ALGIERS (ALGERIA) (ITALPRESS/MNA) – On Wednesday 13 November the Taobuk Festival kicks off in Algiers, in the heart of the Mediterranean, to bring Sicily to the centre of contemporary narratives with an event entitled “Mare Nostro, mareinterno”, organized by the Taobuk Festival in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Algiers and the support of the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The event will feature two of the most significant voices in contemporary literature, Maria Attanasio and Evelina Santangelo, in dialogue with Antonella Ferrara, President and Artistic Director of Taobuk, and Alfio Bonaccorso, Executive Director of the Festival.
?Starting from their works, Attanasio and Santangelo will offer the Algerian public a look at the Mediterranean as a stratified region of remembrance and opportunity, a crossroads of peoples, culture and ideas.
For Maria Attanasio, author of Dall’Atlante ai Appennini (Orecchio acerbo), the sea is a place of discovery and belonging, narrated through the journey of Youssef, a young migrant who reaches Europe from Morocco in search of his mother.

Evelina Santangelo, with The Sentiment of the Sea (Einaudi), instead talks about the Mediterranean as a universal heritage, a symbol of hopes and divisions, which embodies both the promises and the difficulties of our time.

The event is part of a series of initiatives that have already involved the Rabat and Tunis offices, underlining the role of the Festival as a platform for dialogue between the two shores of the Mediterranean and a point of reference for the promotion of Italian literature at the international level.
?The Algerian stage is therefore configured as a crucial step in the path that unites peoples and traditions through the universal language of literature. An initiative which, to quote the words of Fabrizio De Andrè, “for the same reason of traveling, let’s travel”, invites participants to reflect on the role of culture as a bridge between apparently distant worlds, but united by the same sea.

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Source: medNews