Asia / Near East
Amida Sholan
Professor of Archaeology, Old South Arabian History and Ancient Semitic Languages, and Assistant Attaché for Cultural Affairs at the Embassy of Yemen in Berlin
One-year Scholarship 1989 to 1992, Yarmuk University in Jordan
One-year Scholarship 1995 to 1999, University of Marburg
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"I would not have been able to study without the DAAD"
Kiran Nagarkar
Writer
Guest of the Artists in Berlin Programme 2008
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"My stay in Germany has changed the way I see my home country of India"
Amir Katz
Pianist
One-year Scholarship 1999/2000 University of Music and Performing Arts Munich
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"Life and art are one and the same"
Rokuro Makabe
Physician
One-year Scholarship 1960, University Eye Clinic Frankfurt/Main
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"Germany was a dream destination and the scholarships were in great demand."
Khouloud Daibes-Abu Dayyeh
Palestinian Minister of Tourism and Archaeology
One-Year Scholarship 1983-1991, University of Hannover, Germany
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"Palestinians are hospitable people. Tourists face no threats in our country"
Miao Xiaochun
Artist
DAAD One-Year Scholarship 2002, School of Art and Design Kassel
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"Who am I? Where do I go? Who judges me?"
Saleh Ali Basurrah
Historian, Republic of Yemen
DAAD One-year Scholarship 1976-86, University of Leipzig
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"You should love your work, your workplace, and the responsibility entrusted to you"
Saodat Ismailova
Uzbek Filmmaker
Guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Programme 2005
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" Uzbekistan provides me with the impetus for my film work, but Berlin made it possible for me to look at myself and my culture with more distance"
Lado Chanturia
Germanist
Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Tbilisi, Georgia
Former Minister of Justice (1998-1999) and President of the Supreme Court of Georgia (1999-2004)
One-year Scholarship 1991-93 University of Göttingen
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"The time in Göttingen changed my life and opened up a door to the world for me."
Akira Ishikawa
Lawyer, Professor of Laws at the Asahi University
One-year Scholarship 1959-1961 University of Munich
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"I view Germany as my second home."
Micha Ullman
Sculptor
Guest of the Artists-in-Berlin programme 1989/90
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"I create places that are empty and allow self-encounter. They force us to remember."
Sumaya
Farhat-Naser
Author and Peace Activist
One-year Scholarship1979-1982 University of Hamburg
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"Only those who have hope can think creatively and find ways to escape the vicious circle of violence."
Taslima Nasrin
Writer
Guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Programme 1995
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"I dream of there being a completely secular world one day"
Nam June Paik
Video Artist
Guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Programme 1983
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"Television attacked us all life long – now we're fighting back."
Kazuaki Tarumi
Japanese Physicist and Liquid Crystal Research Team Leader at Merck, Darmstadt
Holder of the Deutscher Zukunftspreis (German Future Prize)
One-year Scholarship in Physics 1978-79, University of Bremen
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"Good fortune and staying power are what a researcher needs"
Gao Xingjian
Writer
1985 Guest of the Artists-in-Berlin programme
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"During my stay in Berlin, I was able to be alone for the very first time, I really had a
great time. Berlin had this unbelievable international flair"
Kenzaburo Oe
Japanese Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
1999 Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor in Berlin
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"Where there is no hope, there is no change"
Amin Farhang
Minister for Reconstruction in Afghanistan
Scholarship 1964
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"I've returned to Afghanistan forever"
Keiichi Kodaira
Professor of Astrophysics, Japan
1961 to 1963 doctoral studies at the University of Kiel
2000 Visiting Professor at the TU Berlin
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"It's all about unravelling the origin of the universe"
Moshe Zimmermann
Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
One-year Scholarship 1972 - 73 University of Hamburg
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"It is especially my family's German-Jewish background that led me to my topic as an historian: The Jews in Germany"
Mikhail Tsarev
Auditor KPMG in Moscow
One-year Scholarship 1989, University of Passau
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"I wanted to get to know the new economics subjects in Germany"
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