Reading and Conversation | Standing still is not an option – Europe Keep writing

Reading and discussion with Sam Zamrik, Rasha Alqasim, Abdalrahman Alqalaq, Widad Nabi and Omar Kaddour | Moderator: Sam Zamrik, Translation: Günther Orth

Europe is too valuable to leave to the Europeans.

Following this quote from the Brazilian author Rafael Cardoso, "Next Write", the portal for literature from war and crisis zones, invited authors to exchange their experiences in European exile in letters, e-mails and direct messages. Two of the author tandems, who live in exile in France, Sweden, Italy and Germany, will present their literary correspondence this evening. In conversation with the Syrian poet Sam Zamrik the Iraqi author is a guest Rasha Alqasim, who now lives in Gothenburg, and with the Syrian-Palestinian author Abdalrahman Alqalaq writes and the Syrian-Kurdish poet Vidad Nabi from Berlin and her correspondent, the Syrian author Omar Kaddour, who lives in Paris.

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The event will be translated into German.

Illustration: Yasmeen Fanari

A joint event of Oyoun and Europe Next Writing. Europe Keep writing is a project of WE WILL DO IT in cooperation with the Alliance Cultural Foundation.  

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