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A Syrious Look. A Magazine about Cultural Displacement.

A Syrious Look is an independent magazine-project, that will feature Syrian artists, writers, and cr The magazine was released in December 2016. Get involved!

A Syrious Look is an independent magazine that features Syrian writers, creatives, and artists who have recently come to Germany. All proceeds will be donated to a refugee aid organization. Besides featuring their recent work, the artists will reflect on their current situation and questions of home, identity, and exile. Featured figures:

Sulafa Hijazi (conceptual artist), Sadiq Jalal al-Azm (phi

losophy professor emeritus), Raed Wahsh (online magazine founder), Doha Hassan (journalist), Talal Derki (movie director, The Return to Homs), Ayham Majid Agha (actor), Liwaa Yazji (screenwriter and movie director; Haunted), Salam Alhassan (musician and illustrator), Amer Matar (writer and founder of the Syrian Mobile Film Festival), Yaser Safi (painter), Aref Hamza (poet), Mey Seifan (Choreographer). A Syrious Look is curated and edited by Mohammad Abou Laban (poet and screenwriter), Ziad Adwan (theatre and film director), and Mario Münster (co-founder of ROSEGARDEN Magazine). The Berlin-based photographers Tabea Mathern and Florian Reimann shot a series of portraits of all featured artists. The photos appear in the magazine and are scheduled to be exhibited in Berlin. The Hamburg-based design Studio Mutter provided the magazine’s design. Stories Unlimited, a Berlin-based creative studio specializing in video storytelling, is on board for a video documentation. Contributing editors: Lena Baseler, Raphael Neuner, David Hermann. KOMBUESE e.V., a non-profit organization
dedicated to the idea of social entrepreneurship is supporting the project. The project is supported by METRO GROUP. Be part of something unique and important. A Syrious Look is currently looking for companies and organizations to help us finance the project. A more detailed draft and a draft copy of the
magazine is available upon request. Contact us: mario(a)asyriouslook.com

17/01/2021

Berlinale Talents is the annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival for outstanding creatives from the fields of film and drama series. | 13 - 18 FEB, 2021

22/03/2020

05/03/2020

Reading Resistance Reading and Talk

Three authors* read and present their texts and engage in discussions with the author Deniz Utlu. From different angles they deal with queerness, migration, politics, history(ies), identities and memories and shed light on the resistant power of writing in their texts. The event is part of the netwo...

13/10/2019

Liwaa Yazji is a filmmaker, playwright, scriptwriter and a poet. She has written different plays, such as Here in the Park. Her play Goats has been published in English and produced in The Royal Court Theatre. Additionally, the play Q&Q was a part of the Birth Debate Project in Manchester, along wit...

14/06/2019

Crowdfunding for TransitoryWhite. TransitoryWhite is an online platform for the connectivity of intersected discourses of local, regional, and global perspectives on art, design and activism. TransitoryWhite is about contemporary art from the blind spots (“white spots”) from Central Asia, Caucasus and Eastern Europe.

TransitoryWhite ist eine Online-Zeitschrift über die nicht-postsowjetische Ästhetik aus postsowjetischen Ländern.

09/06/2019

"If we can`t live together here, we can`t live together anywhere"..The series project -Heim- is selected for development by Doha Film Institute.
Mohammad Abou Laban Liwaa Yazji David Hermann Tania V. El Khoury

If we can’t live together here, we can’t live together anywhere. This drama takes place in a refugee centre in Berlin-Tempelhof airport, which though technically out of service is still “welcoming” different departing and arriving sort of people. They’re not the fancy passersby travelling ...

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