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What Could Have Been” poetry recital, based on the work “Poems in the Shadow”

April 28, 20167:00 p.m.
MADRID
Ambassadors Hall at Casa Árabe (at Calle Alcalá, 62) 7:00 p.m. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.

Casa Árabe and the Intercultural Spanish-Arab Circle invite you to a poetry recital given by Mohamed Alfaqeeh Saleh 

The recital will include participation by the poet Mohamed Alfaqeeh Saleh, the work’s author. The readings in Spanish will be performed by the poets Asunción Caballero Muñoz-Reja and Pilar García Orgaz. Presented by: Abdulhadi Sadoun, a writer, Hispanist and editor.

Recital program

Mohamed Alfaqeeh Saleh was born in Tripoli, Libya, in 1953. He studied in his home town until completing secondary school. He has a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Cairo, where he played an active role in the city’s sociocultural life. He has had numerous articles for analysis published, in both newspapers from both Libya and other countries. He was a political prisoner, along with other writers and poets from his country as of the late seventies. Though he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1978, he was freed ten years later, in 1988. He has taken part in many international literary congresses and meetings. At present, he resides in Madrid, where he forms a very active part of the community of Arab intellectuals in the city. His literary works published to date consist of three books of poems and two works of literary criticism.
What Could Have Been” poetry recital, based on the work “Poems in the Shadow”