Safaa Fathy

• Name — Safaa Fathy • Native Name — صفاء فتحي • Born — 17 July 1958 • Birthplace — Minya, Egypt • Occupation — Poet, documentary filmmaker, playwright and essayist • Website — http: safaafathy.org/en/

Fathy was born in Minya, Upper Egypt, on July 17, 1958. She studied English literature in Cairo. Fathy participated in the student movement while in Egypt but later left the country and settled in Paris in 1981. In 1987, she was an assistant director at the Deutsches Theater located in East Berlin. Fathy worked with Heiner Muller in 1990. She completed her doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne in 1993; her thesis was on Bertolt Brecht. Before becoming a filmmaker, Fathy worked as a stage director. Currently she serves as director of programme at the International College of Philosophy in Paris. In an interview that explores how Fathy uses film editing to construct her narrative, examining her choices in pacing, juxtaposition, and the use of archival footage or other visual elements, "Cutting" may also refer to the way Fathy confronts historical trauma and the fragmentation of memory.

• Ma langue est mon territoire, Collection Folies d’encre, Eden, Paris • Anthology of Contemporary Arab Women Poets

Ordalie; Terreur (2004)

• hôra/Luz y desierto. Revelación de lo oscuro (Spanish, 2010) • Hisser les voiles: Odyssée féminine à travers la Méditerranée. Microfisuras, 1999* • Dissidences et dissonances. Cartographie d'une poésie égyptienne. Almadraba (revue), Seville. 1998 • Exil, in Pour Rushdie, La Découverte, Paris. 1993

• Mohammad sauvé des eaux (Mohammad Saved from the Waters), TS production, Paris • Dardasha Socotra, UNESCO, government of Yemen. • D'ailleurs, Derrida, Arte, France • Maxime Rodinson: l'Athée des Dieux (Maxime Rodinson, Atheist of the Gods), France • Ghazeia, danseuses d'Egypte (Ghazeia, Egyptian Dancers), Canal plus, France • Hidden Faces

• Nom à la mer, film-poem, text Safaa Fathy, read by Jacques Derrida • Silence, short fiction, Mention spéciale du Jury, Rencontres de Digne-les-Bains 1997, prime à la qualité CNC • Doisneau

• Revolution goes through walls, collection in Arabic, also published in English and French translations • A name to the sea • Al Haschiche (a book of poetry accompanied by film-poem, Hidden Valley) bilingual Spanish-French, Ediciones sin nombre, Mexico; English-language edition, Pamenar Press. • …où ne pas naître, bilingual collection in Arabic and French • Little Wooden Dolls • حيث لا نولد, published in a bilingual Arabic-English edition as Where Not to Be Born (Litmus Press, 2024)