What motivates you?
Speaking out for young BIPoCs, especially for young women. When I was young, I lacked role models with whom I could identify. Persons who, like me, grew up between two cultures and who dealt with issues such as identity, culture and sexuality openly and honestly, without prejudice, and showed me: you are okay the way you are. The way you live and love is also perfectly okay. You don’t have to feel bad about it. You can do more than that.
The best advice you have ever been given?
There is hardly a question that hasn’t already been answered by someone other than me.
What are you learning right now that you still have to get good at?
Surfing.
What would you chance if you had the power to do so?
Ending worldwide poverty, hunger, war, and inequality.
Which superheroine power would you like to have?
Beaming; being able to speak and understand all of the world‘s languages.
Linda Hamoui
Linda Hamoui was born and raised in Bamberg. She studied Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and Communication Studies at Bamberg’s Otto Friedrich University and at the FAU in Erlangen. Her main focus was on Islamic law, Islamism and sexuality in Islam.
Since summer 2020, she has been talking about racism, politics, culture, society, identity and sexuality on her podcast “Hamam Talk” together with her friend Sarah – topics that have accompanied her for a long time due to her own Syrian roots. In addition to her educational work, she also gives anti-racism and podcast workshops.
Linda currently works as a community manager at ZDF and moderator for the TLNT.TALK.BERLIN format at TLNT&TLNT e.V.
Due to her Syrian roots, she also speaks the Syrian dialect, which led to her side activity, translating for refugees and Arabic-speaking migrants since 2015.
Topics
Education and awareness training about (anti-muslim) racism and discrimination, social media activism against discrimination and racism, muslim belief, (Syrian) culture and identity, sexuality in Islam
Languages
German, English, Syrian Arabic
Formats
ReferenCES
- My Migrant Mama: Panel talk at the My Migrant Mama festival
- Ja:ba (Youth Works Bamberg): Antiracism workshop at the project day for pupils during the international weeks against racism in Bamberg
- Young Islam Conference: Podcast workshop „How to Podcast“ at the Federal Conference 2021
- House of Resources Berlin: Podcast workshop „How to Podcast im antirassistischen Kontext?“ (How to Podcast antiracial matters?)
- TLNT&TLNT e.V.: Organisation and moderation of the format TLNT.TALK.BERLIN
- iSo e.V. Bamberg: Panelist at the Langen Nacht der Demokratie (Long Night of Democracy) 2022 in the Kulturboden Hallstadt
- Kulturzentrum Oyoun, Berlin: Podcast production, moderation and post-production, e.g., for the project „Becoming Alman“
What motivates you?
Speaking out for young BIPoCs, especially for young women. When I was young, I lacked role models with whom I could identify. Persons who, like me, grew up between two cultures and who dealt with issues such as identity, culture and sexuality openly and honestly, without prejudice, and showed me: you are okay the way you are. The way you live and love is also perfectly okay. You don’t have to feel bad about it. You can do more than that.
The best advice you have ever been given?
There is hardly a question that hasn’t already been answered by someone other than me.
What are you learning right now that you still have to get good at?
Surfing.
What would you chance if you had the power to do so?
Ending worldwide poverty, hunger, war, and inequality.
Which superheroine power would you like to have?
Beaming; being able to speak and understand all of the world‘s languages.
