Widad Nabi

Widad Nabi, born in 1985 in Kobani, Syria, is a Kurdish-Syrian writer and poet. She studied economics at the University of Aleppo, earning a bachelor’s degree. Her work has appeared in Arabic, English and French journals and anthologies, as well as in German publications including Berliner Zeitung, Spiegel Online, Kursbuch, Die ZEIT and Frankfurter Rundschau. She published the Arabic-language books “Time for Love, Time for War” in 2013 and “Syria and the Meaninglessness of Death” in 2016. Her first book in German, “Kurz vor dreißig, … küss mich,” appeared in 2019, followed by the poetry collection “Unsichtbare Brüche” in 2021. Nabi participated in the Berlin Poetry Festival in 2017, received a Weiter Schreiben fellowship in 2018 and was Rheinsberg’s writer-in-residence in 2020.