Tandem Mariam Meetra and Heike Steinweg
Photo: private

Mariam Meetra & Heike Steinweg

Mariam Meetra, born in Baghlan, Afghanistan, currently resides in Berlin. Meetra studied journalism and PR in Kabul. The author and women’s rights activist is a member of the afghan „PEN“. In 2013 her first book of poetry „Leben am Rand“ was published.

Heike Steinweg is a portrait photographer. Her photographs are shown internationally in single and group exhibitions. In 2018, her photo project „ich habe mich nicht verabschiedet“ (I never said my goodbyes) about women in exile was exhibited in Berlin.