Darin Ahmad (born 1 January 1979 in Hama,

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) is a Syrian artist, poet and writer.

Biography

After finishing school in her home town, she went to

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in 1996 to study economics. After graduating from the

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in July 2004, she lived in

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and has worked as a web designer and editor for the internet magazine ''Maaber''. Since winter 2012, Darin Ahmad has lived with her family in

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. In addition to her poems, Darin Ahmad has been painting since 2015. Her paintings were featured in Alitihad Culture Newspaper in July 2017, BeiNNehreen Newspaper in October 2018 and Mirit Magazine in May 2019, following an article about Darin Ahmad at

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Newspaper in September 2016 and an interview at published in March 2018. In June 2019 she published an article in

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with the title ''This day is still mine'' and in August 2019 the article ''Need of the central''. Further articles and poems are published at ''Maaber Magazine'', beginning in 2004 till today.

Exhibitions

Darin Ahmad exhibited her work for the first time within the exhibition ''Fluchtpunkt'' together with

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, Fouad El-Auwad, Akram Hamza and Adnan Sharbaji from May to July 2016 in the Institut Francais, Bonn, with the support of ArtDialog e. V. and the German-Arabic Poetry-Salon, under the patronage of the Mayor of Bonn, Ashok Sridharan. Another exhibition together with Frances Aviva Blane ''Two Faces'' was shown from July 2016 to January 2017 at the residence of the

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. In February and March 2017 Ahmad's work were on view at the Crypt Gallery in London as part of the exhibition ''Radical Love: Female Lust''. Furthermore, the work of Darin Ahmad was permanently exhibited at the Palais am Festungsgraben in

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at the offices of ''Kiron Open Higher Education'' from January 2017 to May 2019.

Biography

Exhibitions

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