Wednesday, 12 March 2013, at 19.00.
Three Cultures Foundation.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
As part of the CREAMOS project, Tres Culturas is organising a meeting with the writer and director of the Manuscripts Centre and the Museum of the Library of Alexandria, Youssef Ziedan, who will present his book Azazel (Turner), winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2009 and the third publication in the Turner Kitab collection.
The meeting will take place on Wednesday 12 March 2014 at 19.00 at the headquarters of the Fundación Tres Culturas. The author will be joined by the editor César Martínez-Useros and the translator of the work, Ignacio Ferrando. Simultaneous translation from Arabic into Spanish will be provided. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
About the work
Azazel allows us to witness the controversial reconstruction of one of the defining moments of Western civilisation: the emergence of the Church as an institution of power. This process, undertaken in the midst of the corruption and fanaticism of the 5th century, during the last glimmerings of an already exhausted Antiquity, put an end to the possibility of a different religion, as seemed to be intuited in early Christianity.
Hippo, an articulate and hesitant monk-physician, sets out on a journey through North Africa and the Middle East that will not only be a journey of self-knowledge, but will also serve to witness and become involved in the fervour of the cruelest of times. Cyril's sophistries, the anathema of Nestorius, the torture and death of Hypatia, ignorance as an introduction to violence, the hysteria of an entire society; all of this forms the landscape of a time as disturbing as it is attractive.
About the author
Youssef Ziedan (Egypt, 1958) is a respected university professor, specialising in Arabic and Islamic studies, but he is best known for his work as director of the Manuscripts Centre of the Library of Alexandria. His prolific work as a scholar of history is complemented by his work as a columnist for several Egyptian newspapers and as the author of
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