{"id":28477,"date":"2021-03-25T23:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?post_type=news&#038;p=28477"},"modified":"2021-04-12T21:09:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:09:20","slug":"unesco-world-poetry-day-2021-with-omar-al-jaffal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/news\/unesco-world-poetry-day-2021-with-omar-al-jaffal\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO World Poetry Day 2021 with Omar al-Jaffal"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28474,"template":"","news_type":[664],"class_list":["post-28477","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_type-news-en"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"For this year's edition of the poetry festival, former Solitude fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/person\/omar-al-jaffal\/\">Omar al-Jaffal<\/a> joined together online with four other authors \u2013 Suvi Valli, Volker Braun, Ang\u00e9lica Freitas und Nancy Campbell \u2013 on Sunday, March 21, 2021. Omars texts evince the pain and anger affiliated with the crises of our time. On World Poetry Day this year, he\u00a0read his poem \u00bbWir wollen nur das Leben\u00ab.\r\n\r\nOmar al-Jaffal is a poet, researcher, and journalist from Baghdad\/Iraq. As a journalist, he writes for international and Arab newspapers and websites, including <em>Asia Times<\/em>, <em>Al-Monito<\/em>, and <em>Assafir al-Arabi<\/em>. Omar is also the deputy director for the Iraqi Observatory of Human Rights and a member of the executive committee of The Iraqi House of Poetry. Omar already published two poetry collections, <em>The Betrayal of Miss Life <\/em>(in\u00a02009) and\u00a0<em>Life in an Exhausted Stretcher<\/em>\u00a0(in 2016).\u00a0In addition, his poems were published in several ontologies such as the <em>Ontology of Contemporary Iraqi Poetry<\/em> in Arabic, and <em>Das Herz verl\u00e4sst keinen Ort, an dem es h\u00e4ngt<\/em> in Germany in 2019. Omar al-Jaffal was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude until September 2020.\r\n\r\nFind the Online Stream of the poetry festival 2021 on YouTube (below) and on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?v=270350164698984&amp;ref=watch_permalink\r\n\r\nOmar al-Jaffal's video contribution is produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/person\/andreas-bolm\/\">Andreas Bolm<\/a>, who was also a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2013\/14. The music is by Atef Al-Jaffal and Hussain Al-Harbi. The German translation of the poem \u00bbWir wollen nur das Leben\u00ab is by Suleman Taufiq."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_video","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"video_embed":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PTEy1v7BuhI","video":{"video_mp4":null,"video_webm":null}}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=28477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}