UPCOMING EVENTS

Meet us in Paris on Feb. 17, 2025!

Aaliya's Books is bringing literature and Lebanese wine to "Staging the Stranger", an event originally planned to take place at Aaliya's in Beirut in the summer of 2024 and now held in Paris in collaboration with the Columbia Global Paris Center, the American University of Beirut and The Markaz Review.

The event explores Arabic adaptations of Western theatre classics and features a showcase of a bilingual Arabic-English adaptation of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. 

👉 British theater producer/director Georgina Van Welie, along with Lebanese theater makers Lucien Bourjeilly and Caroline Hatem, will discuss their experiences of Arabic adaptations of Western classics and creating work both in the region and internationally.

📅 Feb. 17 at 7 p.m.
ℹ️ Free + Open to all
📍 Reid Hall, 4 rue de Chevreuse (Paris 6)
Click here to register. 

The discussion will be followed by an extract from Georgina Van Welie's Arabic/English adaptation in development of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, translated by Ghareeb Iskander, with animation by Syrian artist Bissane Al Charif.

Showcase "TROILUS AND CRESSIDA"
Director/Adaptor: Georgina Van Welie
Producer: Mariam Tell
Arabic translation: Ghareeb Iskander
Set design and Video: Bissane Al Charif
Performers and musicians to be announced.

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