HAY FESTIVAL 2011
Organisation: The Hay Festival of Literature & the Arts
Time: 26 May 2011 9:00am - 05 June 2011 9:00am
Place: Dairy Meadows, Brecon Road, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5PJ
The Hay Festival of Literature & the Arts Presents:
HAY FESTIVAL 2011
26 May—5 June 2011
Dairy Meadows
Brecon Road
Hay-on-Wye
HR3 5PJ
Click here for information on how to get there.
ARAB WORLD RELATED EVENTS IN THE PROGRAMME
ANTONY SATTIN:
Lifting the Veil (Event 27)
The travel writer explores Two Centuries of Travellers, Traders and Tourists in Egypt. Chaired by Corisande Albert
Friday 27 May | 18:30 | Elmley Foundation Theatre | Tickets: £5 | BOOK ONLINE
REZA ASLAN:
Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East (Event 72)
A mesmerising selection of the best Middle East-Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Urdu writers – from the famed Arab poet Khalil Gibran to the Turkish Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk. Chaired by Kathryn Gray.
Saturday 28 May | 20:30 | Elmley Foundation Theatre | Tickets: £5 | BOOK ONLINE
RAJA SHEHADEH TALKS TO JOHANN BARI:
A Rift in Time: Travels With My Ottoman Uncle (Event 97)
The great Palestinian writer introduces his family memoir that maps the fortunes of his uncle, a dissenting journalist in what was then the Ottoman Empire and the landscape and struggles of the Jordan Rift Valley. He talks to his fellow Orwell Prize-winner.
Sunday 29 May | 14:30 | Sky Arts Studio | Tickets: £6 | BOOK ONLINE
RAJA SHEHADEH, HORATIO CLARE, OLIVER BULLOUGH, MICHAEL JACOBS:
Ox-Travels 2 (Event 110)
More meetings with remarkable travellers from the new Oxfam anthology. Chaired by Sarah Miller, editor of Conde Nast Traveller.
Sunday 29 May | 17:30 | Elmley Foundation Theatre | Tickets: £5 | BOOK ONLINE
IZZELDIN ABUELAISH TALKS TO ROSIE BOYCOTT:
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity (Event 114)
The doctor’s three daughters were killed by Israeli shells on 16 January 2009, during the IDF’s incursion into the Gaza Strip. His response to this tragedy made news and won him humanitarian awards around the world.
Sunday 29 May | 19:00 | Oxfam Stage | Tickets: £6 | BOOK ONLINE
ABDELKADER BENALI TALKS TO ERIC AKOTO:
East is West (Event 127)
The Moroccan-Dutch writer and journalist, a Beirut39 star, and one of the most acute and thoughtful commentators on migrations and multiculturalism discusses his travels in the Middle East with the editor of Litro.
Monday 30 May | 09:00 | Elmley Foundation Theatre | Tickets: £5 | BOOK ONLINE
Abdelkader Benali will take part in an online Q&A on 30 May at 10:45 | Click here to ask a question
HISHAM MATAR TALKS TO BRONWEN MADDOX:
Fiction: Anatomy of a Disappearance (Event 154)
When a loved one disappears how does their absence shape the lives of those who are left? The Booker-shortlisted (In the Country of Men) Libyan-born novelist in conversation with the editor of Prospect.
Monday 30 May | 17:30 | Elmley Foundation Theatre | Tickets: £5 | BOOK ONLINE
JIM AL KHALILI:
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science (Event 172)
The physicist champions 700 years of astounding achievement from the Syrian astronomer Ibn al-Shatir, whose manuscripts would inspire Copernicus’s heliocentric model of the solar system, to the C9th zoologist al-Jahith, who developed a theory of natural selection a thousand years before Darwin.
Tuesday 31 May | 10:00 | Oxfam Stage | Tickets: £6 | BOOK ONLINE
MANSOURA EZ ELDIN, KAMEL RIAHI AND YOUSEFF RAKHA TALK TO ARIANE KOEK:
Brave New Worlds (Event 356)
Three of the extraordinary writers from Egypt and Tunisia who are part of the Beirut39 project discuss their work and their countries’ revolutions.
In association with Literature Across Frontiers and the International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Saturday 4 June | 14:30 | Sky Arts Studio | Tickets: £5 | BOOK ONLINE
Mansoura Ez Eldin, Kamel Riahi and Youseff Rakha will take part in an online Q&A date/time tbc | Click here to ask a question
VANESSA REDGRAVE:
A World I Loved (Event 390)
A reading from Wadad Makdisi Cortas’ haunting and beautiful memoir of Lebanon and the Middle East.
Sunday 5 June | 10:00 | Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage | Tickets: £7 | BOOK ONLINE
MANSUR RAJIH, PEGAH AHMADI AND BASIM MARDAN TALK TO SHENAZ KEDAR:
People Power in the Middle East (Event 414)
Exiled writers from Yemen, Iran and Iraq discuss their work and the upheavals in the Middle East with the director of the Writers' Centre Norwich Shahrazad project. Decades of silence, self-censorship and repression have been confronted by an explosion of social demands and movements for change by the people for the people stretching from Tunisia across the Middle East.
What kind of reforms are needed to satisfy the dreams and demands of the people? Join Shenaz Kedar in a panel discussion with exiled International Cities of Refuge writers Mansur Rajih (Yemen), Pegah Ahmadi (Iran) and Basim Mardan (Iraq) for a discussion on these issues and their hopes for the future.
Sunday 5 June | 16:00 | Elmley Foundation Theatre | Free Event, booking essential | BOOK ONLINE
Please visit http://hayfestival.dilmot.com/ for more author interviews as they are confirmed.
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Image above: © Finn Beales