Odai Al Zoubi is a Syrian short-story writer, essayist and translator. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of East Anglia. His most recent publication is the travelogue Moving Shadows, 2025, following five volumes of short stories since 2015. Al Zoubi was awarded a 2023 creative and critical writings grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture for Empty Heavens, a collection of stories about everyday Syrians in their countries of refuge.
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Publishing 3 September 2026 What brings people to today’s Berlin, what makes them stay? For some, the city is a place of refuge, from war and persecution, bigotry or boredom. For others, it’s the history or the nightlife or the broad green spaces that attract them – or haunt them. And a few are just …
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Berlin Babel
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176 pages3 September 2026