Tomer Dotan Dreyfus

Mein zweiter Roman erscheint im September. Wenn ich euer zinteresse geweckt habe, schaut euch den Vorbestellungslink in der Bio. Außerdem: wer kann erraten, was ein Ei auf dem Cover macht - und aus welcher mythologische Vorstellung der Unsterblichkeit es stammt? Ohne google! @volandquist @landwehrundcie @agentur_copywrite

Stories verschwinden, Posts are forever. Mit einer Woche Verspätung jetzt auch hier: ja, #birobidschan ist für den #deutscherbuchpreis nominiert. @buchpreis #longlist #roman #literatur #novel #jiddisch #yiddish #shtetl Pic credits: Buchcover von Frédéric Brenner, ich von @shailevy Das Buch ist in Läden, oder wenn ausverkauft online bei @volandquist

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Auch unser zweites Special Screening zu PALÄSTINA 36 war restlos ausverkauft. Im Anschluss an die Filmvorführung kamen gestern in Berlin im @hackesche.hoefe.kino.berlin Jouanna Hassoun @jouannahassoun (politische Bildnerin und Menschenrechtsaktivistin) Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus @tomerdr (Autor und Publizist) und Fadi Abdelnour @abuelfid (Designer und Mitbegründer des ALFILM Festival) zusammen, um über den Film, den Generalstreik von 1936 sowie die Parallelen zur Gegenwart zu sprechen. Moderiert wurde das Gespräch von Journalistin und Politikwissenschaftlerin Kristin Helberg @helbergkristin . Schauspieler Saleh Bakri @salehbakriart der gerade in Berlin dreht, nahm als Ehrengast am Screening teil. Wir bedanken uns ganz herzlich bei allen Panelteilnehmenden, der Moderatorin und dem wunderbaren Publikum für den schönen Abend. PALÄSTINA 36 startet morgen, am 14. Mai, im Kino. Alle Kinos findet ihr über den Link in unserer Bio! 🎬 #palästina36 #palestine36 #panel #kinostart #jetztimkino

Germany persecutes - We step in Amid the German state’s ongoing repression of Palestine solidarity, a Palestinian family of six — including four little kids — is currently at risk of homelessness in Berlin after surviving the genocide in Gaza, tremendous loss, and forced displacement. The family has been completely cut off from state social and financial support and is struggling simply to survive. At the same time, Germany’s inhuman racist system is systematically threatening refugees from Gaza with deportation to Greece. This is why #CommunityMutualAid is urgently needed as rent deadlines approach. Beyond rent, we also need to cover the family’s basic human needs in the coming months. We do not understand #CommunityMutualAid as charity. We understand it as solidarity, collective care, and resistance against deeply racist systems that decide whose lives are considered worthy of protection. When states fail and violence becomes policy, our responsibility to each other becomes even more important. Solidarity is our strength and our weapon. Let’s show that communities can support each other when systems fail. Please donate here /urgent-housing-for-palestinian-refugees-berlin Please support the family through donations. We also ask you to share this call and the fundraiser widely within your circles. And don’t forget to manually add the donation link when sharing in your Instagram stories . The link is in bio. 🇵🇸❤️ #FreePalestine #Berlin #Gaza MutualAid PalestineSolidarity NoBorders RefugeesWelcome StopDeportations SolidarityNotCharity

O Mother: Life writing and the search for the irretrievable Readings & Conversation | With: Sandra Hetzl @sandrahetzl , emet ezell | Mod: Tomer Dotan Dreyfus @tomerdr 13. Mai | 20:00 | Roter Salon In summer 2024, Sandra Hetzl, a writer and prolific translator of contemporary Arabic literature, travelled to Turkey in search of the biological mother she had never met: Selma Yılma, a former so-called “gastarbeiter” who left Germany and returned home, where she later died. Hetzl was armed with the only one of her mother’s belongings in her possession: a copy of Shams al-Maarif al-Kubra, or The Sun of Great Knowledge, a 13th-century Arabic compendium of enchantments, talismans, instructions for summoning demons and spells to bring the dead back to life. Artist emet ezell spent the following summer, 2025, in their ancestral home of Sabile, Latvia, the town from which their grandfather’s family was deported in May 1915. ezell had been commissioned to exhibit their art in the synagogue their great-grandparents once attended, which was looted and damaged during the campaign of ethnic cleansing and now converted into Sabile’s Arts and Culture Center. In this evening of readings and conversation, ezell will read from their essay ‘The Artist Does Not Believe in Healing,’ which reflects on the process of putting together that exhibition, while Hetzl will read excerpts from Looking for Selma, the book manuscript that recounts her ongoing search for her mother, translated into English by Ayça Türkoǧlu. With Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus, Hetzl and ezell will discuss life writing and the (im)possibility of return, retrieval and healing. How past is the past, and what does the mother have to do with it? An evening of readings and conversation addressing potential futures between the river and the sea, curated by Abdalrahman Alqalaq @aboud.alqalaq , Katharine Halls @k_l__h____ and Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus @tomerdr

