“…Yet the Syrian-German arts community is relatively new, compared for instance to the generations-old Turkish-German arts community and the "post-migrant" theatre it has created (see, e.g., Çağlar 2016). So these Berlin-based Syrian artists do not fit neatly into the "Sindbad vs. Houdini" typology that Johanna Sellman and I recently proposed in another European context (Litvin and Sellman 2018); they are neither exotic visitors on tour nor Arab Germans.…”