Nada
Al-Khawwam

Iraqi poet and Arabist Nada Al-Khawwam was the first guest of the ICORN Fellowship for Cultural Professionals at Risk, newly established in 2018, from December 2018 to February 2020. In addition to giving a reading at the UNESCO World Poetry Day at the Brandenburg Gate Foundation and lectures at the Institute for Semitic and Arabic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, she participated in the ICORN General Assembly in Rotterdam. In October 2019, Al-Khawwam participated with a reading in the second edition of the Arab-German Literature Days, organized by the Gunda Werner Institute at the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Fann Magazine. As a conclusion of her stay, a trilingual publication (German/English/Arabic) was published.