The 11th edition of the Humour for Peace Festival will be held from 2 February to 12 February 2017 in the Abbaye de Neumünster in Luxembourg-Grund.
Programme
- Thu 2 Feb @ 20:00 in Salle Robert Krieps: Nora Hamzawi décortique le quotidien (FR). Tickets €25 (U26 €10) from www.neimenster.lu or tel: 262052-444
- Fri 3 Feb @ 20:00: La Nuit blanche de l'Humour noir (FR), with Binda Ngazolo & Diogène Ntarindwa. Tickets €25 (U26 €10) from www.neimenster.lu or tel: 262052-444
- Sun 5 Feb @ 18:00: Comment blanchir les betes noires sans les faire rougir (FR), with Guy Rewenig, Christiane Rausch & Jitz Jeitz. Tickets €20 (U26 €8) from www.neimenster.lu or tel: 262052-444
- Mon 6 Feb @ 20:00: Alfred Dorfer - "Fremd" (DE). Tickets €25 (U26 €10) from www.neimenster.lu or tel: 262052-444
- Wed 8 Feb @ 30:00: Pierre Kroll en scène (FR). Tickets €25 (U26 €10) from www.neimenster.lu or tel: 262052-444
- Fri 10 Feb @ 10:00: Ahmed Albasheer - "Extreme Laugh" (EN) - see below. Tickets €25 (U26 €10) from www.neimenster.lu or tel: 262052-444
- Sun 12 Feb @ 17:00: Krazy Kat - cartoon concert" (FR). Tickets €12 (U26 €6) from www.neimenster.lu or tel: 262052-444
Making fun of the enemy is the best way of defeating them, Ahmed Albasheer.
War, terror, corruption, and the use of religion have become the playgrounds of the thirty-year-old Iraqi comedian. Forever marked by a suicide attack on 24 February 2011, in the heart of his hometown of Ramadi, 100 km from Baghdad, where he was spared but which cost the lives of seven of his colleagues, neighbours and friends, Ahmed Albasheer vowed to engage in a battle against obscurantism, using the sharp edge of humour, biting parody and media power.
Today Albasheer's show is one of the most successful comic productions of the Arab world, and without a shadow of a doubt, the most radical. Relocated in the Jordanian capital since 2012 to regain the freedom to criticise political power that does not hesitate to persecute and imprison critics, Ahmed Albasheer is fighting for a liberal Iraq, without terror or violence, where different faiths - Christians, Kurds Sunni and Shi'ite - could live in plurality. A certain vision of living together that the activist comedian will defend at neimënster for his very first one-man show during the Humour for Peace festival.
