Things I Didn't Know I Loved*

* If you are a dreamer, come in.
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in! Come in!

(Shel Silverstein)

March 18, 2006

 

Ahmed Al-Aidy




I'm not actually sure I love him yet. But I've heard plenty of interesting things about his (hmm, can a book be called a sleeper hit?)

ان تكون عباس العبد , now translated (by Humphrey Davies) as Being Abbas el-Abd.

And I'll be soon be finding out. On Wednesday, the American University in Cairo's English & Comparative Literature Department will be hosting a reading by Al-Aidy as part of their (often but not always interesting) Emerging Creative Voices Series.

So that's:

Ahmed Al-Aidy

Wednesday 22nd March

AUC Blue Room on the Greek Campus

5.30pm

(Image nicked from signandsight.)


After that, at 7pm, you can mosey over to the Townhouse Gallery to check out:




...part of their Borrowed Film Series (aka: films you would never otherwise see in Cairo).

The
IMDB synopsis begins: 'Safe has been described as a "horror movie of the soul", a description that director Todd Haynes relishes.'
A user review is titled: 'Seen it several times, and still don't know what to think.'

Intriguing, non?



Roll on Wednesday!


Comments:
how was it?
 
you probably already know this.. but just in case.. the number in ahmed el aidy's book is actually his own number.

and one of the readers call.

and this is not an infringement of privacy because it was published in cairo magazine ;)
 
this guy is limitlessly insane
i love his writings and thoughts :D
 
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