Poet­ry Work­shops in Persian

Our workshop team

Kathrin Bach, born in Wiesbaden in 1988, studied Cultural Sciences & Aesthetic Practice and Literary Writing in Hildesheim. She later trained as a bookseller in Berlin. She writes and publishes her own poetry (e.g., the collection “Schwämme” with Parasitenpresse, Cologne) and enjoys supporting others in their writing as an editor and workshop leader.

She firmly believes that we all have poems within us and aims to help participants in her workshops at The Poetry Project to uncover their poetic voices and put them on paper. Free-writing exercises form an important foundation in her workshops, from which more poetic forms can develop over time.

Babak Shafian, born in Tehran, considers himself a cultural mediator with the aim of bringing people together in an intercultural context through the medium of art. After studying computer science, he studied Romance studies, Iranian studies, and Jewish history in Berlin, Rome, and Paris. In 2012, he founded the music project "Sistanagila" with Israeli and Iranian musicians. Since 2019, he has been the managing director of the Jewish music series "Living Music" in Berlin/Brandenburg and the initiator of the youth project "Kaleidoscope." Since 2023, he has been working as a cultural manager for bridgeworks e.V., operating in the fields of performing arts, literature, film, and music.

Nasir Nadeem was born in Balkh, Afghanistan, without a birth certificate. His family believes it was on the night a radical Islamic group entered their city. Therefore, it should be April 23, 1989. April 23 is also World Book Day. Nasir is a writer and journalist. He has published a book of poems, and in Kabul, he was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Subhe during the negotiations between the USA and the Taliban in Qatar. He has fought against the Taliban his entire life, which led to his escape in August 2021. In Berlin, he is working on a book about the struggle of Afghan women against the Taliban.