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The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing

The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing

Darina Al-Joundi

When she does just that, the results are catastrophic. In this dramatic true story, Darina Al-Joundi is defiantly passionate about living her life as a liberated woman, even if it means leaving everyone and everything behind.
Goya's Glass

Goya's Glass

Monika Zgustova

Publishers Weekly eISBN: 9781558617599 | ISBN: 9781558617537 The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing Darina Al-Joundi & Mohammed Kacimi Translated by Marjolijn de Jager In this dramatic true story, Darina Al-Joundi is defiantly ...
Prisonnière du Levant: Collection Nos héroïnes

Prisonnière du Levant: Collection Nos héroïnes

Darina Al Joundi

Sans doute trop pour ses amis et ses proches, qui la feront interner dans un asile psychiatrique... Prisonnière du Levant est son histoire, racontée par Darina al Joundi, comédienne et scénariste.
Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean

Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean

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This is where her relationship with the film's characters dwells. The initial idea was inspired by Darina al-Joundi's, as well as another friend's, story. Darina was on a healing path from having told her story; the second woman (an Argentinean)  ...
New Voices in Arab Cinema

New Voices in Arab Cinema

Roy Armes

46 The third episode, which upsets the balance of the work somewhat through its directness, intensity, and dramatic power, is a filmic adaptation of a theatrical monologue acted out by its author, the Lebanese actress Darina al-Joundi (who ...
Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond

Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond

Lina Khatib

Peace is better, but it is complicated and it can be dull.61 Bowen's statement parallels those of two actresses in Beirut Phantoms, Darina al-Joundi and Carole Abboud. The film breaks its narrative through the presentation of a series of ...
Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama

Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama

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By examining the monologue-play Ma Marseillaise, written and performed by Darina Al Joundi in 2012, the following article intends to bring out the poem- manifesto's dramatic strategies. Two major dramatic principles are at stake. The former ...
Protean Selves: First-Person Voices in Twenty-First-Century ...

Protean Selves: First-Person Voices in Twenty-First-Century ...

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où Nina Simone a cessé de chanter, Darina Al-Joundi is making art about wanting to live like a free person. This does not mean to live—or to perform—like a Western person or, more specifically, like a French one, but rather to carve out a new ...
Scintille: Una storia di anime vagabonde

Scintille: Una storia di anime vagabonde

Gad Lerner

Basti pensare alla brutale sintesi con cui oggi l'attrice Darina al-Joundi descrive gli uomini libanesi: “Sono ossessionati dalle apparenze, ingabbiati dalle tradizioni, consunti da Dio, divorati dalle loro madri, rosi dai soldi, passano la vita a ...
Quando Nina Simone ha smesso di cantare

Quando Nina Simone ha smesso di cantare

Mohamed Kacimi

Darina è una donna forte e bella.
In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart

In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart

Alice Waters

Contributors: Darina Allen * Dan Barber * Lidia Bastianich * Rick Bayless * Paul Bertolli * David Chang * Traci Des Jardins * Angelo Garro * Joyce Goldstein * Thomas Keller * Niloufer Ichaporia King * Peggy Knickerbocker * Anna Lappé & ...

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