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Friday 18 February 2011

Nicaragua Festival greets Egypt's Revolution

Granada (Nicaragua)
What have been the opening of Festival of World Poetry in the city of Granada, Nicaragua on Sunday night, so that was the Egyptian revolution on the lips of all the poets who participated in the opening of the festival, and the word of the President of the festival the poet Francisco de Asis Fernandez sufficient to show how happy the Nicaraguan people the end of "one of the biggest dictators" in the Arab world by Egypt's youth.
Fernandez said in his welcoming more than 140 poets from all continents of the world "I welcome you to the world less unfair, the world closer to justice humanitarian, I welcome you to the world of poetry revolutionary freedom fighter for freedom, two days ago we saw the rebirth of Egypt's great at the hands of their children free , so I welcome you to your second country, Nicaragua, and to celebrate the poetry of our time and our festival buzz. "
The inauguration of the festival, a European, where it was celebrated poets Europeans, whose numbers swelled to 23 poets from several European countries including: Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain, England, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, and others.
Was opened by the word poetry readings representative of the European Union in Latin America and the word president of the festival and the word of the famous Nicaraguan poet Gioconda Belli, and a number of poets read their poems with the Europeans, followed by reading of the translations into Spanish.
The Arab participation in the festival has shrunk since the opening day of the five names from Egypt, Palestine and Morocco to just two names, where it was supposed to post all of the poets Ghassan Zaqtan and Mutawakkil Taha from Palestine, and Aisha visual of Morocco, but the three excused themselves from participating in the last minute, attendance is limited to Arab names on the only two poets Rtrot Emeritus of Palestine, Emad Fouad from Egypt.
And celebrates the festival at its current session the poet Nicaraguan large Claribl Alegria (87 years), which was recently awarded the Order of Merit for Education and Culture of the Government of Chile, in recognition of the cultural and intellectual role in the poetry of Latin America written in Spanish.
  
It is noteworthy that all the poets of the festival will be on a dinner date with the Palestinians on Friday evening February 18, at the invitation of the Palestinian embassy in Nicaragua, and the festival concludes its activities on Saturday, 19 this month. 

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