Beirut für wilde Mädchen

The literary autobiography, a global-Arabic story, describes a youth in the cultural and religious melting pot of Lebanon with all its upheavals and radicalisations in the 1970s from the perspective and experience of someone born only as a girl. 'In exile' in Europe, she finds her home in the language, Arabic. And also pays an ironically astute tribute to the German - in the second part - as a freedom-hungry adult in the midst of a traumatised and dutifully culture-creating society.