As part of the Kurdish Culture Days, Yekmal e.V.  invites you to a reading with Halim Youssef followed by a discussion with Sozdar Jafarzadeh at the FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum.

Halim Youssef is a German-Syrian writer and translator. Born in northern Syria, he now lives in Germany and writes short stories, plays and novels in Kurdish, Arabic and German, in which he explores themes such as identity, migration and homelessness.

His novel "99 Scattered Pearls" tells the story of the translator Azados, who comes to Germany from northern Syria, based on his own life. Here he meets, among others, Hamza, a refugee from Turkey who was persecuted as a Kurd in his home country and is labelled a 'Turk' by right-wingers in Germany. In 99 chapters, the relationship between language, belonging and self-realisation is dealt with in a tense and sensitive way, while at the same time the conditions under which Kurdish people live in Syria, Turkey and Iraq, but also here in Germany, become clear.

Following the reading, Halim Youssef and Sozdar Jafarzadeh will discuss perspectives and realities of literary work and self-realisation in the diaspora and invite the audience to join in the discussion.

Free admission | Event in German spoken language | Wheelchair-accessible

To the programme of the Kurdish Culture Days:  https://yekmal.com/kurdische-kulturtage-programm-2024/