The second prize is shared by Mustafa Khalifa and Ahmed Marzouki The Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought is pleased to announce Palestinian writer Aisha Odeh as the winner of the 17th Ibn Rushd Prize for this year’s topic ‘Prison Literature’. The prize giving ceremony will take place on November 27 in Berlin, Germany. […]
Continue ReadingMembers of the Jury of Ibn Rushd Prize 2015 Mohammed Achaari Moroccan poet and writer, born in 1951. Contributed to the political and trade union struggle for years and this experience led him to assume leadership responsibilities and then to parliamentary work through his participation in the first political experience of parliamentary government, led by […]
Continue ReadingAhmed Marzouki Ahmed Marzouki was born in 1947 in Bouajul, a village in northwest Morrocco. His father worked at the local court after having studied law at the University of Qarawiyyin. After primary school in the neighbouring town of Ghafsai, Marzouki attended secondary schools in Fes, Rabat and Meknes. Subsequent to this, he went to […]
Continue ReadingAisha Odeh Born in Deir Jerir near Ramallah/Al-Bireh in 1944.Primary school Deir Jerir, middle and secondary school in Ramallah.Diploma in Education at the Teacher’s Collge in Ramallah in 1966Work experience Aisha Odeh worked as school teacher for mathematics and science at Ein Yabrud Middle School for Girls from September 1966 to the day of her […]
Continue ReadingCall for Nomination Ibn Rushd Prize 2015 announced inPrison Literature They go to prison, and they write … on walls, on toilet paper, cigarette scraps, on the margins of books and notes that they smuggle out of their cell. They write as self-expression, self-liberation and self-determination, to preserve their own identity, and for survival, and […]
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