The stories in SANKOFA make it clear that racism and violence do not only come from certain groups, but are universal phenomena. The book…

Abbe, 62 years old, a successful Frankfurt businessman and cosmopolitan, sees himself as German. His Iranian roots are buried. Than him one…

In 2016, alongside many people seeking protection, a writer from Afghanistan also came to Germany. Taqi was supported by a work grant from the Heinrich-Böll-Haus Langenbroich association…

Before us a horizon is the seventh volume of poetry by the poet and writer Amir Shaheen. As in his previous volumes, Shaheen remains…

The collection Here is Iran! presents Persian poetry in German-speaking countries a diverse view of the work of Iranian…

The poems of the Iranian poet Vahe Armen are immensely powerful. In his pictures, the sensually captured and the intellectual merge with each other and…

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…

“It all ended with the blow of the sharp iron that fell on his head. The dreams were over. There was no hope left.…

The Bremen poet Bernd Jaeger writes with a distancing (self-) irony about his everyday thoughts and prayers, with which he succeeds…

With vivid imagery and an engaging use of Arabic meter and rhyme, the poems in this book explore nature, the…

Amir Shaheen When a German native speaker has an Arabic name, it raises legitimate questions in everyday life. If someone like…

by Maryam Djahani translated from Persian by Isabel Stümpel Shohre, in her early thirties, divorced, works as a taxi driver in Kermanshah - her dream job.…