Amir Shaheen reads from "I'm not a foreigner, that's just my name" at KUBA Jülich

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Book content: "When 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, well, then it makes sense to want to know whether his texts will be translated – into German!

Amir Shaheen describes pointedly and wittily what his name alone is able to trigger in his bio-German fellow human beings in this country. He tells his experiences in an entertaining and very amusing way. At the same time, he invites you to take a critical look at widespread pigeonhole thinking and what is supposedly taken for granted, to examine expectations and prejudices, to become aware of what is often just well-meant and also of the omnipresent scissors in the head..." (Sujet Verlag 2020 )