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Archive October 11th 2019
The Architecture of Injustice: Behrouz Boochani Keynote from Manus Island

Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian-Kurdish author, journalist, human rights defender, poet and film producer incarcerated on Manus Island, wrote his memoir No Friend But The Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison, on a mobile phone from one of the remotest corners of the planet. The work has been described as “an outstanding work of literature in its own right”, apart from being “remarkable for the circumstances of its production […and] compelling and shocking content.” Behrouz Boochani joins SCCI via live AV link from Manus Island for a solo presentation exploring the architecture of injustice. Boochani’s presentation explores this theme from inside one of Australia’s most controversial architectural projects – Manus Regional Processing Centre – a site of widely condemned human rights abuses.

 

 

Biography

 

Behrouz Boochani is an Iranian-Kurdish journalist, human rights defender, poet, film producer and refugee. He was held in the Australian-run Manus Island detention centre from 2013 until its closure in 2017, and has remained on the island since. Boochani is co-director, along with Iranian film maker Arash Kamali Sarvestani, of the documentary Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time, has published numerous articles in leading media internationally about the plight of refugees held by the Australian government on Manus Island, and has won several awards. His memoir, No Friend But The Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison, won the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Nonfiction in January 2019. The book was written on a mobile phone in a series of single messages over time and translated from Farsi into english by Omid Tofighian.

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