In Ahmed Tiab's crime novel Desert or Sea, the readers follow Algerian Commissioner Kémal Fadil on his investigations in the city of Oran…
"Where it says world literature, it means Western literature." Regardless of whether it's reviews in the features section, university seminars, lists of the 'most important' works or…
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 forthcoming volume Solar Wind, the Bremen poet Bernd Jaeger writes with a distancing (self-)irony about his everyday thoughts and prayers,…
