°1978 in Dortmund. Rasha Khayat grew up in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). When she was eleven years old, her family moved back to Germany. She studied comparative literature, German studies and philosophy in Bonn. She has been working as a freelance author, translator and editor in Hamburg since 2010. In 2010, she received a scholarship from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation. Her debut novel Weil wir längst woanders sind was published by DuMont Verlag in 2017.

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