close your eyes try to smell the stones and you will feel home and there is always like a very nice trips we go through while closing their eyes and thinking about our memories our heritage many visitors return time and again exhibits provide comfort in stability coming here also helps combat her homesickness after she was forced to flee syria 6 years ago. national museum and 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 everything. 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 antigovernment protests known as the arab spring began.

worm's arabic spring star. it's give me a hope. that time to change. the situation we live in or we live with since very long time. joined in the demonstrations and fought for change but the protests were brutally suppressed. it was repeatedly arrested and eventually fled her home and it 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.

it's mostly. maybe because they're working for the ones who 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 hand germany which gets refugees practical info on how to adapt to life here i believe that. 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 and. are you are really feeling she said years. unfortunately and that's it but you don't look like. so i mean 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 life 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 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 halter railway station once stood. to open its doors in 2025 the modern building will curve around the stations ruins. literature nobel prize winner. who fled from romania and dictator nicolette. regime to germany in 1907 is the museum's patron. berlin is coming to terms with its past but 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 and 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 university incident. on the congo that i come to germany and i was like a child and that's dead and done and half blind to. the. shaky belongs to iran's kurdish minority he learned his mother tongue kurdish from

his father he describes it as the language of his soul and his innermost thoughts in his youth about in shaky frequented literary clubs and wrote lyric poetry that was naturalistic and realistic. kurdish literature was for bisan you know it was illegal like drugs or something. but i think i was always self-confident. i just went in and read my poems and the folks there were surprised on the 1617 year old boy where did he learn to speak kurdish. shaky quickly made a name for himself as a modern poet who courted controversy his writing advocate. equality of the sexes and human rights and he was a vocal activist in 2009. people the regime that put his life in danger. spending 20 years in jail

i don't fear torture or even the death penalty. but i do fear the indeterminacy the lack of clarity if you're arrested by the secret police or whoever there's no guarantee you'll be released in 2 or 3 hours. or 7 or 7 months or 7 years. managed to escape. never wanted to leave his country. from the german government. to safety fears from that time still haunt him. have never rented an apartment that was above the 3rd floor because i always thought if they come for me i must flee no matter what happens to me. whenever i went to look at him i always checked at least.

i still have it was happens this is a good one. 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 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 the streets are my streets these walls are my walls this cafe is my candy. you are naturalised here these are my neighbors weren't there germans or speak german makes it exciting it's about 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. the start berlin is a city of my soul. berlin has a soul that's completely crazy and has been since me because its soul is like mine is not the least of that's my feeling and berlin is nationality less their knowledge rules nationality less is also how shy about 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. national that's occurred maybe i should say kurdistan will forever be my homeland and i was born there and i'm a kurd but that's the person i am known for him and this here is my home.

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