At the age of 26, the Syrian-Palestinian poet and writer Ramy Al-Asheq founded the first Arabic newspaper in Germany and has already published two volumes of poetry, "Walking on Dreams" (2014) and "In My Travel Outfits" (2017), as well as the prose collection "Since I didn't die" (2016). He also works as a journalist and is currently editor-in-chief of the German-Arabic cultural magazine FANN.
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Ramy Al-Asheq
Where ART you from?
This evening he reads in Arabic from his texts in which his own experiences of imprisonment, war and flight are omnipresent: He was arrested in 2011 after participating in peaceful protests against the Syrian government. After he was released, he was able to flee to Jordan. Al-Asheq came to Germany with a scholarship from the Heinrich-Böll-Haus Langenbroich.
Those who are not powerful in Arabic first have an immediate sensual effect on Al-Asheq's poetic and emotional language - the words resound in their form before they are translated.
The German translation is read by the journalist and translator Lilian Pithan.
Ramy Al-Asheq, born in Al Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and raised in the Yarmuk camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus, lives in Berlin.
At 6.30 pm free guided tour through the exhibition "Where ART you from?"
Admission on a donation basis.
Information about the exhibition here.
