Screenplays by Aviva Butt
My screenplays are theatrical feature films on
Middle Eastern subjects. I write about love and
politics.  

NEW
I have been writing and publishing articles about
Syrian-Kurdish poet SALIM BARAKAT.

The International Journal of Kurdish Studies - Diyarbakir
http://ijoks.com/

Click HERE to see more about this journal . . .
2009
Aviva Butt                           
screenwriter, writer, translator
GAD BEN-MEIR, former director of the World Sephardi Federation in London,
currently practices law as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of
Victoria in Melbourne.

Gad Ben-Meir has published 3 volumes of poetry.  

Ya Manal Ya Manali (2004)
The Nightingales of Intimacy (2004)
Dialogue of the Hearts (2008)

He still publishes in Arabic on his website -

See:  www.gadspoetry.com.au

           
Gad Ben-Meir, LL.B., LL.M.
Poet, lawyer
To read more about Gad Ben-Meir, please click HERE or on the TRANSLATIONS
button above right.



يا منال يا منالي
حوار القلوب
يا طيور الأنس
SELF PORTRAIT: "A CINEMATOGRAPHER"
By Gaetano Nino Martinetti (ACS)

SEE:  www.ninomartinetti.com/About.html
Professor Reuven Snir, Haifa
University, Israel

Six Short Articles on the Iraqi Jewish  
Community by Reuven Snir                  

These 6 very short articles illustrate how Zionist
ideologies were rejected in Baghdad by the head
of the Jewish community, Sassoon Khadduri, and
most of the Jewish community, including writers
such as Anwar Sha'ul, Salim Murad Sha'shu'a, and
Murad Mikha'il.                               

To read the articles, please click HERE or on the
REUVEN SNIR button above right.
SCREENPLAYS BY AVIVA BUTT

LOVE UNDER AN UMBRELLA
written by Aviva Butt with poetry by Rammahi
91 pages Location:  Middle East, Australia

This screenplay takes place just before the last Gulf War when the
growing world-wide refugee population became a major issue.  I
wrote it in consultation with screenwriter Graham V. Rushton,
Iraqi poet Rammahi (aka Abid Ali al-Afrawi al-Rammahi),
cinematographer Gaetano Nino Martinetti and Iraqi actor Hayder
Al Shallal.  
To see two of Rammahi's poems, please click HERE or on the
SHORT BIOGRAPHY button above.
ANTONY JOHAE did his Ph.D. dissertation in Prague on Franz Kafka
and Dostojevsky. He became a lecturer at Kuwait University in the
English Department for a total of 18 years. While in Kuwait he also did
research on the Jewish community in the Arabian Gulf.  He has lectured
and written on the novelist Amin Maalouf.
Reunion at the airport,
Michigan USA Hayder
Al-Shallal and Dr Ibtesam
Alassad
To read on about a
recent revival of Iraqi
Experimental Theatre
. . .

Please click HERE or
on the Writers Comments
button above
Adonis: Index to the Acts of the Wind    
(Hebrew) (2012)

Available at Keshev Publishing House, Israel
http://www.poetry.org.il/pages/personal.asp?id=269


NOVEMBER 2013: Harvard University Press

















Baghdad: The City in Verse
Edited, translated with Introduction by
Reuven Snir
Afterword by Abdul Kader El Janabi
The book Baghdad: The City in
Verse is wonderful! It is a much
needed contribution to the world
of scholarly works. It is also an
artistic achievement . . .  
BOOKS BY AVIVA BUTT

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Hayder Al Shallal is more than just a famous
Iraqi actor ...  

To read on, please click HERE or on the
COMMENTS button above.
Aviva Butt's ESSAY
COMMENT ON  Adunis’ two poems on Baghdad:
  • May poetry press its lips to Baghdad’s breast (1969)
  • Time crushes Baghdad’s body (2005)

And two screenplays by Aviva Butt:
  • Love under an Umbrella (an original screenplay by
    Aviva Butt with poetry by Rammahi ) (2001)  
  • In Blood I Come (an original screenplay by Aviva Butt)
    (2005)


please click on the POETS button above or HERE
Three poems by Khalid Al Hilli
Translation by Reuven Snir and Aviva Butt

KHALID AL HILLI, Iraqi newspaper correspondent, poet,
literary critic, writer was born in Iraq in al Hilla.  After living
in the Gulf and in Morocco, he settled in Australia in 1989.  

Please click here or on the Writers Comments Button
above.

Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity?
Interpellation, Exclusion, and
Inessential Solidarities
by Reuven Snir

Brill Leiden/Boston 2015
To read more about this
book, click HERE or on
the REUVEN SNIR
button above.
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BOOK BY REUVEN SNIR  
(Hebrew)
published January 2015.
English title
Mahmoud Darwish:
Fifty Years of Poetry.

Translation, Introduction and Annotation
by Reuven Snir.

Available at http://indiebook.co.il
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A COLLECTION OF POEMS .

POEMS OF THE EAST
A collection of original poems

By Antony Johae
available at amazon.com


MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE:
A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

BY REUVEN SNIR

Edinburgh University Press: 2017
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2017: Hayder Al Shallal is currently teaching and
producing plays in Iraq. He wrote, directed and produced a
play entitled: Gilgamesh.  It has been performed in Iraq
and Tunisia.
An article on Professor Reuven Snir

"I have written an article on Reuven Snir of
the University of Haifa, well-known scholar in
the field of Arabic literary criticism.  I have
worked with him for a long time . . . Aviva  

To read this updated article, please click on
the REUVEN SNIR button above right or click
HERE

Reuven Snir's

Adonis: Index to the
Acts of the Wind
(2012) [Hebrew]