Description

If a German native speaker has an Arabic name, it raises legitimate questions in everyday life.
If someone like Amir Shaheen is also a writer and publishes books, then it makes sense to want to know whether his texts are being translated – into German!
Amir Shaheen describes in a pointed and witty manner what his name alone can trigger among his “bio-German” fellow human beings in this country. He describes his experiences in an entertaining and extremely amusing way. At the same time, it invites you to take a critical look at widespread pigeonholing and supposed self-evident things, to examine expectations and prejudices, to become aware of what is often only well-intentioned and also of the omnipresent scissors in your head...

For his brilliant finale in the city library, Amir Shaheen relied on a well-known couple: Adam and Eve were the first migrants after their expulsion from paradise: “God created the migration background.”

-Thomas Krumm, Altenaer Kreisblatt