Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

5th Cairo Int’nal Poetry Forum to Kick off Next Dec.


Mon 30 Sep 2019 | 11:50 AM
Ali Abu Dashish

The Supreme Council of Culture, under the Secretariat General of Dr. Hisham Azmi, will organize the 5th Cairo International Forum for Arabic Poetry Forum entitled “ Poetry And Culture of The era - The Edition of Ibrahim Naji And Bader Shaker Al Sayyab" from 16 to 19 December at the Council's Headquarters in Cairo.

The event will witness the participation of a large number of Egyptian and Arab researchers, poets and critics.

In January, Dr. Inas Abdel Dayem, Minister of Culture, issued a ministerial decree to form a higher committee to organize the fifth Edition of the forum under the supervision of the Secretary General of the Council and Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Mottaleb – the committee’s reporter.

The committee chose the title of the edition; it accepts the participation of poets and critics by presenting a proposed study in one of the main or sub-axes including "poetry and culture of the era" and the sub-themes of cultural reading of the poetry, poetry and the arts, language and contemporary identity and the levels of intertexuality in Arabic poetry.

The second axes that cover "poetry and shifts in the Arab reality" would discuss the pillars of Arabic poetry, poetry and power, feminism and transformational poetic form.

The third axis would discuss poetry and technology including electronic publishing, poetry from oral to digital, poetry and drama along with poetry and translation.

The last axes would discuss poetry and criticism through poetry, poetic picture shifts, poetic structure in the modern poem, poetry and interpretation.

The Forum would come to an end with the announcement of the winner of Cairo Prize for Poetic Creativity at its fifth edtion.

It is worthy of note that the organizing committee includes a number of specialists, critics and poets, including: the poet Hassan Talib, the poet Ahmed Sweilem, the poet Mohammed Suleiman, the poet Hussein Qabahi, the poet Shaaban Youssef, Dr. Abdel Nasser Hassan, Dr. Osama Behairy, poet Ahmed Antar Mustafa and Wael Hussain.