صورة الدفعة 38 في برنامج الكتابة العالمي الذي انعقد في جامعة آيوا بالولايات المتحدة الأمريكية وكانت مشاركتي ضمنه اول مشاركة لكاتب ليبي على الإطلاق عبر السنوات الثماني والثلاثون من عمر البرنامج الذي استحدث عام 1967 ومن ثم اعتمد وبعد سنوات عديدة كتقليد جديد في الجامعات الأمريكية ثم انتشر في اوروبا وان كان بشكل محدود وتعد جامعة آيوا من اعرق الجامعات الأمريكية بل الأولي في الزخم الثقافي وتعرف بكونها ملتقى وقبلة للكتاب والشعراء والروائيين ، وقد ضمت دفعتي 38كاتب وكاتبة من افريقيا واسيا واوروبا وامريكا اللاتينية واستراليا ، وكان برنامجا رائعا امتد لفترة فصل دراسي كامل كنا فيه كتاب زائرون شاركنا في مناشط الجامعة والقينا محاضرات عن بلداننا وقرأنا اعمالنا في امسيات مختلفة وتفاعلنا فيما بيننا ثقافيا وقمنا بحلقات نقاش ادبية في مكتبة مدينة آيوا العامة وزرنا العديد من المدن الأمريكية ورجعنا الى بلداننا محملين بذكريات حلوة وصداقات رائعة وعلاقات نشر وناشرين والأهم عدنا بلقب الزمالة الفخرية في الكتابة من برنامج الكتابة الإبداعية ومن جامعة آيوا
المزيد ماكتب حول اصبوحة الكتاب العالميين في متحف هيرشهورن بواشنطن :
INTERNATIONAL WRITERS OFFER WORK SAMPLES TO WASHINGTON
AUDIENCE
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By Michael Jay Friedman
Washington File Staff Writer
Washington File Staff Writer
Washington -- Writers from Tanzania,
Syria, Vietnam, Libya and Sri
Lanka read selections from their
works at Washington’s Hirshhorn
Museum on November 18.
The five are participants in the International
Writing Program (IWP),
at the University of Iowa and their
readings were supported by the
Department of State’s Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Programs
(ECA).
Described by Program Director
Christopher Merrill as a "United
Nations of writers," IWP since
1967 has brought more than
1,000 established and emerging
poets, fiction writers, dramatists,
and nonfiction writers from more
than 115 countries to the University
of Iowa campus at Iowa City,
Iowa. Participants take part in university
life, give and attend readings
and talks and meet with
American writers.
ECA is a major source of funding
for the program and supported 10
writers’ participation in the fall
2005 semester. ECA also plans to
bring those authors to Paros,
Greece, for a weeklong colloquium
with five American writers.
The November 18 readings were
organized around the phrase
"Don’t Be Afraid," which is also
the theme of a major work by the
artist Jim Hodges that currently is
featured at the Hirshhorn, the
Smithsonian Institution’s museum
of international modern and contemporary
art.
Hodges invited more than 90
United Nations delegates to write
the phrase "don't be afraid," in
their respective national languages,
on a billboard. The billboard is affixed
to the outside of the
Hirshhorn and is prominently visible
along Independence Avenue,
the major thoroughfare that
runs along the museum.
The five writers taking part in
the reading were:
Yvone Owour Adhiambo, of
Tanzania, a native of Kenya.
She is the author of several
plays, a winner of the 2003
Caine Prize for African Writing
and the executive director of
the Zanzibar International Film
Festival.
Van Cam Hai of Vietnam has
published widely in both Vietnamese
and American publications
and is an awardwinning
documentary filmmaker.
Ameena Hussein of Sri Lanka
has published two short-story
collections and founded a
publishing house featuring the
works of Sri Lankan writers.
She edits a journal that explores
issues of violence, governance and
development. She also is a consultant
for several human-rights
nongovernmental organizations.
Laila Neihoum is the first Libyan
author to participate in the IWP.
She edits and contributes to a
number of Libyan journals and
newspapers and has published a
short-story collection and compiled
a collection of poems by young
Libyans.
Nihad Sirees, a civil engineer from
Aleppo, Syria, is among his nation’s
leading novelists and screenwriters.
He is the author of several
novels and internationally distributed
television screenplays.
A Department of State grant permitted
the five writers to travel to
Washington for the readings.
Daniel Schuman, chief of ECA’s
cultural division, said of the event,
"We wanted to share the voices of
these important writers with an
American audience."
Syria, Vietnam, Libya and Sri
Lanka read selections from their
works at Washington’s Hirshhorn
Museum on November 18.
The five are participants in the International
Writing Program (IWP),
at the University of Iowa and their
readings were supported by the
Department of State’s Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Programs
(ECA).
Described by Program Director
Christopher Merrill as a "United
Nations of writers," IWP since
1967 has brought more than
1,000 established and emerging
poets, fiction writers, dramatists,
and nonfiction writers from more
than 115 countries to the University
of Iowa campus at Iowa City,
Iowa. Participants take part in university
life, give and attend readings
and talks and meet with
American writers.
ECA is a major source of funding
for the program and supported 10
writers’ participation in the fall
2005 semester. ECA also plans to
bring those authors to Paros,
Greece, for a weeklong colloquium
with five American writers.
The November 18 readings were
organized around the phrase
"Don’t Be Afraid," which is also
the theme of a major work by the
artist Jim Hodges that currently is
featured at the Hirshhorn, the
Smithsonian Institution’s museum
of international modern and contemporary
art.
Hodges invited more than 90
United Nations delegates to write
the phrase "don't be afraid," in
their respective national languages,
on a billboard. The billboard is affixed
to the outside of the
Hirshhorn and is prominently visible
along Independence Avenue,
the major thoroughfare that
runs along the museum.
The five writers taking part in
the reading were:
Yvone Owour Adhiambo, of
Tanzania, a native of Kenya.
She is the author of several
plays, a winner of the 2003
Caine Prize for African Writing
and the executive director of
the Zanzibar International Film
Festival.
Van Cam Hai of Vietnam has
published widely in both Vietnamese
and American publications
and is an awardwinning
documentary filmmaker.
Ameena Hussein of Sri Lanka
has published two short-story
collections and founded a
publishing house featuring the
works of Sri Lankan writers.
She edits a journal that explores
issues of violence, governance and
development. She also is a consultant
for several human-rights
nongovernmental organizations.
Laila Neihoum is the first Libyan
author to participate in the IWP.
She edits and contributes to a
number of Libyan journals and
newspapers and has published a
short-story collection and compiled
a collection of poems by young
Libyans.
Nihad Sirees, a civil engineer from
Aleppo, Syria, is among his nation’s
leading novelists and screenwriters.
He is the author of several
novels and internationally distributed
television screenplays.
A Department of State grant permitted
the five writers to travel to
Washington for the readings.
Daniel Schuman, chief of ECA’s
cultural division, said of the event,
"We wanted to share the voices of
these important writers with an
American audience."
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