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thumb PalFest (Palestine Festival of Literature) is an annual event that aims to bring a cultural festival of international standard to audiences in Palestine to assert "the power of culture over the culture of power." Patrons of the festival have included Chinua Achebe, John Berger, Mahmoud Darwish, Seamus Heaney, Harold Pinter, Philip Pullman and Emma Thompson. It is supported by the British Council, the Open Society, the A M Qattan Foundation and Riwaq among others. == Inaugural festival== Between 7 and 11 May 2008 the festival traveled to the cities of Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem - while the authors also visited Hebron. The venues included: Dar al-Tifl (Jerusalem), Al-Kasaba Theatre (Ramallah), Dar Annadwa (Bethlehem) and the Palestinian National Theater (Jerusalem) - all of which sold out. The format generally took on a series of a readings followed by discussions and questions from the audience. The authors were also joined by Palestinian performers. In Bethlehem, El Funoun Dance Troupe performed a series of their dances and on the final night in Jerusalem, ''Yasmeen'', from The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, played. What was meant to be a sextet "turned into a quartet because the lute player and the percussionist were refused entry to the city".〔Ian Jack, ("Hebron is a ghost town where joggers carry automatic rifles" ), ''The Guardian'', 17 May 2008.〕 The festival also ran workshops with students at Bir Zeit University and Bethlehem University. Students were given a list of the attending authors and asked to come up with their own workshop titles. The 16 artists in attendance of the 2008 festival were: Khalid Abdalla, Daniel Alarcon, Mourid Barghouti, Victoria Brittain, William Dalrymple, Roddy Doyle, Esther Freud, Nathalie Handal, Suheir Hammad, Ian Jack, Brigid Keenan, Jamal Mahjoub, Pankaj Mishra, Andrew O'Hagan, Hanan al-Shaykh, Raja Shehadeh, and Ahdaf Soueif. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Palestine Festival of Literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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