Topic The Poetry of Afghanistan in the World of Persian Literature: A Conversation and Reading with Reza Mohammadi

This year, the Iranian Studies Program at the Yale MacMillan Center is hosting the major Afghan novelist and memoirist Homeira Qaderi as our Writer in Residence. Over the course of this year, Qaderi is conducting several conversations with other Persian-language writers about their craft. These will be online webinars conducted in Persian, and we invite Persian-speakers from all over the world to tune in.

The fourth event in this series, on Friday, September 27, 2024 - 12:00pm Eastern US time, will be a conversation between Qaderi and the prize-winning poet, Reza Mohammadi - widely regarded as one of the most exciting young poets writing in Persian today - was born in Kandahar in 1979. He studied Islamic Law and then Philosophy in Iran before obtaining an MA in Globalisation from London Metropolitan University.