The Shubbak festival of contemporary Arab culture continues in London until 16 July. It was thrilling to see so much diversity in such a bastion of western music as St Luke’s, and more should be made of the biennial Shubbak and its artists – it is clear they have much to say.

Now in its fourth incarnation, the Shubbak festival of contemporary Arab culture embraces both local and international artists, often smashing them together at high speed to create original – if temperamental – interdisciplinary events. Nawal El Saadawi and the Female Predicament: A Study of Woman at Point Zero Authors: Eustace Palmer No full-text available Citations (6). But such are the risks with so many new elements in a festival context. Adapting the landmark 1975 novel by Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero, El-Turk fashions a sung monologue by Firdaus, an Egyptian prostitute interviewed in prison the night before her execution. The first half would have been better served with three instead of four pieces, as the event overran by some 30 minutes. The evening did suffer from insecure pacing and too much material.

The opera has yet to address how telling one’s story at death’s door affects the act of storytelling itself, but overall this was a privileged first look at an arresting new piece of music theatre. Photograph: Merass SadekĪlthough a character still in development, Stephanos embodied Firdaus’s rawness with authenticity and conviction. Urn:oclc:221919033 Scandate 20110728072152 Scanner east-meets-west conversation of chamber music. OL1602169W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 70.45 Pages 134 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1842778730 When Nawal El Saadawi meets Firdaus, she is in prison waiting to be executed.

She finally kills a man who forces her to accept him as her pimp. Urn:lcp:womanatpointzero00saad:epub:e1e9e7a2-b478-4a9a-9aef-a5a46d218cc9 Extramarc NYU Bobcat Foldoutcount 0 Identifier womanatpointzero00saad Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2x35qm9r Isbn 0862321107ĩ780862321109 Lccn 84116686 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Firdaus is a young woman who flees her abusive husband and becomes a prostitute, then an office worker, and then a prostitute again. Urn:lcp:womanatpointzero00saad:lcpdf:64c39c43-2244-4ea1-8d8f-125bba218d39 Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero 42 likes Like Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:13:57 Boxid IA131813 Boxid_2 CH106101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 9.

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