Luna Ali
area: Literature
Key Facts
nationality
Syriaarea
Literatureresidence
Berlinrecommending institution
BMEIAtime period
November 2025 - December 2025Luna Ali studied Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice in Hildesheim, Literary Writing at the German Literature Institute and Anthropology at the University of Leipzig.
She has worked as an author on productions at the Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Hanover theatres and in Berlin.
In 2023, she received the working scholarship for German-language literature from the Berlin Senate Department. In 2024, her debut novel "Da waren Tage" was published by S. Fischer.
During her residency at MQ, Luna Ali is working on her project "Ausländer werden". This is an experimental writing and reading movement that asks what kind of language is needed to develop disturbing noises from individual memories and experiences that prevent thinking in delimitable cultures.
In this sense, this collection of essays writes its way in and out as part of a small literature (Deleuze and Guattari), into Arabic, out of the German language, out of the Mediterranean as a space of thought and culture, into the domestic peripheries and diasporic centres, out of political and into experimental literature. Especially now, in the face of increasing racist politics that yearn for cultural purity, literature is needed that embarks on a textual escape with the reader in order to find itself again at a destination that is the foreigner of us all.