Published October 28th, 2025 Event
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 | 6 pm (CET) / 13 pm (EST) / 10:30 pm (IST)
Online via Zoom
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Join us for an exclusive online author talk with the English-as-a-second-language writers Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Serafina Ferizaj on the topic of “Writing Off-Place.” At the event, the two authors will read from their work and join us for a discussion on places that are hard to grasp — for those in- as well as those outside of them —, liminal zones in a conflict-ridden world, and the relation between history and the personal. Questions from the audience are welcome.
The talk will take place via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88105660515
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to a change in the line-up, the time of the event changed to 6 pm CET!
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More on the authors:
Born and educated in Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh is a poet and translator who completed his doctorate in English Literature at the University of Oxford. Time, the body and ruination inform his poetry and prose, which have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, Critical Quarterly, Cambridge Literary Review, PN Review, Stand, New England Review, Poetry London and Wasafiri. Yousif is the Creative Encounters Editor of the Migration and Society journal, Writer-in-Residence for the Refugee Hosts project, and a Poetry Book Society Selector. His debut collection, Writing the Camp (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), was a 2021 PBS Recommendation; was selected as one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by the Telegraph and the Irish Times; was highly commended by the 2021 Forward Prizes for Poetry; and was shortlisted for the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Yousif’s latest book is Eating the Archive (Broken Sleep Books, 2023).
Photo: E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Born in Braunschweig to Kosovar-Albanian parents. Moved to Munich to study linguistics and law as a minor and currently resides there. Loves reading and never leaves the house without a book and loves taking analogue pictures even though she does not have the professional skills. Started writing in order to find a language for her speechlessness regarding her heritage.
Read Serafina’s creative nonfiction story “kontrollat e pasaportave/ passport control” in Tint Fall ‘24 here.
Photo: privat
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