Next week at AUB
Poetry of Resistance
Date: Thursday, March 20th
Time: 2:00 pm
Place: American University of Beirut (Auditorium A, West Hall)
During the 1960s -1980s the Afro-Asian Writers Association published a journal called Lotus from Beirut and Cairo. As Beirut was to become the home of exile for writers such as Mahmoud Darwish and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Lotus became a refuge for the rebellious poets of its age. Poets who spoke no common language other than the language of resistance. The writers of Lotus saw the need to fight to reclaim their history and future back from their former and still present colonial masters. A fight which was at once political and cultural and where ‘every poem, story, novel or literary work should echo the alarm, calling people to the struggle and to victory’.
