Safaa Fathy

Safaa Fathy
Native name صفاء فتحي
Born (1958-07-17)July 17, 1958
Minya, Egypt
Nationality Egyptian
Awards Prix Beaumarchais
Website http://safaafathy.org/en/

Safaa Fathy is an Egyptian poet, documentary filmmaker, playwright, and essayist. She is best known for her film Derrida's Elsewhere, a documentary which focuses on the life and concepts of controversial philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Early life and career

Fathy was born in Minya, Upper Egypt on July 17, 1958. She studied English literature in Cairo. Fathy participated in the student movement while in Egypt but later left the country and settled in Paris in 1981. In 1987, she was an assistant director at the Deutsches Theater located in East Berlin. Fathy worked with Heiner Muller in 1990.[1] She completed her doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne in 1993;[2] her thesis was on Bertolt Brecht. Before becoming a filmmaker, Fathy worked as a stage director.[1]

Currently she serves as director of programme at the International College of Philosophy in Paris.[2]

Poetry

Collections

Revolution, a wall we cross, collection in Arabic, Sharkayat, Cairo

A name to the sea collection in Arabic, Dar Nahda, Beyrouth and Egyptian Supreme Cultural Council.

Al Haschiche (ISBN:9789689246138 book of poetry accompanied by film-poem Hidden Valley) bilingual Spanish-French, Ediciones sin nombre, Mexico[3] …où ne pas naître, bilingual collection in Arabic and French, Éditions Paris-Méditerrané ISBN:9782842721503

The first and the last anthology translated into Macedonian, Struga Poetry Evenings, Pleaides Editions[4]

Little Wooden Dolls... collection in Arabic, Sharkayat, Cairo

...and one nights collection in Arabic, Sharkayat, Cairo

In collective volumes

Ma langue est mon territoire, Collection Folies d’encre, Eden, Paris[5]

Anthology of Contemporary Arab Women Poets, Nathalie Handal (ed), Interlink, Massachusetts, USA[6]

Les poèmes arabes modernes, preface by Bernard Noël, Maisonneuve & Larose, Paris[7]

Mohammad and Mina Nouvelles littéraires, Egypt

Présage, France

Arapoetica, France

Poésie 1, France

Autre Sud, France[8] Vieux cauchemar in Poésie 98, Editions Maison de la Poésie, Paris

Selected filmography

Documentary

Mohammad sauvé des eaux (Mohammad Saved from the Waters), TS production, Paris

Dardasha Socotra, UNESCO, government of Yemen.

D'ailleurs, Derrida, Arte, France

Maxime Rodinson : l'Athée des Dieux (Maxime Rodinson, Atheist of the Gods), France

Ghazeia, danseuses d'Egypte (Ghazeia, Egyptian Dancers), Canal plus, France

Hidden Faces, First prize San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, Prix du Public et Mention spéciale du Jury, Festival international de films de femmes de Créteil, Golden Hugo Award, Chicago Film Festival

Fiction

They said short fiction inspired by Dylan Thomas’s short story The Burning Baby

The Hidden Valley film-poem

Nom à la mer film-poem, text Safaa Fathy, read by Jacques Derrida

Silence, short fiction, Mention spéciale du Jury, Rencontres de Digne-les-Bains 1997, prime à la qualité CNC

Doisneau, contribution to collective short film commissioned by the city of St Denis, France, about Carrefour Pleyel (Atelier de réalisation, Université de Paris VIII, with Serge Le Peron)

Theatre

Ordalie ; Terreur (2004, ISBN:9782872823796)

Books

Tourner les mots with Jacques Derrida, Editions Galilée, Paris. 2000

Essays and other writings

On philosophy and politics

The secret in the image Alif journal, American University Cairo, 2011[9] Slogans, écran, scander, voir et croire Magphilo, 2011

Deadline - Data limite in Revue Lignes N°36 Monde arabe : rêves, révoltes, révolutions, 2011[10] Statement and Photos from the making of D’ailleurs, Derrida, Diacritics N°38, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008[11] L’aporie of lui  in Derrida à Coimbra. Palimage Editores, Coimbra, Portugal. 2006

