{"id":2152,"date":"2016-09-13T14:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T12:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/?post_type=stsp_author&#038;p=2152"},"modified":"2016-11-30T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:01:37","slug":"najem-wali","status":"publish","type":"eventkrake_artist","link":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/en\/artist\/najem-wali\/","title":{"rendered":"Najem Wali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Najem Wali was born in 1956 in Basra, Iraq. He studied German literature at the University of Bagdad. Succeeding his degree he was drafted into the army in 1978. As he was about to be drafted a second time, shortly after the outbreak of war between Iraq and Iran in September 1980, he fled to West Germany. His asylum application was only accepted in 1984. Wali studied German studies at the University of Hamburg, before moving to Madrid in 1987, in order to study Spanish literature, but returned to Germany in 1990. Currently he resides in Berlin as an author and journalist for the Arabic daily newspaper <em>Al Hayat<\/em> as well as <em>S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/em> and <em>Die Zeit<\/em>\u00a0amongst others. Wali&#8217;s books often concern Iraq. His novel &#8220;Bagdad Marlboro&#8221; was awarded the <em>Bruno-Kreisky-Preis f\u00fcr das politische Buch<\/em> in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliography\">Die Reise nach Tell al-Lahm. Hanser, Munich 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliography\">Engel des S\u00fcdens. Hanser, Munich 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliography\">Bagdad Marlboro. Hanser, Munich 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliography\">Bagdad. Erinnerungen an eine Weltstadt. Hanser, Munich 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliography\">Im Kopf des Terrors. Vom T\u00f6ten mit und ohne Gott. Residence, Salzburg 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Najem Wali was born in 1956 in Basra, Iraq. He studied German literature at the University of Bagdad. 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