Writing workshop ‘ Closing One’s Eyes for Telling the Truth: How to Find a Story‘ In this lecture, Abdellah Taïa discusses the Egyptian films and television soap operas that nourished his childhood and that influence, or even structure, his literary and cinematic works. Location: PC Hoofthuis 1.04 (Universiteit van Amsterdam Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam) Lecture ‘ The Queerness of Egyptian Cinema and Soap Operas (Through the Eyes of a Moroccan Child)‘ĭate: Wednesday, Feb.
First as a teenager yearning for love in rural Morocco, then as a young adult landing in Geneva. Told in two parts, the film follows Abdellah’s coming of age. Screening of Abdellah Taïa’s 2013 feature film, “Salvation Army,” based on his eponymous novel, followed by a debate with the filmmaker. Location: PC Hoofthuis 1.05 (Universiteit van Amsterdam Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam) The events will take place at the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University in person (provided pandemic conditions allow). In his often auto-biographical work, Taïa contemplates what it feels like to be a queer immigrant in Europe, the pleasures and hardships of a gender non-conforming childhood in Morocco, the effects and affects of poverty, trans practices, and the relationship between post-coloniality and desire, rurality and queerness. Emma Ramadan’s translation of Taïa’s novel, “A Country for Dying,” received the PEN Translation Prize in 2021. Taïa, considered the first Arab writer to publicly declare his homosexuality, is the recipient of the prestigious French literary award Prix de Flore (2010). The Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA) present Queer Moroccan Child, a weeklong series of events featuring writer and filmmaker Abdellah Taïa, Feb. Registration: For the workshop and lecture in Amsterdam, mail Diego Semerene ( ) Event | Lecture, film screening and workshops by Abdellah Taïa ‘Queer Moroccan Child’ĭates: February 15th-18th (specific times below)
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