and editors, Safa Jubran and Michel Sleiman.
‘Memory for Forgetfulness’ is the third work by the writer considered the national poet of Palestine published in Brazil.
Online event brings movies by Palestine’s Annemarie Jacir and UAE’s Nujoom Al-Ghanem to the Brazilian audience. They will also have their poems recited in performances during a sarau. The event starts on April 7.
Translators such as Michel Sleiman and Safa Jubran will join author Milton Hatoum to discuss the life and work of poet Mahmud Darwich. The Palestinian would turn 80 this month and Editora Tabla is hosting meetings in his honor.
Nisreen Dibdulahi, from Bagdad, tells her story of migration and recites her poems in the Sarau Vozes Femininas together with 10 other artists.
Natan Barreto will launch his book ‘Um Quintal e Outros Cantos’ (A Backyard and Other Corners, loosely translated) at the Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Center on October 24. In the book, the author evokes his memories and puts them into verses.
Wiana Aguiar has been living in the UAE for ten years and now launched the children’s book ‘Pepa & Keca – Has Anyone Seen Rhymes Around Here?’. It’s a poetry book, many of them based in her daily life in the Arab country.
Michel Sleiman will speak on Monday (16) at Beirut’s Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Center on the work of Brazilian writers of Arab descent. He is a professor at the University of São Paulo.
