The “Qashqai Female Voices” project, initiated and curated by ethnomusicologist Yalda Yazdani, takes a new look at the rich but marginalized culture of Qashqai women in southwest Iran in a series of events – so far at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum.
Programme
Documentation, Wednesday, May 29th, 2024, 19.00 hrs
An Owl, A Garden And The Writer (جغد، باغ و مرد نویسنده )
Mahmud Dolatabadi is one of the best-known and most important prose writers of our time. Translations of his books reach a worldwide readership and yet some of his most important works are not allowed to be published in Iran.
Documentation, Sunday June 9th, 13.00 hrs
Journey to Yazdegerd Castle (سفر به قلعه یزدگرد)
Mohammadi portrays an enthusiastic connoisseur of Iran: until the revolution of 1978, the British-Canadian archaeologist Dr. Edward Keall undertook expeditions to explore ancient Zoroastrian temples of the late-antique Sassanids.