Pacifica: Poetry International: Revolutions in Tunisian Poetry

A collection of contemporary poetry from Tunisia, including poems in translation with their French and Arabic original texts

Le paysage, lieu d’un repaysement

Artists and writers, whether exiled or merely seeking a change of scenery, have often chosen the Mediterranean or, more generally, the South, as the ideal spot, a space in which they can create, or write. In 1934 Ossip Zadkine chose to set up a studio in Arques, in the Lot, and it was beneath a light that he perceived as Southern that he rediscovered the presence of trees and a soil which nourished his sculpture-work. Just as Lawrence Durrell liked to say that we are "the children of our landscapes," so the South became for Zadkine a place of rebirth or at least of reinvention

Rouler dans ma mémoire les sonorités des langues

Oumhani Cécile. Rouler dans ma mémoire les sonorités des langues. In: Horizons Maghrébins - Le droit à la mémoire, N°60, 2009. Littératures féminines avec et autour de Maïssa Bey. pp. 88-95

D'allers en retours...

Oumhani Cécile. D'allers en retours.... In: Horizons Maghrébins - Le droit à la mémoire, N°54, 2006. Voyages au Maghreb. pp. 63-66

Mon parcours d’écrivain/d’écriture

Oumhani Cécile. Mon parcours d’écrivain/d’écriture. In: Horizons Maghrébins - Le droit à la mémoire, N°60, 2009. Littératures féminines avec et autour de Maïssa Bey. pp. 95-97

Le paysage, lieu d’un repaysement

Artists and writers, whether exiled or merely seeking a change of scenery, have often chosen the Mediterranean or, more generally, the South, as the ideal spot, a space in which they can create, or write. In 1934 Ossip Zadkine chose to set up a studio in Arques, in the Lot, and it was beneath a light that he perceived as Southern that he rediscovered the presence of trees and a soil which nourished his sculpture-work. Just as Lawrence Durrell liked to say that we are "the children of our landscapes," so the South became for Zadkine a place of rebirth or at least of reinvention