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.
www.coupdesoleil.net
Il Maghreb dei libri, dodicesima
edizione: Parigi, Hotel de Ville, 25-26 febbraio 2006
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