Raed Wahesh

{{Short description|Palestinian-Syrian writer, poet and journalist}}

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Raed Wahesh ({{langx|ar|رائد وحش}}) (born in Damascus in 1981) is a Palestinian-Syrian writer, poet and journalist. He has published four volumes of verse. Wahesh has been supporting the Syrian revolution in his writings.{{fact|date=November 2023}}

Wahesh moved in 2013 to Germany, where he was initially a guest in the Heinrich Böll House.{{Cite web|url=https://www.boell.de/de/2013/10/21/die-art-des-stipendiums-und-die-auswahl-der-gaeste|title = Unsere Gäste 2013}} He now{{when|date=October 2017}} lives in Hamburg.{{fact|date=November 2023}}

Work

Wahesh has worked as a cultural editor for various Arabic-language newspapers and websites.{{Cite web|url=https://mariomuenster.atavist.com/a-syrious-look#chapter-613885|title=Atavist}} His 2015 prose volume A Missing Piece of Damascus Sky is based on his experiences during the revolution. His most recent texts deal with issues of exile, expulsion and deracination. Wahesh fled Syria in 2013 and came to Germany, where he was initially a guest in the Heinrich Böll House. He lives in Hamburg.{{Cite web|url=http://www.haus-fuer-poesie.org/en/poesiefestival-berlin/artists-2016/poesiegespraech-schreiben-nach-der-flucht|title=Haus für Poesie :: Home}}

Publications

Publications (poetry):

Walking We Meet. Walking We Part, Milano 2016
When the War Did not Happen, Amman 2012
No One Dreams As Anyone, Damascus 2008
White Blood, Damascus 2005
A Missing Piece of Damascus’ Sky, Cairo 2015 (prose){{fact|date=November 2023}}

References

Category:21st-century Palestinian poets

Category:Syrian political journalists

Category:1981 births

Category:Living people

Category:20th-century Syrian poets

Category:Palestinian male poets

Category:Syrian people of Palestinian descent

Category:21st-century male writers

Category:Syrian emigrants to Germany

Category:21st-century Syrian poets