ALLIANZ KULTURSTIFTUNG

The Allianz Cultural Foundation and the Foundation Brandenburger Tor award their 2019 grant Torschreiber am Pariser Platz to the Yemeni author Galal Alahmadi. 
Galal Alahmadi worked as a journalist and editor for several newspapers and journals in the Arabic world. He has published four anthologies of poetry until today. For his work he has received the Mohammed-Afifi-Matar-Prize in Cairo, among others. He lives with his family in exile in Germany. 

On 5 March 2019 a reading and discussion with Galal Alahmadi and Rasha Habbal, the two laureates of the grant, will take place at the Allianz Forum in Berlin.

Press release Torschreiber 2019 (in German)

The buzzwords "migration" and "displacement" continue to polarize within European society, and remain high on Germany’s political agenda. Much is at stake and it is time to discuss where the actors involved stand in the revision of present-day politics. Together with Michelle Müntefering, Leoluca Orlando, Cécile Kashetu Kyenge, Günter Burkhardt and other representatives from politics, civil society and the sciences, we wanted to search for unusual answers and concrete solutions for the current challenges of European migration policy. The event was held in cooperation with the European Parliament Liaison Office in Germany, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Freudenberg Foundation.

You can find the Livestream of the event here.