This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress-Rabat
The Balearia Foundation and the Andalusia-Morocco friendship association-Ibn Rochd Forum promote poetry written by women writers from Morocco and Spain, through poetic ontology “Matria, anthology of Spanish and Moroccan contemporary female poetry”.
The anthology, entitled “Matria”, will be presented today Wednesday, June 18, at 7:00 p.m., at the Riad El Sultan in Tangier, as part of the cultural days organized by the Servants of Tangier Institute, in the presence of the Spanish ambassador to Morocco, Enrique Ojeda, and the mayor of Tangier, Mounir Limouri, as well as Moroccan and Spanish personalities and officials.
More than a year ago, the Balearia Foundation and the Andalusia-Moroccan Association-Forum Ibn Rochd (AAAM) launched the unique “Materia” project, an innovative cultural diplomacy project which distributes free contemporary poetry books written by Spanish and Moroccan women to the passengers of Balearia and North Africa.
These anthologies of poetry are accompanied by works of visual art produced by women artists on the two banks, with the aim of making known the exceptional literary creativity of poets of the two banks, as a kind of symbol for a more advanced cultural rapprochement between the two countries.
With the support of the cultural attaché of the Spanish Embassy in Morocco, led by Lorenzo Cabellan, these poetry books were also distributed in eleven educational centers sponsored by Spain in Morocco.
Wednesday, June 18 at 7 p.m. at the Riad El Sultan of Tangier, the official presentation ceremony of the ontology “Materia” will take place in the presence of the president of the Balearia Foundation, Mr. Ricard Pérez, the president of the Andalusia-Morocco Association-Forum Ibn Rochd, Mr. José Sarria, as well as Moroccan personalities, of Spanish diplomatic delegations, cultural and associative.
The event will include an intervention by M. Vicente Becerras, director of the Tangier Instituto of Tangier, as well as readings of poems by the poets Raquel Lanthieros, Angeles Gregory, Fatima Fras and Dalila El Fakhri, and will end with a musical performance by the artist Sheila Blanco.
The ontology presents the works of 16 women poets from Spain and Morocco and the artistic contributions of 14 visual artists, all women, who submitted their works of art specifically for this publication. Ontology is presented in a bilingual format: poems are presented in the original language of the poet, translated into Spanish (for poems written in Arabic, Amazigh, Darija or French) or in Arabic (for Spanish poems written in Spanish, Catalan, Galician or Basque). The translation was carried out by Professor Salma El Moutawakkil of the University of Marrakech.
