Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 23:30
Kashkul, AUIS's center for culture and arts, hosted a reading with Zêdan Khelef at Urfa Gallery in Sulaimani on May 1, 2019. Khelef is an emerging Ezidi poet and currently in a micro-residency with the Center. The event featured translations of poetry in seven different languages: Arabic, English, Farsi, Kurmanji, Sorani, Spanish, and Turkish.
Over the course of the two-week micro-residency, Khelef and fellow artist-in-residency David Shook translated 20 poems from Syria's Kurdish region, also referred to as Rojava, in addition to five of Khelef's own poems.