Reading
Pierre Jarawan & Anissa M Bouziane

Families in Faraway Lands

Sat, 24.08.2019
3:30 PM - 16:30 Edinburgh Int. Book Festival

Anissa M Bouziane and Pierre Jarawan look beyond the headlines to reflect real stories of the Middle East and North Africa.

In Pierre Jarawan's ‘The Storyteller’, Samir gives up the relative comfort of his adopted German home to track down his father in Beirut.

Bouziane’s ‘Dune Song’ echoes her own experience of watching the Twin Towers collapse as she introduces Jeehan, who leaves New York after 9/11 to find a troubled life in Morocco.

They discuss their ideas and new books with fellow author Karen Campbell.

Pierre Jarawan is an author, slam poet, stage writer, organizer and presenter from Munich. He was born in 1985 as the son of a Lebanese father and a German mother in Amman, Jordan, after his parents had left Lebanon because of the civil war. He came to Germany at the age of three. Since 2009 he has been one of the most successful stage poets in the German-speaking world. His debut novel The Storyteller was published in 2016 by Berlin Verlag. The book was on the SPIEGEL bestseller list and was also published in Poland, Great Britain and the USA. Pierre Jarawan lives in Munich. He is currently working on his second novel.