Rabat (UNA-OIC) – The Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), in cooperation with Saudi Arabia’s Academy of Arab Poetry, is organizing a major international ceremony on Tuesday to celebrate World Poetry Day, under the slogan: “Poets, Wings of Peace”.
ICESCO is organizing the event to express its interest in poetry as a sublime world language as well as to convey taking pride in all creative poets.
The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. Rabat time (9:00 GMT), in face-to-face and virtual modes, at ICESCO headquarters in the Moroccan capital. Representatives of high-level international institutions interested in poetry, in addition to eminent poets and poetry specialists, will attend the ceremony to exchange opinions and ideas and debate on poetic institutions and feminine and universal poetry.
The opening session will feature remarks by the guest of honor, Mr. Mohamed Benaïssa, President of Assilah International Festival, as well as the speech of the Academy of Arab Poetry. ICESCO Director-General Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, will recite a ceremonial poem he produced on this occasion, while Poet Mohamed Achaâri, winner of the 2020 Argana International Poetry Prize, will recite one of his poems.
The ceremony will include five sessions to discuss “Poetry and its institutions: Constants and variables”; “Women and poetry: Female-authored poems”; “The age of poetry… the age of narration”; “Rising talents in today’s poetry”; and “Poems from the other shore: Poetry and the cross-border vision”.
The celebration will also include a performance by the great Moroccan singer Karima Skalli, and a video entitled: “The bird of the blond tales”, produced by ICESCO on the occasion of this cultural event.
The ceremony can be followed live on the official ICESCO Facebook page, via this link: https://www.facebook.com/ICESCO.Ar/live
ICESCO is organizing the event to express its interest in poetry as a sublime world language as well as to convey taking pride in all creative poets.
The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. Rabat time (9:00 GMT), in face-to-face and virtual modes, at ICESCO headquarters in the Moroccan capital. Representatives of high-level international institutions interested in poetry, in addition to eminent poets and poetry specialists, will attend the ceremony to exchange opinions and ideas and debate on poetic institutions and feminine and universal poetry.
The opening session will feature remarks by the guest of honor, Mr. Mohamed Benaïssa, President of Assilah International Festival, as well as the speech of the Academy of Arab Poetry. ICESCO Director-General Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, will recite a ceremonial poem he produced on this occasion, while Poet Mohamed Achaâri, winner of the 2020 Argana International Poetry Prize, will recite one of his poems.
The ceremony will include five sessions to discuss “Poetry and its institutions: Constants and variables”; “Women and poetry: Female-authored poems”; “The age of poetry… the age of narration”; “Rising talents in today’s poetry”; and “Poems from the other shore: Poetry and the cross-border vision”.
The celebration will also include a performance by the great Moroccan singer Karima Skalli, and a video entitled: “The bird of the blond tales”, produced by ICESCO on the occasion of this cultural event.
The ceremony can be followed live on the official ICESCO Facebook page, via this link: https://www.facebook.com/ICESCO.Ar/live
