Tomorrow, Tuesday will take place at the headquarters of Casa Árabe in Madrid at 7 p.m. the eleventh session of the cycle Aula Árabe Universitaria 7, led by Maram Al Masri, a Syrian poet, accompanied by the lauder Hames Bitar. The activity is organized on the occasion of 8 March, International Women’s Day, and within a week of activities dedicated to Syria. Free admission until full capacity. The event will be held in French, with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish.
The session will cover the work of the Syrian poet, focused on the experience of exile, memory, identity and female status, through an intimate voice, clear and committed. Her writing claims the female body, desire and word as spaces of resistance against violence, silence and uprooting, consolidating it as an essential figure in the cultural dialogue between the Arab world and Europe.
Organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities of IE University, the event will be articulated as a multilingual reading meeting, which will feature the collaboration of professors and students from that university, followed by a dialogue with the poet. With the participation of Celia de Anca Ramos, director of the Center for Diversity in Global Management at IE University, and Goretti Teresa González, professor of literature at that university. The session will be moderated by Karim Hauser Askalani, coordinator of Culture and International Relations at Casa Árabe.
Maram Al-Masri was born in Latakia (Syria) and currently resides in Paris for years, studied English literature at the University of Damascus before starting to publish his poetry in Arabic literary magazines in 1970. She is now considered one of the most recognized and unique female voices in contemporary Arabic poetry.