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Basil Kerski is an Iraqi-Polish cultural manager, editor, exhibition curator, essayist, and expert in international affairs.
Since 1998, he has served as editor-in-chief of the bilingual Polish-German Magazine DIALOG. Between 2011 and 2025, he was Director of the European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk.
He studied political science and Slavic studies at the Free University of Berlin and worked at the Berlin office of the Aspen Institute, the German Council on Foreign Relations, the German Bundestag, and the Social Science Research Center Berlin.
He is the author of numerous publications on Polish-German relations, contemporary political systems, multiculturalism, and history.