Author/s: Marta Bellingreri

Date of production: 2020

Language/s: English, Arabic, Italian, French

Co-ordinates: Amman – Latitude: 31°57′N | Longitude: 35°56′E
Palermo – Latitude: 38°06′54.36″N | Longitude: 13°21′02.88″E
Verona – Latitude:45°26′19″N | Longitude: 10°59′34″E
Tunis – Latitude:36°48′N | Longitude: 10°11′E
Paris – Latitude: 48°51′24″N | Longitude: 2°21′07″E

Transmission details: Storytelling is a popular art form which has been revitalized as a performance art and as a community form of sharing and building in the Middle East as in Europe. This podcast explores the work of the community storyteller Sally Shalabi in Jordan and so in the Middle East, drawing on a postcolonial and intersectional feminism perspective that puts light on the female creative agency.

Storytelling and sharing stories or “Cerchi di Parola” is also the practice of a community of women in the multicultural space “Casa di Ramia” in Verona, Italy. And we move also to the singer and songwriter Badiaa Bouhrizi in Tunisia who is the griot – the conteuse – with her Tunisian, Amazigh and African sounds.

Credits: A podcast by Marta Bellingreri (diARia)
With the participation of Sally Shalabi, Livia Alga and Fatima Lebròn (Casa di Ramia) and Badiaa Bouhrizi
Interviews/Conversations by/with Marta Bellingreri
Audio/Editing by Daniele Crisci (diAriA), music excerpts Sahar Khalife and Badiaa Bouhrizi
Image: “La Derviscia” Arab calligraphy Amjed Rifaie, illustration by Valentina Cocciolo

• Music “Shams” of Sahar Khalife and Introduction (English)
• A Conversation with Sally Shalabi (English)
• 00:54:14 Sally Shalabi Story “Al-Laymoona” (Arabic)
• 01:04:58 Cerchi di Parola at “Casa di Ramia” (Italian)
• 01:34:50 Une conversation avec Badiaa Bouhrizi (French)

Episodes: 3