lecture by Stefan Weidner. Stefan Weidner Essay reflects for us the charm of its difficulty, when the encounter with the Islamic intellectual history and political, original and provocative. Manual for the clash of cultures there are also non-specialist readers with a compass in hand, with which they get in the debates of our time and our own judgments.
Stefan Weidner, born 1967, studied Islamic Studies, Germanic and philosophy in Göttingen, Damascus, Berkeley and Bonn. He works as a writer, translator, literary critic, and since 2001 as editor of the journal Fikrun wa Fann / Art and Thought ', which is published by the Goethe-Institute for Dialogue with the Islamic world. He has translated many poets from the Arabic. In 2006 he received the Brentano Prize of the City of Heidelberg and in 2007 the Johann Heinrich Voss Award for translation.
When?
Thursday 27 May 2010 20:00
clock
Where?
bookstore Böttger
Maximilianstr. 44 53111 Bonn
(Stefan Weidner: Manual for the clash of cultures publisher in the world religions in the island Verlag 2008..)
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