How Do You Read a Poem? is a conference held in a consular building in the city’s centre. At precisely six o’clock this evening, the “Meeting and Dialogue” series will manage the famous poet Fatima Qandil and the poet Ahmed Shafei.
Fatima Qandil, an Egyptian poet and academic, was born in Suez in 1958. She received a master’s degree for her thesis on “intertextuality in the poetry of the seventies” and a doctorate for her thesis on “the poetry of prose writing For Gibran Khalil Gibran.” Fatima is an assistant professor of modern literary criticism at the Department of Arabic Language, Faculty of Arts – Helwan University.
She took part in the editorial board of the “Fasl Al-Liteh Criticism” magazine, which gave her the following publications: “To appreciate we live” poems in the Egyptian colloquial in 1984; “Ban Tour” poems in the Egyptian colloquial in 1987; “Silence of a cotton cotton” in Dar Sharqiyat in 1995; “hanging questions like slaughtering” in the Arab Renaissance House in 2008; and “Betty has two doors” in Dar Al Ain in
Ahmed Shafei, an Egyptian poet, novelist and translator, born in 1977, graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Department of English at Banha University. He took part in a variety of literary gatherings and conferences both domestically and overseas.
From 2000 to 2005, Ahmed Shafei worked as a translator for the State Information Service. From 2006 to 2014, he was a translator and cultural editor for the Amman daily, where he oversaw or assisted in overseeing the cultural pages for balconies, readings, and shelters. Between 2015 and 2016,
How do you read poetry? Tonight is the poet Fatima Qandil’s symposium.
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