Real life happens in the margins, just outside the image of what camera lenses frame as 'important'. The Arab world is — and has been — the scenery of a number of such 'important' events. Many camera lenses, eyes, and poems have been directed towards it. Meanwhile, however, there is movement in the margins.

At te centre of this Avond, titled Margins, are the marginalised stories, the transient things, and subdued events in time that we believe need to be heard and written about.

This movement in the margins is captured in poems by Yasser Al-Zayat from Egypt, Ranwa Alamsi from Bahrain, and Wafai Laila from Syria. Join us as they preform their work in Arabic*.

*Translated to Dutch by Nisrine Mbarki and Jalila Hida.

Perdu's Avonden are kindly supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst