»Every act of freedom – leaving home, leaving the present, severing traditions, freeing one from oneself, abandoning a religion, and rebelling against the rebellion itself – is an adventure. It is always exhausting and can be dramatic: Those who seek freedom risk their lives!«
»Freiheit: Heimat, Gefängnis, Exil und die Welt« (Freedom: Homeland, Prison, Exile and the World) by Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, the fourth volume of the publication series of the Forum Transregional Studien at Matthes & Seitz Berlin was published in spring 2020. The volume will also soon be available in Open Access here.
Translated from Arabic to German by Günther Orth, edited and with a forword by Georges Khalil and a biographical profile by Wolf Lepenies.