Starting tomorrow and for four days, the sleepy village on the top of the mountain of Sidi Bou Said, on the top of the mountain overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, with characteristic blue and white flowers, will host the “International Poetry Festival ”hosted by Sidi Bou Said. Fashion and Music Association.

This small Andalusian village is the third most popular tourist destination in Tunisia after Djerba and Hammamet. Its poetry festival, founded in 2013, has made it a poetry destination with a festival that is different from all Arabic poetry festivals. It was an independent celebration, and the poets did not sit in closed halls, but went out to people in cafes, under trees and in the streets of a small village, where people listened to poems of all languages.
The festival, which was suspended for two years due to the Covid pandemic, was founded by poet Moez Majed and its group of poets include: Moez Majed (Chairman), Amna Al-Wazir, Muhammad Al-Ghazi and Ahmed Al -Mulla.
Saudi Arabia will be the guest of honor thanks to the presence of nine guests of poets, critics and media professionals interested in poetry, as well as poets from Morocco, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan , Brazil, Greece, Italy, Spain, Malta, France and Argentina…
Among the most famous names are Hassan Najmi, Hashem al-Jahdali, Zuhair Abu Shayeb, Ziad Abdullah, Wael Farouk, Said al-Suraihi and others. The festival segments include “Poetry Bazaar” and “Conversation Under the Tree”, where viewers listen daily to the publisher’s experience in publishing poetry.
This festival, which its founder, the poet Moez Majed, told us, is different from the mainstream, and the main goal is to confirm that poetry is a universal language and the nature of openness and communication in the world is Tunisian. as a nation open to its environment and interacting with the world. The way of organization is also different, with an emphasis on choosing the poets who bring the project and the perspective.The poem is about the first view of the world.
Several publishing houses will take part in the celebration, betting on the poem and the fact that it will reach the reader.
Saudi Arabia’s hosting is a celebration of Saudi Arabia’s experience in the field of prose poetry over the past twenty years, where Arab financial interests have shifted from Egypt and the Levant as a space for leadership in finance in the Persian Gulf, especially in Saudi. Arabia, which witnessed a remarkable poetic movement.at the level of renewal and development of poetry.