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Nefertiti’s Daughters: Women, Art and Revolution

Thursday 6th February, 6.30pm, SOAS Brunei Lecture Theatre

Nefertiti’s Daughters is a story of women, art, and revolution. Told by prominent Egyptian artists, this documentary witnesses the critical role revolutionary street art played during the Egyptian uprisings. Focused on the role of women artists in the struggle for social and political change, it spotlights how the iconic graffiti of Queen Nefertiti placed her on the front lines in the ongoing fight for women’s rights and freedom in Egypt today.

After the screening of the film, Bahia Shehab, one of the featured artists, will be in conversation with Barbara Schwepcke, founder of Gingko.

Copies of At the Corner of a Dream: A Journey of Revolution and Resistance, which shows Shehab’s street art based on poetry by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, will be available for purchase.

This event is open to the public and free to attend, however registration is required.

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It’s publication day for “The Early Mubarak Ye

It’s publication day for “The Early Mubarak Years 1982-1988: The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz Volume III” – link below.
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This timely volume consists of essays published in newspapers between 1982 and 1988, coinciding with the early years of Hosni Mubarak’s presidency described by Mahfouz as an ‘unhurried democracy’.
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“It is only with the publication of … Mahfouz’s non-fiction writing that there is a body of journalism and essays through which to trace Mahfouz’s intellectual journey.” – Financial Times
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https://www.gingko.org.uk/title/the-early-mubarak-years-1982-1988/
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#Mahfouz #Egypt #Translation #NonFiction

Gingko is at #mesa2019 in New Orleans! Find our Sa

Gingko is at #mesa2019 in New Orleans! Find our Sales Manager Edoardo at Booth 45. All our titles are 25% off throughout the conference.

Great to see Gingko’s “A New Divan” on sale

Great to see Gingko’s “A New Divan” on sale in @blackwellbooks ’s flagship Oxford store alongside some of the staples of inspiring contemporary poetry anthologies
#blackwellsbookshop #newdivan #poetry #oxford #gingko

Announcing “A New Divan” Festival – a celebr

Announcing “A New Divan” Festival – a celebration of 200 years of Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan, co-produced by the Barenboim-Said Akademie and Gingko
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. “To everything there is a season!” Goethe wrote 200 years ago in his “Notes for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan". Today we face another era in which the "West" feels threatened by the "East", by Islam, by the “Other,” by the unknown. To everything there is a season —and the season now seems right to attempt a divan for our times: A New Divan. Gingko and the @barenboimsaidakademie have invited leading poets, artists, and musicians from “East” and “West” to come together for a festival celebrating 200 years of Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan.
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The programme, curated by Prof. Dr. Mena Mark Hanna, Dean of the Barenboim-Said Akademie and co-produced by Gingko, is the culmination of a four-year collaboration between the Barenboim-Said Akademie and the publishers of A New Divan. A series of poetry readings, keynote lectures, and panel discussions will explore and elaborate Goethe’s themes. The three-day event concludes with a concert presenting different settings of poems from Goethe’s Divan, under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim.
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A New Divan is a multi-lingual anthology of poetry, celebrating what we have in common at a time when people seek to divide us. It was conceived to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of the original Divan. “This reimagining of Goethe’s seminal work gives us the opportunity to re-engage with his thoughts—a much-needed exercise, given the state of the world today”, writes Daniel Barenboim in his foreword.
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The festival programme is complemented by an exhibition and the screening of a documentary film featuring the artist and activist Bahia Shehab. Admission to all events except the concert is free but tickets are required. .
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See here to explore the full programme: https://boulezsaal.de/new-divan
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#berlin #music #art #activism #poetry

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