BELADI SONNENALLEE
A broad section along Neukölln’s Sonnenallee, or Sun Avenue, is been called Arabic street for quite a while now due to the predominant language here since generations already. Many locals call these busy streets beladi, or my country in Arabic. Over the years, the exuberant cultural offer of this community of Middle East extract has become an essential ingredient in the Berlin’s melting pot. But as the ongoing tragedy in Gaza infecting the air, life in the neighbourhood goes as jumpy as expected in a German social context where anti-Semitism means crime, not to say sin, and Islamophobia a booming political trend.
