Ahmad Klij

Ahmed Klij ( Germany/Syria )

He is a German-Kurdish poet and writer born in Damascus in 1986 and studied journalism at Damascus University. He has published in both Kurdish and Arabic and has focused on the cultural and liteary sphere in his writings.

Following the conflict in Syria, he moved between Iraqi Kurdistan and Istanbul and worked as a radio journalist and focused on preparing cultural programs documenting the Syrian cultural movement and collective memory.

In 2018, at the invitation of the Joan Vinzoli i Pladevall Poetry Museum, he participated with several musicians in a poetry-music reading tour entitled "The Road to Aleppo", which covered six cities in Catalonia/Spain. He also attended the Hamburg School of Journalism (HMS) and produced his first documentary "Roads of Steel" for Phoenix TV. He has lived in Hamburg since 2019.He published a poetry collection with Sulfur Editions and another poetry collection with Safsafa Publishing House in Egypt.