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An atmospherically dense and poetic novel that is highly recommended.

The EKZ has reviewed "The Weight of Remorse" by Khalil Sweileh (translated from Arabic by Suleman Taufiq): The first-person narrator of the present novel is a young man in present-day Syria who is looking for a way to live his life between war and daily danger to design. He meets three women who, like him, are trying to (survive) in the oppressed country: a poet, a visual artist and a former political prisoner. They try to support each other in a world that is falling apart

05.01.2023

Reading "I'm not a foreigner, that's just my name"

On Thursday, May 12th Amir Shaheen will read from his novel I'm not a foreigner, my name is just that, in the bookstore Bücherwelt. The event starts at 8 p.m. When a German native speaker has an Arabic name, it raises legitimate questions in everyday life. If someone like Amir Shaheen is also a writer and publishes books, well, then it makes sense to want to know whether his texts will be translated – into German! Amir Shaheen describes pointedly and wittily what

12.05.2022

Reading "I'm not a foreigner, that's just my name"

On Friday, April 22nd is Amir Shaheen in the Altena public library from his novel I'm not a foreigner, my name is just reading. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. and doors open at 7 p.m. There will be a book table from the Katerlöh bookstore. Admission: 10 euros / with a library card or membership card of the Kulturring: 8 euros Tickets are available in the library and bookshop. When a German native speaker has an Arabic name, it raises legitimate questions in everyday life. If someone like Amir Shaheen then

22.04.2022

Claudia Kramatschek's review of "To the Rain"

In the SWR2 is on 10.02. a contribution in the category 'criticism worth reading' a review of Fariba Vafi's book "An den Regen" has been published. We are happy about such a precise observation, which makes reading the book even more fun.

11.02.2022

Reading with Jabbar Abdullah

We look forward to the reading by Jabbar Abdullah on October 2nd, 2021 at 8:15 p.m. in Eschborn. Jabbar Abdullah will read from his work Raqqa am Rhein as part of the intercultural program in Eschborn. On the book From Raqqa on the Euphrates to Cologne on the Rhine – the arduous path from war and repression to freedom In 2012, the Syrian author Jabbar Abdullah took part in the first demonstrations at his university in Aleppo and had to watch how the regime of Bashar Al-Assad the Arab Spring

02.10.2021

Reading with Amir Shaheen

We are looking forward to the event with Amir Shaheen on October 1st, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. in the Ost Gallery in Lörrach. Amir Shaheen will present his new book I'm not a foreigner, my name is just that and read from it. Admission is a voluntary donation, registration required. Further information, including registration, can be found at Galerie Ost. Reserve your PLACE today at: eMail@studiokreativ.online

01.10.2021

Lesung mit Pedro Kadivar

We look forward to the event Art of Escape with Pedro Kadivar on September 25th, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. in the Theater Erfurt. The event is a cooperation between the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Theater Erfurt and takes place as an introduction to the play The Art of Escape, which will be performed in the Studio Box from October 3rd, 2021. Pedro Kadivar will read from his book The Little Book of Migration and Anna Allstädt (KlangScaffold e.V. Erfurt) will talk to the author and the guests after the book presentation. Further

25.09.2021

Book premiere "I'm not a foreigner, my name is just that" by Amir Shaheen

We look forward to the Bremen live premiere of the volume I'm not a foreigner, my name is just that by Amir Shaheen on September 9th in the Franz Leuwer bookstore at 7:00 p.m. Entry is free. About the book: When a German native speaker has an Arabic name, it raises legitimate questions in everyday life. If someone like Amir Shaheen is also a writer and publishes books, well, then it makes sense to want to know whether his texts will be translated – into German! amir

09.09.2021

Bremen Book Mile

We are looking forward to being part of the 3rd Bremen Book Mile this year on September 4th, 2021 from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Langenstraße. Organized by the bookstore Storm, we are one of more than 40 independent publishers and publishers from Bremen from the German-speaking area who are presenting themselves together. There are books for big and small readers to discover, authors to hear live and publishers and their programs to experience. The supporting program consists of more than 20 readings on four open-air stages.

04.09.2021

Bremen reads

4th Bremen Literature Night The Bremer Literaturkontor and Wellenschlag Text- und Verlagskontor are organizing the Bremen literature festival "Bremen reads" on September 3rd, 2021. At this event, Bremen authors present their works in various bookshops throughout the city. This year, two authors from Sujet Verlag will also be presenting their books. Magdaléna Stárková My Next First Word At 6:30 pm Magdaléna Stárková will read from her new volume of poetry, My Next First Word, in the Pusdorf Studios, Ladestrasse 12–14. The poems of Magdaléna Stárková are in

03.09.2021

New Release "The Old Man from the Mountain" - Habib Tengour

Just arrived from the printing press: "The Old Man from the Mountains" by Habib Tengour! He is considered "one of the most powerful and imaginative poetic voices of the post-colonial francophone Maghreb" (Pierre Joris). In an equally visionary manner, Habib Tengour takes up topics in his books that only become the focus of the media years later. In Old von Berge, which he writes between 1977 and 1981, he traces religious totalitarianism, asks about the intellectual's responsibility in the face of war, corruption and ideological hardening, the suitability of religion, science and politics

08.05.2019

Re-Release "The First Days of the World" - Salem Khalfani

We are happy about the release of Salem Khalfani's new novel “The First Days of the World”. In it, the protagonist reports retrospectively how he found his first love in the teacher Leili as a fourth-grade student. He only becomes aware of the transitoriness of time after the long summer holidays have begun and Leili then leaves the village school forever. But he can't forget his first love. He writes (love) letters to the address of her house in Tehran several times without

08.05.2019