Pascale Ojeil from Beirut is a big fan of Corsica, and after having recorded three songs from the island repertoire, Corsica, A l’Altru mondu, and Sintineddi, it is a new act that she manages to seal this year, a pairing between two cities both ancient and modern in the Mediterranean. A project, she says, which could not have succeeded without the welcome and the commitment of the mayors of the two towns of Byblos Wissam Zaarour, and of Bonifacio Jean-Charles Orsucci and his cultural heritage deputy Alain di Meglio. The artist friend of Corsica always sees in her a commitment a form of cultural resistance:
A common past, a future that brings them together
“Lebanon is in an unprecedented crisis, and I can’t help but contemplate these two lands by seeing the points they have in common. _This project is a form of resistance to exist culturally while Lebanon has to face the theocracy of Mullah_. Byblos like Bonifacio are resilient cities, they benefit first of all from an exceptional nature that of our Mediterranean. Byblos has a great reputation with its port, the location of these two cities their strategic positions have always been long stories linked to the ports of the two cities. Another common point they both have a cross citadel. Common points in terms of the Neolithic period too, they both date back to 7000 BC. They were finally victims in the history of their beauties of their position and at the same time they bear witness to an uninterrupted history. We must do everything to preserve these two cities, and this is the meaning of this twinning which will take several forms”.
About Bonifacio’s past: 3D VIDEO, the Torrione of Bonifacio, little-known medieval heritage.
About Pascale Ojeil: The Corsican song “Sintineddi” taken up in Lebanon by Pascale Ojeil, an act of resistance.
and: A l’altru mondu sung in Lebanon
– Fotosearch