時間 Time：2015/1/25 (Sunday) 4:00pm-5:00pm
地點 Venue：油麻地 Kubrick電影中心一樓講廳
主持 Moderators: Polly Ho & Atom Cheung
詩人 Poet： Sayed Gouda
Sayed Gouda’s Closed Gate juxtaposes the Tian’anmen Square Massacre in Beijing with the sufferings of
Palestine. But while the novel’s narrative builds
slowly and irreversibly towards its climactic conclusion in June 1989, the sufferings of Gaza are
experienced in snatches, dreams, and
traumatic flashes of sudden prose, as if to suggest that here is a drama that is not concluded
– as it surely isn’t. The Tunisian poet Abu al-Qasim
ash-Shabi is quoted by the novel’s innocent but open-eyed narrator as writing: ‘If someday people want to live/Fate must yield to them/And the night must
have an end/And the chains must break.’ Closed
Gate exhorts us towards this freedom without ever losing its composure or even becoming
didactic. A gate is cracked upon just a bit,
allowing us to see China’s tensions from an outsider’s perspective – and the continuing
tragedy of Gaza from a perspective we all must
accept as our own.
About Sayed
Gouda
Sayed Gouda was born in Cairo, now living in Hong Kong. Gouda is a
published poet, novelist, and translator. He is the editor of a literary
website called Nadwah in five languages: Arabic,
Chinese, English, French, and German (www.arabicnadwah.com).
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