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

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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

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22.04.2022

Book premiere "Gestalt im Schatten"

​ On April 14, 2022 at 7 p.m. the book premiere of de Assis Brasil’s book Gestalt im Schatten will take place at the botanika Bremen. Entry is from 6:30 p.m. The publisher Madjid Mohit will moderate, Jürgen Meyhöfer will provide background information on the book and Thomas Roth will read from the novel. Gestalt in the Shadow is about the man who accompanied Alexander von Humboldt on his journey to South America. While the latter is generally well known, the French doctor and botanist Aimé Bonpland was in Germany

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14.04.2022

Intermediate interview with Nassir Djafari

An interview by the Heinrich Böll Foundation 'Heimatkunde' with our author Nassir Djafari about his debut novel 'One Week, One Life', identity and origin and right-wing publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair. “Timm's attitude of denial calls into question Hamid's lifelong dream of continuing social advancement through the next generation. It is from this conflict that the story I am telling unfolds. However, the question of identity is not the focus of my novel, it always resonates in the background, as is usually the case in life.” ‑Nassir Djafari

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19.01.2022