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At Newman Cinemaفِي الشَّرْقِ لَا وَطَنَ دُونَ حَرْبٍ
In the East there is No Homeland without War
2025
|Poetry Performance
|30'
by Carol Sansour, Kalogerakis Brothers
Tickets: 6 euros
Synopsis
A bold, genre-defying collaboration between poet Carol Sansour and the Kalogeraki Brothers. The performance explores the fragmented spaces where Greek and Arabic meet, through the words of Greek iconic poet Katerina Gogou.
In a raw 30 minute performance, Sansour translates Gogou’s searing works from Greek to Arabic, while also sharing her own poems, translated from Arabic to Greek. These words become battlegrounds, remade by sound: the Kalogeraki Brothers’ original music—at once experimental, haunting, and visceral—fuses with the poetry to create a live, breathing translation.
In this ritual of language, words and music, meaning is not fixed but fluid, forming an evocative resonance between cultures, histories, and voices—an intimate rebellion against translation’s inherent violence, and an exploration of what it means to exist in-between worlds.
The research for In the East there is No Homeland without War was supported by Onassis AiR.
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Biography
Born in Jerusalem, Carol Sansour is a Palestinian poet and cultural producer based in Athens, Greece. Known for her provocative exploration of post-national, post-gender, and post-religion identities, she is a passionate advocate for cultural change. Sansour's debut collection, في المشمش (In the Time of the Apricots), was published in 2019 in a trilingual edition. Her poetry has been featured in international journals like Words Without Borders, Exchanges, and Arablit, and showcased at prominent festivals, including the Festival d'Avignon and Institut du Monde Arabe. Sansour is the director of the Athens Palestine Film Festival and founder of the not-for-profit organization Dounias, which is dedicated to producing and exhibiting art and culture from Palestine and the Arab world in Greece. Carol Sansour is an Onassis AiR Fellow for 2024/25.
Michalis and Pantelis Kalogerakis create and perform music with spoken word. They are twin brothers from Crete, and have been experimenting with the intersection of poetry, music and theater ever since they were children. Their discography includes 6 albums, among which Rebotika (Rimbaud + Rempetika), that fuses rebetiko songs with letters exchanged between Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. Their sixth project, The Tales of Melpomene, was presented in 2024 at the Alternative Stage of the National Opera House at The Stavros Niarchos Foundation. They have performed with renowned musicians, such as Martha Fritzila, and Maria Faradouri, and at prominent cultural venues throughout Greece. Michalis and Pantelis live in Athens.
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