Basement Cultural Foundation, on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, at 4:00 pm, conducted the discussion session No. 25 of the “Gherbal” activity, which was about the life and work of the English writer Virginia Woolf.
Dan Brown was the discussed writer in the Gherbal session that took place on Tuesday, February 18, 2020.
On the 29th of October, and within Gherbal activity, Basement Cultural Foundation hosted an open discussion group about the literary works of the Yemeni novelist Nabilah Al-Zubair. It started with a general introduction about the featured writer and some basic information about her accomplishments in poetry, novels and other non-fiction works.
The discussion started with a controversy among some attendees wondering whether she is better in poetry than novels or vice versa. Abdo Salem discussed that he preferred her poetry works more than novels, and Nabeel Qassem thought otherwise, and those who read their novels will see “her mind exits” in her writing which holds her writing potentials. And by passing through her own interview in different
The monthly discussion session took place at the Basement Cultural Foundation on Tuesday 2 April 2019 at the Basement Library (Gherbal activity) in the presence of a number of young men and women interested in reading and intellectual discussion. The discussion was about the Algerian writer: Ahlam Mosteghanemi
She was born in 1953 April 13 and her most important works are trilogy: body memory, chaos senses, transient beds. The discussion session opened with a visual presentation of the writer, where there was a meeting with the writing, highlighting the most important criticisms the author received during her literary career. Ahlam said in this interview that the Arab writer does not profit like the Western writer, where she sees that the income of writers in the Arab world is much less than imagined by some, and justified that reading is not a major concern in our Arab countries. She also denied completely that she writes for adolescents, where she said that her writings for all generations, and stated that she met with a family of all ages love her writings. She explained that her writing style has changed somewhat to see that this generation does not like heavy books, so that after the novel (Memory of the Body) began to soften the heavy narrative style, and instructed it as an age of speed and light work in transit. She also stated that the tribute of Nizar Qabbani was a medal hanging on her chest, and was a great incentive for writing and continuity, and that no matter how written Nizar Qabbani.
A discussion session was held on Tuesday 29 January 2019 in the library of Basement Cultural Foundation about novelist Abdulrahman Munif. The participants discussed the biography of the writer and his most important works, the issues he discussed in his books, and the principles he adopted in his life. The discussion also touched on some of the writers’ novels, where participants expressed their different views on these works.
A detailed report of the content of the session will be published later.
