A full transcript of the 2019 Princess Margriet Award acceptance speech of ‘City of Women’, represented by programme director Teja Reba.
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Photos of the 2019 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture ceremony
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A full transcript of Ahdaf Soueif’s 2019 Princess Margriet Award acceptance speech.
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2019 Opening remarks by HRH Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
Democracy Needs Imagination is this year’s leitmotif for the independent jury to select the laureates of the Princes Margriet Award for Culture. It is also the underlying theme of our broader strategic approach at the European Cultural Foundation.
Read More2019 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture ceremony portrait of Ahdaf Soueif
2019 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture ceremony portrit of Ahdaf Soueif
Read More2019 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture ceremony portrait of City of Women
2019 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture ceremony portrait of City of Women
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Read MoreOn artists, public debate and cultural spaces
Earlier this year we announced that writer and cultural activist Ahdaf Soueif is one of our 2019 Princess Margriet Award for Culture laureates. This met with a lot of support from people who know Soueif’s literary work and societal engagement. But the nomination also angered certain voices in Germany and in the Netherlands. We thus decided to organize two stakeholder meetings to discuss the role of artists in public debate.
Read MoreIn conversation with Ahdaf Soueif
Writer, cultural producer and political activist Ahdaf Soueif is one of the two laureates of the 2019 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture, together with City of Women. While representing distinct cultural approaches, both laureates offer a hopeful vision of democracy by redefining our understanding of culture and its capacity to improve a common European social reality. Prior to welcoming our laureates in Amsterdam on 2 October, we met Ahdaf Soueif at her home in Cairo in May 2019 to discuss her work.
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