Rasha Abbas

Germany/Berlin — Literature, Jean-Jacques Rousseau fellowship, Solitude fellow 2014

Rasha Abbas is a Syrian journalist and writer of short stories. She is currently based in Berlin, Germany. In 2008, she published her first short story collection, Adam Hates the Television, and was awarded a prize for young writers during the Damascus Capital of Arab Culture festival. She is currently working on her second short story collection, tentatively entitled The Gist of It.

Akademie Schloss Solitude Profile

Articles with and by Rasha Abbas:

How Political Can We Get While Writing?

by Rasha Abbas

Literature

We Can’t Compete in Writing

with Rasha Abbas

The Syrian writer Rasha Abbas was working on translating her new short stories in Ghent/New York when the Paris attacks happened. A talk about dreams, writing in times of war, and false fears.

Chronicles of Work

Miserable Work Chronicles

by Rasha Abbas

Syrian writer Rasha Abbas worked as a media professional in Damascus when the revolution broke out, at which point her »eyes had suddenly been opened.«

Poetry Series

emoemoji : Rasha

by Dan Boehl

»Rasha stayed up late one night writing about Karl Eugen, the failed Duke of Schloss Solitude. As the hours grew deep into black, a sudden shudder overtook her…«

Fiction

Bad Reading

with Literature fellows

Literature and performing arts fellows of Solitude left their usual working routines and joined an author collective to read »bad.«