Rasha Hilwi | Akademie Schloss Solitude: Schlosspost

Rasha Hilwi

Jerusalem — Cultural Journalism, Solitude fellow 2016

Rasha Hilwi is an Arab Palestinian writer, cultural journalist, and blogger. She was born in the city of Acre in 1984. Today, she is a freelance cultural journalist; her texts are published in major Arab newspapers, online media, and cultural platforms. Lately, she is also one of the editors-in-chief for »Fus-ha«, a Palestinian cultural online magazine issued by »Arab48« website. Since 2007, she has also written on her own blog »Zaghroda«

Akademie Schloss Solitude Profile

Articles with and by Rasha Hilwi:

Schlossghost #2

Art, As a Lifestyle

Lorgennale Festival Stuttgart

Home Is the Most Important Thing in People’s Lives

Interview by Rasha Hilwi

This interview by cultural journalist Rasha Hilwi with Jean-Lorin Sterian is about the idea of the festival and the importance of »home-based« art practices.

Cultural Journalism

11 Questions for Theresia Bauer

with Theresia Bauer, Tony Feda, Rasha Hilwi, Yania Suárez Calleyro

Three cultural journalists from Cuba, Palestine and Togo met minister Theresia Bauer for an interview about her positions relating to politics and culture today.

Radio Solitude #7

Good Morning Habibi

Cultural journalist Rasha Hilwi from Palestine and German journalist Elisabeth Weydt in a skype talk on the ideas of their joint podcast project »Radio Solitude«.

Radio Solitude #6

Interview with Cultural Journalist Yania Suarez

by Elisabeth Weydt & Rasha Hilwi

»I have no real job, I have no real social life. I am free«, journalist Yania Suarez manages to laugh a lot in this conversation about the sad side of Cuban life.

Radio Solitude #4

Spanish Artist Teresa Solar And Palestinian Journalist Rasha Hilwi Sing About Love

with Teresa Solar by Elisabeth Weydt & Rasha Hilwi

Singing songs amongst friends seems to be a normal Beschäftigung almost everywhere but in Germany. And those friends do have impressive voices.

Inside Solitude #7

Jean-Lorin

Radio Solitude #3

An Interview with Hungarian Writer Mátyás Dunajcsik

with Mátyás Dunajcsik by Elisabeth Weydt & Rasha Hilwi

»Reality does not have its own structure, it’s structured by the way you are thinking. And depending in which language you are thinking you are structuring reality.« An Interview with author and writer Mátyás Dunajcsik.

Radio Solitude #1

Storytelling Night: Scary Stories

by Elisabeth Weydt & Rasha Hilwi

Journey #4

The Nightingale of Berlin

I visited the Bulbul Berlin café for the first time at the beginning of July, as soon as I arrived in Germany. I met the familiar faces of friends from different Arabic countries and it felt like home.

Cultural Journalism

Palestinian Cultural Journalism is a Responsibility

»I think there’s a responsibility that falls to us cultural journalists everywhere, to pressure media organizations to allocate spaces for arts and culture, regardless of the overall global crisis of journalism.«

Inside #4

On the Insight of »See You Tomorrow«

Journey #1

About Tawf عن طَوْف

Cultural journalism

Cultural Journalism – Voices From Abroad

with Komi Antoine Feda, Rasha Hilwi & Yania Suárez Calleyro

Three self-introductions of the cultural journalists who have been invited for a five-month fellowship – Yania Suárez Calleyro, Komi Antoine Feda, and Rasha Hilwi