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to Karim Alrawi’s website

Thank you for visiting my site. I hope that you find something of interest in the following pages, as you might on a friend’s bookshelves.

To navigate through each section click on blue arrow buttons, pictures, titles and “Read more ...” The main picture at the beginning of the section returns you to the Home page.

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Productions

1. • Recent Productions
   

2. • Productions & Awards: List
   

3. • Productions & Awards: Photos
   

Publications

1. • Recent Publications
   

2. • Articles & Studies
   

3. • Publications Covers
   

New Writing

1. •Flowers
   

2. •Anthem of the Revolution
   

3. •Dream of Flame
   

4. •Marlboro Red
   

5. •Fruit of the Karanj Tree
   

6. •Poetry in Translation
   

Events

1. •Art & Cinema for Peace— Basel
   

2. •DOXA Film Festival
   

3. •Museum of Contemporary Art
   

4. •The Word on the Street
   

5. •Summer Dreams
   

6. •In Tahrir Square
   

7. •International Writer’s Festival
   

8. •Athens Forum on Censorship
   

9. •Amman Writers’ Conference
   

Life & Media

1. • Theatre Studies
   

2. • Selected Reviews
   

3. • Magazine Covers
   

Interviews

1. • 18 Days Video
   

2. • Dramatists’ Guild Quarterly
   

Writer’s Blog

1. • Why Tahrir Still Matters
   

2. • Gene Sharp Writes Revolution
   

3. •Gene Sharp & Egypt’s Revolution
   

4. •Liberation Art
   

5. •Political Football
   

6. •Magda’s Naked Statement
   

7. •Peace Prize & Politics
   

8. •The Abject in Fiction
   

9. •Oasis Prisons - Egypt
   

10. •Governance & Revolution
    

11. •World Bank & Egypt: Corruption
    

12. •Pop Goes the Censor
    

13. •Hanna and the Patriarchs
    

14. •In Plato’s Cave
    

15. •The Price for Libya is Bahrain
    

16. •Cross and Crescent
    

17. •Republic of Tahrir
    

Earlier blog entries ...

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Recent Publication:

Recent Event:

DOXA Film Festival,

Justice Forum, Vancouver:

I lead the discussion on the documentary film Tahrir— Liberation Square.   

Read my blog here on the film Tahriri, also available at:

http://www.doxafestival.ca/festival/news/why-tahrir-matters

Read my blog entry on the film How to Start a Revolution

Art Basel, Switzerland:

On June 14th, I will be speaking on Freedom of Expression in honour of Ai Weiwei, part of the Art & Cinema For Peace event.

My second children’s picture book is a story of a heroic mouse based on an ancient Egyptian legend. Illustrated by the wonderful Bee Willey.

For reviews click on the book cover, or click here: Book Reviews.

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto:

Through out the months of May & June the film 18 Days by the filmmaker Tarek Abouamin will be running at the exhibition Occupied Spaces.  I appear in a supporting role to 80 million Egyptians.

Upcoming Events: