Author reading with Mahmood Falaki

Kulturkate Beckersberg Beckersbergstraße 40, Henstedt-Ulzburg

Author's reading with Mahmood Falaki "I'm a foreigner and that's a good thing." Mahmood Falaki was born in northern Persia on the Caspian Sea. He studied chemistry and library science in Iran. Sentenced to three years in prison during the Shah's time for his political and literary activities, he finally had to leave the country in 1983 after the clergy took over power. Since then he has lived in Germany. Here he studied German and Iranian Studies at the University of Hamburg and did his doctorate on Goethe and Hafiz. In his pointed…

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