{"id":1234,"date":"2017-05-13T07:23:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T07:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:08:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:08:20","slug":"mst-tutor-jenny-lewis-with-poet-adnan-al-sayegh-artist-frances-kiernan-exhibition-at-iraqi-embassy-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1234","title":{"rendered":"MSt tutor Jenny Lewis with poet Adnan al-Sayegh, artist Frances Kiernan, exhibition at Iraqi Embassy, London"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nExhibition and readings of work by MST tutor Jenny Lewis at Iraqi Embassy cultural event<\/strong><\/p>\n

MSt tutor Jenny Lewis joined the distinguished Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh and the British artist Frances Kiernan to present an exhibition of prints and extracts from Gilgamesh Retold<\/em>, Jenny\u2019s re-imagining of the Epic of Gilgamesh<\/em>, at the the Iraqi Embassy on 29 April, 2017. The presentation was followed by the launch of The Flood<\/em> an extract from Gilgamesh Retold<\/em> with Arabic translations by Adnan al-Sayegh and Ruba Abughaida and original woodcuts by Frances Kiernan, published by Mulfran Press.<\/p>\n

The ceremony was opened by His Excellency the Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq Dr. Saleh Al-Tamimi, who welcomed the guests and the audience, highlighting Jenny\u2019s poetry and the importance of her collaboration with the Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh which is funded by Arts Council England and supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and The Poetry Society. Dr. Al-Tamimi\u00a0also stressed the importance of these cultural evenings that shed light on the ancient civilization of Iraq and its history which is currently under threat from terrorist groups.<\/p>\n

Dr Al-Tamimi also thanked the media ambassador Waheeda Al-Miqdadi for her efforts in organizing this evening in co-operation with the Embassy.<\/p>\n

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Exhibition and readings of work by MST tutor Jenny Lewis at Iraqi Embassy cultural event MSt tutor Jenny Lewis joined the distinguished Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh and the British artist Frances Kiernan to present an exhibition of prints and extracts from Gilgamesh Retold, Jenny\u2019s re-imagining of the Epic of Gilgamesh, at the the Iraqi Embassy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-tutor_news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-jU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1938,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1938","url_meta":{"origin":1234,"position":0},"title":"MSt Tutor Jenny Lewis reads with the exiled Iraqi poet, Adnan Al-Sayegh, at the Cardiff Poetry Festival at 11am on 18 April.","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"March 26, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Adnan Al-Sayegh and Jenny Lewis will be reading from their ground-breaking dual-language Arabic\/English version of part of Al-Sayegh\u2019s astonishing anti-war epic poem 'Uruk\u2019s Anthem'. 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