Haji Jabir: Black Foam

German Book Premiere

Dawit? David? Or perhaps Dawoud? On the run from a dark past, Haji Jabir has his protagonist take on different names, identities, and religious affiliations in his desperate search for a home. His journey takes him from Eritrea via North Africa to Israel – always in the hope of finally arriving. »Heartbreaking (…) Yet Jabir takes pains to humanize rather than idealize« (National Public Radio).

With Haji Jabir

Moderated by Mustafa Al-Slaiman.

Read by Barnaby Metschurat.

With the kind support of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

The event is held in Arabic with a consecutive translation into German.

»Black Foam« (Raghwat Sawdaa) was translated from Arabic into German by Sandra Hetzl.

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