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Rasha Abbas (c) Heike Steinweg
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Rasha Abbas (born in Latakia, Syria in 1984) is a writer and journalist. She studied journalism at the University of Damascus and has published prose texts in various Arabic newspapers such as al-Quds al-arabi and As-Safir and on cultural websites. She writes mainly short stories, and brought out her first collection, Adam Hates the Television in 2008. She worked as a writer and translator on the 2014 anthology Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline. Rasha Abbas came from Syria to Germany in 2014, with the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Fellowship of the Schloss Solitude Academy in Stuttgart. During that time she worked on her second collection of short stories, The Gist of It, which is due to be published in 2016. A collection of her short stories came out in German translation in March 2016 from the Orlanda Verlag in Berlin, including Rasha Abbas’ depiction of her initial impressions of Germany. She currently lives in Berlin.
Publications:
Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline. Saqi Books 2014
Adam Hates the Television. Short stories. Damascus Arab Capital of Culture publications 2008
In German:
Die Erfindung der deutschen Grammatik. Geschichten. mikrotext 2016