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Dilo is 16 years old when he leaves his hometown of Qamishlo. He is looking for a better life, flees the strictness of his parents' home, flees the hostilities and discrimination that he has to experience as a Kurd in Syria. His destination is Paris, which for him is synonymous with inner and outer freedom. Young as he is, he has no idea what lies ahead, although he grew up with the history of the Kurds and their constant distress.

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"Once upon a time there was a hungry lion who called every place he entered his kingdom..." With a soft voice, almost shy, the Syrian-Kurdish-German author Berzan Kejo reads from his autobiographical novel in the Hamburg workshop on July 21, 2016 Ro Jîn - Sonne des Lebens.” (…) more