This year, the Poetry Night proposed by the \u201cInstitute of the Arab world\u201d in Paris since 2016, will happen for the first time in Jordan. Organized by the French Institute in AMMAN, to celebrate the beauty of the verb, this event will resonate across many cities of the Arab world: Abou Dhabi, Alger, Annaba, Bagdad, Beirut, Cairo, Casablanca, Constantine, Djeddah, Doha, F\u00e8s, Khartoum, Manama, Marrakech, Mascate, Mekn\u00e8s, Rabat, Riyad and Tunis.<\/p>\n
Program:<\/p>\n
6.00 PM \u2013 6.30 PM: Poetry lecture by Walid Al Swairki (in Arabic and French)
\n6.30 PM \u2013 7.30 PM: \u201cVoices Within\u201d Hisham Bustani will perform his poetry texts alongside audio-visual suggestions by Kazz Torabyeh (in Arabic with French and English subtitles)<\/p>\n
Description:<\/p>\n
\u201cVoices Within\u201d : Hisham Bustani performs his poetry texts alongside audio-visual suggestions by Kazz Torabyeh<\/p>\n
Hisham Bustani presents a selection of his poetry in addition to hybrid-genre literary texts in this Arabic language multimedia performance accompanied by French and English translations. These texts speak to pressing, contemporary issues \u2013 the consequences of the planet and humanity\u2019s rapid descent into self-destruction \u2013 as well as speaking to the possibilities of poetry as a literary form, its musicality, the elements that form it and its contemplative nature. The texts to be performed by Bustani also explore the possibilities of engagement with other art forms, both auditory and visual, which will be presented by Kazz Torabyeh in a departure from his usual medium of hip-hop\/rap into creating audio-visual media. The performance aims to provide an avenue for creative collaboration with the audience, who will themselves become part of the performance.<\/p>\n
French translation: Nada Yafi.
\nEnglish translation: Thoraya El-Rayyes.<\/p>\n
Biographies:<\/p>\n
Hisham Bustani is an award-winning Jordanian author of five collections of short fiction and poetry. He is acclaimed for his bold style and unique narrative voice, and often experiments with the boundaries of short fiction and prose poetry. Much of his work revolves around issues related to social and political change, particularly the dystopian experience of post-colonial modernity in the Arab world. His work has been described as “bringing a new wave of surrealism to [Arabic] literary culture, which missed the surrealist revolution of the last century,\u201d and it has been said that he \u201cbelongs to an angry new Arab generation. Indeed, he is at the forefront of this generation \u2013 combining an unbounded modernist literary sensibility with a vision for total change\u2026. His anger extends to encompass everything, including literary conventions.\u201d Hisham\u2019s fiction and poetry have been translated into many languages, appearing in prestigious journals such as “The Kenyon Review”, “The Poetry Review”, “Modern Poetry in Translation”, “World Literature Today”, and “The Los Angeles Review of Books”. In 2013, the U.K.-based cultural webzine “The Culture Trip” listed him as one of Jordan\u2019s top six contemporary writers. His book “The Perception of Meaning” (Syracuse University Press, 2015) won the University of “Arkansas Arabic Translation Award”. His work has been anthologized in “The Best Asian Short Stories”, and he is the recipient of the “Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Fellowship for Artists and Writers” for 2017.<\/p>\n
Kazz Torabyeh (born 1992) is a rapper, songwriter, producer, and artist based in Amman-Jordan. He is co-founder of a ground breaking rap group “Torabyeh” in 2009, which gained worldwide attention with its album “Ghorbah” released in 2011. He released the album “Athar al-Ghorab” in 2014, the EP “Dahab” in 2015. “Underrated” is his latest album, released in 2019. Kazz Torabyeh continues to experiment and push the boundaries of lyrics and sounds, featuring rappers from different career stages from the Middle East. Kazz Torabyeh has collaborated with numerous musicians and artists from the region. He performed in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Spain, Germany, and France, and has been featured in various international media platforms such as Vice, Al Jazeera, BBC, Radio Monte Carlo and Der Standard.<\/p>\n
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Cette ann\u00e9e, la Nuit de la po\u00e9sie propos\u00e9e par l\u2019 \u00ab Institut du Monde Arabe \u00bb \u00e0 Paris depuis 2016 est \u00e0 Amman. Organis\u00e9e par l\u2019Institut fran\u00e7ais de Jordanie pour c\u00e9l\u00e9brer la beaut\u00e9 du verbe, cet \u00e9v\u00e8nement r\u00e9sonnera de nouveau \u00e0 travers de nombreuses villes du monde arabe : Abou Dhabi, Alger, Annaba, Bagdad, Beyrouth, Le Caire, Casablanca, Constantine, Djeddah, Doha, F\u00e8s, Khartoum, Manama, Marrakech, Mascate, Mekn\u00e8s, Rabat, Riyad, Tunis et pour la premi\u00e8re fois AMMAN.<\/p>\n
Programme :<\/p>\n
