{"id":8906,"date":"2012-08-30T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=8906"},"modified":"2012-08-30T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T14:47:07","slug":"al-jazeera-poets-of-protest-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/al-jazeera-poets-of-protest-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera &#8220;Poets of Protest&#8221; Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4NkPtECHUy4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al Jazeera\u2019s \u201c<strong>Poets of Protest<\/strong>\u201d series \u2014 which promises to document the lives and landscapes of\u00a0Egyptian poet\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCcQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAhmed_Fouad_Negm&amp;ei=QTg-UJqZCsLs0gHjwoGIDA&amp;usg=AFQjCNFGLZIrHQWElF0YhcQWKFcPZOsNww\">Ahmed Fouad Negm<\/a>, Syrian\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaturfestival.com\/participants\/authors\/2009\/hala-mohammad\">Hala Mohammed<\/a>, Lebanese\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/movingpoems.com\/poet\/yehia-jaber\/\">Yehia Jaber<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/movingpoems.com\/poet\/yehia-jaber\/\">another video of Jaber here<\/a>), Iraqi\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCIQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fshahrazadeu.org%2Fen%2Fcontent%2Fmanal-al-sheikh&amp;ei=7Tk-UJawFua40QG114DIDQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNFBMUfcer4HO8scckSN_1Vmt8JwTA\">Manal al-Sheikh<\/a>, Palestinian\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mazenmaarouf.wordpress.com\/\">Mazen Maarouf<\/a>, and Algerian\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCAQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.english.globalarabnetwork.com%2F2012082812494%2FCulture%2Fmiddle-eastern-uprisings-highlight-regions-poets-of-protest.html&amp;ei=Ujo-UNL_NeHn0QHevoGACw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHiqRP5P9ECtAQoKBUyKYzPEGIroA\">al-Khadra<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 is set to begin tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arablit.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/30\/al-jazeera-series-poets-of-protest-starts-tomorrow\/\">Arab Literature (in English)<\/a> blog has this to say on the series:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The first \u201cArtscape\u201d portrait will be of vernacular poet Fouad Negm, who was also recently featured in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/5\/32\/13470\/Arts--Culture\/Film\/Al-Fagoumy-offers-a-shallow-recreation-of-the-famo.aspx\">a disappointing Egyptian film<\/a>. An Al Jazeera news release promises that \u201cPoets of Protest focuses on writers, their political and artistic struggles, and their work, with beautifully filmed visual interpretations of the poems. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The release adds, after discussing the profile of Fouad Negm, \u201cIn other episodes in the series, Syria\u2019s renowned Hala Mohammed tells us about the pain of watching from exile as her country is violently torn apart. Poets of Protest also goes beyond the Arab Spring to hear the works of Mazen Maarouf from Palestine, Manal Al-Sheikh from Iraq, communist fighter turned poet Yehia Jaber from Lebanon and the \u2018the poet of the rifle,\u2019 Al Khadra, from Western Sahara. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s \u201cPoets of Protest\u201d series \u2014 which promises to document the lives and landscapes of\u00a0Egyptian poet\u00a0Ahmed Fouad Negm, Syrian\u00a0Hala Mohammed, Lebanese\u00a0Yehia Jaber\u00a0(another video of Jaber here), Iraqi\u00a0Manal al-Sheikh, Palestinian\u00a0Mazen Maarouf, and Algerian\u00a0al-Khadra\u00a0\u2014 is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012,11,90,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arab-spring","category-arab-culture","category-poetics","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8910,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions\/8910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}