Hussein Habash, poetry, March 30
March 6, 2025
Join us for an afternoon of poetry written and read by Kurdish poet Hussein Habash. Hussein Habash was born in 1970 in Afrin and is now based in Bonn, Germany.
Join us for an afternoon of poetry written and read by Kurdish poet Hussein Habash. Hussein Habash was born in 1970 in Afrin and is now based in Bonn, Germany.
by Dastan Galali Abdulla Goran (1904-62) is considered the first Kurdish modernist poet. Known for his revolutionary poetic techniques, he was fluent in English and translated poetry from English into
The City of My Heart I say the city of my heart is full of meadows; I will go Mind says no, it’s a city full of drunken hooligans; don’t
Border Taken away from me, the one whom I worshipped, The one who is no God but my love In no heaven she resides Nor in Mount Qaf* she dwells.
Sherko Bekas (Kurdish: Şêrko Bêkes) (May 2, 1940 – August 4, 2013) co-founded contemporary Kurdish poetry and is widely regarded as the greatest Kurdish national poet of the 20th century.
Cigerxwîn or Cegerxwîn (1903 –1984) was a Kurdish poet. His work has been so influential that he is known as the father of Kurdish literature and the “poet of freedom.”
