Bio note

Hakan Özkan, PhD is a researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Münster and Granada. His scientific interests are in the field of Classical Arabic literature and cultural relations in the Mediterranean. Translator of numerous works of literature, theology and Islamic culture translated from Arabic into German and Turkish as well as from Spanish, French and Greek into Turkish. 

Residency goals

Hakan Özkan's residency in Sofia is within the Translation Collider project that includes participation at the Sofia Forum on Translations as well as in the collective residency work on translating contemporary Balkan authors into Arabic.

Public events

• 3-4th June | Sofia Forum on Translations 
• 5th June, 17:00 | A conversation with students at the Arabic Studies Department of Sofia University

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