Tag: Mesopotamia
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Our first workshop: Writing Mesopotamia at the Ashmolean
Our first Writing Mesopotamia workshop at the Ashmolean this morning (Sunday 24 March) was full of rich, interesting insights and resulted in some exciting creative ideas now being turned into polished poems for the reading and exhibition on 28th April. We wrote epigrams to start with that will be translated into Arabic for the reading. […]
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The first ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ reading at the Ashmolean
The first reading of the ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ programme at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, took place yesterday (Sunday 17 March). Heavy snow from about 9.00am until 11.30am gave us a bit of a scare and we thought we might have to cancel it, but luckily, it eased up and the Ancient Near East Gallery rang to […]
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Ashmolean Museum – Writing Mesopotamia
Writing Mesopotamia is an exciting series of readings and creative writing workshops from The Poet’s House, Oxford to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War in March-April 2003. Renowned Iraqi poet Adnan al Sayegh and Oxford-based poet Jenny Lewis will read their own poems together in English, some with Arabic translations, exploring […]
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