“The Man Who Loves Ducks” from Freedom, Only Freedom
An inmate in Manus prison who suffers the inhospitable conditions with the rest of the inmates finds solace in befriending animals.
Omid Tofighian
Omid Tofighian is an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Humanities & Languages at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is an award-winning lecturer, researcher and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in citizen media, popular culture, displacement and discrimination. His publications include Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016); translator and collaborator in Behrouz Boochani’s multi-award winning book No Friend but the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison (Picador Australia, 2018); and Creating New Languages of Freedom: Translation, Public Philosophy and Border Violence (Routledge, 2025).
Moones Mansoubi is a community, arts and cultural development worker based in Sydney. Her work is dedicated mainly to supporting and collaborating with migrants and people seeking asylum in Australia. She has managed numerous community and cultural projects and the first translator of Behrouz Boochani’s work when he began writing from Manus Island. She was translation consultant for Boochani’s book No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (Picador Australia, 2018). Her translation of the article “An Island Off Manus” (Saturday Paper, 6 May, 2017) was included in Boochani’s winning nomination for the Amnesty Media Award in 2017. Moones is currently coordinator of the Community Refugee Welcome Centre in Inner West Sydney and a content producer for SBS Radio, Persian program.