24th ilb
5 – 14 Sep 2024 Program
9 – 18 Sep 2024 Young Program

Herkunft: Iran

Kimia Bani

Kimia Bani, born in Tehran, is a Percussion player and accomplished musician, poet, and performer. Having obtained a Bachelor’s in Theatre, Drama, and Performing Arts, she turned her attention to music and cultural diversity in education, earning a Master’s in World Music. Her professional career spans over 15 years, and

Mehdi Mozaffari

born in 1939 in Iran, is a political scientist. He is professor emeritus at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. Mozaffari has a doctorate in political science from the University of Paris Sorbonne-Panthéon, where he also taught for a number of years. He is a co-author and co-signatory

Chahla Chafiq

born in Iran, went into exile in 1983 to France. Since then the sociologist and women’s rights advocate has published numerous books on the totalitarian excesses of Islam, among them »Femmes sous le voile: Face à la loi islamique« (2005; tr. »Women under the veil. Confronting Islamic law). She writes

Amir Hassan Cheheltan

Amir Hassan Cheheltan was born in Tehran in 1956. After the Islamic Revolution, he traveled to Britain to complete his studies. During the war between Iran and Iraq, for which he was conscripted after his return, he wrote his first novel, »The Mourning of Qassem«. The book was only published