The Fundación Tres Culturas and Norma Editorial, with the collaboration of the Institut français de Sevilla and the Al Fanar Foundation, present the comic book The Lady of Damascus by Jean-Pierre Filiu and Cyrille Pomès. Following the success of The Arab SpringFiliu and Pomès are now focusing on the first two years of the Syrian uprising.
We will be joined by the prestigious professor and Arabist, scriptwriter of the work, Jean-Pierre Filiu, who will be demonstrating that comics is a language that can help all audiences to better understand complex realities such as the Middle East. On The Lady of Damascusshows some of the keys to the Syrian conflict through an impossible love story. Pedro Rojo, Arabist and president of the Al Fanar Foundation, will be the presenter.
Activity included in the tenth anniversary of the Fatima Mernissi Library.
About the scriptwriter
Jean-Pierre Filiu (Paris, 1961) has been professor of Middle Eastern studies at Sciences Po (Paris) since 2006. A historian and Arabist, he has been a visiting professor at Columbia and Georgetown universities in the United States. Prior to his academic career, he was a diplomat at the French embassies in Jordan, Syria and Tunisia, and advisor to the Ministers of the Interior and Defence (1991-93), and to the Prime Minister (2000-02). He is a prolific and versatile author whose books and analyses have been translated into more than fifteen languages. In addition to his works on the Arab and Islamic world, he has published two biographical essays on contemporary musicians, one on Jimi Hendrix (Le Gaucher magnifique), the other on Camarón de la Isla (La Révolution du flamenco).
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Book sale and book signing after the presentation.
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- Listen to the music playlist at Spotify created for the book.
- The Tres Culturas library has a lot of 30 copies of this work for collective lending.
- All of Jean-Pierre Filiu's graphic novels are available in the library.
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