Buch, Englisch, 64 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 190 g
European Cultural and Academic Exchange with Iran (2015 –16)
Buch, Englisch, 64 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 190 g
ISBN: 978-3-947802-29-6
Verlag: WeltTrends
"Exactly 200 years after the publication of Goethe’s West–östlicher Divan (1819), Ali Fathollah-Nejad is inspired by the same cultural questions that had brought the preeminent German poet to the poetic feasts of his Iranian counterpart Hafez. Ali Fathollah-Nejad writes this groundbreaking book in English, in the critical space between his two other native languages: German and Persian. His caring intellect and critical prose are precisely what we need in this age of nuclear nightmares. He is grounded in the geopolitics of that nightmare, but liberated in the visionary recitals of the same poetic possibilities that had turned Goethe to Hafez."
— Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University in New York
"Assessing the current conditions and possibilities for Iran’s realistic engagement with the outside world, especially Germany, with extraordinary perspicuity […]. Highlighting academic exchange, cooperation with Iranian NGOs – especially in areas such as the environment, child labour, Afghan refugees and immigrants – and with the women and student movements, Fathollah-Nejad’s book provides solutions that could and should be considered by those interested in these issues."
— Amir-Hassan Cheheltan, in his Foreword