Indo Arab Cultural Fest-Abu Dhabi

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Khalil Gibran: Life & Poetry

A Road to Palestine: Speeches and Poetry & Story Recite

Seminar on the Global Issues

Indian & Arabic Poems

Film Festival

Literary Seminar

Book Exhibition

Painting Gallery

Dance-Musical events

Women Seminar

Fest-2009

26 February to 7 March,09

Under the Patronage of His Highness Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education & Scientific Research.

Indo Arab Cultural Fest continue to act as a platform for exchange of concepts between culturally and commercially advanced Arab world and the Indian community. It aims at establishing itself as a major international festival, thereby boosting the development and growth of the cordial relationship between the two communities. As the Indo-Arab diplomatic and economic relations setting up new heights, we feel that a cultural expansion and a means to safeguard the existing one is the need of the hour.

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Poetry Festival

5 March 09 Thursday

from 8.30PM to 10PM

Venue: KSC

Slide show

Mohammad Eid Ibrahim (Egypt)

Mujeeb Jaihoon (India)

Sabiha Saba (Pakistan)

Saggier AhmedJafri (Pakistan)

Prof.Madhusudhanan Nair (India)

Deyab Shaheen (Iraq)

A View

Asmo Puthanchira

28 February 09 Saturday

Interactive Session

10AM to 1PM

with Ms.K.Ajitha and other guests

Felicitation Night

7.30PM to 9PM

6 March 09 Friday

Writers & Readers Meet

K.Ayyappan, Chairman, KFDC

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Indo-Arab Cultural Fest-2007

Fadil Saeed Al Muhairi, Short Film Director, addressing the people.

Ahmed Shabeeb Al Dhaheri, Deputy Speaker of the UAE Cabinet, inaugurated the Festival.

D.Raja MP (Member of the Indian Parliament) was the Chief Guest in the occasion. Youtube Video

Inaugural Ceremony

Thursday - 26 February,09 at 7.30

Venue: Kerala Social Centre, Abu Dhabi.

Rajasthani Manganiyar Music mesmerized the audience with their traditional instruments. Youtube video

Emarati traditional Dance took the public into the stage.

Guests of the Night:

D.Raja (Member of Parliament-India)

Prof. Mitri Boulous (Lebanese Scholar)

Mr.Fadhil Saeed Al Muhairi (UAE Short Film Director)

C. Radhakrishnan (Famous Novelist from India)

K.Ajitha (Women Activist)

Toms (Master Cartoonist)

Some clicks from the Curtain Riser program

Indian Cartoonist Toms. Creater of the popular cartoon characters Boban & Moli

D.Babu Paul, IAS Officer.

''Boban & Moli"" Popular Cartoon characters in Kerala.

Toms is one of the best cartoonists in India, who
has published more than 10000 cartoons. His sketches are sharp, nostalgic and humorous.

6 March 09 Friday

8.30 PM

Venue: KSC, Abu Dhabi

Road to Palestine

An evening for Palestinian literature, Arts and discussion:

V.S. Anil Kumar, Short story writer from India speaks on the subject. Sitting: MCA Nazer- Senior Reporter- Gulf Madhyamam, and Prof. Madhusudanan Nair, poet.

Subhash Chandran, Indian Short story writer addressing the gathering.

Poem Reading:
Poem 'ID Card' written by world famous Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish
Story Reading:
Story,'Land of Sad Oranges' written by the Palestinian Story writer & freedom fighter, Ghassan Kanafani, and translated by S.A.Qudsi, was read by K.K.Moideen Koya, Radio Artist.

Mahmoud Darwith Gassan Kanafani

Mahmoud Darwish who is widely considered the Palestinian national poet has developed this metaphor to richly lyrical effect. Born in a village destroyed by Israeli soldiers in the 1948 Arab- Israeli war, he has evoked the loss of his homeland in more than two dozen books of poetry and prose, which have sold millions of copies and mad e him the most celebrated writer of verse in the Arab world."Many people in the Arab world feel their language is in crisis", the Syrian poetry critic Subhi Hadidi said. "And it is no exaggeration to say that Mahmou d is considered a savior of the Arab language."

Ghassan Kanafani, the famous Palestinian journalist, novelist, and short story writer, whose writings were deeply rooted in Arab Palestinian culture, inspired a whole generation during and after his lifetime, both in word and deed. He was born in Acre in the North of Palestine in 1936.
In July 1972, he and his young niece Lamis were killed by Israeli agents in a car bomb explosion in Beirut.

27 February '09 - Friday

Venue: KSC- Abu Dhabi

9 AM to 10.30PM

Literary Seminar

''Global Friendship & Cultural Development'

C.Radhakrishnan, famous Indian Novelist, Author & Scientist speaks on the subject.

Youtube Video

27 February '09 - Friday

Venue: KSC- Abu Dhabi

11AM to 12PM

Venue: KSC

Khalil Gibran: Life & Poems

Mitri Boulos, Lebanese scholar speaks on the subject: Love of Khalil Gibran to India. Sitting, Hameedali and Mohammad Eid Ibrahim

Ali Kanaan, Syrian writer speaks on the occasion. Sitting: Egyptian Poet Mohammad Eid Ibrahim and Hameed Ali, President- Indian Cultural Centre (ICC)

Khalil Gibran was born in 1883 in Lebanon. He was a poet, philosopher and artist and his poetry has been translated into two dozen languages. His drawings and paintings were compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake. His books include The Madman, The Forerunner, The Prophet and The Broken Wings. He died in 1931.

Dr. Mitri Boulos is a world renowned scholar from Lebanon. He is the author of a number of books.