An initiative in Germany is giving newly arrived refugees a chance to take guided tours of Berlin museums in their native languages.
The project, called Multaka, or “meeting point” in Arabic, is intended to help integrate the newcomers and ease the sense of foreigness many feel upon arrival.
The tours include stops at Berlin’s Museum of Islamic Art, which highlights centuries of cross-cultural exchange between Islam, Christianity and Judaism. It also introduces refugees to German history, which has given some Syrian refugees a sense of hope. “When [they] saw how badly this now-flourishing country was destroyed after World War II it gave them hope for their own country," Zoya Masoud, a Syrian tour guide told NBC News.
