ALL YOU CAN READ

Curated by Josephine Apraku and Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç

“How does literature change when writing and reading take place at the kitchen table?” ask Josephine Apraku and Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç in the new reading series ALL YOU CAN READ. The curators invite guests to a meal at SINEMA TRANSTOPIA to discuss texts, memories, family influences, and political issues with their mouths full.

For the first edition, they welcome authors Mely Kiyak and Mohamed Amjahid to the lunch table.

The event is aimed at anyone who wants to understand literature as a living, sensory experience—and who is curious about what happens when writers and readers come together to share a meal.

ALL YOU CAN READ moves literature from the podium to the dining table—where it often originates in the first place.

The table is set, be our guests!

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The Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion supports all events in the ALL YOU CAN READ reading series.

Josephine Apraku is an African studies scholar, author, trainer and moderator based in Berlin.

Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç is a political scientist, writer, and poet based in Berlin. His debut novel “Hundesohn” (Suhrkamp, 2025) moves through queer intimacy, memory and religion — tracing how bodies, desire, and language are shaped by rituals, loss, and love across shifting geographies.

Mohamed Amjahid is a freelance investigative journalist. His latest book, “Alles nur Einzelfälle?”, deals with the system behind police violence. Prior to that, Piper Verlag published his book “Let's talk about Sex, Habibi,” which deals with love and desire between Casablanca and Cairo.

Mely Kiyak is an author of books and theater texts. Her series “Gute Momente” appears in Zeit Online, and she writes “Kiyaks Theater Kolumne” for the Gorki Theater. Her most recent publications with Hanser are “Frausein” (2020), “Werden sie uns mit FlixBus deportieren?” (2022), and “Herr Kiyak dachte, jetzt fängt der schöne Teil des Lebens an” (2024).