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Voices Within the Possible: A Poetry Circle with the Voice of Thuraya Qabil – on Love, Context, and Agency with Nouf AlHarthi with 

This poetry reading circle is dedicated to honoring the life and literary legacy of Thuraya Qabil. It brings together curated readings of her poetry, musical interludes and collective listening within a participatory setting designed to foster engagement and reflection. The reading circle offers a shared interpretive space in which her work may be revisited in an accessible yet attentive manner, with emphasis on its cultural and affective resonance.

Participants are invited to listen, to read and to engage with selected poems and readings to take part in moments of collective remembrance and appreciation. The session fosters a reflective and dialogic atmosphere that accommodates both individual response and shared experience. It provides an opportunity to encounter Thuraya Qabil’s poetic voice within the broader context of modern Arabic poetry, while encouraging an understanding of poetry as a lived, audible, and socially situated practice of expression and reception.

About Nouf AlHarthi

Nouf AlHarthi is a writer, researcher, and cultural practitioner with an MA in Social Anthropology from SOAS, University of London. Her practice spans writing and research, engaging with questions of place, voice, and shared experience. She has presented work and developed projects at the Diriyah Contemporary Biennale, Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, IKLECTIK Art Lab (London), the Saudi Museum of Contemporary Art at Diriyah, Fenaa Alawwal, and the Misk Art Institute (Riyadh).