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Tine Lavent

Tine Lavent

Cairo-based librarian/teacher. Writes. Translates.

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.culture, .events, .theatreApril 30, 2019

Freedom Book Fair: Farah Barqawi

By Tine Lavent

“Women usually hesitate to call themselves a writer, or a translator. They would rather say: I write, I translate.” Farah Barqawi has passed that…

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.culture, .events, .poetryApril 22, 2019

Freedom Book Fair: Canan Marasligil

By Tine Lavent

She is writing a book about translation and why she translates. In French, dotted with Turkish words when her heart calls for it. Canan…

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.art, .books, .cultureAugust 12, 2016

Peshawar portraits drawn into revival

By Tine Lavent

Moshtari Hilal is an illustrator based in Hamburg (Germany), where she studies Middle Eastern Studies and Politics. In July, her book We Were Drawn…

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.artFebruary 10, 2016

From b-boy to street photographer

By Tine Lavent

We live in a world awash with photographic images. Saturated, even. Leaving the Kim Kardashians and Justin Biebers of our time aside, today’s focus…

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.culture, .musicOctober 12, 2015

Souad Massi brings a hint of Andalusia to Cairo Jazz Festival

By Tine Lavent

It is springtime. The year is 950. You are in Córdoba, the capital of Al-Andalus, Islamic Spain. You saunter towards the Great Mosque, strolling…

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.artJune 22, 2015

Tanger and Cairo, two illustrators’ muses

By Tine Lavent

Plenty of illustrators have found an endless source of inspiration in the world’s biggest cities. Remember how, years ago, a man called Stephen Wiltshire…

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.art, .photographyMarch 23, 2015

‘Sidewalk Salon’ rediscovers Cairo through its chairs

By Tine Lavent

Many Cairenes probably agree that Friday mornings in the Egyptian capital are the best. Exhibit one: the number of friends who have decided to take…

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.photographyJanuary 25, 2015

From Cairo to Bethlehem: a dialog with Samar Hazboun

By Tine Lavent

4:48 pm. I’m 18 minutes late. Samar Hazboun is waiting for me on the other side of the Skype line, on the other side…

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.culture, .theatreOctober 9, 2014

Two revolutions paralleled by one theatre play

By Tine Lavent

Two women. One passionately giving a lecture about the 1919 revolution that would lead to Egyptian independence, the other interrupting her cynically with personal stories….

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.art, .graffitiOctober 6, 2014

Street art in Malaysia: a blessing or a curse?

By Tine Lavent

Aah, Malaysia. Pearly white beaches, crystal clear water. Snorkelling in the company of turtles, strolling through food courts, eating blue rice, smelling the unrivaled…

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