{"title": "Broken Mirrors \"Sinalcol\" by Elias Khoury", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00+01:00", "place": "mille et deux feuilles", "address": "Glasmalergasse 6, 8004", "price": "Kollekte", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel"], "description": "A reading from the novel Broken Mirrors \"Sinalcol\" by the Lebanese writer Elias Khoury. Seba Kourani and Hamza Hamadeh, theatre practitioners from Beirut staying in Zürich with the Freies Musiktheater, read excerpts. Moving between Beirut and exile, the novel follows lives shaped by the Lebanese Civil War, tracing the fragile ties between memory, identity, love, and belonging. The reading is in English and Arabic, collection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/broken-mirrors-sinalcol-by-elias-khoury-29054/", "official_url": "https://www.1002f.ch/events/broken-mirrors-sinalcol-by-elias-khoury", "image": "https://noky.io/images/65ed965b12ac6efd69940d58d97032e2827ecb4c90a875a99d0b854d1418fe95-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00+01:00", "place": "mille et deux feuilles", "address": "Glasmalergasse 6, 8004", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Texte ohne Grenzen – نصوص بلا حدود — Der Rauch unserer Stimmen: mit Zaher Al Jamous und Mona Al Assi", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturmarkt", "address": "", "price": "CHF 25 Normalpreis / CHF 20 Legi, AHV / IV / CHF 13 Kulturlegi, Kulturschaffende / CHF 40 Solipreis", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.kulturmarkt.ch/veranstaltungen/zjo-zurich-jazz-orchestra-4/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration/exile", "literature/reading"], "description": "\"Der Rauch unserer Stimmen\" is an Arabic-German evening of readings and conversation as part of the Texte ohne Grenzen series. The Palestinian poet Mona Al Assi and the Syrian prose writer Zaher Al Jamous, who have both lived in Switzerland for over ten years and write in Arabic, read texts shaped by memories of their homeland and the inner rupture of exile. Christian Moser accompanies the evening musically on the oud, with Ana Sobral moderating. Ivana Martinović reads in German, with Usama Al Shahmani interpreting.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/texte-ohne-grenzen-der-rauch-unserer-stimmen-mit-zaher-al-ja-21045/", "official_url": "https://www.kulturmarkt.ch/veranstaltungen/texte-ohne-grenzen-der-rauch-unserer-stimmen/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Texte ohne Grenzen – نصوص بلا حدود", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturmarkt", "address": "Aemtlerstrasse 23", "price": "CHF 25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.kulturmarkt.ch/veranstaltungen/zjo-zurich-jazz-orchestra-4/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration/exile", "literature/reading"], "description": "\"Texte ohne Grenzen – نصوص بلا حدود\" is an Arabic-German evening of readings and conversation titled \"Der Rauch unserer Stimmen\". Behind it are the Palestinian poet Mona Al Assi and the Syrian prose writer Zaher Al Jamous, who have both lived in Switzerland for more than ten years and write in Arabic. Their texts are shaped by memories of their homeland and the inner tornness of exile, mapping spaces between loss and the present and giving their experiences a personal story and language. The evening is musically accompanied by Christian Moser on the oud.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/texte-ohne-grenzen-6049/", "official_url": "https://www.kulturmarkt.ch/veranstaltungen/texte-ohne-grenzen-der-rauch-unserer-stimmen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a2497f20d8610562395be35f3ef726f8391706b4d4e121e3db5d76966d4a66c6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Die Flut ist nicht vorbei", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zurich James Joyce Foundation", "address": "Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zurich", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration/refugees", "literature/fiction"], "description": "An English-language reading and discussion with Wagdy El Komy, an exiled writer originally from Egypt. Together with Ana Sobral and Martin Mühlheim, two short stories recently published on the platform Weiter Schreiben Schweiz will be discussed. El Komy's stories engage with the myth of Noah's Ark in relation to Western European asylum policy, raising questions of solidarity, ethics and belonging. The event is part of the series „Poetographien: Literarische Dialoge Zurich James Joyce Foundation\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/die-flut-ist-nicht-vorbei-73749/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/543333fe365889a0a4c3106ae348f4d8d4c4de58f725b9e3d8b60877e9db0414-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Johanne Lykke Holm – Gesichter im Spiegel", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Zürich", "address": "Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/contemporary-fiction"], "description": "A literary conversation at Literaturhaus Zürich about the novel «Gesichter im Spiegel» by Swedish author and translator Johanne Lykke Holm, held in English. Her latest novel, published by Aki Verlag and translated from Swedish by Hanna Granz, became a success with readers and press in Sweden. It tells of Bernarda and Silas, children of the Malmö city theatre who build a lawless, enchanted world backstage, until something happens and twenty-five years later Bernarda is haunted by the past she tried to suppress. The conversation is moderated by Salomé Meier, with readings by Alicia Aumüller and a book table from Buchhandlung Sphères.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/johanne-lykke-holm-gesichter-im-spiegel-645/", "official_url": "https://literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltungen/johanne-lykke-holm-gesichter-im-spiegel/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e58a7dcc7a3a631891338a412614b038c7db344aa55208962d023b0eeaa3d69-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung zu „Radio Sarajevo“", "start": "2026-10-31T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Paranoia City Buchhandlung", "address": "Ankerstrasse 12", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://eventfrog.ch/de/p/lesung-literatur/lesung/lesung-zu-radio-sarajevo-mit-tijan-sila-zuerich-7516105403177917948.html#tickets", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel", "history/yugoslavia"], "description": "It is a reading from the novel \"Radio Sarajevo\", followed by a conversation. Tijan Sila reads from it and then talks with Ana Sobral. The book tells of the war in Sarajevo from April 1992 onwards from the perspective of a ten-year-old boy surviving in the city's ruins. It also explores the close connection between images of masculinity, violence and war.