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    MFAH Special Lecture: Poet Adonis on the Need for an Arab Revival

    Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building

    October 17, 2010

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    MFAH Special Lecture: Poet Adonis on the Need for an Arab Revival

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents a Special Lecture:  Poet Adonis on the Need for an Arab Revival, Sunday, October 17 at 2:00pm,  at the Caroline Wiess Law Building.

    Nominated three times for the Nobel Prize, Adonis (pictured, photo by Petr Machan/Prague Writers' Festiva) has been called "today´s most daring and provocative Arab...

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents a Special Lecture:  Poet Adonis on the Need for an Arab Revival, Sunday, October 17 at 2:00pm,  at the Caroline Wiess Law Building.

    Nominated three times for the Nobel Prize, Adonis (pictured, photo by Petr Machan/Prague Writers' Festiva) has been called "today´s most daring and provocative Arab poet," while his influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot´s on English-language verse, and to David Hume on Western philosophical thought. 

    Adonis has written extensively on the need to change the framework of both thinking and reasoning in the Arab world in order to stop the disintegration of Arab culture. In his own poetry—which is experimental in form and prophetic in tone—Adonis breaks with tradition to liberate his work from the chains of the "text".

    In this rare Houston appearance, Adonis addresses the factors that hinder intellectual advancement in the Arab world, and why a new way of thinking is not an option, but an urgent necessity.

    Adonis has written more than 20 books in his native Arabic, including the pioneering work An Introduction to Arab Poetics. Adonis received the Bjørnson Prize in 2007, the first International Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Award, the Syria-Lebanon Best Poet Award, and the highest award of the International Poem Biennial in Brussels. He lives in Paris. 

    This program is generously co-sponsored by the Arab American Educational Foundation. This program is presented in Arabic and English. Simultaneous translation provided.

    A reception and book signing follow the program. Adonis´s newly released English-language anthology, Adonis: Selected Poems will be for sale in the MFAH Retail Store.


    Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building

    1001 Bissonnet Street
    Houston, Tx 77005

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    Tickets:

    Admission to this program is open to the public and free with general museum admission.

    Museum Admission:
    $7.00 adults
    $3.50 seniors/children 5-18
     


    Times:

    2:00pm
    A reception and book signing follow the program. 
     


    Phone: 713-639-7300

    Parking:

    Museum Parking Garage

    Located directly east of the Beck and Law buildings, the MFAH Visitors Center features a four-story covered parking garage.

    The easy-to-find parking entrance is on Binz, marked by a large, yellow arrow.

    You're always protected from the elements when you park your car in the Museum Garage. From there, you can go to the Visitors Center lobby and find a ticketing desk and up-to-the minute museum information.

    As an added convenience, you can enter the Beck and Law buildings from the Visitors Center through security-monitored, climate-controlled tunnels connecting all three buildings.
     


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