Author: Nather Henafe Alali

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Syrian refugee Nather Henafe Alali (photo: private)

Syrian refugee Nather Henafe Alali

Exile and integration: the double whammy

As a result of this war, we Syrians experience terrible things every day, even in exile: despite the distance, we suffer along with those members of the population who have stayed in our country. At the same time, we ′exiles′ experience what it means to be foreign, writes Nather Henafe Alali in his third columnMore

Syrian refugee Nather Henafe Alali: Part I: ″I am the misery of the 21st century″ Syrian refugee Nather Henafe Alali: Part II: ″Why I am here″Rafik Schami on integration: ″To the haters, they′re all faceless Muslims″
Nather Henafe Alali (photo: private)

Syrian refugee Nather Henafe Alali

Part II: ″Why I am here″

″A German artist once asked me why some people leave their country, while others just stay there and die. The question was put in a friendly way, but there was something very bitter about it. As if he was asking why I didn’t dutifully stay in Syria and wait for my death,″ writes Nather Henafe Alali in his second columnMore

Syrian refugee Nather Henafe Alali: ″I am the misery of the 21st century″ Rafik Schami on integration: ″To the haters, they′re all faceless Muslims″ Novelist and critic Elias Khoury: The nightmare of reality
Nather Henafe Alali (photo: private)

Syrian refugee Nather Henafe Alali

″I am the misery of the 21st century″

″I don′t want to be a refugee. And I don′t want to be the subject of a newspaper article that is not about me as a human being. That calls me an historic intercontinental event or a storm of pain sweeping through this miserable world, but doesn′t call me a refugee, ″ writes Nather Henafe Alai in his columnMore

Rafik Schami on integration: ″To the haters, they′re all faceless Muslims″ Islam in Germany: "Democracy and human rights are just hollow words""Queens of Syria" film and theatre project: ″I shall leave as my city turns to dust″