Hiva Panahi, author and academic with Kurdish origins who survived from political persecution in Athens, Greece, met with staff of International Pen in NYC. During her discussion of her life in first Iran and then while living in exile in Greece, she said, "Greek authorities have been selling my life all these years. I was considered a source of income and personal development for them, and because I was not an easy case they found people in academics places and persecuted me. I was in a trap of death and this tragedy has a big cost for my health and destroyed everything which I have built in 18 years life in Greece. It's not a secret Iranian regime is "generous" to pay for political persecution everywhere......" 
This letter belong the late great Kurdish poet and thinker Maref Agaei in 1994 for me. 
The main book of documenta 14 takes the form of a reader, evoking the various meanings associated with the term. The documenta 14 Reader
explores—in essay, allegory, poem, historical legal document, and
hybrid literary other—the discursive and practical concerns of the
project, such as debt and gift, the coloniality of power, economies of
the exhibition, and languages (and other currencies) without remainder. A
critical anthology that reflects on history in order to better envision
the present and reconceptualize the future, the Reader
features both newly commissioned and foundational texts as well as image
portfolios that illustrate the expansive scope—at once temporal and
geographic—of historical artists and actors included in the documenta 14
project.
This year the World Poetry Day will be a memorable day to all of us, and
this event is co-sponsored by the Black Sea Networks at Columbia
University. Humbly I should inform you part of my poetry's works has been translated into Slovenian language for the POIESIS project in October ...