Un(e) spectre nommé(e) « avenir » in Cahiers de l’Herne on Jacques Derrida. 2005

Derrida, metteur en scène ou acteur Magazine Littéraire, N° 430. 2004

11 Septembre Jacques Derrida, introduction and translation into Arabic. 2002

Transparence du Halal, transgression du Haram Vacarme, 2002

Interview in Mil y una voces, Jordi Esteva, Editions El Pais, Madrid. 1998 (Note: Jordi Esteva has deleted Safaa Fathy from the online edition)

On poetry, theatre, cinema

hôra/Luz y desierto. Revelación de lo oscuro' 2010'

Lineas de Fuga Special issue on 1980s Egyptian poets, Casa Refugio Citlaltépelt, Mexico (editor and translator). 2008

Cette chose qui mord dans la nuit de Howard Barker article in special issue of Éditions théâtrales, "Howard barker et le théâtre de la Catastrophe", Paris. 2006

Momie de la mort vaincue. Sur un film de Chadi Abdel Salam, Europe. 2004

Machines de guerre. Artpress, Numéro spécial N° 20, Le Cirque au-delà du cercle. 1999

Hisser les voiles: Odyssée féminine à travers la Méditerranée. Microfisuras, 1999

Dissidences et dissonances. Cartographie d'une poésie égyptienne. Almadraba (revue), Seville. 1998

Chœurs des ténèbres in Alternatives théâtrales N°57 (special edition on Howard Barker). 1998

Exil, in Pour Rushdie, La Découverte, Paris. 1993


References

  1. 1 2 Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab women filmmakers. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press. pp. 72–80. ISBN 9789774162688.
  2. 1 2 "Safaa Fathy". Safaa Fathy. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  3. ↑ http://www.edicionessinnombre.com/2009/01/fathy-safaa/
  4. ↑ http://www.strugapoetryevenings.com/publishing/?lang=en
  5. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/title/ma-langue-est-mon-territoire/oclc/56568490
  6. ↑ http://www.nathaliehandal.com/booksPoetryArabWomen.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/title/poeme-arabe-moderne/oclc/708530992
  8. ↑ http://autre.sud.free.fr/revue/Bienvenue.html
  9. ↑ http://www.aucegypt.edu/huss/eclt/alif/recent/Pages/default.aspx
  10. ↑ http://www.editions-lignes.com/MONDE-ARABE%E2%80%89-REVES-REVOLTES.html
  11. ↑ http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/diacritics/v038/38.1-2.fathy.html

External links

Safaa Fathy at the Internet Movie Database

Safaa Fathy in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Safaa Fathy at Allocine. (French)

Le Veilleur, Nicolas Brauche, Cadrage, juin 2008

Tourner autour, Mireille Calle-Grüber, Littérature, No. 142, La Différence sexuelle en tous genres (Juin 2006), pp. 88-101

Enfances du texte, Éric Prenowitz, Rue Descartes, No. 32, 'Obstétriques de la littérature: Poétiques des différences sexuelles' (Juin 2001), pp. 95-110

D'Ailleurs, Derrida' (Derrida's Elsewhere) by Safaa Fathy; 'Mille Gilles' (A Thousand Gilles) by Ijsbrand van Veelen, Reginald Lilly, The French Review, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Dec., 2003), pp. 393-395

An Arabian Night in Germany, Theodore Ziolkowski, World Literature Today, Vol. 78, No. 2 (May - Aug., 2004), pp. 32-33

Once and for All, Samuel Weber, Grey Room, No. 20 (Summer, 2005), pp. 105-116

Derrida's Biography (Derrida, Who?), Brigitte Weltman-Aron, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture: Vol. 30: Iss. 1, Article 11 (Winter & Spring 2008), pp. 255-272

Gravesend, Cole Swensen, University of California Press (June 2012)

Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography, David Mikics, Yale University Press (December 2009)

In Memory of Jacques Derrida, Nicholas Royle, Edinburgh University Press (March 2009)

WIR GESPENSTER oder WER, WENN WIR SPRECHEN, SPRICHT: Zu Marie Darrieussecqs Roman 'White', Martina Stemberger, Romanische Forschungen, 122. Bd., H. 1 (2010), pp. 54-69


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