Jalal Toufic is video kunstenaar, filmtheoreticus en auteur van een aantal boeken en essays op dit gebied. Recent verscheen zijn boek 'Two or Three Things I'm Dying to Tell You'. Zijn werk wordt regelmatig getoond in Noord Amerika, Brazilië, het Midden Oosten en in Europa. Toufic is ook docent geweest, onder andere in Californië (University of California in Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, USC) en in Amsterdam (DasArts en Rijksakademie).
Op uitnodiging van het Piet Zwart Instituut van de WdKA houdt Jalal Toufic de lezing 'Two or Three Things I'm Dying to Tell You about The Thousand and One Nights'. Die vindt plaats in het kader van het seminar 'One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes – On the Notion of Storytelling', georganiseerd door PZI en de Uqbar Foundation.

Uit het persbericht: “Morning overtook Shahrazad, and she lapsed into silence… The king thought to himself, 'I will spare her until I hear the rest of the story then I will have her put to death the next day.'” Borges errs when he writes: “Why were there first a thousand [the apparently Persian version: Hazar Afsana, the thousand tales] and later a thousand and one?” It is confounding that despite all his flair Borges should miss the displacement from tale in the Persian version to night in the Arabic one: I consider that the first title refers to the stories Shahrazad tells, while the second refers to the nights, the one thousand nights of the one thousand unjustly murdered previous one-night wives of King Shahrayar plus his night with Shahrazad, a night that is itself like a thousand nights.”

Jalal Toufic. 'Two or Three Things I'm Dying to Tell You about The Thousand and One Nights' – openbare lezing. Maandag 26 november 2007. Piet Zwart Institute / Postgraduate Studies and Research / Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam, Mauritsstraat 36, 3012 GC Rotterdam. Aanvang: 19.30 uur. Toegang: gratis. Voertaal: Engels

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