1st tours for refugees. she explains the history of the exhibits and how they can transport people back in time. just close your eyes, try to smell and you will feel home. and there are always like very nice trips we go through while closing her eyes and thinking about our memories, our heritage, many visitors return time and again provide comfort and stability coming here also helps keep combat her homesickness after she was forced to flee syria. 6 years ago, national museum and the mosque course, i used to say it's my museum. because i am one of the very rare people who used to go to the museum almost every been studied art in damascus and wrote for a children's magazine. she's also

a successful children's book author. she suffered under bashar al assad's regime until 2011, when the engine government protests known as the arab spring began. worms are a big spring star. it's give me a hope that time to change the situation we leave or we leave with since very long time joined in the demonstrations and fought for change. but the protests were brutally suppressed, was repeatedly arrested and eventually fled her home. and this was the hardest decision my life. because i didn't want her hopes for a new syria dashed to leave all her friends and fellow protesters behind. she hasn't heard a word from many of them sense. were they arrested or abducted?

are they even still alive? her art works to picture this sense of loss. mostly maybe because i'm always think for the ones who are they are here. now she's found her mission 2015, not long after her arrival, germany took in almost a 1000000 refugees. we can do this. chancellor angela merkel famously said in encouragement, down to work, i always find myself somewhere in between and of 2 parts, trying to bring them together. she also writes for the platform handles germany, which gives refugees practical info on how to adapt to life here.

hosting society should know more about newcomers, about 3 fishies. most of them have to integrate with to help make that happen, writes a column for a german newspaper. she highlights cultural similarities and differences between hosts and newcomers. and tries to combat the prejudices she encounters in her daily life from syria are you are really feeling? she said, unfortunately, and this is what you don't look like. so for me, this is very important things to think to think about legs through types, sprigg and of the people. there's still much to be done to

dispel such stereotypes and to encourage interaction between cultures, which actually aren't that different says that her hometown, damascus, and berlin have much in common. it's very similar from different perspectives because it's very, it's very open and accept everyone from everywhere. where are you from? what you're doing, how you will, how you dress, what kind of study you did, you will find your space has certainly found her space helping to bring together different people. and cultures. exiles have a hard time reaching for their culture. and they usually have a difficult time communicating in the new language. this applies to exiles

today, and to those of former times, like those who fled nazi germany in the 1930 s. . now there are plans to build a museum dedicated to these refugees, where berlin's on a halter railway station once stood on the exit to open its doors. in 2025, the modern building curve around the station's ruins literature, nobel prize winner who fled from romania and dictator nicol the regime to germany in 1907 is the museum's patron berlin is coming to terms with its past. what about the more recent history and the fact that many people from all over the world are moving here? or to flee from danger? germany has experienced many different waves of immigration. unfortunately,

there's new museum dedicated to this topic, and that would be very interesting from a political perspective. a museum that tells the story of germany as the country of immigrants because they are an integral part of its history. when sharbat in shaky came to germany 10 years ago, he had to leave everything behind in iran, he was an acclaimed writer, an intellectual who actively participated in social debate being forced into exile him of his identity. i had most everything a person could want to have that stature was a journalist in the best newspaper and lectured at the best universities. isn't that i come to germany and i was like a child and dead and done and half blind or

shaky belongs to iran's kurdish minority. he learned his mother tongue kurdish from his father. he describes that as the language of his soul and his innermost thoughts in his youth about in shaky frequented literary clubs and wrote lyrics, poetry that was naturalistic and realistic. kurdish literature was for bisan. it was illegal like drugs or something. and i think i was always self-confident. i just went in and read my poems and the folks there were surprised . the 1617 year old boy, you know, where did he learn to speak? kurdish shiki quickly made a name for himself as a modern poet who courted controversy. his writing advocate, equality of the sexes then human rights activist. in 2009,

he took part in iran's green movement. people rose up against the regime that put his life in danger. spending 20 years in jail, i don't fear torture or even the death penalty, but fear the indeterminacy if you're arrested by the secret police or whoever, there's no guarantee he'll be released in 3 hours or 7. after 7 months or 7 years, he was arrested but managed to escape. he never wanted to leave his country from the german government, including and yet the fear from that time still haunts him. i've never rented an apartment that was above the 3rd floor because

if they come for me, i must flee, no matter what happens to me. whenever i went to look at him, i always checked. i still have those habits. reform, i lived off. it took a long time before she could feel he was on firm ground again. he broke with his past and embarked on the search for a new life, a new identity, and words, his most important tools. he wants to communicate. but in what language? you know, 70 percent of the people around me are germans or german speakers in the streets or my streets. these walls are my walls. there's this cafe is my candy. these are my neighbors. they're churman speak german. makes it exciting, but hard to write. but for now,

he's preoccupied with bringing some peace into his life. having a secure job and residency status. shakey is employed as a social education worker and a home for asylum seekers in his new home berlin. the start, berlin is a city of my soul. berlin has a soul that's completely crazy and since me cause its soul is like mine is not the least. that's my feeling. and early in this nationality lives are not the rules, nationality, unless it's also how shabab in shaky feels. it's impossible for him to return to iran. he hasn't seen his homeland in a decade. so where does he belong now? in berlin, the russians that's occurred, maybe i should see him kurdistan will forever be in the duggar,

but i was born there and i'm a kurd. but the person i am known for him, this here is my home. that's it. from art's 21 this week. stay safe until next time. good bye and i'll feed again.

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