Book Launch and Cultural History Event: The Last Pomegranate Tree

  • DATE

    27 November 2025

  • TIME

    4:45 pm to 6:00 pm

  • AGES

    All ages welcome

  • PRICE

    Free

  • VENUE

    Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL

Everyone is warmly invited to the launch of ‘The Last Pomegranate Tree’, with readings and music from Kurdistan, connecting with the voices, languages and melodies of the regions of the Central Asia, Middle East and beyond.

Featuring: Bachtyar Ali, eminent Kurdish writer; translator Kareem Abdulrahman and Goran Baba Ali from Afsana Press, with award-winning harpist Tara Jaff.

Details:

Thursday 27th November, 4:45pm – 6:00pm
University of Manchester
SG16 (South Entrance Lecture hall)
Samuel Alexander Building (South Entrance)
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL

Free entry.

A partnership between…

Landscapes of Future Memory (AMES),
Defiance! Artists at Risk (REES) and Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies (CTIS)
Kindly funded by SALC IAG.