Ten poets – six languages – one encounter in Fes and Casablanca. Five poets from Europe meet five poets from the Maghreb to exchange views on poetry, explore each other’s work through translation in a week-long workshop, and create a joint performance to be staged one evening in Fes and Casablanca. The Fes poetry reading...
Beirut 39 is a collection of writings and poetry from 39 Arab writers all under the age of forty. These writers were chosen from over 450 young authors from across the Arab world in a writing compeition. The selection committe was headed by Egyptian critic Gaber Asfour and this book has flung open the...
Today is St. Valentines Day, a unique and wonderfully romantic festival celebrated around the world. Yes, today is the day to express your love with an exchange of cards, flowers, gifts , a quiet dinner for two or even a heartfelt recitation of poetry. Perhaps you are lucky in love and today you will be pampered by your beloved....
Labyrinth Unlocked is the title of the recent article Tahir Shah has written about Fes for Easy Jet’s Traveller Magazine. Shah’s writing takes you through the medina and you feel as if you are being guided through time by someone who not only knows the salient facts about the medina but also has the...
Last week, Roxanne Klein came to celebrate her birthday by spending the day with Clock Kitchen. Roxanne Klein, who is on a ’round the world’ trip with her husband and daughter, was the owner/executive chef of a fine dining restaurant in California that offered gourmet organic living foods cuisine. More than any other chef, Ms. Klein popularized...
100%Fès, a production company and online TV channel, is launching tomorrow (Wednesday, 19 January 2011). At launch www.centpourcentfes.com has 23 short films about the people and places of Fes. Films in both English and French will be uploaded regularly both to centpourcentfes.com and to 100%Fès’s YouTube channel, youtube.com/centpourcentfes. Films can also be downloaded for...
