Conference, Author Downtown Stage, 4.30 pm

Rachid El Daif will sign his last novel "OK ma’ essaleme" at the City Café, Beirut, near the LAU, on Friday the 2nd of May, between 6 and 9pm.

Between Nov the 13th and the 24thRashid Al Daif will participate to the "Belles Étrangères 2007"

12 Lebanese authors will be travelling throughout France.

More about the Belles étrangères

May 14th to 18th.

Rachid El Daif will participate to a conversation about Beirut on Thursday, April the 16th, 2009, in Brussels, at the KVS (Royal Flemish Theatre) at 8pm.

Conference at De Centrale intercultureel centrum, Gent, on Nov the 10th, 2009. The whole evening will be focused on the work of Rachid El-Daif.

Lecture | 7 p.m., 22/March/2010, at the Orient Institut, Zokak El Blat. by Dr. Andreas Pflitsch | Free University of Berlin

This lecture deals with the works of one of the most prominent contemporary writers in Lebanon. In most of his writings, Rashid Daif treats the complex interdependence of modernity and tradition in today’s Lebanon. In his lecture, Dr. Pflitsch examines the author’s relationship to his own protagonist and shows that this relationship incorporates a poetics that can be described as deeply enlightening.

Andreas Pflitsch is a Research Fellow at the "Zentrum für (...)