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Toyin Falola Interview Series: Rethinking African Literature in Modern Era

Toyin Falola Interview Series: Rethinking African Literature in Modern Era

By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid CAIRO: Various African governments have been called upon to create the needed environment for African literature to thrive so as to ensure that the fight against terrorism and the fostering of unity on the African continent can be achieved, just as this would aid the better representation of Africa’s interests in the […]

Lebanese Star Madeleine Tabar, Jury Member of the Rakoda Asian Film Festival

By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid President, Asia Journalist Association CAIRO: Actress Madeleine Tabar is a jury member of the Rakoda Asian Film Festival in its first session, joining Omani director Khaled Al Zadjali, Kuwaiti director Habib Hussein, Egyptian director Dina Abdel Salam, writer, novelist and poet Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, and film critic Mohamed Kamal Mubarak. Madeleine who holds […]

Silk Road Literature Serie’s “Arabian Nights, World Poems” digitally published in two parts

Silk Road Literature Serie’s “Arabian Nights, World Poems” digitally published in two parts

Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, President, Asia Journalists Association CAIRO: The new edition of the Silk Road Literature Series ANTHOLOGY “Arabian Nights, World Poems” has been digitally published in two parts, to cover the contributions of 156 poets from more than 40 and 15 languages. Poems are written in different languages including Arabic, Russian, English, French, Italian, German, […]

At the opening of Medellín Poetry Festival, it rains world poems

At the opening of Medellín Poetry Festival, it rains world poems

By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, President of Asia Journalists Association MEDELLÍN: The Medellín International Poetry Festival opened its XXXII edition on Saturday with a rain of poems to celebrate the reunion with the public on the return to the event after taking refuge in virtuality for two years due to the pandemic. At the Carlos Vieco open-air […]

Celebrating the 1100th Anniversary of Ahmed Ibn Fadlan’s Travel to Tatarstan

Celebrating the 1100th Anniversary of Ahmed Ibn Fadlan’s Travel to Tatarstan

By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid President, Asia Journalists Association ALEXANDRIA: On July 14, the Media Club had its monthly forum in the Russian House of Alexandria on the topic: “1100 years since the arrival of the mission of the traveler Ibn Fadlan to Tatarstan”. The event was attended by Mr. Pavel Kydysyuk (Павел Кидисюк) Director of the […]

Safety Waves versus Death Waves

Safety Waves versus Death Waves

A keynote speech at the 60th African literature and writers’ anniversary conference By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid IBADAN, NIGERIA: In our time, we live in more than one circle; circles that narrow and widen, touch, overlap and intersect, and sometimes even resist each other, and contradict with other circles. They are circles described as private and public, […]

Ashraf Aboul-Yazid conferred the Esteemed Patron of the Arts Award by PAWA

Ashraf Aboul-Yazid conferred the Esteemed Patron of the Arts Award by PAWA

IBADAN: Egyptian poet, novelist and journalist Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, has been conferred the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) its golden medal of Esteemed Patron of the Arts Award, during the Award Ceremony Night that concluded the African Literature Conference 2022 in Ibadan University, Nigeria (23-26 June 2022). The medal has prominent engraved portraits of Naguib Mahfouz, […]

Asia Journalist Association is media sponsor of Rakoda Film Festival

Asia Journalist Association is media sponsor of Rakoda Film Festival

By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid Asia Journalist Association President ALEXANDRIA: An agreement was reached between the Rakoda Film Platform, Asia Journalist Association and its digital and paper publications, The AsiaN (Next News Network), and Magazine N. The association and its various publications will be the media sponsor of the Rakoda Film Festival. Veteran Korean media figure Lee […]

Foreign Film industry invited to Kazan Film Market in KIMFF

Foreign Film industry invited to Kazan Film Market in KIMFF

XVIII Kazan International Muslim Film Festival. logo By Ashraf Aboul-Yazi President, Asia Journalists Association CAIRO: Kazan film market is one of the key events of the business platform of the XVIII Kazan International Muslim Film Festival. Regional film market will take place in Kazan State Institute of Culture on September 8, 2022. The presentation of […]

Literature since Makerere 1962: The African Writers’ Pan-African Agenda for Peace, Security and Cultural Development

Literature since Makerere 1962: The African Writers’ Pan-African Agenda for Peace, Security and Cultural Development

By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid CAIRO: In June 1962, a conference of African literature in the English language, the first African Writers Conference, was held at Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda. Officially called a “Conference of African Writers of English Expression”, it was sponsored by the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Mbari Club in association […]

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