18h00 – 18h30 Lecture de po\u00e8mes par Walid Al Swairki (en arabe et en fran\u00e7ais)
\n18h30 – 19h30 Performance du po\u00e8te Hisham Bustani accompagn\u00e9e des cr\u00e9ations audiovisuelles de Kazz Torabyeh (en arabe avec sous-titres en fran\u00e7ais et en anglais).<\/p>\n
Description :<\/p>\n
\u00ab Voix int\u00e9rieures \u00bb: Hisham Bustani interpr\u00e8tera ses textes de po\u00e9sie accompagn\u00e9s par les cr\u00e9ations audiovisuelles de Kazz Torabyeh.<\/p>\n
Dans cette performance multim\u00e9dia en langue arabe accompagn\u00e9e d’une traduction en fran\u00e7ais et en anglais, Hisham Bustani pr\u00e9sentera une s\u00e9lection de ses po\u00e8mes ainsi que des textes litt\u00e9raires dans un style \u00ab hybride \u00bb. Ces textes traitent de probl\u00e9matiques urgentes et contemporaines \u2013 les cons\u00e9quences de la trajectoire autodestructive prise par l\u2019humanit\u00e9 et la plan\u00e8te \u2013 mais aussi des possibilit\u00e9s de la po\u00e9sie comme forme litt\u00e9raire, de sa musicalit\u00e9, des \u00e9l\u00e9ments qui la composent et sa nature contemplative. Ses textes explorent \u00e9galement les possibilit\u00e9s de rapprochement avec d\u2019autres formes d\u2019art, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une cr\u00e9ation audiovisuelle pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par Kazz Torabyeh, sous une forme media quelque peu \u00e9loign\u00e9 du rap\/ hip-hop, son moyen d\u2019expression habituel. Le spectacle a pour but d\u2019offrir un espace de collaboration cr\u00e9ative permettant au public de devenir lui-m\u00eame partie int\u00e9grante de la performance.<\/p>\n
Traduction vers le fran\u00e7ais: Nada Yafi.
\nTraduction vers l\u2019anglais: Thoraya El-Rayyes.<\/p>\n
Biographies :<\/p>\n
Hisham Bustani, auteur prim\u00e9 jordanien de cinq recueils de nouvelles et po\u00e8mes, est reconnu pour son style audacieux et sa voix narrative unique. Il exp\u00e9rimente souvent les limites de la fiction courte et de la po\u00e9sie en prose. Une grande partie de son travail s’articule autour de questions li\u00e9es aux changements sociaux et politiques, en particulier l’exp\u00e9rience dystopique de la modernit\u00e9 postcoloniale dans le monde arabe. Son travail a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9crit comme \u00ab apportant une nouvelle vague de surr\u00e9alisme \u00e0 la culture litt\u00e9raire [arabe], qui a rat\u00e9 la r\u00e9volution surr\u00e9aliste du si\u00e8cle dernier \u00bb. Il appartiendrait \u00ab \u00e0 une nouvelle g\u00e9n\u00e9ration arabe en col\u00e8re. En effet, au premier plan de cette g\u00e9n\u00e9ration – combinant une sensibilit\u00e9 litt\u00e9raire moderniste sans limite \u00e0 une vision pour un changement total- sa col\u00e8re est globale, y compris contre les conventions litt\u00e9raires. \u00bb La fiction et la po\u00e9sie de Hisham ont \u00e9t\u00e9 traduites dans de nombreuses langues, et ont paru dans de prestigieuses revues comme “Kenyon Review”, “The Poetry Review”, “Modern Poetry in Translation”, “World Literature Today”, et “The Los Angeles Review of Books”. En 2013, le webzine culturel bas\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, “The Culture Trip”, l’a class\u00e9 parmi les six meilleurs \u00e9crivains contemporains jordaniens. Son livre “The Perception of Meaning” (Syracuse University Press, 2015) a gagn\u00e9 le prix de traduction arabe de l’Universit\u00e9 de l’Arkansas. Son travail a \u00e9t\u00e9 recueilli dans “The Best Asian Short Stories” et il a \u00e9t\u00e9 par ailleurs le r\u00e9cipiendaire de la bourse Bellagio pour artistes et \u00e9crivains de la Fondation “Rockefeller” en 2017.<\/p>\n
Kazz Torabyeh (n\u00e9 en 1992) est un rappeur, auteur-compositeur, producteur et artiste bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Amman-Jordanie. En 2009, il devient co-fondateur du groupe de rap avant-gardiste “Torabyeh”, reconnu \u00e0 l\u2019international gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 son album “Ghorbah” sorti en 2011. En 2014, sort l’album “Athar al-Ghorab” et “l’EP Dahab” en 2015. “Underrated” est son dernier album, sorti en 2019. Kazz Torabyeh continue \u00e0 exp\u00e9rimenter et \u00e0 repousser les limites des mots et de la musique en mettant en sc\u00e8ne des rappeurs du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 des \u00e9tapes diff\u00e9rentes de leur carri\u00e8re. Kazz Torabyeh a collabor\u00e9 avec de nombreux musiciens et artistes de la r\u00e9gion. Il a jou\u00e9 en Jordanie, au Liban, en \u00c9gypte, en Espagne, en Allemagne et en France, et a fait plusieurs apparitions sur des m\u00e9dias internationaux comme ‘Vice”, “Al Jazeera”, “BBC”, “Radio Monte Carlo” et “Der Standard”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This year, the Poetry Night proposed by the \u201cInstitute of the Arab world\u201d in Paris since 2016, will happen for the first time in Jordan. Organized by the French Institute in AMMAN, to celebrate the beauty of the verb, this …<\/p>\n