{"id":291110,"date":"2021-04-09T18:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T21:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=291110"},"modified":"2021-04-09T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T21:47:42","slug":"project-features-authors-from-lebanon-tunisia-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/project-features-authors-from-lebanon-tunisia-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Project features authors from Lebanon, Tunisia & Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Authors from countries including Lebanon, Tunisia and Palestine will join an online event created by a Brazilian. The Migra project will last from April to October 2021, featuring discussions with 80-plus artists, filmmakers, playwrights, illustrators, researchers, and members of civil society. Pictured above are Myriam Soufy of Tunisia and Nadine Ltaif of Lebanon, who will both be featured<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In addition to debates, the event will include readings, academic forums, meetings with students, and book launches. The content will be available free of charge on the project\u2019s YouTube and Facebook.<\/p>\n

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In 2014, Tonus was awarded the Order of Academic Palms by the Ministry of Education of France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The goal is to enable transnational, transdisciplinary dialogue regarding the experiences of migrancy in our time. \u201cThe term \u2018migrancy\u2019 was coined by a Canadian author. It bears weight in addressing a social situation, of a subject who enters a country and finds themselves in a situation of transit. As for the poetical issue, we are looking to go beyond that. Migrancy is a notion of movement and eternal displacement. Right now, amid the pandemic, we are also experiencing migration towards our own homes. It\u2019s the same mechanism,\u201d explained the project\u2019s creator Leonardo Tonus, a Brazilian Literature professor at Sorbonne and an immigration specialist.<\/p>\n

More than just a cultural festival, the Migra project is intended as a space in which to discuss displacement in the world today. \u201cWe try to invite people who have done work on migration. We are also mindful of men-women parity, regional and cultural diversity, and of course, we try to give a voice to those who have lived through the experience,\u201d said Tonus.<\/p>\n

A native of S\u00e3o Bernardo do Campo, in the S\u00e3o Paulo metro area, the Italian-Brazilian professor lives and works in Paris. An immigrant himself, Tonus has studied the phenomenon in several research projects. He also organized the anthology \u201cLa litt\u00e9rature br\u00e9silienne contemporaine,\u201d featuring work by 12 Brazilian authors, and released under the title \u2018From the Diaspora to the Motherland\u201d in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

The Migra project is organized by a commission comprising researchers, professors and players from the world of culture in Brazil, Europe, the United States, and Canada. The debates will be streamed live, and they will remain available after-the-fact.<\/p>\n

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The work of Lebanese descendant Marcelo Maluf is featured in an anthology published in the UAE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The event opens on Saturday (10), featuring the Chilean writer of Palestinian descent Lina Meruane, the author of \u2018Becoming Palestinian.\u2019 The moderators will be Eleonora Frenkel, a writer and a professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and Julian Fuks, the author of \u2018Resistance,\u2019 which has been translated into five different languages and won the Jabuti Award for Fiction Book of the Year and Best Novel (2016), the Jos\u00e9 Saramago Prize (2017), and \u00a0the Anna Seghers Prize (2018).<\/p>\n

The event \u2018Between East(s) and West(s),\u2019 airing April 17 at 1 pm (Bras\u00edlia time) will feature other Arab authors: Nadine Ltaif, a Canadian resident who was born in Lebanon, and Tunisia\u2019s Myriam Soufy, the author of the anthology of poems \u2018Re\u2026 Belle!\u2019 and a jurist, fine artist, photographer, and actress. They will be joined by the Brazilian writer of Lebanese descent Marcelo Maluf.<\/p>\n