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Twentieth-century Egyptian Poets
April 02, 20257:00 p.m.
CORDOBA
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
Prof. Álvaro Abella, from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, will be giving this conference in Cordoba on Wednesday, April 2, as part of the event series “The Arabs and Their Poetry: A journey across the centuries.” Discover the most brilliant authors from one of the main focal points of poetry in the Arab world from the last century.
Egypt was one of the great poetic centers of the Arab world in the twentieth century. This conference will provide a brief overview of the developments in Egyptian poetry during the last century, from the most traditional and neoclassical movements to the avant-garde and folk poetry written in dialect. The goal is to introduce the public to the most renowned authors in that period, from Ahmad Shawqi to Iman Mersal, by reading a selection of their translated texts. Álvaro Abella Villar A professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
Álvaro Abella Villar holds a PhD in Humanities from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (2023), with a thesis titled Editorial translation from Spanish to Arabic in Egypt: A case study (1998-2018). With degrees in Arabic Philology (2001) and Translation and Interpreting (2002) from the University of Salamanca, he taught at the University of Cairo (Egypt) from 2005 to 2009. From 2014 to 2020, he was a pre-doctoral researcher at the School of Translators, and since 2020 he has been a professor in the Department of Arab and Islamic Studies at the UCM. He combines his teaching and research activities with his profession as a literary translator, having translated more than fifty works from Arabic and English into Spanish.
Image: Sculpture of the Egyptian poet Ahmad Shawqi in Villa Borghese, by Egyptian sculptor Gamal El Sagini (Lalupa on Wikipedia).
