In its third year, the Cairo Mediterranean Literary Festival aims to open a dimension in tackling a sensitive taboo topic: the body. The festival is organized by Baad El-Bahr Cultural Association, which is a non-profit organisation founded in 2008 aiming to explore and develop various aspects of cultural life in Egypt.
The festival events will take place in different venues in Cairo in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute, the French Institute, the Cervantes Institute, Al-Mashrabia Gallery, the British Council, the Goethe Institute, Alitalia and Rising Stars.
The festival programme:
17 May - 7pm at the Italian Cultural Institute - Inaugural speech
17 May - 8pm at the Italian Cultural Institute - Fernanda Calati reads passages from the book “Corpo” (Body) by Tiziano Scarpa, with accompaniment by Alberto Zappalà (in Italian with on screen Arabic translation)
18 May - 6pm at the Italian Cultural Institute - “Il Corpo Sonoro” (The Sonorous Body). Introduction by Fernanda Calati of her workshop on the voice for actors and teachers. In Italian with limited places (please reserve by calling 25784494)
18 May - 6pm at Baad El-Bahr - Screening of the French movie The Intouchables
18 May - 7.30pm at the British Council - Screening of the movie “Dunia” by Lebanese director Jocelyne Saab (in Arabic with English subtitles)
18 May - 8pm at Baad El-Bahr - Screening of the movie “Un altro pianeta” (One Day In A Life)
18 May - 9pm at the British Council - Lebanese director Jocelyne Saab meets the public (in English with simultaneous translation in Arabic)
19 May - 6pm at the Italian Cultural Institute - Roundtable discussion, “Writing Today. The body and writing between desire and influences,” featuring Viola di Grado, Ahmed Naje and Amr Ezzat
19 May - 6pm at Baad El-Bahr - Screening of the movie "Questione di cuore" (Questions of the Heart)
19 May - 7.30pm at Baad El-Bahr - Screening of short movies by Xavier Puigmartì
19 May - 8pm at Baad El-Bahr - Screening of the movie "Lo mejor de mi" (The Best of Me)
19 May - 9pm at the Italian Cultural Institute - Rap concert by Asfalt
20 May - 6pm at the Italian Cultural Institute - “Food, body and senses in literature”: Lecture by Simonetta Agnello Hornby with Arnaldo Dante Marianacci (director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Cairo)
20 May - 6pm at Baad El-Bahr - Screening of the movie "Abre los ojos" (Open your Eyes)
20 May - 7pm at the Cervantes Institute - "Words versus Time: Approaching Espido Freire's work": Lecture in Spanish with simultaneous translation in Arabic.
20 May - 8pm at Baad El-Bahr - Screening of the movie “Une affaire de gout” (A Matter of Taste)
21 May - 6pm - at the Italian Institute of Culture - Screening of the movie “Angels on Death Row: The Ebrahim Hamidi’s Case” by Alessandro Golinelli and Rocco Bernini
21 May - 6pm at Baad El Bahr - Screening of the movie "La valise rouge" (In the Lost and Found)
21 May - 7pm at Baad El Bahr - Screening of Egyptian short movies
21 May - 7pm at the Italian Cultural Institute - Alessandro Golinelli meets the public and presents his new novel, L’amore semplicemente (Simply Love). Introduced by Gennaro Gervasio
21 May - 7pm at the French Institute - Lecture by Gilles Lipovetsky, conversation with Anouar Moghith on “Le Sacre de la beauté féminine” (The Sacredness of Feminine Beauty)
21 May - 8pm at Baad El-Bahr - Screening of the movie "Gordos" (Fat People)
Exhibitions:
17-21 May - 11am to 8pm at Al-Mashrabeya Gallery - "Maps Miracle" An exhibition of drawings
20-21 May - 7pm at [LOCATION NEEDED] - “The body’s memory” by Marwa Adel
Locations:
Italian Cultural Institute
3 El-Sheikh El-Marsafi Street
Zamalek
Tel : 002-27355423 / 002-27358791
The French Institute
1 Madrasset El-Huquq El-Frinseya Street
Mounira
Tel: (02) 27915800
Cervantes Institutede El Cairo
20 Boulos Hanna Street
Dokki
Tel.: 202-37601746 - 33371962
Al-Mashrabia Gallery
8 Champollion Street
Downtown, Cairo
Tel: 02-25784494
The British Council
192 El-Nil Street
Agouza, Cairo
Tel: 02-33001857
Fax + 20(0)2-33443076
Baad El-Bahr Cultural Association
2 Hussein Al-Maameri Al-Antikakhana (Apt 9)
Qasr El-Nil, Downtown, Cairo
Tel +20106-2822216
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