Rasha Abbas

Rasha Abbas is a Syrian writer of short stories. She is currently based in Berlin, Germany, she is the cultural editor of Aljumhuriya website. In 2008, she published her first collection, Adam Hates the Television, and was awarded a prize for young writers during the Damascus Capital of Arab Culture festival. In 2013 she co-wrote the script for a short film, Happiness and Bliss, produced by Bedayat, and in 2014 she contributed, both as a writer and as a translator, to Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline, published by Saqi Books. Her second short story collection, The Gist of It, was published in 2019. and her third collection, How German Grammar was invented was published the same year. A theatre adaption of her book, The Gist of it was produced and presented by Gorki theatre Berlin in 2022.