Zdravka Evtimova interviews the famous Bulgarian poet, bearer of Max Jacob International award for poetry, member of Mallarme Academy, Paris: My childhood passed along the banks of the Sruma River, the same Strymon River where King Lycurgue met and drove away Dionysus and his raging maenads who had made up their mind to enter Thrace. A king lacking wisdom – he could not understand that wine was a Gods’ gift; but this fact does not prevent Dionysus’ bacchantes’ orgiastic rites from continuing in these lands, since the Bulgarians, perhaps the only people in the East Orthodox world, could dress the ancient god in the garments of an orthodox saint, although the saint is a little bit drunk.

 Maysaloun Faraj is an Iraqi Artist who is currently living in London. Born in the USA from Iraqi parents she later went back to Iraq and graduated in Architecture from Baghdad University in 1978. In the last twenty years Maysaloun has concentrated her work on painting and ceramics and since her arrival to London in 1982 she has taken part in several exhibitions locally and internationally.

An exclusive interview with Vahé Mansourian, American Film Maker, Painter and an AWF Member about his work and his views by Leda Omran, an AWF Editorial Staff.

An Audio Interview With David F. Golightly, Prominent British Composer and an AWF Member by Steve Hobson.
Steve Hobson was born in 1952 in Leicester, England. He has worked as a theatre director and teacher, and has had his poetry published in numerous magazines and anthologies. His book of early poems, “Targets”, was published by Smith Doorstop Press in 1988. He has multiple sclerosis and is registered blind, but continues to write, including writing the libretto for David Golightly’s “St Petersburg Mass”, which received its world premiere in St Petersburg in 1993. He produces and edits radio programmes....