On March 7th, a reading with Nahid Keshavarz and her book "Refugee Café" took place in the Allerweltshaus (Cologne). There was reading in Farsi and in German. The audience was then involved in the organization of the evening through an open discussion. Here are some excerpts from the event: Flüchtlingscafé was published in German in 2018 by Sujet Verlag.

The poetry award winner Amir Shaheen is back in his home country. In Altena he presented his new volume of poetry "Light traces residual light" in the form of a reading. You can find a press article about the reading here.

Heinrich Böll wrote in 1948: "We were born to remember. Our task is not to forget, but to remember.” In 2017 Jörg Wollenberg published his opus summum “War of Memories: From Ahrensbök via New York to Auschwitz and back”. Prof. Dr. Jörg Wollenberg has worked as a historian and adult educator at the University of Bremen and as director of the adult education centers in Bielefeld and Nuremberg. He is still highly active as a publicist and editor of magazines and edition projects. "War of Memories", published by Sujet-Verlag

We are pleased about 3sat's contribution to "Kulturzeit" about the author Widad Nabi, whose volume of poetry "kurz vor Thirty, Kiss Me", which was translated by Suleman Taufiq, will be published by Sujet Verlag next year! The article introduces Widad Nabi and she talks about the often difficult life in Aleppo. War is one of the main themes she writes about in her poems and works. Be sure to check out the post - it's worth it! Here you come

"Highly Recommended"!!! We are happy about a new, great review about Fariba Vafi's novel, which was published here in September 2018! Here is the review by Cornelia Jetter from the EKZ. Bibliotheksservice on Fariba Vafi's work "The Dream of Tibet": "For the Iranian nurse Scholeh, a world collapses when Mehrdad, her great love, enters into an arranged marriage. Her pain is overwhelming, without zest for life she vacillates between jealousy, hatred and exhaustion. How much better is Scholeh's sister Shiva, who is married to Javid and two

In this article by Gerrit Wustmann, anyone who wants to learn more about Islam can gain insight. Due to Wustmann's extensive knowledge based on studies in the field of Islamic studies, the reader has the opportunity to get into the topic of "Islam" with the help of book recommendations. Among all the wonderful recommendations, we are very pleased that the non-fiction book "Violence and Islam" by Adonis, which was published here by Sujet Verlag, is also among the book recommendations. Definitely worth the article

Here is Fixpoetry's review of Fariba Vafi's The Dream of Tibet: “Fariba Vafi celebrates the soft tones in a highly original way – such as by writing the entire novel in the you form. He is the conversation that Scholeh is having in her mind with her sister. As formally ambitious as it is, it works, everything naturally blends together into a panorama of human weaknesses and insecurities and into the eternal war of the sexes, which is usually fought out rather quietly and subtly, but still adds up

After Mahmood Falaki on Thursday September 13th in the Ev. parish of Stuhr read from his novel "Deadly Strangers", we don't want to withhold the article from you! You can access the article HERE!