taz Talk über Leben im Exil: Wer spricht, gehört dazu!

In the organizer's words:

For the three Afghan authors, Germany has become their home, but their commitment often remains invisible. How can literature promote social participation?
Anyone who wants to understand the power of literary writing in exile should listen to authors from Afghanistan. Their poems and stories expand contemporary German literature - linguistically, thematically and in terms of perspective. What are they talking about? Who do they write for - and why?

A discussion with:

🐾 Zainab Farahmand studied Persian language and literature at Kabul University and has been working as a journalist since 2014. In 2018, she was named "Best Reporter in Afghanistan in the field of literary reportage". She has lived in Berlin since 2022 and works there as a freelance journalist.

🐾 Mahnaz Jafari was born in Ghazni, Afghanistan. She has lived in Berlin since 2014, studies law and advises refugees on asylum and residence law.

🐾 Nahid Shahalimi, born in Kabul, is a filmmaker, artist and co-founder of PEN Berlin. She is the author of the books "Where Courage Carries the Soul. We women in Afghanistan" and "We are still here! Courageous women from Afghanistan".

🐾 Susanne Koelbl is an author and multi-award-winning foreign reporter for SPIEGEL. In 2015, she founded "The Poetry Project", an innovative literary dialog project that helps young refugees to express their experiences in poetry and thus communicate with the host society on an equal footing.

🐾 Manja Stephan is Professor of Transregional Central Asian Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She conducts research on mobility and migration and on art and activism in the Afghan diaspora.

🐾 Sven Hansen moderates this talk. He is Asia editor at taz and curator of Han Sens Asientalk.

A Han Sens Asientalk in cooperation with The Poetry Project, the Department of Transregional Central Asian Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University Berlin with funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), Open Humboldt Freiräume at Humboldt University Berlin and the Herman von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Techniques.

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