Jurgen Maas
is founder and director of Jurgen Maas Publishers in Amsterdam, which focuses on Dutch and foreign literature (prose and poetry) and literary and journalistic non-fiction. Special areas of expertise are the Middle East, North Africa and multicultural society. Maas studied journalism and policial science. For almost fifteen years he worked as a radio journalist and host at IKON.
(WN 2019)Archive available for: Jurgen Maas
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Rodaan al Galidi in the Nieuw Waldeck Library
With: Jurgen Maas, Monir Goran, Rodaan Al Galidi
Writer-poet Rodaan al Galidi and musician Monir Goran performed together in this musical-literary programme. Al Galidi talked about and read from his novel Hoe ik talent voor het leven kreeg (How I Developed a Talent for Life) and his new poetry collection Neem de titel serieus (Take the Title Seriously). Goran played some of his own compositions on the oud. Publisher Jurgen Maas provided an introduction.