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Sep 06 2022 - 15:30

Sala conferenze del Mart, Rovereto

The Geopoetics of the Arab World

Christian Elia, Jamila, Silvia Moresi

Christian Elia, professional journalist, Jamila, blogger, podcaster, researcher, and Italian-Palestinian activist, and Silvia Moresi, teacher of Arabic Language Mediation and Arab Culture | ph Luca Rapetti
Silvia Moresi, Linguaggi 2022
Christian Elia, Linguaggi 2022

Can the narrative of cultural space within the Arab world help us deconstruct the toxic and stereotypical portrayal of these territories? By giving voice to the protagonists of culture that inhabit the places of the Arab world in its various forms—spaces in continuous metamorphosis—this meeting explores the many transformations that have been taking place since the revolutions of 2011.

Christian Elia, founder of Q Code Mag, Silvia Moresi, curator of Arabpop, and Jamila will present the relationships between the countries of the Maghreb, the Middle East, and the Arab Gulf, both within the region and with other Mediterranean countries, starting from a political perspective and cultural exchange.

Christian Elia Professional journalist. He founded and directed, along with Angelo Miotto, the magazine Q Code Mag, a freelance platform that focuses on international news, culture, and rights. For nine years, he was a correspondent for PeaceReporter and later for E – the monthly magazine, covering the Middle East, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. He has produced reports in over forty countries, published by more than twenty Italian and international outlets.

Jamila Blogger, podcaster, researcher, and Italian-Palestinian activist. She graduated from SOAS University of London with a thesis on the Palestinian diaspora in Italy and investigates themes such as identity in diaspora with a queer and decolonial approach. She is a member of the Young Palestinians of Italy and the author of the podcast Cronache in Diaspora.

Silvia Moresi She teaches Arabic Language Mediation and Arabic Culture at SSML Carlo Bo in Bari and is a lecturer in the Master's program in literary-editorial translation from Arabic at SSML FUSP in Vicenza. She specializes in poetic translation from Arabic, and for the Jouvence publishing house, she has translated Le mie poesie più belle (2016) by the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani and Undici pianeti (2018) by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. She is co-curator and author of the volume Arabpop: Arte e letteratura in rivolta dai Paesi arabi, published in 2020 by Mimesis. In 2021, she co-founded Arabpop, a magazine dedicated to contemporary Arab arts and literature, published by Tamu, where she also serves as an edito

Project realized in collaboration with Mart - Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Limes, and Libreria Piccoloblu.