Alexander Dziadosz

Alexander Dziadosz lives in Berlin.

Six years ago​, when I was living in Beirut, I used to watch soap operas produced in Syria. They regularly took displacement and exile as their theme, which wasn’t surprising given that half the Syrian population have been forced to leave their homes in the last decade. I remember one show in which a Damascus housewife meets an expat on Facebook and dreams of joining him in Austria....

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