Reading and Conversation with Moshtari Hilal and Dr. Paniz Musawi Natanzi

oin us for an engaging conversation with Moshtari Hilal, visual artist, writer, and author of Ugliness, and Dr. Paniz Musawi Natanzi of the University of Bern. Hilal's book, praised by The New York Times as "a sweeping meditation on a subject rarely addressed," examines the cultural, political, and personal dimensions of ugliness through a transnational lens.

Together, Hilal and Musawi Natanzi will discuss questions of beauty, race, migration, gender, and the aesthetics shaped by histories of power. Their exchange will explore how art, identity, and geopolitics intersect in relation to Afghanistan and its global ties to Germany, Iran, and Pakistan.