“We have to speak; otherwise we run the risk of not remembering.” — Afrouz Rafiq

Mutfak dishes out diasporic and decolonial perspectives on food, family and fictions peppered with interviews, field recordings, sound archives and poetry. Our goal is to amplify lesser-heard voices and nurture transversal affinities across Afro-Asian diasporas.

In this conversation with Fazil Moradi, author of Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq (2024), we attend to anthropological hospitality as a form of response, resistance and responsibility amidst the violence of political modernity. Moradi delves into the untranslatability of the Anfāl genocide and its afterlives, and how acts of listening to, translating and carrying unspeakable violence might grant people who have survived annihilation and destruction access to rights and justice.

• Kayhan Kalhor and Toumani Diabaté at Morgenland Festival Osnabrück

• Shahram Nazeri – Journey to Eternity

With Guest: Fazil Moradi is a Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellow and serves as a Visiting Researcher at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University; an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences; and an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes against Humanity at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center—City University of New York.

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