What the Press is Saying
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"An incredibly sensitive and powerful book about Germany's guest workers, dedicated to her parents and an entire generation"
— My PoC Bookshelf
Listen to the podcast in German here.
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"We only ever see them as black and white photographs with a suitcase in their hands. Where have they actually disappeared, what has become of them?"
— Fatma Sagir, in an interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Listen to the fifteen minute radio broadcast in German here.
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"Fatma Sagir's parents worked so much, they almost forgot to enroll her in school. ... Today, she is an author, academic, and journalist."
― SWR2
Listen to the full German-language radio interview here.
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""Fatma Sagir is a part of Radio X's Day Against Racism with an anti-racist text."
― Radio X
Listen to the full radio interview in German here.
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"She approaches her father's longing sensitively - As the strange land for the father becomes the home of the daughter, the father's dream of a return (dönüş), becomes the nightmare of the daughter."
— Maviblau
Read the full article in German here. Website also available in Turkish.
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“In her book "Alphabet of Longing" she draws the traces of an identity of the in-between, the less or the more ... She is an often a stranger in the familiar.”
— Badische Zeitung
Get the PDF of the article in German here.
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"As an author and postdoc at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Freiburg, she has published her book 'Alphabet of Longing'. Here, she traces her identity as 'in-between'."
— Badische Zeitung
Watch the live reading in German here.
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“Fatma Sagir makes the lives of 'guest workers' visible.”
— Chilli, Freiburg’s City Magazine
Read the full article in German here.
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"Fatma Sagir doesn't forget. Not her father, not the Husserls, whose house she passes by every day - nor any other 'non-belongers'."
― Chilli, Freiburg’s City Magazine.
Read the full article in German here.
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“With her texts, Fatma Sagir snatches her protagonists from invisibility and disappearance in the de-individualized mass.”
— RDL
Read the full article in German here.