Incroci di civiltà

Festival Internazionale
di Letteratura a Venezia
2 5 aprile 2025

Nouri Al-Jarrah Siria

Friday April 4 - 9.30 am

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Poets at Incroci: The free word

Nouri Al-Jarrah

Rodolfo Häsler (Cuba)

José María Micó (Spain)

In collaboration with Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea, emuse, Le Monnier, L'Arcolaio

Nouri Al-Jarrah is one of Syria’s most notable poets and writers. Born in Damascus in 1956, he currently resides in London.Al-Jarrah left Syria for Lebanon, where he began working in literary journalism in the early 1980s, serving as editor-in-chief of the magazine Fikr (Thought). From Beirut, he moved to Cyprus, where he lived for two years before settling in London in 1986. He was involved in founding the magazine Al Nakid (The Critic) and served as its editor-in-chief from 1988 to 1993. Between 1993 and 1995, he founded and directed al Katiba (The Woman Writer), the first monthly magazine in the Arab world dedicated to women’s literature. Currently, Nouri Al-Jarrah directs both The Arab Centre for Geographic Literature and The Conference of Arab and Muslim Travellers: Discovering Oneself and the Other, which takes place annually. He is also on the jury of the Ibn Battuta Prize for Travel Literature. He has published more than ten poetry collections and two children's books. His poetry has been translated into English, French, Greek, Italian, Persian, and several other languages. The following Al-Jarrah's poetry books are available in Italian: Una barca per Lesbo, L'Arcolaio (April 2018), edited and translated by Gassid Mohammed, Esodo dall'abisso del Mediterraneo (selected poems), Le Monnier Università (March 2023), edited and translated by Francesca Corrao, The Stone Serpent, Emuse (December 2024), edited and translated by Gassid Mohammed.