Nazand Begikhani in the “Poets at the Summit” festival in the Alps
KurdishMedia.com
Kurdish poet Nazand Begikhani participated in the “Poets at the Summit” festival which took place between the 19th and 25th of July 2008 in the French Alps. The festival is an initiative by a group of French poets and writers, including notable figures from UNESCO, Marie Robert and Fredrico Mayor. The festival was a celebration of the role of poets in promoting peace and harmony with nature in a polluted world filled with noise and conflict.
Nazand Begikhani was invited to the festival as a Kurdish voice, “who incarnates calm and harmony in her poetry”. She delivered poems in Kurdish, English and French. Throughout the festival, her words and rhythm were hovering over the Alps, on the hills of cloud, by the Mont Blanc and the Druz mountain.
In a telephone interview, Nazand said: “My tour across the Alps and the gaze of Mont Blanc and Druz was a journey through pure nature, consisting of communication with natural elements and a reading of the scripture of the cosmos. Such communication, such closeness to the natural elements has created a new relationship, a new encounter between the cosmos and me. I could feel that I could touch the clouds and fly through them to reach something higher, to transcend and become closer to a spiritual world. I was transcending and whispering to the spirit of the universe Kurdish words and the rhythm of a soul, that could be the soul of my mother and the lonely souls of people in my homeland, who after the chemical bombing of Halabjah, the genocidal campaign of Anfal, the Kurish fratricidal war and the pain following the death of beloved ones looks for peace, tolerance and harmony. Through this poetic journey, I have come back to myself, to the waste lands of reality with plenitude, with beauty and calm.”
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