The Circle of Peace is a self-help group for Arabic-speaking women in Germany based on Gestalt therapy approaches. Basma Elmahdy writes about this (virtual) space of healing and connection.

Wafa Mustafa is a Syrian activist and Polina Oleinikova a Russian activist, both of whom live in Berlin, where they dream of freedom, break the rules and advocate for Ukraine...

Omar fled Syria in 2015 and today lives openly queer in Berlin. This is his/her story of self-discovery.

"This type of intimacy and comfort with which we used to meet friends has been lost by Syrians in exile, replaced with a pathological nostalgia. Now we don't know what...

In my mind and memories, exile was a remote and strange place. It was where the persecuted were forced to seek safety from arrest or death, where they were embattled...

We aren’t really over there, and we aren’t here either, struggling to find any satisfactory formula to solve the problem of our roots. We don’t understand what to do with...