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Our Syrian guests and their families cannot return to their home country. The Heinrich Böll Haus Langenbroich e.V. association supports them in their search for permanent residence in Germany. Due to the conflicts in the Arab world and the increasing persecution of writers, journalists and artists in other countries, it is currently almost impossible to find a follow-up scholarship for our guests through the network of organizations for politically persecuted writers. We therefore accompany our guests through the asylum process.
January to June 2013
Qassim Haddad
Writer from Muharraq/Bahrain (born 1948) is a poet and central figure in the Gulf region and founder of a comprehensive web portal for Arabic literature. Haddad is chairman of the Bahraini Writers' Association. He is characterized by a diverse and creative poetic oeuvre that has no uniform line, but rather a wide range of very different styles. In his poetry, he takes a critical look at the social and political realities in the Arab world. As a result of his activities, he was repeatedly arrested and spent a total of five years in prison. In 2001, he was awarded the most important Arab literary prize, the Sultan Oweiss Award, for his poetry. In addition to 16 volumes of poetry, he has published a number of works of literary criticism and theoretical treatises on poetry. Some of his poems have also been translated into English, French and German." http://www.qhaddad.com
January to April 2013
Rosa Yassin Hassan
Writer from Damascus/Syria (born 1974) is an activist in the women's movement and a founding member of the association "Women for Democracy". In 1992 and 1993 she was awarded the Syrian Literature Prize in the short story category. She has published the following in Arabic: "Ein lichtverseuchter Himmel" (short stories, 2000), "Ebenholz" (novel, 2004), "Negativ - Die Gedächtniskraft der weiblichen politischen Gefangenen" (factual novel, 2008). Since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, she has been reporting on the everyday lives of people in Syria in print media and online. She publishes a blog entitled "Diary of the Syrian Revolution". Excerpts from the diary have been published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Bild-online.
Novels in German:
"Ebony", novel, Alawi Verlag, 2010
"Guardians of the Air", novel, Alawi Verlag, 2013
January to December 2013
Mohammad al-Matroud
Writer, poet from Qamishli/ in northern Syria (born in 1969) has been publishing since the 1980s. He was editor-in-chief of the local cultural magazine "Narjis" (The Narcissus) and editor of several magazines such as "Ayat" (Signs) and Qasioun. In the 1990s, he organized a poetry biennial and several poetry forums in his hometown. Several volumes of poetry were reviewed in national and Arabic newspapers. In 2010 he went to Kuwait as a journalist. He returned to Syria in April 2011. Born to an Arab father and a Kurdish mother, he made it his mission to address the tensions between the different ethnic groups in north-eastern Syria.
February to December 2013
Zaza Burchuladze
Writer from Tbilisi/Georgia (born 1973), studied at the National Academy of Arts in Tbilisi. He has published twelve books and screenplays to date. He translates Russian authors, including Dostoyevsky, Sorokin and Bitov, into Georgian. Burchuladze is considered one of the most important writers of post-Soviet Georgian literature. With his scandalous themes and his experiments with language, he initially provoked outrage in Georgian society and was ignored by critics for a long time. Since the publication of his novels, he has become one of his country's leading intellectuals and promising authors.
In 2011, he received the award for the best Georgian novel of the year for his book "The Inflatable Angel". His novel "Adibas" is currently being translated into several languages. " www.nibbe-wiedling.de
April to December 2013
Dara Nawaf Abdallah
Writer from Damascus/Syria (born 1990) belongs to the large group of young creatives who have accompanied the revolution artistically and journalistically from the beginning. He has published in important Arabic publications such as: al-Hayat (based in London), Nawafez (cultural supplement of the magazine al-Mustaqbal in Beirut) and on the cultural website Ghawoon.
September to December 2013
Kheder Alaga
Poet, journalist and literary critic from Damascus/Syria (born in 1963) studied law at Damascus University. Since 1995, he has published several volumes of poetry and linguistic studies on Syrian literature and poetry in Syria and Lebanon. He has edited numerous books and anthologies.
September to December 2013
Raed Wahesh
Palestinian poet from Damascus (born 1981) is one of the most important poets of his generation. As a defender of freedom of expression and the free word, he has accompanied events with his writing since the beginning of the Syrian revolution.
