It includes four research studies that were completed in the third and fourth cycles of the Research Programme: To Deepen the Culture of Knowledge:
- Studying the Syrian cultural product in exile between democratic integration and acculturation. Germany is a model between the two stages of voluntary and forced migration, by researcher Heba Mehrez, under the supervision of Dr. Jamal Shehid.
- The development of Syrian television drama production mechanisms by researcher Wael Salem under the supervision of Dr. Mary Elias
- Children in the darkness of ISIS: between jihadist education and recruitment, by researcher Wassim Raif Salti and supervised by Dr. Jamal Shahid.
- The image of the homeland in the independent Syrian song (From All of Us Together to Bread of a State), by researcher Wassim Al-Sharafi and supervised by Dr. Mary Elias.
Moving between the ancient markets of Aleppo and the bars of Berlin, the hero of the novel “Berlin Papers” rediscovers himself time after time, opens his hands to various experiences and new people, and listens closely waiting for someone to tell him a new story so that he can write it down. We see him escaping from a failed love story through exploration. The history of Germany in the two world wars: the first and the second, to get lost in memories, pictures, and maps, between western and eastern Aleppo and between western and eastern Berlin, and to flip through the paintings of the German painter Otto Dix, which embodied the ugliness of the First World War; In order to forget the images of destruction and killing that were preserved in his memory.
In his novel, Nihad Siris moves lightly between places, people, and events, within one flowing text, and his work hides behind a documentary character that explores the history of wars and city architecture, and then surprises the reader with an unexpected dose of imagination about marvels and supernatural powers that help people overcome the scourges of war by escaping towards... New beginnings.
Can a person escape from a war in his country by diving into the history of another war that took place in another time and place?
