Wear your binoculars, goggles or masks & enhance!: Nicosia beyond barriers: voices from a divided city

Thursday, June 6, 2019

Nicosia beyond barriers: voices from a divided city

An insightful, pleasurable, and moving journey with three brilliant writers and editors Aydın Mehmet Ali, Alev Adil, and Bahriye Kemal. It has been such a valuable experience working with this team! Join our first launch on Thursday 13 June at NiMac, Nicosia

This anthology aims to bring writers and poets together in a single volume that captures Nicosia as a shared and contested site, with dominant and marginalised narratives, capturing its fragments and its unities. The island and its city have always been a host for differential inspiration for the inhabitants, visitors and exiles who come here. It has created people and been created by people, triggering the act for all of us to write, read and construct it regardless of who we are, where we come from, or where we are going. In writing, reading and constructing the city we understand what it means to be at the crossroad of the world, fractured, to be postcolonial, European but not quite, Islanders, to be Muslim but not quite, to be Mediterranean, to be divided, to be united, to suffer in pain and longing together in solidarity. In this way we understand what it is to feel, live and create a city and be created by a city – a literary-lived Nicosia, Λευκωσία, Lefkoşa –that is host to total difference and diversity. Bahriye Kemal