EP7: Hadi Danyal

In this episode we speak with poet Hadi Danyal about the Palestinian cultural scene in Lebanon and Tunisia, and how this scene changed when it moved from one place to the other.

Hadi Danyal is a Syrian poet born in the village of Kafriya near Latakia. He moved to Beirut in 1973 to join the Palestinian Revolution and worked for al-Hadaf magazine, before becoming the cultural editor of Palestine Radio. He left Beirut in 1982 and moved to Tunis, where he worked in the general secretariat of the Palestinian Writers’ Association. Towards the end of the 1980s he moved between Rabat, Algiers, Baghdad and Nicosia, before returning to Tunis, where he lives today. Danyal has published more than 20 poetry collections and numerous literary and political studies. Today he runs al-Shanfara publishing house in Tunis.

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Produced by the PalREAD – Country of Words project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC)

Interviewer: Nada Mansour

Writer, Producer and Editor: Ibrahim Abdou

Host & Concept Design: Refqa Abu-Remaileh

Research Support: Hanan Natour

Sound Recording: ProdLab Studio Tunis

Sound Editing & Design: Ziad Fayed

VO Recording: Gianpiero Tari

Music: “The Astounding Eyes of Rita” by Anouar Brahem (ECM Records, 2009)