The Grupo Editorial Sial Pigmalión and the Círculo Intercultural Hispano Árabe (CIHAR) are organising a Hispanic-Arab poetry recital this evening at 7 p.m. at the Espacio Ronda Madrid (Ronda de Segovia, 50), an emblematic and multicultural place that fuses art and literature.
Authors from different countries and aesthetics will take part in the event, which will allow us to meet again in a literary and fraternal embrace to become aware of our similarities and peculiarities, as well as to get to know better the respective poetic voices that will participate in this event, from different latitudes and characteristics, but with a solid nexus of union: good literature and friendship.
Presented and coordinated by Daniel Migueláñez, philologist, actor and poet, the event will feature the participation of Abdo Tounsi (Jordan), Basilio Rodríguez Cañada, Ridha Mami (Tunisia), Francisco Gutiérrez Carbajo, María Pilar Cavero, Asma Souissi (Tunisia), Inma Jiménez Jorquera, Helena Cosano, Khalid Raissouni (Morocco), María Antonia García de León, Rocío Hervias (Peru), José Luis Marín Aranda, Alma Grau, Hicham Amraoui (Morocco), Socorro Mármol Brís, José María Triper, Cristina Galán, Antonio Portillo, Gloria Nistal, Janet Aznarán (Peru), Juan Manuel Riesgo and Jesús Herrero del Cura.
Nineteenth-century poets such as Zorrilla, Bécquer, Espronceda and Rosalía de Castro were influenced by the Arabic, coinciding with Romanticism and its interest and curiosity in the exoticism and mysteries of the East. The same happened with the best-known authors of the Generation of ’27, the Silver Age of Spanish poetry: Lorca, Cernuda, Alberti, Dámaso Alonso, among others, drank from the Arabic-Andalusian tradition and poetry and clearly reflected it in their works. However, the current lack of knowledge of Arab culture in Western societies means that it is often wrongly linked to extreme religious or ideological positions, leading to mutual media distrust between our respective peoples and cultures. Nevertheless, there is currently a large group of Spanish authors whose work clearly shows the influence of Arabic, as well as a number of current Arab authors who have drawn on the sources of Spanish and Latin American literature.
