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Interview with “International Focus” newspaper!
The voice of the Afghans continues to resonate strongly through its artists, despite everything, despite the world's indifference, despite world politics at the moment being busy on other, much "hotter" fronts. “Load poems like guns” “Load poems like guns” says...
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Pen Club Français
À propos Rencontre littéraire dans le cadre de la semaine d’inauguration de Capitale Mondiale du Livre Table ronde autour du livre pour diffuser la liberté d’expression et la justice avec : Somaia Ramish – poète, écrivaine, journaliste et militante des...
Speech at the University of Lille, France
Freedom has no meaning unless it is equal for all people. I spoke at the University of Lille in France about the suppression and censorship of art in Afghanistan and the Baamdaad protest movement against censorship.I also had a look at the place of poetry in the lives...
One-Year Report on the Activities of “Baamdaad – House of Poetry in Exile”
In January 2023, the Taliban issued a decree restricting poetry writing in Afghanistan. The Taliban's Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice announced a ban on writing poetry in any style. Prior to this, all forms of art had already been banned in...
VROUW, LEVEN, VRIJHEID
My first poetry collection VROUW, LEVEN, VRIJHEID / WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM was published in Rotterdam during Poetry International 2023 in June! Also the short documentary I spit myself onto a page, directed by Alka Sadat, supported by Buddy Films was screened. VROUW...