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Arabic-German literary evening with Ramy Al-Asheq
Thursday, February 22, 2018, 7 pm | Gallery Berlin-Baku
At 6.30 pm free guided tour through the exhibition "Where ART you from?"
Donations are welcome for admission
The Syrian-Palestinian poet and writer Ramy Al-Asheq has published two volumes of poetry, "Walking on Dreams" (2014) and "In My Travel Outfit" (2017), and one volume of prose, “Since I didn’t die” (2016). Apart from his literary writing, he works as a journalist and is currently editor in chief of the Arabic-German culture magazine FANN.
On this evening, Al-Asheq will read from his texts in Arabic, in which his own experiences of captivity, war and escape are omnipresent: In 2011, he was arrested after participating in peaceful protests against the Syrian regime. However, he was released later on and managed to escape to Jordan. Al-Asheq came to Germany with a fellowship for writers from Heinrich-Böll-Haus in Langenbroich.
Listeners without any knowledge of the Arabic language will immediately be affected sensually by Al-Asheq's poetic and emotional language – the words linger in their shape before being translated.
Journalist and translator Lilian Pithan will read the German translation.
Ramy Al-Asheq, born in Al Sharjah (UAE) 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?"
Donations are welcome for admission
The Syrian-Palestinian poet and writer Ramy Al-Asheq has published two volumes of poetry, "Walking on Dreams" (2014) and "In My Travel Outfit" (2017), and one volume of prose, “Since I didn’t die” (2016). Apart from his literary writing, he works as a journalist and is currently editor in chief of the Arabic-German culture magazine FANN.
On this evening, Al-Asheq will read from his texts in Arabic, in which his own experiences of captivity, war and escape are omnipresent: In 2011, he was arrested after participating in peaceful protests against the Syrian regime. However, he was released later on and managed to escape to Jordan. Al-Asheq came to Germany with a fellowship for writers from Heinrich-Böll-Haus in Langenbroich.
Listeners without any knowledge of the Arabic language will immediately be affected sensually by Al-Asheq's poetic and emotional language – the words linger in their shape before being translated.
Journalist and translator Lilian Pithan will read the German translation.
Ramy Al-Asheq, born in Al Sharjah (UAE) and raised in the Yarmuk Camp for Palestinian Refugees in Damascus, lives in Berlin.
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