Award ceremony for the “France-Lebanon Prize”, at the Institut du Monde Arabe Come and attend the prestigious award ceremony for the “France-Lebanon Prize 2024”, which will be held at the Institut du Monde Arabe, the epicenter of the diffusion and influence of Arab cultures in the heart of Paris. The invitation to this event is part of three major sequences, celebrating the Lebanese artistic and intellectual scene, while highlighting the creative dynamics and contemporary reflections of Lebanon. Articulated around the themes of memorial reconstruction, national identity and Lebanon’s future prospects, these sequences are presented in round tables developed in close collaboration with Arthur Sarradin and the daily newspaper “L’Orient-Le Jour”, listening sessions, cinema screenings, as well as literary meetings. Shows and concerts will also enrich these days, thus highlighting the liveliness and originality of current Lebanese thought and creation. Literary prize, awarded by the Association of French Language Writers (ADELF) since 1980, this prize annually rewards a Lebanese writer in French or a French writer whose work deals with Lebanon. This prestigious distinction highlights the literary excellence and the significant contribution of the winners to the influence of Lebanese culture within the French-speaking world. F. Guemiah WITH: • Arielle Meyer MacLeod, Interior views after destruction (Arléa, 2024) After training as an actress at the École de la Rue Blanche in Paris, Arielle Meyer MacLeod pursued literature studies at the University of Geneva where she obtained a doctorate in 1999. She taught at the universities of Geneva and Lausanne before returning to theater through dramaturgy, becoming, in particular, artistic collaborator and programming manager of the Comedy of Geneva. In addition to numerous articles, she published Le Spectacle du secret (Droz, 2003) and Tourner la page (with Balzac) with Zoé in 2014. Arielle Meyer MacLeod lives and works in Geneva. Interior Views After Destruction is his second novel. • Yves Michaud, Etel Adnan, The angels, the fog, the Palace of the night (Gallimard, 2023) Etel Adnan (1925-2021) enjoyed late recognition which will continue to grow. Living in turn in several countries (Lebanon, France, United States, Greece, etc.), writing in French and American, poet, painter and philosopher, she never sought fame, but simply wanted to “live in poet.” A fascinating figure, an oriental storyteller, she radiated intelligence, culture and sensitivity. This personality, with whom the author had the pleasure of meeting, must not make us forget the work: an exceptional painted and drawn work and a written work which places her among the very great poets of the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. Etel Adnan: The Angels, the Fog, the Palace of the Night follows the symphony of the themes of the work: movement, commitment, philosophy of the elements and space, dreams of the interstellar, rhythms of the world, angels calling to escape, complete opening to the present. Yves Michaud is a philosopher. From Etel Adnan, it also presents the edition of the poetic anthology 1947 – 1997 which appears jointly in the “Poésie/Gallimard” collection. He is also the author at Gallimard of Violence et politique coll. The Essays, 1978, reed. NRF Essays, 2005, Face the class. On some ways of teaching (with Sébastien Clerc), Current Folio 2010, What is merit?, Folio essays 2011 (1st ed. François Bourin, 2009). Emmanuel Villin, Kim Philby and me, (Stock, 2024) Emmanuel Villin was born in 1976. A former journalist in the Middle East, he now lives in Paris. He is the author of Sporting club (Asphalte, 2016), Microfilm (Asphalte, 2018) and La fugue theremin (Asphalte, 2022), as well as books for young people at L’École des Loisirs. In Kim Philby and I, a funny and haunted novel, a disgruntled spy dreams of maps and photos of a country, of an era. Desperate to embark on a great adventure, the narrator settles in the Lebanese capital to follow in the footsteps of Kim Philby. From 1956 to 1963, the former MI6 agent spent years there about which little is known except that they culminated in his flight to the USSR, the culmination of the biggest espionage scandal of the century. carried by a language that is both restrained and sensitive, of great accuracy, Emmanuel Villin invites us to travel, to the Middle East, but also to the inner quest. It questions the myths on which our family novels and the history of our origins are based. Maroun Eddé, The Destruction of the State (Bouquins, 2023) Since the 