Asmara Addis Literary Festival in Exile: “An Ode to Resistance”

sam. 30.11.2024
15:00 - 17:15
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Catégorie

musique, performance, poésie, lecture

Prix

pay what you can

informations pratiques

you can find the full day's programme online at asmaraaddisfestivalinexile.com


Langue

arabic, dutch and persian

This year, Passa Porta is again supporting a number of events at the Asmar Addis Literary Festival (in Exile), in collaboration with writer, curator and initiator Sulaiman Addonia. This edition of the AALFIE, with the central theme “The Body's Languages", will take place at Den Teirling in Ixelles.

On the second and final day of the AALFIE festival, several musicians, poets and prose writers bring an ode to resistance. With readings and a panel discussion including Fatena Al-Ghorra (Arabic and Dutch), Tuly Salumu (Dutch), Passa Porta’s current writer-in-residence Mehdi Mousavi (Persian) and Ahmed Saleh (Arabic).

Moderation: Lubi Barre.

You can find the full day's programme online at asmaraaddisfestivalinexile.com

About AALFIE

The Asmara Addis Literary (in Exile) is a vagabond, multilingual festival in the heart of Europe, rooted in pan-African and feminist values. It aims to showcase the rich linguistic wealth and diversity of European artists with international backgrounds. Although Sulaiman Addonia’s time has been consumed by promoting his recent novel The Seers, he has curated talents with backgrounds in more than 28 countries, including Sudan, Palestine, the Congo, Yemen, Burundi, Senegal, South Korea, China, Greece, Tunisia, Romania, Nigeria, Mali, Italy, Algeria, Spain, Turkey, the UK, Somalia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina, Benin, Poland, Portugal, and Belgium.

Visual © Delphine Somers and AALFIE

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