Enheduanna performance

An artistic production that combines the body and the live music

Presenting the situation of women living in patriarchal society

It also presents the role of the female Arabe artist in her society

 

The Play

Enheduanna is an Akkadian princess, and the first royal nun of her era in the temple of the moon god, Nana. Enheduanna who lived four thousand years ago wrote poems to praise her beloved Goddess Inanna, daughter of Nana. The poems that Enheduanna had written were the oldest signed poems found in history. Through her verses she raised the importance of her goddess amongst other gods thus preserving the high status women enjoyed in her society. She is an artist who was able to change the course of history achievements with regard to women. Five hundred years after her death the Babylonians worshiped Ishtar as the highest goddess