Par où commencer ? - Série 3 - Apprendre. Rechercher. - Female artivism in the Middle East

The art of storytelling, the art of stories, is the subject explored by this first session of "Assemblea delle Lucciole"/diARiA, from Palermo, Sicily. Storytelling is a popular art form which has been revitalized as a performance art and as a community form of sharing and building. With the words, sounds and stories of creative female artists and cultural producers from the Middle East, we explore artivism (arts and activism), particularly through the community storyteller Sally Shalabi in Jordan and so in the Middle East, drawing on a postcolonial and intersectional feminism perspective that puts light on the female creative agency.

Storytelling and sharing stories or "Cerchi di Parola" is also the practice of a community of women in a multicultural space "Casa di Ramia" in Verona, Italy. And we move also to the singer and songwriter Badiaa Bouhrizi in Tunisia who is the griot – the conteuse- with her Tunisian, Amazigh and African sounds.

A podcast by Marta Bellingreri (diARia)
With the participation of Sally Shalabi, Livia Alga and Fatima Lebròn (Casa di Ramia) and Badiaa Bouhrizi
Interviews/Conversations by/with Marta Bellingreri
Audio/Editing by Daniele Crisci (diAriA), musical excerpts Sahar Khalife and Badiaa Bouhrizi

• 00:00:00 Music “Shams” of Sahar Khalife and Introduction (English)
• A Conversation with Sally Shalabi (English)
• 00:54:14 Sally Shalabi Story “Al-Laymoona” (Arabic)
• 01:04: 58 Cerchi di Parola at “Casa di Ramia” (Italian)
• 01:34: 50 Une conversation avec Badiaa Bouhrizi (French)