West-Östlicher Diwan e.V. invites you to the first film evening in the Text’n Art space: “Football under Cover”

Marlene is a left-back for an amateur football club in Berlin. When she heard that the Iranian women's national soccer team was missing opponents, she made a plan to travel to Tehran with her women's team for a friendly match. During her preparatory trip to Tehran, she meets Niloofar, who shares her passion for David Beckham. Despite all the cultural differences, the love of football is motivation enough to play the game despite all the opposition. Marlene's team travels to Tehran and plays the game of their lives. Football Under Cover is

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13.06.2024

Reading: Salem Khalfani reads from “Flying Cats”

The author Salem Khalfani reads from his novel “Flying Cats”. In this he reports on a six-story building in a German city. The characters are closely intertwined despite their coincidental connections. Ms. Habel cannot detach herself from the memory of her lost cat. She has been looking for her continuously for many years and accuses Josef Bahden of hiding her cat.

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10.04.2024

Exhibition opening: Akbar Keshvari – Art of Protest – Resistance in Color

12 selected images by the Iranian artist for this exhibition speak about different topics, such as violence against women, the power of religion, torture, conflict or coming together between West and East, realism or Islamism and the face of freedom. Most of the surrealist images in this exhibition are in large formats and worked on oil and acrylic. Keshvari has been living in Germany since 1991 as a politically persecuted artist and has dealt with the themes of freedom, independence and identity in his works from the beginning. His paintings are

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09.03.2024

Reading with Fariba Vafi and Amir Hassan Cheheltan

A reading with Fariba Vafi and Amir Hassan Cheheltan, moderated by Jutta Himmelreich A cooperation between Heinrich-Böll-Haus Langenbroich e.V. and the Düren Kultur public library Registration: boell-haus@düren.de Admission is free! Faribā Vafī was born in 1962 in Tabriz, the capital of the province of East Azerbaijan in north-west Iran. She currently lives in Tehran and is one of Iran's most popular contemporary authors. Iranian critics place her among the top 10 modern writers in the country. She has been awarded the prestigious Huschang Golschiri Prize and the Yalda Prize, as well as in 2017

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07.03.2022

"Forough Farrochsād, poetess of protest” – An article by Nina Abassi in humanistic! magazine

Today we would like to draw your attention to a thought-provoking article that appeared some time ago in the humanistic! magazine (issue 02/2020). Forugh Farrochsād, of whom we published German translations of her poems in 2018, is described here as Iran's most important modern poet. Her work ruthlessly holds up a mirror to the society of her country of origin, breaking a number of taboos in the process. The article reminds us in detail of the life story of a brave and at the same time very tragic figure in Iranian literary history. Published by Forough Farrochsād in Sujet Verlag:

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05.05.2020

Reading with Nahid Keshavarz – “Refugee Café”

On March 7th there will be a reading with Nahid Keshavarz and her book "Refugee Café" in the Allerweltshaus (Cologne). It will be read in Farsi and German. The anthology "Refugee Café" is a collection of wondrous everyday stories from different people. The book focuses on life as a migrant with all its pain, joy and passion. The stories by Nahid Keshavarz let the reader slip into the everyday life and the thoughts of a wide variety of characters. The stories are about married couples who struggle with communication problems

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07.03.2019