Marion MAESTRIPIERI

cdussol — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:48:06 +0000

Marion was graduated in « European policies and management of Culture », in 2012, from the European studies Institute. She participated in Mediakiab project in 2012. In 2013-2014, with the help of two other young people, she developped and implemented MyMED project an investigation on young people commitment, through cultural and artistic activities, in the [...]

Tales and monodramas in Beirut

cdussol — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:39:27 +0000

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” St. Augustine – the 4th century.

Is it possible to stop travelling ? Is there an end to the trip ? What would happen if the world stopped turning ?

From 15 to 20 March 2016, the House of arts [...]

For me, the art of storytelling…

cdussol — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:19:34 +0000

Hassan El Gueretly © Nabil Boutros

El Warsha Company began working on popular culture and the tale in 1992. Previously, we were doing adaptations of Western texts, because the Egyptian theater being an avatar of Western theater, we formed a group to choose from the Western heritage what interested us and find a theater [...]

The path of a storyteller in Algeria

cdussol — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:08:13 +0000

Djamila Hamitou, who are you?

Story time – Le Petit Lecteur © Mediakitab

My name probably comes from the tribe of Hamadiths, one of the first Arab arrived in Algeria. In defeat, facing the Berbers led by Kahina, a part of the tribe descended to the south, another settled in Kabylia, it is the [...]

Djamila Hamitou

cdussol — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:31:59 +0000

Djamila Hamitou © MEDiaKitab

Associative activist and marine science teacher, Djamila Hamitou is primarily a storyteller at heart. This art of speaking softly proved by captivated listening to her students and her three children. A native of Tiaret, adopted by Oran, she carries a double culture, Arab and Berber, a richness that fuels her [...]

Alrowwad in West bank

cdussol — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:52:52 +0000

“We don’t have the luxury of despair, but the steadfastness of hope that we can make a change for our children and the generations to come”

Alrowwad is an independent cultural and artistic center for the children of Aida camp in Cisjordan and Palestine. Founded in 1998, this association uses beauty to resist non-violently the [...]

Jihad DARWICHE

cdussol — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:25:54 +0000

Teacher, journalist, cultural animator, writer, art director and especially storyteller, Jihad Darwishe keeps communicating with malice his taste of words, of speech, of writing, in France and Lebanon. Because he spent his childhood in a village in Southern Lebanon that he acquired this momentum, inspired by the [...]

Ossama Helmy

cdussol — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:47:06 +0000

Ossama Helmy, AKA OzOz, is an Egyptian artist who use origami art in story telling and artistic performance. After studying Anthropology in Alexandria University, he cofounded “Ressala” band in which he sang from 2000-2004. In 2003, he participated in a storytelling workshop with Vanya Exerjian, held at Bibliotheca [...]

Kenza SEFRIOUI

cdussol — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:09:01 +0000

Kenza Sefrioui is a cultural journalist and literary critic. She held the literary section at “Journal hebdomadiare” from 2005 to 2010 and collaborates with “Tel Quel” and Economia. She studied comparative literature at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and published her doctoral thesis : Breaths, hopes of Cultural Revolution in Morocco (1966-1973), (Sirocco Publishing, [...]

ASSABIL train librarians to the multimedia

cdussol — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:38:21 +0000

Launched in Lebanon in February 2015 by the Association Assabil in partnership with COBIAC and the Ministry of Culture, the program was funded by the European Union. It aimed to train librarians to the multimedia so they will be able to solicit young ones who are the hardest age to attract in the public reading [...]