Canan Marasligil and Sulaiman Addonia on the BOZAR rooftop (6 September 2023)

The Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile) (AALFIE) has been teaming up with the Creative Writing Academy for Refugees & Asylum Seekers to present the programme 'Blurring the Borders': an hour of cross-genre prose, poetry about migration, sensuality and Brussels languages.

The panel will discuss the melancholy of travel and ask: how do movements between countries and cultures affect one’s creativity and art? 
Canan Marasligil (author of the essay “Anne Carson in Sensual Gestures”), Marah Haj (dance) 
In debate: Alara Adilow (Somalia-the Netherlands-Belgium), Alexander Skorobogatov (Russia-Belgium), and Haleh Chinikar (Iran-Belgium)
Short lectures by: Mohannad Bennana (Libyan who writes in Arabic, Tamazight, and English), Quỳnh Iris de Prelle (Vietnam-Belgium), Loucka Fiagan (Belgium-Togo), and Angel Patricks (a Nigerian writer, stage poet, and visual storyteller).