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𝕺 𝕸𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗 – 𝕷𝖎𝖋𝖊 𝖜𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖈𝖍 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖎𝖗𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖛𝖆𝖇𝖑𝖊 In summer 2024, Sandra Hetzl, a writer and prolific translator of contemporary Arabic literature, travelled to Turkey in search of the biological mother she had never met: Selma Yılma, a former so-called “gastarbeiter” who left Germany and returned home, where she later died. Hetzl was armed with the only one of her mother’s belongings in her possession: a copy of Shams al-Maarif al-Kubra, or The Sun of Great Knowledge, a 13th-century Arabic compendium of enchantments, talismans, instructions for summoning demons and spells to bring the dead back to life. Artist emet ezell spent the following summer, 2025, in their ancestral home of Sabile, Latvia, the town from which their grandfather’s family was deported in May 1915. ezell had been commissioned to exhibit their art in the synagogue their great-grandparents once attended, which was looted and damaged during the campaign of ethnic cleansing and now converted into Sabile’s Arts and Culture Center. In this evening of readings and conversation, ezell will read from their essay ‘The Artist Does Not Believe in Healing,’ which reflects on the process of putting together that exhibition, while Hetzl will read excerpts from Looking for Selma, the book manuscript that recounts her ongoing search for her mother, translated into English by Ayça Türkoǧlu. With Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus, Hetzl and ezell will discuss life writing and the (im)possibility of return, retrieval and healing. How past is the past, and what does the mother have to do with it? An evening of readings and conversation addressing potential futures between the river and the sea, curated by Abdalrahman Alqalaq, Katharine Halls and Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus. 1 - 𝕺 𝕸𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗 – 𝕷𝖎𝖋𝖊 𝖜𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖈𝖍 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖎𝖗𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖛𝖆𝖇𝖑𝖊 (Fenster in İznik) 2 - Palast der Gerechtigkeit, İznik 3 - Aus "Looking for Selma" [AT] 4 - Hamitler Friedhof, Bursa 5 - Aus "Looking for Selma" 6 - Ich hab noch ein Grab in Bursa 7 - Aus "Looking for Selma" 8 - ◇♧◇

Am Dienstag, den 12. Mai um 20 Uhr habt ihr in Berlin die Möglichkeit, PALÄSTINA 36 in einer Special Preview mit anschließendem Expert:innen-Panel zu sehen. Gäste des Panel sind Jouanna Hassoun @jouannahassoun (politische Bildnerin und Menschenrechtsaktivistin) Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus @tomerdr (Autor und Publizist), Alena Jabarine @alenajabarine (Journalistin und Autorin) und Fadi Abdelnour @abuelfid (Designer und Mitbegründer des ALFILM Festival). Moderiert wird das Gespräch von Journalistin und Politikwissenschaftlerin Kristin Helberg @helbergkristin 📆 12. Mai, 20 Uhr 📍 @hackesche.hoefe.kino.berlin Tickets im Vorverkauf über die Website des Kinos @hackesche.hoefe.kino.berlin oder über den Linktree in unserer Bio. PALÄSTINA 36 – ab 14. Mai im Kino. #palästina36 #palestine36 @annamariajacir @karimanayaa @palestine36film

I don't expect the PM of what's left of the so called British Empire to know anything about colonialism or decolonialosm, but to claim the Intifada was directed at Jews for being Jews and therefore calling to globalize it is antisemitic, is just so utterly lazy, when clearly Palestinians would resist ANY illegal occupier, jewish or not, and the best example for that: is Great f*cking Britain. Globalize the intifada means globalize the fight for freedom against systems of oppression, and THIS is what you are against, Keir Starmer, don't put that on us.

Lesung mit Amnesty Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus (@tomerdr ) zeigt in seinem Buch „Keinheimisch“ auf, wie es ist, wenn man in einem Zuhause lebt, aus dem jemand anderes vertrieben wurde. Wie es ist, wenn der zionistische Opa 1948 während der Nakbar kämpfte und was es bedeutet, Militärdienst in einem System der Apartheid zu leisten. Berührend zeigt das Buch Parallelen und Gegensätze zweier Schicksalsgemeinschaften zwischen Zuflucht und Vertreibung auf und fragt mehr als, wo ist zuhause? Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus schreibt gegen das Schweigen an und hinterfragt nicht zuletzt die eigene Familienerzählung. Das mediale Narrativ in Israel und Deutschland ist ähnlich, wenn es um den Genozid in Gaza oder das System der Apartheid geht. Die Entmenschlichung der einen und die Überhöhung der anderen in einer Welt in der alle gleich an Würde sind. Die Realität ist eigentlich nicht aushaltbar. Menschenrechte gelten für alle gleich. Immer. Überall. Seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 scheint dieses Fundament massiv zu wackeln. Was kann eine Menschenrechtsorganisation tun? Was kann jede*r einzelne tun, gegen das Schweigen, die Verharmlosung und die Entmenschlichung? Die Lesung ist kostenlos und findet in der Veranstaltungshalle des Biergartens Jockel statt. Tickets könnt ihr über den Link in der Bio buchen. Hinweis: Der Veranstaltungsort ist leider nicht barrierefrei. Getränke gibt es vor Ort und auch ein Büchertisch wartet auf euch.

Our first @madingermanypod live event is in one week at @bum.berlin ! The first panel “After Israel” will be possibly Germany’s first discussion with (ex)Israeli dissidents about what the future for the region looks like, and for life in Germany as well.