Based in Berlin, Germany, Qian Sun works as a freelance journalist for multiple media outlets in China and Europe. She mainly works for Phoenix TV, Hong Kong, as a correspondent covering German and European politics. Her writing, however, takes a human angle and mostly focuses on refugee and migration issues in Europe.
Liad Hussein Kantorowicz is a Jewish artist, musician, feminist activist and a perpetual migrant initially from Palestine and living in Berlin for the past 13 years. The debut album of her musical project Liadland called ‘Nothing To Declare’ is set for release next April whether or not it will get her cancelled in Germany, and she’s also a part of the Jewish Bund. @liadland
Dr Akram Al Deek is a Palestinian Writer in Exile, Activist, Literary Critic, and Scholar in Post-colonial Studies. He is the author of five books, multiple articles and research papers, in both Arabic and English on the politics of home and identity, displacement, migration and multiculturalism. He shuttles between Europe and The Middle East.
Molly is an international primary school teacher from the U.K. and currently working in Berlin. She is studying a Master’s degree in ‘Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies’ with the University of London.
Eleri Connick is a doctoral candidate at the University of Amsterdam’s School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture. She was the PhD Fellow at Darat al Funun (Amman) February–July 2023 and a ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius Beyond Borders Start-up Scholar in 2022/2023.
Her doctoral project, "The Materiality of Exile in Jordan and Lebanon: The Palestinian House,” proposes a radical conceptualization of home and all that it can provoke. The project posits home as a place and employs spatial imaginary to understanding the experience of exile, an opening to the material objects of exile, and a portal to the scalar and temporal relations (and memories) that emerge.
Dr Akram Al Deek is a Palestinian Writer in Exile, Activist, Literary Critic, and Scholar in Post-colonial Studies. He is the author of five books, multiple articles and research papers, in both Arabic and English on the politics of home and identity, displacement, migration and multiculturalism. He shuttles between Europe and The Middle East.
