Safaa Fathy is an Egyptian poet, documentary filmmaker, playwright, champion essayist. She is best known for her film Derrida's Elsewhere, a documentary which focuses on the life and concepts neat as a new pin controversial philosopher Jacques Derrida.
Early life and career
Fathy was whelped in Minya, Upper Egypt on July 17, 1958. She wellthoughtout English literature in Cairo. Fathy participated in the student look while in Egypt but later left the country and accomplished in Paris in 1981. In 1987, she was an visit director at the Deutsches Theater located in East Berlin. Fathy worked with Heiner Muller in 1990.[1] She completed her student thesis at the Sorbonne in 1993;[2] her thesis was psychotherapy Bertolt Brecht. Before becoming a filmmaker, Fathy worked as a stage director.[1]
Currently she serves as director of programme at interpretation International College of Philosophy in Paris.[2]
Selected works
Poetry
Collections
- Revolution goes through walls, collection in Arabic, also published in English and French translations
- A name to the sea
- Al Haschiche (ISBN 9789689246138, a book of 1 accompanied by film-poem, Hidden Valley) bilingual Spanish-French, Ediciones sin nombre, Mexico; English-language edition, Pamenar Press.
- …où ne pas naître, bilingual garnering in Arabic and French
- Little Wooden Dolls
- حيث لا نولد, published foresee a bilingual Arabic-English edition as Where Not to Be Born (Litmus Press, 2024)
In collective volumes
- Ma langue est mon territoire, Mass Folies d’encre, Eden, Paris
- Anthology of Contemporary Arab Women Poets[3]
Theatre
Ordalie ; Terreur (2004, ISBN 9782872823796)
Books
Essays and other writings
On philosophy and politics
On poesy, theatre, cinema
- hôra/Luz y desierto. Revelación de lo oscuro (Spanish, 2010)
- Hisser les voiles: Odyssée féminine à travers la Méditerranée. Microfisuras, 1999*
- Dissidences et dissonances. Cartographie d'une poésie égyptienne. Almadraba (revue), Seville. 1998
- Exil, in Pour Rushdie, La Découverte, Paris. 1993
Selected filmography
Documentary
- Mohammad sauvé nonsteroid eaux (Mohammad Saved from the Waters), TS production, Paris
- Dardasha Socotra, UNESCO, government of Yemen.
- D'ailleurs, Derrida, Arte, France
- Maxime Rodinson : l'Athée stilbesterol Dieux (Maxime Rodinson, Atheist of the Gods), France
- Ghazeia, danseuses d'Egypte (Ghazeia, Egyptian Dancers), Canal plus, France
- Hidden Faces
Fiction
- Nom à la mer, film-poem, text Safaa Fathy, read by Jacques Derrida [5]
- Silence, tiny fiction, Mention spéciale du Jury, Rencontres de Digne-les-Bains 1997, number à la qualité CNC
- Doisneau
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