Ô nuit, ô mes yeux

Each summer, France Culture takes over the courtyard of the Calvet Museum for a week of readings, poetry, thought, and artistic creations. In resonance with the Festival d’Avignon’s programme, this edition celebrates Arab culture and language—its literature and musicality. Acclaimed actresses and actors will lend their voices to emblematic texts, joined by writers, poets, musicians, and guest artists specially invited for the occasion.

Ô nuit, ô mes yeux by Lamia Ziadé

Between cabarets, film studios and villas, Lamia Ziadé brings back to life iconic female figures such as Asmahan, Oum Kalthoum and Fayrouz, who made Arab culture shine across the world.

Lamia Ziadé
Born in Beirut, Lebanese artist Lamia Ziadé is the author of several graphic novels offering a deeply personal dive into the Middle East, past and present—between collective memory and intimate obsessions: Ô Nuit Ô mes Yeux (P.O.L, 2015), My Very Great Arab Melancholy (Ma Très Grande Mélancolie Arabe, P.O.L, 2017), Bye Bye Babylon (P.O.L, 2010), and My Port of Beirut (Mon port de Beyrouth, P.O.L, 2021).After years devoted to illustration (for the press, fashion, advertising, film, etc.), she turned toward contemporary art. Her visual work—paintings, sculptures, ceramics, models, tapestries—has been regularly exhibited since 2003, the year of her first show at Galerie Kamel Mennour in Paris, in various art fairs, galleries, foundations, and museums. Her upcoming book, Rue de Phénicie, will be published in October by P.O.L.

Adaptation by Marion Stoufflet, in collaboration with Lamia Ziadé
With Hayet Darwich and Najib Oudghiri
Original music and performance (electro-acoustic qanoûn) Symo Reyn
Guitar, clarinet, and percussion Timothée Garson
Directed by Christophe Hocké
Assistant director Aurélie Miermont
The graphic novel Ô nuit, ô mes yeux by Lamia Ziadé is published by P.O.L.