Wednesday 14 July, 7.45pm
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
Khulood Al-Mu’alla, Nujoom Al-Ghanem and Khalid Albudoor are poets at the forefront of a modernist movement reinventing poetry in the United Arab Emirates, writing free verse, prose poetry and texts that break boundaries of form and image. Nujoom, Khalid and Khulood challenge the literary conventions of traditional Arabic poetry, while reflecting on their experiences of change and time, love and loss, as modern 21st-century Emiratis.
On Wednesday 14 July, the three poets will be reading from their poetry in new English translations commissioned especially for the occasion and for publication in Banipal, Magazine of Modern Arab Literature.
ABOUT THE POETS
Khulood Al-Mu’alla won the Buland Al-Haidari Award for Young Arab Poets at the 30th Assilah International Cultural Festival in Morocco in 2008, an event celebrating visionary poets and intellectuals from all over the Arab World. She was the first poet from the Gulf to win this award. Active on the Gulf poetry scene, she was born in Umm Al Quwain, UAE, moving to Ras Al Khaimah as a child. Since 1997 she has published four collections of poetry.
Nujoom Al-Ghanem is recognised as one of the strongest of modernist Emirati poets, rising to prominence in the 1980s in the Gulf region. She is a poet, writer and independent filmmaker, born in 1962 in Dubai. Since 1989 she has published seven collections of poetry, and now writes full-time. She has directed four short films, and at the Fifth Dubai International Film Festival was lauded for Best Documentary in the Gulf and named the most promising UAE film-maker.
Khalid Albudoor is at the forefront of the modernist poetry movement in Dubai, where he was born. He won the Al-Khal Prize for Poetry in Lebanon in 1991, and has published five poetry collections. He is a founding member of the Emirati Writers’ Union, and an active participant in readings and festivals in the UAE and abroad. A long-time radio and television scriptwriter, presenter and producer, and former director of Radio Dubai, he is currently researching UAE history and cultural heritage.
PLEASE NOTE:
The three poets, Nujoom Al-Ghanem, Khalid Albudoor and Khulood Al-Mu’alla, will be taking part in the Ledbury Poetry Festival and reading their works on Saturday 10 July, 8.00pm – 10.30pm at The Barn, Hellens (the stately home at Much Marcle, near Ledbury) After the performance, a book signing and Middle Eastern buffet dinner included.
More information here.
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
Khulood Al-Mu’alla, Nujoom Al-Ghanem and Khalid Albudoor are poets at the forefront of a modernist movement reinventing poetry in the United Arab Emirates, writing free verse, prose poetry and texts that break boundaries of form and image. Nujoom, Khalid and Khulood challenge the literary conventions of traditional Arabic poetry, while reflecting on their experiences of change and time, love and loss, as modern 21st-century Emiratis.
On Wednesday 14 July, the three poets will be reading from their poetry in new English translations commissioned especially for the occasion and for publication in Banipal, Magazine of Modern Arab Literature.
ABOUT THE POETS
Khulood Al-Mu’alla won the Buland Al-Haidari Award for Young Arab Poets at the 30th Assilah International Cultural Festival in Morocco in 2008, an event celebrating visionary poets and intellectuals from all over the Arab World. She was the first poet from the Gulf to win this award. Active on the Gulf poetry scene, she was born in Umm Al Quwain, UAE, moving to Ras Al Khaimah as a child. Since 1997 she has published four collections of poetry.
Nujoom Al-Ghanem is recognised as one of the strongest of modernist Emirati poets, rising to prominence in the 1980s in the Gulf region. She is a poet, writer and independent filmmaker, born in 1962 in Dubai. Since 1989 she has published seven collections of poetry, and now writes full-time. She has directed four short films, and at the Fifth Dubai International Film Festival was lauded for Best Documentary in the Gulf and named the most promising UAE film-maker.
Khalid Albudoor is at the forefront of the modernist poetry movement in Dubai, where he was born. He won the Al-Khal Prize for Poetry in Lebanon in 1991, and has published five poetry collections. He is a founding member of the Emirati Writers’ Union, and an active participant in readings and festivals in the UAE and abroad. A long-time radio and television scriptwriter, presenter and producer, and former director of Radio Dubai, he is currently researching UAE history and cultural heritage.
PLEASE NOTE:
The three poets, Nujoom Al-Ghanem, Khalid Albudoor and Khulood Al-Mu’alla, will be taking part in the Ledbury Poetry Festival and reading their works on Saturday 10 July, 8.00pm – 10.30pm at The Barn, Hellens (the stately home at Much Marcle, near Ledbury) After the performance, a book signing and Middle Eastern buffet dinner included.
More information here.