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Anna Badkhen is the author, most recently, of The World Is a Carpet. She is working on Walking with Abel, a book about transience.
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Anna Badkhen
Asylum seekers from Syria stand at the fence of the State Office of Health and Social Affairs (LAGeSo) registration centre in Berlin on December 21, 2015. / AFP / dpa / Kay Nietfeld / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read KAY NIETFELD/AFP/Getty Images)