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THE WOMAN WHO HUNCHED OVER TO TELL WATER HER SECRET

14
Feb 2022
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Monday 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM

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Violette Abu El Jeld is a Lebanese poet who studied philosophy and theology. She participated in numerous poetry discussions, seminars, and conferences in France, Oman, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq and Latin America. Her works were translated in poetry magazines into French, Spanish, German, English, Persian and Italian. In 2021, she won a full-time grant to prepare an anthology of minority female poets through the Institut Français, the Association Cultural Centers for Meetings of Artists and Professionals and the French Ministry of Culture.

When his soul left his body and this world, he left a house for poetry, a place for his things, and walls where the poetry he loved would remain. The Bahraini poet Ibrahim Al Arrayed, and all those who (followed) him in his literary journey and translated works, were retained by the Sheikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Centre for Culture and Research in his city which he belonged, Manama. For it was the house of fame, as the first among the homes of cultural centers outside the city of Muharraq.

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