ABOUT
About the person
Mariam Meetra is a poet, journalist, and researcher. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s in sociology from the Humboldt University of Berlin. She is currently a researcher at the University of Leipzig, previously serving as the Persian literary curator for Deutsche Welle and the Beethovenfest in Bonn. Her current research study, „Gender Activism and Social Media in Afghanistan,“ examines how women’s protests were reflected in social media after the Taliban takeover. The author and women’s rights activist is a member of PEN-Afghanistan. Her first poetry collection, „Life on the Margin“, was published in Persian in Kabul in 2013. „Ich habe den Zorn des Windes gesehen“ is her second collection of Persian and German poems, published in 2023 by Wallstein Publication House in Germany. She has written for German newspapers and publications, such as Tagesspiegel and Die Horen.