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Prisoner of the Levant
“I had a dream that women, all women, will hold their heads high, that women will work, that in their eyes we will no longer see fear or defeat or humiliation. That women will never again be shackled by society, or by circumstance, or by men. Instead we will see in the eyes of every woman a person fully in control of herself, and mistress of her own destiny.” Cairo, 1920. In the cafés and literary salons, the great minds of the Arab renaissance meet and share ideas. Among them is May Ziadeh, pioneer of the Arab feminist movement and the great love of Khalil Gibran’s life. Intense and talented, May is celebrated by the greatest writers and thinkers of Cairo’s literary world, who flock to her famous salon. Yet when a series of personal losses leave her vulnerable to plots against her, she is abandoned by those she believed would protect her. Stripped of her everything and imprisoned against her will, May is left fighting for the most basic right: freedom. In Prisoner of the Levant, Darina Al Joundi offers a moving account of May Ziadeh’s desire for emancipation and enlightenment, and an indictment of a world that does not allow women to be free.
Prisoner of the Levant
Cairo, 1920. In the cafés and the literary salons, the great minds of the Arab renaissance meet. Among them: May Ziadeh, pioneer of the Arab feminist movement and the love of Khalil Gibran's life. Celebrated by Cairo's literary world, May is unaware that she will soon lose everything and be fighting for her own freedom.
The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing
On the evening of her father's funeral, while his family recites suras from the Koran, Noun interrupts the ceremony. Faithful to the memory of her father, a writer and journalist, a freedom fighter, she decides to put an end to this memorial and to make sure that her father's last wishes are respected: to be buried to a jazz tune. Locked up with the dead body, Noun looks back on her experience in Lebanon. She reminisces about the war, the straitjacket of religion, the weight of prejudice and her struggle against an all-powerful male society that forbids women to speak. Le Jour où Nina Simone a cessé de chanter (The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing) was an instant sensation when it was first performed as a one-woman play at the Avignon festival in July 2007: it sold out at every performance and resulted in multiple runs in Paris and throughout France.
Prisonnia]re Du Levant
AA Il fait nuit. Seule dans sa chambre, Marie recherche la signification de ce nomA Maya ] ainsi se nomment les fA(c)es de la poA(c)sie arabe. Il vient de Perse et signifie le vin. Marie est folle de joie. Elle a enfin trouvA(c) un patronyme qui lui ressemble.A May ZiadA(c) vient de naA(R)tre.A A A 1920 au Caire. Dans les cafA(c)s et les salons, les grands esprits du temps se rencontrent et parlent librement. Parmi eux: May ZiadA(c). PoA(c)tesse, fA(c)ministe engagA(c)e et muse de Khalil Gilbran, la (TM)auteur du ProphA]te. Une femme intense qui fascine autant qua (TM)elle inquiA]te. Sans doute trop pour ses amis et ses proches, qui la feront interner dans un asile psychiatriquea ] A PrisonniA]re du Levant est son histoire, racontA(c)e par Darina al Joundi, comA(c)dienne et scA(c)nariste. Elle-mAame fA(c)ministe, Darina a voulu accomplir son destin de femme et, comme son hA(c)roAne May, elle a vA(c)cu la (TM)enfermement avant de se libA(c)rer. A A A A A A
Prisonnière du Levant
« Il fait nuit. Seule dans sa chambre, Marie recherche la signification de ce nom : May... ainsi se nomment les fées de la poésie arabe. Il vient de Perse et signifie le vin. Marie est folle de joie. Elle a enfin trouvé un patronyme qui lui ressemble. May Ziadé vient de naître. » 1920 au Caire. Dans les cafés et les salons, les grands esprits du temps se rencontrent et parlent librement. Parmi eux : May Ziadé. Poétesse, féministe engagée et muse de Khalil Gilbran, l’auteur du Prophète. Une femme intense qui fascine autant qu’elle inquiète. Sans doute trop pour ses amis et ses proches, qui la feront interner dans un asile psychiatrique... Prisonnière du Levant est son histoire, racontée par Darina al Joundi, comédienne et scénariste. Elle-même féministe, Darina a voulu accomplir son destin de femme et, comme son héroïne May, elle a vécu l’enfermement avant de se libérer.
Le jour où Nina Simone a cessé de chanter
Roman personnel. Roman de société.
Le jour où Nina Simone a cessé de chanter
Quel est le prix de la liberté, qu'elle soit sexuelle, amoureuse, politique, sociale ou religieuse ?... Telle est la question que pose cette histoire stupéfiante, faite de vérité et de folie, de rage et de tendresse. La narratrice grandit dans le Liban contemporain en s'efforçant d'être fidèle au rêve de son père, un journaliste et écrivain pour qui la liberté n'est pas négociable. Mais ce rêve va se fracasser sur la violence et la haine de la guerre civile, qui tolère tous les excès - sexe, alcool, drogue, provocations. Le refus affiché des règles sociales et des convenances religieuses finit pourtant par défier une société qui réprime durement l'insoumission... Voici le récit d'une renaissance, le retour à la lumière d'une jeune femme qui a côtoyé la folie et la mort. Audacieux, impudique et bouleversant, son témoignage dévoile une immense fragilité mais aussi une force et une espérance irréductibles.
The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing
The Homeland actress’s “recollections of her unconventional youth in war-torn Beirut are heartbreaking yet humorous . . . in this unique” memoir (Publishers Weekly). Raised in 1970s Lebanon on Charles Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine Bordeaux, Darina Al-Joundi was encouraged by her unconventional father to defy all taboos. She spent her adolescence defying death in Beirut nightclubs as bombs fell across the city. The more oppressive the country became, the more drugs and anonymous sex she had, fueling the resentment directed at her daily by the same men who would spend the night with her. As the war dies down, she begins to incur the consequences of her lifestyle. On his deathb...
Marseillaise My Way
Noun flees Lebanon, and arrives in France, a place she believes to be the most secular country in the world, only to find her freedom threatened there too by soul-destroying red tape and the reality of cultural segregation.
Prisoner of the Levant
“I had a dream that women, all women, will hold their heads high, that women will work, that in their eyes we will no longer see fear or defeat or humiliation. That women will never again be shackled by society, or by circumstance, or by men. Instead we will see in the eyes of every woman a person fully in control of herself, and mistress of her own destiny.” Cairo, 1920. In the cafés and literary salons, the great minds of the Arab renaissance meet and share ideas. Among them is May Ziadeh, pioneer of the Arab feminist movement and the great love of Khalil Gibran’s life. Intense and talented, May is celebrated by the greatest writers and thinkers of Cairo’s literary world, who flock to her famous salon. Yet when a series of personal losses leave her vulnerable to plots against her, she is abandoned by those she believed would protect her. Stripped of her everything and imprisoned against her will, May is left fighting for the most basic right: freedom. In Prisoner of the Levant, Darina Al Joundi offers a moving account of May Ziadeh’s desire for emancipation and enlightenment, and an indictment of a world that does not allow women to be free.
