An Evening with Roya Hakakian
Poetry and Identity between Iran, Israel and the USA
Roya Hakakian was born into a Jewish family in Iran and experienced the 1979 Islamic Revolution as a young teenager. Due to increasing oppression, she applied for political asylum in the United States in 1985. There she studied psychology and poetry. Her biography “Journey from the Land of No”, published in 2004, brought her early literary success. The German translation of her story of migration and exile was published in 2008. Further publications followed, including two collections of poetry in Persian. Hakakian now works as a journalist, writing in particular on the relationship between Iran and the United States. She is one of the most prominent voices in the U.S. critical of the Islamic Republic and, through her Jewish heritage, brings unique perspectives to the discourse.
Since 2015, she has been teaching at THREAD, a writing workshop at Yale University, and is a fellow at Davenport College.
Moderator: Sarah Kiyanrad, Institute for the Near and Middle East
The event will be held in English.
Entry
free
Organizer
An event organized in collaboration with the Institute for the Near and Middle East at LMU and the BMFTR transfer project: “Networking, Mediation, and Network Building: The History of Jewish-Arab Connections in Social Practice and Institutional Networks”