When a German native speaker has an Arabic name, it raises legitimate questions in everyday life. If someone like Amir Shaheen then…
Widad Nabi's poems are about unfathomable love, looking back on the past, searching for home. Openly feminist she gives…
Freydoun Farokhzad mastered the German language, but Persia mastered him. That is what makes his poetry so appealing. He has the dreams of his…
Between Two Doors, Sujet publishing house is presenting a collection of short stories by the Iranian author Nasmin Khaksar, who is living in exile in the Netherlands.…
Ulrike Marie Hille takes her readership with her on her travels. Looking at the world, the lyrical I travels through "poetic landscapes" until…
A Thief in the Dark Stares at a Painting brings together a selection of poems by the most important contemporary Persian-language poets from around the world…
The Syrian author Jabbar Abdullah took part in the first demonstrations at his university in Aleppo in 2012 and had to watch how it happened…
Encountering a wondrous country – Kyrgyzstan: the author Angelika Sinn is leading an invitation to a symposium for artists and writers…
In retrospect, the protagonist reports how he found his first love in the teacher Leili as a fourth-grade student. although…
In his work Symphony of the Dead, first published in 1989, Abbas Maroufi tells the story of a family in southwest Iran in the middle…
In his forthcoming volume Solar Wind, the Bremen poet Bernd Jaeger writes with a distancing (self-)irony about his everyday thoughts and prayers,…
Which bridge is broken in which place in the world that no one arrives at home anymore? Garous Abdolmalekian is now one of the most important poets…
