Najwa Barakat
{{Short description|Lebanese Arab novelist, journalist and film director}}
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Najwa Barakat ({{langx|ar|نجوى بركات}}; born 1966, in Beirut) is a Lebanese Arab novelist, journalist and film director.
Career
After achieving studies in theater (Beirut Fine Arts Institute) and cinema (French cinema Institution), she moves definitely to Paris where she works as a freelance journalist in a number of Arabic newspapers and magazines, and gathered the materials for several cultural programs produced by Radio France Internationale (RFI) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). She also prepared the first fifteen episodes of the cultural program broadcast at Aljaz,{{Not in citation|date=February 2020}} and authored several movie scripts as well as directing several documentaries.
Najwa Barakat has published six novels (five in Arabic and one in French), most of which were published by Dar al-Adab in Beirut. Some of them have obtained awards and were translated into foreign languages, among which “The bus of good people” (1996), which received the "Prize of the best literary creation of the year", by the Lebanese Cultural Forum, Paris, in 1997{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}, and was translated into French in 2002, under the title: "Le bus des gens bien" - Stock Publisher (La Cosmoplite). The novel in French, "La locataire du Pot de fer" (the tenant), published by L’Harmattan Publisher in Paris, played on theater in France, "Winner of the First Prize" at the Amateur Theatre Festival{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} in Amiens, France . She also translated Les Carnets de Camus I – II – III into Arabic, published by Kalima and Dar Al-Adab, Summer 2010.
In 2003, the circuit Meaddle East- Goethe Institute choose her among several Lebanese writers to represent her country in the [http://www.goethe.de/ins/eg/prj/mal/sts/ard/bar/deindex.htm MIDAD Project]: city's teller.
In 2009, she set up "Mohtaraf how to write a novel - for literature, theater and cinema":{{cite web|url=https://mohtarafatnajwabarakat.com/mohtaraf-in-english-2/|title=English|date=7 June 2010|publisher=|access-date=2 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102193448/https://mohtarafatnajwabarakat.com/mohtaraf-in-english-2/|archive-date=2 January 2019|url-status=live}} a permanent workshop located in Beirut, which receives young and aspiring writers of all ages and from all Arab countries, not only in the narrative field, but also in theatrical and movie script writing. Certainly, a pioneering and innovative initiative in the Arab World.
Works
- The Secret Language (loughat al-sirr){{Cite web |url=http://www.rayaagency.org/news/barakat-najwa/the-secret-language/ |title=The secret language |access-date=2008-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005164413/http://www.rayaagency.org/news/barakat-najwa/the-secret-language/ |archive-date=2011-10-05 |url-status=live }}
- Ya-Salâm{{cite web|url=http://www.epoche-edizioni.it/public/rasstampa/Corriere-della-Sera_13-febb.JPG|title=Ya-Salâm|publisher=|access-date=2008-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218201136/http://www.epoche-edizioni.it/public/rasstampa/Corriere-della-Sera_13-febb.JPG|archive-date=2012-02-18|url-status=live}}
- The Tenant{{cite web|url=http://www.voxlatina.com/|title=VoxLatina.com - La meilleure valise business propose des innovations technologiques comme des ports USB, une valise GPS intégrée et un design futuriste|last=Vox|website=VoxLatina.com|access-date=2008-11-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014161123/http://www.voxlatina.com/|archive-date=2008-10-14|url-status=usurped}}
- The Bus of Good People (Bâs el-awâdem){{cite web|url=http://www.editions-stock.fr/livre/stock-160966-Le-bus-des-gens-biens-hachette.html|title=The bus of good people, (Le bus des gens Bien)|publisher=|access-date=2008-11-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001051602/http://www.editions-stock.fr/livre/stock-160966-Le-bus-des-gens-biens-hachette.html|archive-date=2011-10-01|url-status=dead}}
- The Life and Passion of Hamad (hayât wa alâm Hamad ibn Siléneh){{Cite web |url=http://www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma/MHinternet/Archives_545/pdf_545/page25.pdf |title=The life and passion of Hamad, (La passion de Hamad) |access-date=2008-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091122223713/http://www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma/MHinternet/Archives_545/pdf_545/page25.pdf |archive-date=2009-11-22 |url-status=live }}
- The Transducer (Al-muhawwel)
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110817021951/http://www.alarabiya.net/programs/2010/12/01/128150.html Rawafed: documentary interview Najwa Barakat "first part". Alarabiya.net]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110817022035/http://www.alarabiya.net/programs/2010/12/09/128984.html Rawafed: documentary interview Najwa Barakat "second part". Alarabiya.net]
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