Sirine Malas is an artist living in Berlin. Her writing career kicked off as she focused her engagement into media reporting and editorials during the Syrian revolution. Her work was published in English and Arabic, mostly online, via IWRP and Syria News Desk—an AFP sponsored initiative, among others. She also collaborates with the DW in Berlin, related to the Syrian situation since 2015. Her literature work comprises of poetry and short stories. Sirine recently completed a six-year novel named Dance in the Land of Bull Killers, of a love story where she journals events as they take place amid revolution, war and displacement. She performed a reading of excerpts of the book as part of a cabaret number in 2018 titled Across the Middle, Past the East, Unsettled Cabaret, which continues to feature in Germany.
In 2011, a wave of protests hit the Arab countries that had been silently living under dictatorships. Al-Buazizi ignited a spark of opposition that swept across the entire region to reach Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria. The ruling regimes responded with more oppression and extreme violence, and the d...