1990s, a massive and carefully calculated disengagement of the State has been taking place in France in the name of gaining efficiency and reducing spending public. Thirty years later, France is paying a high price for these so-called modernization policies. The public school and hospital are on their last legs. The courts and law enforcement agencies are crumbling under the weight of a new bureaucracy. Important industrial flagships have been sold to foreign interests. The civil service has lost its attractiveness, while political power is now concentrated in the hands of a minority which is increasingly struggling to govern. A few years will have been enough to weaken institutions that we have spent centuries building. However, the dismantling continues to accelerate. Public spending continues to increase, forcing the French to pay ever more for services of poorer quality. How did we get here? Where is public money going now? What can lead a country to sacrifice its own assets and for whose benefit? In this captivating and rigorous essay, the fruit of more than two years of investigations at the heart of the state apparatus and testimonies collected on the front lines, the young essayist Maroun Eddé reveals the hidden side of the political decisions which led to the weakening our public services, accelerate administrative impotence and endanger our economic sovereignty. Behind the stated objectives, the same ideology, which has infiltrated the highest levels of the State and from which it is urgent to free ourselves. Winner – Marwan Chahine, Beirut, April 13, 1975, autopsy of a spark (Belfond, 2024) In Beirut, on April 13, 1975, a bus carrying Palestinians was targeted by armed men, thus marking the start of the War of Lebanon… Although the event is known to everyone, no one knows what really happened that day. Was this a planned operation? An act of retaliation? A chance incident? The rumors are numerous, the legends tenacious. Back in his father’s country, journalist Marwan Chahine begins to investigate this affair, which is as taboo as it is sulfurous. Despite the culture of silence and general amnesia, he will find, one by one, the protagonists of the drama and manage to put together the countless pieces of this tragic puzzle where reality often exceeds fiction. At the crossroads of a journalistic story, a historical essay and a thriller, Beirut, April 13, 1975 is also a personal quest and the poignant portrait of a country haunted by ghosts. With this question in the background, more relevant than ever: how to tell our stories? Moderation: • Georgia Makhlouf, journalist, literary critic and writer, lives between Paris and Beirut. She is a member of the editorial committee and correspondent in Paris for L’Orient Littéraire. Responsible since 2016 for the France-Lebanon Prize of ADELF (Association of French-language Writers), she is also president of Kitabat, the Lebanese association for the development of writing workshops. An active member of Assabil, a Lebanese association in charge of a network of public libraries, she set up a Youth Literature Prize in Arabic in collaboration with this association and the Boghossian Foundation and launched in 2021 a youth publication intended to promote a fun learning report of the Arabic language. In 2022, she joined the Parliament of Francophone Writers. She has won several literary prizes including the Senghor and Ulysse Prizes for her first novel “Les Absents” (Rivages, 2014). His most recent published works are “The taste of Lebanon” (Mercure de France, 2021) and “Port-au-Prince: aller, retour” (La Cheminante, 2019), finalist for the IMA Arab Literature Prize. His new novel “Pays amer” will be published by Presses de la Cité in January 2025. • Albert Dichy Born in Beirut in 1952, Albert Dichy has lived in Paris since 1975. Literary director of the Mémoires Institute of Contemporary Edition, he is a specialist of the work of Jean Genet, co-editor in the “Bibliotheque de la Pléiade” of the poet’s complete works. He also participated in the major reference biography of Jean Genet, which we owe to Edmund White, and he is the author of numerous works and articles, including: Jean Genet, chronological essay (blfc of the University of Paris VII, 1998), The Battle of the Screens (IMEC, 1991) and The Declared Enemy (Gallimard, 1991), a critical edition of Genet’s political texts. He is also co-author, in 1991 and 1992, of a documentary film in two parts: Jean Genet, the vagabond (1991) and Jean Genet, the writer (INA and the Sept).
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