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 . . . |
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| 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 4 volumes of poetry. Ya Manal Ya Manali (2004) The Nightingales of Intimacy (2004) Dialogue of the Hearts (2008) See: www.gadspoetry.com.au Also one volume in English entitled SIREN OF THE HEART: Selected Poems by Gad Ben-Meir (2020). Westphalia Press Washington DC. To read about Gad Ben-Meir and his friend Professor Shmuel Moreh, please click HERE or on the TRANSLATIONS BUTTON above right |
| Gad Ben-Meir, LL.B., LL.M. Poet, lawyer |
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. |
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| 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 |
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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World by Aviva Butt with Introduction by Reuven Snir. To see a Review, please click on: http://newbookjournal. com/2013/10/poets-from-a- war-torn-world-by-aviva-butt/ |
| 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:
And two screenplays by Aviva Butt:
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 |
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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. |
Reuven Snir's Adonis: Index to the Acts of the Wind (2012) [Hebrew] Available at Keshev Publishing House, Israel http://www.poetry.org.il/pages/personal.asp? id=269 |
| 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 article, please click on the REUVEN SNIR button above or click HERE |
| To read more about Reuven Snir's books, click HERE or on the REUVEN SNIR button above. |
Published in January
2019 in hardback
e-book.
This book includes
an Anthology of
Short Stories.
2019 in hardback
e-book.
This book includes
an Anthology of
Short Stories.
My new project is on the Jews of
Kurdistan who used to live especially in
the area of Mosul. The shrine of the
biblical prophet Nahum lies on the
plain of Nineveh -- what remains above
ground from the former Assyrian
capital. -- Aviva 2020
Kurdistan who used to live especially in
the area of Mosul. The shrine of the
biblical prophet Nahum lies on the
plain of Nineveh -- what remains above
ground from the former Assyrian
capital. -- Aviva 2020