{"id":270,"date":"2013-01-25T16:57:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T16:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=270"},"modified":"2017-01-13T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T12:00:40","slug":"to-exist-is-to-resist-latest-wasafiri-issue-on-kent-project-to-be-launched-at-the-ica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2013\/01\/25\/to-exist-is-to-resist-latest-wasafiri-issue-on-kent-project-to-be-launched-at-the-ica\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;To exist is to Resist&#8217; &#8211; latest Wasafiri issue on Kent project to be launched at the ICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2013\/01\/global-uncertainties.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-278\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2013\/01\/global-uncertainties.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2013\/01\/global-uncertainties.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2013\/01\/global-uncertainties-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest issue of <em>Wasafiri<\/em>: the Magazine of International Contemporary Writing, based on a Global Uncertainties conference on Global Youth Cultures held at Kent, is about to be launched at the ICA on the\u00a029<sup>th<\/sup> January. The event, entitled &#8216;to exist is to Resist&#8217; &#8230; Young Poets&#8217; Words for These Times\u2019, is part of a series of activities that will mark the affiliation between the School of English and the ICA.<\/p>\n<p>The line-up of poets at this performance event\u00a0includes <strong>Ahmed Haddad<\/strong>, Egyptian revolution poet, author of four collections, song-writer (including for Eskenderella), film-maker and star of feature film <em>Free Times;<\/em>\u00a0<strong>Avaes Mohammed<\/strong>, poet and playwright (of commissioned plays including <em>Shadow Companion<\/em> and <em>Crystal Kisses<\/em>),\u00a0 winner of Amnesty International Media Award for his poem \u2018Bhopal\u2019;\u00a0 <strong>Rafeef Ziadah<\/strong>, performance poet with recent debut album <em>Hadeel<\/em> (dedicated to Palestinian youth), representative of Palestine at Poetry Parnassus; and filmed star performances from <em>Lyrics Revolt<\/em> and Kosal Khiev (best film performance, Berlin Poetry Film Festival 2012).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For one night only, the myriad of issues that matter to young artists \u2013 from the political to the personal \u2013 will take centre stage, told in lyrical tongues by poets from Cambodia, the Middle East, the UK and the USA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasafiri.org\/\"><strong>www.wasafiri.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ica.org.uk\/\"><strong>www.ica.org.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2013\/01\/wasafiri1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-275\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2013\/01\/wasafiri1.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of Wasafiri: the Magazine of International Contemporary Writing, based on a Global Uncertainties conference on Global Youth Cultures held at Kent, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2013\/01\/25\/to-exist-is-to-resist-latest-wasafiri-issue-on-kent-project-to-be-launched-at-the-ica\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}