The international poetry Festival »Nissan« took place in the Druze village of Maghar between May 3rd and 6th 2012. The event was initiated by Naim Araidi, Festival Director,in 1999 and it has been going on for the last 13 years as the main gathering of Hebrew and Arab poets. The opening event was among others, attended by the Deputy Director General for Culture at The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Israel Rafi Gamzou and the President of Peace Committee in Jordan Mansur Abi Rashed. Ambassador Alenka Suhadolnik was one of the opening night speakers. She spoke about the different literary landscapes and stressed the importance of dialogue on art, culture and society. This is the first time Slovenia was invited to the festival with Slovenian poet Barbara Pogacnik. Barbara Pogacnik read her poems at the third evening of the festival. Poets from Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Gaza as well as from Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Latvia, Slovakia, Kosovo and China attended the event.
