Syria, ICORN, 2022
Hanadi
Zarka
Syrian poet, journalist and writer Hanadi Zarka has published six volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories for children and two books about Omar al-Khayyam and Federico García Lorca for young adults in Arabic. Her poems have been translated into French, German, Dutch, English and Danish. Three volumes of poetry, I saw a pale cloud … I heard black rain (2018), Life is quiet in the Vitrine (2016) and Alzheimer’s (2014), which was highly praised by critics, are available in Danish translation. The poet regularly publishes essays on the online platform Awan. She has published numerous articles on Radio Cosmo’s Arabic program and has written for the Lebanese daily newspapers al-Safir and al-Akhbar and the Lebanese literary magazine al-Adab. In 2018, she was awarded a grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC). Since the beginning of the protests in Syria in 2011, the trained agricultural engineer has worked on a voluntary basis with Syrian internally displaced persons, especially women and children. Zarka has been living and working in the German capital since December 2022. Her residency at the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program was funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion as part of the partnership with ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network).
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Wie ein Herz am Hauseingang
Hanadi Zarka2025, Poems
Syrian poet, journalist and writer Hanadi Zarka has so far published six volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories for children and two books on Omar al-Khayyam and Federico García Lorca for young adults in Arabic. In the bilingual volume Wie ein Herz am Hauseingang (Like a Heart at the House Entrance), a selection of the poems she wrote during her protection stay in Berlin as part of the ICORN program, is published in a translation by Barbara Winckler.
This publication and the ICORN scholarships were funded by the State of Berlin as part of the “Weltoffenes Berlin” program of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
In Arabic and German
Order at: bkp.berlin@daad.de