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‘Invitation to a Secret Feast’ a poetry reading by Joumana Haddad

Global Arab Network - - Adam Turner

Wednesday, 22 April 2009 16:45

Invitation to a Secret Feast is the 5th book of poetry by Lebanese poet Joumana Haddad, edited and with an introduction by Khaled Mattawa (who also did some of the translations). Haddad’s passionate, poetic voice is renowned throughout Europe and the Middle East.
In these gorgeous translations, her voice sings, celebrating sexuality, femininity and womanhood. Poems will be read in both Arabic and English. This will be followed by Q & A with the author.

Signed copies of the book, published in the USA by Tupelo Press, will also be available for purchase on the night. The new edition of Jasad magazine will also be available.

The Mosaics Rooms are an A.M. Qattan Foundation Project .

About the Author

Joumana Haddad is a Lebanese poet, translator and journalist. She is editor of the cultural pages of the prestigious An-Nahar newspaper, as well as the administrator of IPAF literary prize (the Arabic Booker) and editor-in-chief of JASAD, a controversial Arabic magazine specialised in the literature and arts body.

Haddad has published several widely acclaimed poetry collections. Her books have been translated into many languages and include Invitation to a Secret Feast, Lilith’s Return and Mirrors of the Passers-by.

Speaking seven languages, she has also published several works of translation, including an anthology of Lebanese modern poetry in Spanish, published in Spain as well as in a number of Latin American countries. She has also interviews many outstanding international writers such as Umberto Eco, Paul Auster, Jose Saramago, Peter Handke, Elfriede Jelinek, and others.

A member of the Book and Reading Committee in the Lebanese Ministry of Culture, she is also a performer and a collage artist.

In 2006, Joumana Haddad was awarded the Arab Press Prize.

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