Olga Grjasnowa’s new novel ‘God Is Not Shy’ tells of Amal and Hammoudi. Young, beautiful and privileged, they believe in the revolution in Syria. However, two years later, actress Amal finds herself on the ocean where she saves a baby because the cargo ship on which she was to be smuggled to Europe has sunk. The physician Hammoudi has just secured a job at the best hospital in Paris. He also loses everything when he goes to Damascus to take…
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This is the fabulous Lina Khesina. The illustrator and designer grew up in Pensa, Russia and came to Germany when she was 16 years old. At first, she and her family lived in a…
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This is Alex. Alex is a comedian who was born in Omsk, Russia and came to Germany in 1995. He lived in Lower Saxony most of his life until he finally moved to Berlin…