Widad Nabi presents “Taking Roots”.

Literaturhaus Wiesbaden Support Association Frankfurter Str. 1, Wiesbaden, Hesse

On June 25, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. as part of the literature festival “Ins Offene” in Wiesbaden there will be a reading followed by a conversation with the author Widad Nabi about her current work Taking Roots. This is the first text I have written in German.” And this is the first sentence with which Widad Nabi introduces her essay “A Homeland in Language”. It is at the beginning of the anthology “Taking Roots”, which collects texts on “Exile, Home and Security” by the Syrian-born author. The…

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