Benefizveranstaltung | Rafik Schami | Die Königin und der Kalligraph
Benefizveranstaltung for the bilingual schools for Arabs and Jews "Hand in Hand" in Israel.
In collaboration with the "Tübinger Kinos". The entire admission will be donated.
Rafik Schami introduces the book and the life of Moussa Abadi and his wonderful wife Odette: The Queen and the Calligrapher.
An emotional memoir about the Damascus of yesterday and a plea for peaceful coexistence of all peoples and confessions in the Middle East.
A highly relevant testimony of humanity and religious tolerance in the Middle East – published for the first time in German, edited by Rafik Schami.
Moussa Abadi was born in the Jewish quarter of Damascus and grew up in peace and freedom. In his touching collection of stories, he describes this world of yesterday with atmospheric depth and humor – Damascus in the brief phase from the end of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 to the French occupation at the beginning of the 1920s. We learn about the life of the Jewish community and their peaceful, even fraternal coexistence with members of other religions. Thus, this memoir becomes a utopia set in the past, a celebration of the fraternal and harmonious cohabitation of Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
Rafik Schami was born in 1946 in Damascus and has lived in Germany since 1971. His extensive body of work has been translated into 35 languages and has received numerous awards, including the Hermann-Hesse-Prize, the Nelly-Sachs-Prize, the "Against Forgetting - For Democracy" Prize, the Gustav-Heinemann Peace Prize, and the Carl-Zuckmayer-Medal. In the Hanser children's and youth book category, among others, his works include This is Not a Parrot (illustrated by Wolf Erlbruch, 1994), The Swallow's Longing (2000), How I Took Away Papa's Fear of Strangers (2003, illustrated by Ole Könnecke), The Camel Driver of Heidelberg (2006, illustrated by Henrike Wilson), The Heart of the Doll (2012, illustrated by Kathrin Schärer), Master Marios Story (2013, illustrated by Anja Maria Eisen), Elisa or The Night of Wishes (2019, illustrated by Gerda Raidt); in the adult program of the publisher, The Dark Side of Love (novel, 2004), The Secret of the Calligrapher (novel, 2008), The Woman Who Sold Her Husband at the Flea Market (2011), Sophia or The Beginning of All Stories (novel, 2015), The Cardinal's Secret Mission (novel, 2019), My Zodiac is the Rainbow (2021), and When You Tell Stories, the Desert Blossoms (novel, 2023).
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