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Tashweesh festival 2018
Reading Group w/ Sara Shaarawi & Amahl Khouri

Exchange ideas about writing within the contemporary theatrical canon and within the Arabic MENA region.

reading group, TASHWEESH FESTIVAL
SA 20.10.2018 17:00

Amahl Khouri and Sara Shaarawi are two prominent writers about theatre. Sara Shaarawi is an Egyptian writer and performer who is primarily active in the UK. Amahl Khouri is a queer and trans mestizo/mestiza, a documentary theatre maker from Jordan.

In this reading group session, they exchange ideas about writing within the contemporary theatrical canon and within the Arabic MENA region. Both authors read fragments from their respective work, from He Me by Amahl and Niqabi Ninja by Sara. This is followed by a conversation about writing, theatre and feminism. Moderated by curator Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi.

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As part of TASHWEESH, a 10-day multidisciplinary festival about feminism in the Middle-East, North Africa and Europe. w/ Goethe-Institut Brüssel

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