How It All Started We are a team of Euroculture students, Mariami, Mikihiro and Ilya. As part of our Project Management course at the University of Göttingen, our team set out to create something both creative and meaningful: a bilingual (Arabic–German) children’s book. Our idea was to support 5–10-year-old children, especially those with refugee or … Continue reading We Made a Book! Supporting Children Through Stories
Category: Book Reviews
There is history known to everyone, history known by some, and then there is history that was almost lost. When your own history has been invisible to most, shedding light on it is the least you can do, hoping people will take interest and listen to you. In a world where some histories remain hidden, Mukhamet Shayakhmetov’s “The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin” emerges as a beacon of revelation. Shayakhmetov’s memoir offers a touching journey through the author’s life as a Kazakh nomad amidst the sweeping changes of Soviet rule.
We are taught from young not to judge a book by its cover - good advice most of the time! However, in the case of Annie Lowrey’s Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World, the message is pretty clear from the very first visual to the very last page. With this one, the very title is the thesis of the whole book.
The article is a review of a book focused on the power of lies and political manipulation within democratic systems that are leading to the rise of authoritatian regimes. It includes several examples from Poland, Hungary, UK or the USA.
Looking for some inspiration for new novels to read? Then read this review of three Nordic novels!
ATKA ATUN │atka_brozek@yahoo.com An androgynous woman, an embryo in a jar, a boyish adult, Andy Warhol, Allan Ginsberg, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, LSD, STDs, AIDS, art for art’s sake, Chelsea Hotel, hunger, lice but then – love, friendship, respect, almost divine devotion – innocence. “Just Kids” is a story of an extraordinary couple in the … Continue reading In a Relationship with… Patti Smith
ATKA ATUN | atka_brozek@yahoo.com In the old park, in ice and snow caught fast Two spectres walk, still searching for the past. Journey into the Past is a book about love, anger and shame. The protagonist, Ludwig, a twenty-three year old man from a poor background, becomes a Councillor’s private secretary, moves into his mansion and … Continue reading In a Relationship with…Stefan Zweig
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