Making the World Habitable

What is it about?

In this second session of Mediterranean: Prospect and Retrospect, Norbert Bugeja speaks to Moëz Majed, a poet, cultural editor, and one of the most important Arab poets now writing. Moëz Majed was born in Tunisia in 1973, to a family of poets and diplomats. His father was a prominent poet of the early postcolonial period. Majed studied life sciences at university in Tunisia and at the Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He was director of the Arab-language literary magazine Reehab Al-Maarifa between 2009 and 2011, and of the French-language magazine Opinions between 2011 and 2013. Majed writes his poetry in both French and Arabic. He has been published in Tunisia, France, Jordan and Mexico, and his poetry is translated and published in many languages. Moëz Majed is also the Founder and Director of the acclaimed International Poetry Festival of Sidi Bou Saïd (Tunisia).

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Why is it important?

A conversation between two prominent poetic voices writing in and from the Mediterranean region.