Ghassan was 36 years old when he died along with niece in a bomb explosion planted in his car in Beirut on July 1972
In Beirut, on July 9, 1972 – Ghassan Kanafani climbed into his Austin 1100 car with his 17 year old niece Lamees, switched on the ignition and triggered a bomb planted by the Israeli Mossad. He and Lamees were killed
A brief note on the activities of World Poetry Movement in China, Russia, Cuba, Egypt, Niger and India
China
The 1st Beijing International Poetry Film Spring Festival Gala 7th Feb 2024, with World Poetry Movement participation, including iconic poet Fernando Rendon, the WPM General Coordinator.
Poster of the
Cuba Poetry Cultural Center called world poetry to participate in the 30th Havana International Poetry Festival (Havana Virtual Poetry Rally), from May 27 to June 1, 2024.
The “CubaPoesía” Cultural Center, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, the Cuban Book Institute, the Poetry Section of the UNEAC Writers
For centuries, the African continent has suffered from the slave trade and colonialism, and it still suffering from the absence of democracy and civil wars, and today it is going through an ordeal of military coups and environmental disasters; a scene that requires word guardians to move.
Our world is experiencing a wave of human rights
The World Poetry Movement is a coordination of international poetry festivals, poetry projects and poets from more than 170 countries that, through the globalization and realization of poetic actions, seeks to contribute to the construction of a new humanism for the twenty-first century, permanently promoting intercultural dialogue through