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!

It is with great pleasure that we show you the Weser-Kurier interview with Mahmood Falaki, in which he talks about his work "Deadly Strangers" and his literary work in general. “A lot has to be improved. But as long as the rationalization process of modernity, which stands in fundamental contrast to the closed religious world view of this society, cannot gain a foothold there, one must not speak of 'improvement'." You can find the entire interview HERE!

It is with great pleasure that we can report that the author and editor Amir Shaheen has won a poetry prize from postpoetry.NRW with his poem "Sediment"! We warmly congratulate Amir on this award and look forward to continuing our great cooperation. On September 6, 2018, this year's "Lyriker NRW" jury met in the Literaturhaus Bonn and honored five winners. You can find the article on the pospoetryNRW website

At the start of our series of events "Journeys into Literature - Iranian Evenings", the author Mitra Gaast of the novel "Because you will remember" visited Bremen Zwei and talked to Marion Cotta about her work before she went to the bookstore in the evening Leuwer will hold a reading. We are very happy that Mitra Gaaast is with us and can show the audience something of her novel! Here you can listen to the recording from Tuesday, September 4th, 2018:

We are very happy to announce that Pegah Ahmadi will be at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year! She will discuss with other authors as part of the panel discussion “Exile – Hopes and Obstacles” (DE/ENG). The event will take place on Friday, October 12, 2018 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on the stage (Hall 4.1 B 81). All information can be found HERE!

In a great review, Barbara Zeizinger describes how Pedro Kadivar's "Little Book of Migrations" persuaded her to see the subject with new eyes: "This sentence by Peter Handke came to me while reading Pedro Kadivar's book, because I – to paraphrase Handke – shows previously unthought of aspects of migration. In contrast to today's connotations, Pedro Kadivar has a positive attitude towards the term migration, fanning it out to include its various aspects on the basis of biographies, art and culture

Gerrit Wustmann describes Maisa Bey's "poetically disturbing" novel "Madame LaFrance" as a "history lesson in novel form". You can find the full review here.

This month's issue of German Teachers Abroad contains a review by Jens Drummer of Mitra Gaast's novel Denn du wird mir mir. Return to Tehran” published. Drummer analyzes the novel with empathy and enthusiasm, even though as a mathematics, computer science and physics teacher he actually tends to review specialist literature. After his own trip to Iran, however, the country would not let him go and he satisfied his wanderlust with Gaast's novel. Thank you for this great review! You can find the full review here.

"That a Rolling Stones song [Gimme Shelter] is the climax of the novel and the binding element not only between the protagonists but also between them and their quest for shelter is more than a tongue-in-cheek nod to the universal language of music.” A slightly different review by Gerrit Wustmann can be found in the June issue of Rocks magazine. There Wustmann analyzes the strong topicality of the novel set in 1992 and deals with the solidarity among refugees and helpers, who also through

On June 11, Matthias Holthaus reported in the Weser Kurier about Mahmood Falaki's book premiere, which took place on June 6 at the Villa Ichon in Bremen. An exciting recap of the reading, which allows everyone who could not be there to get an impression of the event. You can find the entire article here. Source: Matthias Holthaus, Weser-Kurier/ Bremer Nachrichten, June 11, 2017