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/lesung-zu-radio-sarajevo-25197/", "official_url": "https://paranoiacity.ch/samstag-31-oktober-1900-uhr-lesung-zu-radio-sarajevo/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2345bde44af8159f8561dcd61dfd3ded26468abfd32e3d6c04f87a32961b0d5a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ECHO – Vernissage und Lesung mit Medaur Sadrija", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Labor5 Bar", "address": "Schiffbaustrasse 3, 8005 Zürich", "price": "CHF 25.00", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.labor5.ch/events", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "art"], "description": "At the vernissage for «ECHO» at Labor5 Bar, Medaur Sadrija reads from his first poetry book. The collection deals with origins and uprootedness, with his parents' migration and with life between a lost homeland and a new present. His poems move through the spaces of memory, telling of painful memories and longing, but also of warmth and beauty. Together with the author, guests immerse themselves in a reading about origins, family, memory and the life in between.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/echo-vernissage-und-lesung-mit-medaur-sadrija-6190/", "official_url": "https://www.labor5.ch/events/ECHO-Vernissage-und-Lesung-mit-Medaur-Sadrija05-11-2026-1830525", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b8820f3e850b2f292b45382c432c5b622c26480b917d91dd0642cd476f3c4fb8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Alain Claude Sulzer – Szenenwechsel", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Zürich", "address": "Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading"], "description": "At Literaturhaus Zürich, Alain Claude Sulzer reads from his new novel \"Szenenwechsel\" (Galiani 2026). The novel takes readers into the world of the theatre: the great director Simon Muthesius is dead, and his whole ensemble – dramaturge, diva, make-up artist, family members – is set in motion, each with their own story and some with an open score to settle. The event is moderated by Nicola Steiner, with a book table from Buchhandlung Hottingerplatz. With his elegantly crafted, many-voiced portrayal of society, Sulzer shows what remains of a life once fame has passed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/alain-claude-sulzer-szenenwechsel-641/", "official_url": "https://literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltungen/alain-claude-sulzer-szenenwechsel/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/71f523e88a9641c2bb3ad2e80769f23488a886993a09415d4fc599b1a34d0728-600.webp"}, {"title": "Writer in Prison: Yousri Alghoul", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Zürich", "address": "Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "society/human-rights"], "description": "A conversation evening with the Palestinian writer Yousri Alghoul dedicated to authors imprisoned because of their work. On the occasion of the Writers in Prison Day, the German-Swiss PEN Centre turns its attention to writers whose freedom is at risk. Alghoul, who grew up in the Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, has been writing for almost two decades about everyday life under occupation – about hope and hopelessness, resilience and humanity. In conversation with Demian Cornu, interpreted by Zainab Lüscher, he speaks about writing in war and about the people in prisons and those who wait for them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/writer-in-prison-yousri-alghoul-644/", "official_url": "https://literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltungen/writer-in-prison-yousri-alghoul/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/342750b01c1a36bba6dc2f796dbb164e80a24c5c84c7d864b820bedd564df411-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Flood Has Not Ended – Floating Words and 21st Century Displacement", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zurich James Joyce Foundation", "address": "Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zurich", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration", "literature"], "description": "A talk in the series \"Poetographies: Literary Dialogues at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation\" with Wagdy El Komy, an author born in Egypt who lives in exile in Switzerland. It centres on two short stories he recently published with Weiter Schreiben Schweiz, the platform for exiled authors in Switzerland, which take the myth of Noah's Ark and re-place it in the 21st-century context of Western Europe's asylum policies. Through this rewriting, El Komy raises questions about solidarity, ethics and belonging that hold a critical mirror to xenophobic discourses in Western Europe, including Switzerland. The evening also asks about the value of literature and storytelling as a way of resisting such discourses.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/the-flood-has-not-ended-floating-words-and-21st-century-disp-69462/", "official_url": "https://joycefoundation.ch/02-11-2026-the-flood-has-not-ended-floating-words-in-the-21st-century/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/543333fe365889a0a4c3106ae348f4d8d4c4de58f725b9e3d8b60877e9db0414-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sofalesung: Ed Wige & Yves Raeber – Milch Lait Latte Mleko – AUSGEBUCHT", "start": "2026-11-01T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Zürich", "address": "Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel", "history/war"], "description": "At a Sofalesung, Swiss debut authors present their texts in a personal setting, seated on a shared-flat sofa or studio couch. Ed Wige presents her novel «Milch Lait Latte Mleko», which tells of a mother and daughter who flee the war in Yugoslavia and end up in Switzerland. Through the girl's eyes, the novel explores exile, the consequences of war, the new language and the family's secrets. The reading is moderated by Edward Mandry and held in French with German translation by Yves Raeber.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/sofalesung-ed-wige-yves-raeber-milch-lait-latte-mleko-ausgeb-639/", "official_url": "https://literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltungen/sofalesung-ed-wige-milch-lait-latte-mleko/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3d0bb2082c1bb94a57ad7c7a029c25de4fac7036f35aeef6cbfaf4c65aa4fe1f-2000.webp"}]}