The Maghreb of the Books, 12th edition: Paris, Town Hall, February 25th - 26th, 2006
The association “Coup de soleil” (Sunstroke), born 20 years ago, joins together Maghrébins and the French, residing in France or not, in order to emphasize what they carry, "their memories of lights and landscapes, their need to find the same odours, the same colors and the same music, as well as their vision of the world and their relationships with the others". To support the exchange and the communication between the two banks of the Mediterranean, the association organizes every year a meeting around the books, in order to bring together authors and the public and to discuss different issues. Special guest in 2002, Morocco returns this year. Many works, comics, novels, art books, essays will be showed to the public and more than 200 authors from Yasmina Khadra to Benjamin Stora, from Leïla Sebbar to Abdellatif Laabi, Albert Memmi and Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, will come to sign their works. Reviews, magazines, discs will be also exposed and will be able to testify the vitality of the cultural life maghrébine, and Morrocan woman in particular, in France. Debates, exhibitions, films, concerts, and a coffee maure will also animate these two days. Four round tables will be organized and will treat respectively Moroccan literature, the Maghreb in 1956, evolutions of the family codes in the Maghreb, and issues of positive discrimination and equal opportunities. Five meetings will be animated by academics, writers or journalists. Homages will be carried to great writers: Mohamed Choukri, Haim Zafrani, Jamel Eddine Bencheikh Claudine Bencheikh and André Miquel. With the program also, handing-over of the prize Beur FM Méditerranée.
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