For more than thirty years, Joyce Mansour was presented to the Middle East only as an erotic poet. She was restricted within that framework through a reactionary critical movement, and was completely ignored as a surrealist storyteller, artist, and even critic and thinker. She participated radically and centrally in formulating and shaping the history of the international surrealist movement from the 1950s until
The eighties of the last century.
Joyce Mansour’s poetic and narrative discourse is universal, and it is the voice of a woman aware of the power of language as a means of resistance to physical slavery in all its forms.
Social. Joyce Mansour was born in 1928 in Bowden, England, and received her pre-university education in Switzerland. She later studied at Cairo University and spent her childhood and youth in Egypt, before settling permanently in Paris in 1956. She devoted herself there to writing and art only, but despite
Throughout her life, she defined herself as an Egyptian poet. It is the first book in the Arabic language about the life of an exceptional multilingual and multicultural artist who threw many stones into stagnant waters. In it, Mohsen Al-Balasi takes us on a long journey that extends from before her birth until
Her passing in 1986.
Mohsen Al-Balasi is a writer, poet, visual artist, researcher, translator, and editor-in-chief of the International Surrealist Magazine (The Chamber), and Director General of the International Surrealism Exhibition / Cairo / Saint Cirque La Bouby and the International Echoes of Surrealism Exhibition. He received the Sawiris Prize in Literary Criticism in 2022, and has published ten books of poetry. Translation and criticism in Arabic languages
English and French, and his works have been translated into several languages.
