Language in Pain
Private
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Badia Kashgari
A deep reading of „Coffin of Silence“ by Badia Kashgari
Mission, power, Messiah
Francesca Mantovani / Editions Gallimard
Scholastique Mukasonga's "Sister Deborah" is a fascinating literary genealogy about Christian mission, apocalyptic expectations and colonial order
From inner turmoil to freedom
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Abil Hasanov
From Siddhartha's river to the roar of the Steppenwolf: Hermann Hesse illuminates our inner abysses and invites the reader to break free from external scripts and create their own truth
From bestseller to blockbuster
Sony
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Ryan Gosling | Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir's novel "Project Hail Mary" is transformed into a great science fiction film by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who trade literary and scientific precision for emotion and pace
Life as an echo
Studio Q
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Oyinkan Braithwaite
Oyinkan Braithwaite's "Cursed Daughters" tells of curse, memory and self-empowerment - between Lagos, family ghosts and the question of whether origin is destiny or just narrative
Ramadan, then and now
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Sébastien in Kinda Village (2001)
A journey through memory and the city of Aden
Crime fiction and multiculturalism
Studio Heno
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Moritz Föllmer
A.A. Dhand and Saima Mir write crime novels set in Bradford, a former textile city with a large Muslim/British/Asian community. They address migration and protest, and challenge racist and sexist stereotypes.
Apocalypse 2.0
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José Miguel Garcia León
Historical catastrophes beyond the present: intermittent plague, climate crises and geopolitical transformations from Justinian I to the Abbasid Caliphate
“Zimbabwe is my muse”
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Cynthia Marangwanda
Mbizo Chirasha in conversation with Zimbabwean cultural activist, writer and performance poet Cynthia Marangwanda
The West is dead. Long live the West?
Camilla Winter-Moore and Sukant Deepak
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Georgios Varouxakis and Josephine Quinn
The West is booming. Many believe it is a dilapidated house that should finally be torn down. But what does it represent and how did it become what it is today? Two books provide the answers.