The Department of Near Eastern and African Studies is happy to invite you to a lecture entitled “EDWARD SAID/MAHMOUD DARWISH: CONTRAPUNTAL IMPLICATIONS” by renowned Syrican literary critic Subhí al-Hadídí.
Abstract:
Both friends for decades, and fellow Palestinian exiles, Edward W. Said and Mahmoud Darwish had many points of agreement, but also a few disagreements. Far from being discrepancies in their general vision as to how exile has framed their lives and works, those divergences were rather some sort of interesting ‘contrapuntal implications’: Art and Poetry for Darwish, Theory and Criticism for Said.
In a 1994 essay, written by Said and published in Grand Street under the title “On Mahmoud Darwish”; and in a 2004 poem, titled طباق (Contrapuntal), Darwish wrote in Said’s honor after his death; the two express several aspects of a certain dialectics of agreement/disagreement.
Event detail
- Event start
- 9. 3. 2016 18:00 - 20:00
- Venue
- Department of Near Eastern and African Studies,Celetná 20, Room 238 (2nd floor))
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/events/893688334081586/
- Organizing Institution
- Department of Near Eastern and African Studies
- Event type
- Lecture
