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“In fact one learns to break even more rapidly in a foreign language than in one’s own.”

Broken Language

Widad Nabi’s poem about languages that shape her identity, from which she was expelled, which she fears and in which she has to settle…

“Berlin has open spaces.”

Berlin: It’s a Consolation

In an interview, the writer Widad Nabi speaks about what Berlin means to her.

“I no longer wait for anything in the future.”

“Home are memories”

In an interview, Widad Nabi describes what the words home and future mean to her.

“Nobody gives up their cities voluntarily, cities are robbed”

Seven Reasons to Fall in Love with Berlin

Literary “love letter” by Widad Nabi to Berlin

“Why do most Germans only know old stereotypes about other societies?

“Why do most Germans only know old stereotypes about other societies?“

The Syrian-Kurdish writer Widad Nabi has been living in Germany for 5 years. She does not see any distance between her and her German…

“I carry this love for this country inside me and I know many emigrants who carry this love inside them. But this love should come from both sides, from the host society and from the migrants.”

No further appointments at the State Office for Migration

In her essay, Widad Nabi reflects critically on belonging as reality or illusion, her experiences and feelings in Germany, and on exile not as…

Alphabet of Arrival Cooperative workshop with people in exile in Berlin

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