In Munich, the poet Jan Wagner first introduced his young colleague Ronya Othmann to the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, followed by his Italian colleague Federico Italiano in the Poetry Cabinet.He is "a border crosser, a converter between the worlds". This is what it says in the epilogue to a new volume of poetry by the Italian poet Federico Italiano, who lives in Vienna. Colleague writers Jan Wagner and Raoul Schrott translated his volume "Siebenarten von Weiß" and they can...
A kind of flatbread, lentils, peas, pistachios and mustard: The cuisine of the Neanderthals and that of modern humans as early as the Palaeolithic Age was apparently more sophisticated than previously thought. This is shown by finds of plant food remains in Iraq and Greece that are between 75,000 and around 12,000 years old. They are the oldest evidence of their kind for the preparation of food in Southwest Asia and in Europe, writes a research team led by archaeologist...
Missile fire and drone strikes. Iran has repeatedly bombed neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan, a haven for virulent opposition to the Iranian regime. On Sunday, these bombardments caused one death. "As long as there is a threat (from) neighboring countries against us, our armed forces will continue to take action within the framework of international law," said Hossein Amir-Abollahian, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday. at a press conference in Tehran.Who are these targeted factions in Iraq?Iranian Kurdish movements, such...
Karosh Taha's second book "In the Belly of the Queen" plays, like her debut "Description of a Crab Migration", among Kurdish families and young people in the Ruhr area. Taha, who was born in 1987, gave up her job as a teacher when it turned out that she could make a living from writing.SZ: What are you reading right now?Many things parallel, I have just finished reading Matthias Nawrat's "A Sad Guest", it impressively deals with the subject of death....
A number of Kurds were among the 27 refugees who drowned in the English Channel in November. And among those who continue to participate in the new year Border between Belarus and Poland endure in the cold, even the largest part comes from northern Iraq. The Kurdish population there has been living largely autonomously since 1992, when the USA imposed a no-fly zone. But the economic and political conditions are desolate. Two parties, backed by two clans, have divided the...
This cold, this unbelievable Belarusian cold was still inside him when Ibrahim Asaad sat on his seat in the Iraqi Airways plane, from Minsk to Erbil, back home. So he told the reporter five days later in a Whatsapp call from the capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan. He is now sitting cross-legged between his friends in a room furnished with thin mattresses under neon light, they smoke shisha and drink cans of Coke. The other young men are...
On Saturday the Prime Minister seemed to give in. Masrour Barzani attended Salahaddin University in Erbil and sat in a group of chairs with students from different parts of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region to hear their complaints. "I know you have problems. But to solve them we have to listen to each other and feel responsible for them on both sides," he said.The conciliatory tones of the head of government did not seem to fit the actions of the security...
Anyone reading Ronya Othmann's first volume of poetry is roaming through a barren area. A landscape beyond set boundaries, somewhere between geography and history, myth and language. A "tired, tired country", as it was once called, that stretches from northern Syria to eastern Turkey and into Iraq and Iran. But above all it is an area in which the historical and ideological traces of a century mix with the memories of the speaker. Images of soldiers stand next to moments...
