Layali Alawad

Poetry Layali Alawad, Syrian Writers in Berlin

Layali Alawad: ‘You Can’t Look at a Painting of Mine and Say, “Oh, This is Syrian Art”‘

September 30, 2020

“I am a woman, so I want to depict women — and it depends on the woman, but in the period of the war in Syria, I felt like women were affected so much more than men, and I wanted to express that.”

Interviews Caroline Assad, Fady Jomar, Khaled Barakeh, Layali Alawad, Ramy al-Asheq, Syrian Writers in Berlin, Yamen Hussein, Yasmina Jraissati, Yassin al-Haj Saleh

On the ‘Boom’ of Syrian Literature in Berlin

September 30, 2020

In the last five years, there has been a surge of interest in Syrian writing in German translation. In this series of interviews, writers, poets, publishers, and artists in Berlin talk about their experience with the publishing industry in Germany and beyond.