Citizens Without Boundaries

Download our program in PDF Diyarbakir-program May 2008

Diyarbakir 

4 May 2008 at 18.00

Opening of the exhibtion "The Land of the Queen"  (work in progress) by Elin Berge
Diyarbakir Sanat Merkezi

5 May 2008 at 18.00 

"Who sets the boundaries? On children and literature"
contributors: Asa Lind, Fatih Erdogan
moderator: Andrea Karlsson
Diyarbakir Egitim-Sen Subesi, Ekinciler Cad., Kalender Center, Kat: 6, No: 9, Ofis, Tel: 0412    223 27 54

6 May 2008 at 15.00

"The EU - a union of values?"
contributors: Mazhar Bagli, Carina Mårtensson
moderator: Ilhan Kaya
Diyarbakir Sanat Merkezi

7 May 2008 at 18.00 

"Do we need theatre?"

contributors: Mehmet Ergen, Björn Kjellman
moderator: Indrid Rasch
Diyarbakir Sanat Merkezi

8 May 2008 at 18.00 

"Storytelling, longing and sorrow - On Mehmed Uzun"
contributors: Seyhmus Diken, Per Erik Ljung
moderator: Ingrid Rasch
Diyarbakir Sanat Merkezi

Istanbul

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12 May 2008 at 19.00

"The significance of kinship and friendship as societies change"

Eva Österberg and Alan Duben
Moderator: Ingrid Rasch

Tütün deposu 

14 May 2008 at 19.00
"Untitled - On the urge to write"
Contributors: Jonas Hassen Khemiri and Alper Canigüz

Moderator: Ingrid Rasch

Tütün deposu 

16 May 2008 at 19.00
"Knowledge and self-reflection in a world of chips. Bildung in the 21st century"
Contributors: Sven-Eric Liedman and Burhan Senatalar
Moderator: Ingrid Rasch
Tütün deposu

Citizens without Boundaries is organizing an Arabic-Swedish music and poetry-festival 3-6  April at Tangoplatset in Malmö, together with the Centre for Middle East Studies at Lund university with support from the Swedish Arts Council and Malmö Division of Cultural Grants.

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Vindens skratt mellan träden

- arabisk-svensk musik-och poesifestival 3-6 april 2008 på Tangopalatset i Malmö


Torsdag 3 april

14:00
Leif Stenberg, föreståndare för Centrum för Mellanösternstudier vid Lunds Universitet, hälsar välkommen

Föredrag av Bo Holmberg, professor i semitiska språk vid Lunds Universitet: "Nizar Qabbani -Från nostalgisk kärlekspoet till diktare med orden som vapen" (på svenska)

Cecilia Persson läser ur Nizar Qabbanis dikter i svensk tolkning
 

Föredrag av Faruk Abu-Chacra, universitetslektor emeritus i arabiska vid Helsingfors Universitet: "Den revolterande prinsessan: poeten Suad Al-Sabah" (på svenska)

16:00
konsert med Ville Matvejeff (FIN) och Cristina Andersson (FIN)
med musik av Matvejeff, Sibelius och Szymanovski och texter av Hafiz och Dar Suad Al-Sabah

19:00

Marie Lundquist (S)
Girgis Shoukry (EGY)
Lasse Söderberg (S)
Saadi Yousef (IRQ/GB)
Sabah Zwein (LBN)
läser sin poesi

21:00

konsert med Oriental Kings
Aydin Adem (MKD), Essam Agha (PAL), Edmond Fida, (ALB), Stefan Glave (ITA), Chadi Hadrous(PAL), Tarek al Hadj (SYR), Zeki Sadik (MKD), Behrang Miri/Rap-Tor (IRN)

Fredag 4 april

13:00-16:00

workshop kring översättning av arabisk poesi till svenska

17:30-19:30

Vilka vindar blåser nu? Ett samtal om villkoren för publicering och kritik av arabisk litteratur. Med Birgitta Wallin (tidskriften Karavan), Yassin Adnan och Zeinab Assaf

20:00
Zeinab Assaf (LBN)
Tarek Eltayeb (SDN/AUT)
Anna Hallberg (S)
Sara Hallström (S)
Arne Johnsson (S)
Abdulkareem Kasid Halub (IRQ/GB)
läser sin poesi

22:00
konsert med Oriental Kings

Lördag 5 april

13:00

workshop kring översättning av svensk poesi till arabiska

17:00
Carl Henrik Svenstedt presenterar och visar sin film Reading Cavafy, en film om den alexandrinske poeten Konstantinos Kavafis

18:00
Hala Mohammed (SYR)            
Girgis Shoukry (EGY)

Saadi Yousef (IRQ/GB) 

Sabah Zwein (LBN)                 

läser sin poesi

endast på arabiska                

Hanna Hallgren 

Jasim Mohammed

Eva Ström

Jenny Tundeal

läser sin poesi

endast på esvenska

 
www.cme.lu.se

Download our Program Malmö March 26-28

26 March – 15 June

Narratives from the Private – an exhibition with young contemporary Turkish photographers
Silva Bingaz, Korhan Karaoysal, Özlem Simsek, Ali Taptik, Serkan Taycan, selected by Genis Aci project office, Istanbul www.gapo.org

26 March 17.00 opening of exhibition

Serdar Darendeliler and Ali Taptik talk about photography in Turkey 

Malmö Muséer, Borggården och Växthuset, Malmöhusvägen 6
www.malmo.se/museer

27 March 18.00

European values in a global context? – perspectives from Turkey and Sweden
Panel: Mustafa Akyol, Aysen Candas Bilgen and Annika Ström Melin
Malmö Stadsbibliotek, Gullbergrummet, Kung Oscars väg 12
www.malmo.se/bibliotek

28 March 18.00

To publish – experiences from the margin
Contributors: Lal Lales & Per Erik Ljung
Galleri Signal, S Skolgatan 31
www.signal-galleri.org
         

28 March 20.00:

Stanza get’s a bit more bilingual
With Bejan Matur, Li Li, Lal Lales & Ulf Peter Hallberg
Stanza på Inkonst, Bergsgatan 29
www.ramus.nu/stanza

Mustafa Akyol is a journalist living in Istanbul.

Aysen Candas Bilgen is a political scientist specialized in political theory at Bosphorus University i  Istanbul.

Serdar Darendeliler runs the photography project Genis Aci Project Office in Istanbul.

Ulf Peter Hallberg lives in Berlin and is a writer.  

Lal Lales is a poet and teacher in Diyarbakir where he also runs the Kurdish publishing house Lis.

Li Li is a poet living in Stockholm.

Per Erik Ljung is lecturer in Literary Studies at Lund University.

Bejan Matur is a poet sometimes residing in Istanbul.

Annika Ström Melin is a journalist and debator focused on European questions.

Ali Taptik is a photographer based in Istanbul.


 

These events are part of the one-year project Citizens without Boundaries, organized together with the Turkish cultural organization Anadolu Kültür with support from the European Commission's Delegation in Ankara, the Consulate General of Sweden in istanbul, the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University as well as several local institutions. It consists of a series of public events in Istanbul and Diyarbakir (Turkey), and Malmö (Sweden). The purpose is to bring writers, artists, journalists, academics and engaged citizens from Turkey and Sweden together in trans-national public conversations.