Behrouz Boochani is now Visiting Professor at UK university

El refugiado kurdo Behrouz Boochani advierte sobre 'genocidio' en el norte de Siria

El refugiado kurdo Behrouz Boochani advierte sobre 'genocidio' en el norte de Siria Source: Source: Hoda Afshar

Kurdish writer and journalist Behrouz Boochani, has been appointed as a Visiting Professor at The School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London.


Behrouz Boochani who has been detained by Australian government for over 6 years on Manus Island, despite all the hardship of living under those circumstances has proven that he is unstoppable in achieving the near impossible, to be a voice for all those asylum-seekers on Manus as well as Nauru. As well as a constant reporting and journalist work, Behrouz, as co-directed a documentary (Chauka please tell us the time), and more recently published a Booked, called No Friends but the Mountains, writing from Manus Prison, all via his mobile phone. Since then he’s been awarded a number of top literary prizes.

 


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