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Iranian evenings 2021

Finally our journeys into literature - Iranian evenings can now take place for the third time - in digital format!
We would like to thank the virtual House of Literature Bremen for the great cooperation and also the Bremer
Literaturkontor, the Bremen Literature Foundation and the Senator for Culture of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen for their support!
All events take place via Zoom. The links to participate can be found on our website and Facebook page and are active from 15 minutes before the start of the event.
We look forward to your visit!

The Dream of Tibet by Fariba Vafi and My Neighbor's Paradise by Nava Ebrahimi

In Fariba Vafi's The Dream of Tibet, young Scholeh suffers from lovesickness and flees to her half-sister Shiva and her husband Javid. While Scholeh is plagued by her own worries, she begins to question the happiness of the others: Is Schiwa happy with her husband? Does Djawid dream bigger than a family? What do intimacy, adultery and criticism of authority mean? Fariba Vafi will read and conduct the conversation in Farsi. Jutta Himmelreich translated. In Nava Ebrahimi's My Neighbor's Paradise, Ali Najjar believes his past is far behind…

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