Nhar il-Ġimgħa 13 ta’ Frar, fis-7.00pm fil-Kavallier ta’ San Ġakbu, il-Belt, Khaled Khalifa, rumanzier dissidenti ewlieni Sirjan se jaqra x-xogħol tiegħu u jiġi intervistat waqt attività pubblika li għaliha jista’ jattendi kulħadd. Id-dħul huwa b’xejn. Din l-attività hija organizzata minn Inizjamed bl-għajnuna taċ-̇Ċentru tal-Kreattività tal-Kavallier ta’ San Ġakbu.
Khaled Khalifa għażel li jibqa’ jgħix is-Sirja minkejja l-gwerra u l-awtur Malti-Palestinjan Walid Nabhan se jaqra silta tradotta għall-Malti tad-djarju tal-gwerra tal-awtur li jgħix f’Damasku. Ghenwa Mumari, Sirjana wkoll, li tgħallem il-letteratura Għarbija fl-Università ta’ Malta u ilha bosta snin taf lill-awtur, se tintroduċi lilu u r-rumanzi u x-xogħol tiegħu għat-televiżjoni. Din l-introduzzjoni se tkun bl-Ingliż. Albert Gatt se jaqra mir-rumanz magħruf ta’ Khalifa maqlub bl-Ingliż, In Praise of Hatred, u Adrian Grima se jintervista lill-awtur bl-Ingliż. Matul il-lejla Khaled Khalifa se jaqra silta mill-iktar xogħol reċenti tiegħu bl-Għarbi.
F’reċensjoni tagħha fil-gazzetta The Guardian, Maya Jaggi tiddeskrivi In Praise of Hatred bħala rumanz “importanti ħafna”. Dan it-tielet xogħol ippubblikat tiegħu bl-Għarbi ħareġ fl-2006 u kien innominat għall-Premju Internazzjonali tan-Narrattiva bil-Għarbi fl-2008. Sadattant ir-rumanz ġie ċċensurat fis-Sirja u ġie ppubblikat mill-ġdid fil-Libanu.
Hemm aktar tagħrif fuq din l-attività fuq il-paġna tal-Facebook ta’ Inizjamed jew mingħand inizjamed@maltaforum.org.
In Praise of Hatred. A Reading by Syrian Novelist Khaled Khalifa
On Friday 13 February, the leading Syrian dissident novelist and screenwriter Khaled Khalifa, will read from his novels in the Music Room at St James Cavalier at 7.00pm. The event, which is open to the general public and free of charge, is being organised by Inizjamed with the support of the St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity.
Khaled Khalifa has chosen to remain in Syria despite the war raging in his country and Walid Nabhan will be reading excerpts translated into Maltese of his Damascus war diary. The author and his work will be introduced in English by his long-time friend, the Syrian academic Ghenwa Mumari, who teaches Arabic literature in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta. Albert Gatt will be reading from In Praise of Hatred and Adrian Grima will interview the author in English. Khaled Khalifa will be reading an excerpt from his latest novel in Arabic.
Writing in The Guardian, Maya Jaggi has described Khalifa’s third novel In Praise of Hatred as a ‘momentous’ novel. It was first published in 2006 and shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2008, by which time, writes Jaggi, it had been banned in Syria and republished in Lebanon.
More information on the event is available on Inizjamed’s Facebook page or from inizjamed@maltaforum.org.
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