Übergangsritus

In the organizer's words:

"How does it work: life in exile, as a refugee, a Palestinian, without a place in the world? Abdalrahman Alqalaq's poems tell of this in many voices: sometimes tender, sometimes melancholy, sometimes bitter. Without pathos, never bold, with immense poetic intensity." This is how Claudia Kramatschek describes the book "Rite of Passage", which was published in German by Wallstein Verlag in 2024. In a reading, Alqalaq, who is also part of the core curatorial team of the Arab Theater Meeting, will present excerpts from his book for the first time in Hanover. In it, he talks tenderly and yet relentlessly about the everyday and the incomprehensible, about flying and falling between two worlds - and engages in a tough debate with his literary counterpart, interweaving the fates trapped in collective memory - across the Mediterranean to Europe. Approx. 50 minutes, in German and Arabic This content has been machine translated.