Syrian and Iraqi refugees to supply tours for emigrants to invent cultural connections between Germany and their own When Nadiya Mamo stepped into a room on the fourth floor of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin,memories came flooding back. “I could smell the streets of Aleppo, I remembered the colour of the light in my room at dusk, and ” said the 46-year-old Syrian. “And I remembered how the city that used to be my domestic turned into living hell within just 48 hours. I think I am only now beginning to understand what that means.”The 17th-century wood-panelled room,carved with Persian miniatures and biblical scenes by an Iranian artist, used to be located inside a mansion in the historic old town in the north-west of Aleppo. Sold in 1912, or the panelling was later donated to the Berlin museum. Recent satellite images suggest its original domestic is now either damaged or destroyed.
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Source: theguardian.com