Early life

She was born in Beirut

Beirut

Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...

, Lebanon

Lebanon

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 to an Iraqi

Iraqi people

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 father and a German mother. Basrawi grew up in the German city of Hannover where she had graduated from. She began her studies in Arabic Philology and Political Science at Berlin

Berlin

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 in 1982. Soon after completing more studies in Damascus

Damascus

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, Syria

Syria

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, she went onto gain a Masters Degree from the Free University of Berlin

Free University of Berlin

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.

Since 1994, Basrawi had worked as a writer and gained experience as a screen writer working alongside Thomas Arslan, Katalin Gődros and Rainer Knepperges.

From 2004, she began working as a playwright and theater-actress, where she had acted in the play entitled "The Swamp - Europe Year Zero" (Der Sumpf - Europa Stunde Null) and in 2006, Basrawi starred in her debut movie, Die Quereinsteigerinnen ("Like in Uruguay").

Filmography

• Die Quereinsteigerinnen ("Like in Uruguay") (2005)
• Der Bootgott vom Seesportclub. Die 100 ME - Teil1 (Documentary) (2006)
• Gefangener der Liebe ("Prisoner of Love") (2007)
• Waldmeister (2007)
• Warteschleifen (2010)

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