Salah Niazi

 

Oriental Cultural Forum will host Iraqi Poet Salah Niazi

 

Join us for another wonderful evening of poetry organised by the O.C.F.

 

Iraqi poet, Salah Niazi one of the pioneers of the Iraqi and Arabic poetry, will be performing excerpts from his collections. Fellow poet Agnes Meadows will be hosting. This event is part of an exciting programme of activities arranged by the O.C.F which are held on the first Wednesday of every month at the Poetry Café, Covent Garden.

Address: Poetry Café The Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX Nearest Underground: Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line), Holborn (Piccadilly & Central Line)

 Wednesday, 1-7-2009, At 7.30 PM

£3 entry

Salah Niazi

Dr. Salah Niazi was born in 1935 in Iraq. He obtained a BA in Arabic Language, University of Baghdad. In 1954 he began his career as newsreader in the State Radio and Television, while teaching Arabic language and literature in secondary schools. He was exiled in 1964 and worked as newsreader and Head of Cultural Talks Unit at BBC Arabic Service, London for almost two decades, during which, he completed a PhD at the University of London. He also gave lectures on The Art of Translation in both the Polytechnic of Central London and the University of Edinburgh, and was head of Association of the Iraqi Academics in the UK for one year. He retired from the BBC in 1984 and became the editor of Alightirab Al Abadi, a four monthly magazine for Arab writers in exile, until 2003.

 

Dr. Salah Niazi has published many works of literature, including eight collections of poetry and two books of criticism. He has also translated and published the works of Macbeth and Hamlet by Shakespeare, The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata, The Winslow Boy by Rattigan, and the first six sections of the second book of Ulysses by James Joyce into Arabic. Six other sections will be published later this year.

 

Who stuffed the lark,

Stitched fear to its wings?

Who wrapped up that girl in a veil?

Like the slamming of a door?