Alex Assali fled Assad in Syria and ISIL in Libya. Now he runs a charity kitchen in Berlin.



Alex Assali woke up in his small Berlin flat on the morning of November 22, 2015, and checked his email. There were 1,000 messages waiting for him.
The day before, a friend had uploaded a photograph to Facebook of Assali feeding homeless people on the streets of Berlin. The caption below read: “Acts of kindness: A Syrian refugee mans a food stand for the homeless, to ‘give something back to the German people’.”
The image went viral - it was shared more than 3,000 times on Facebook and nearly three million times on Imgur. Assali, 38, had become an overnight social media sensation.
Although he had started his informal soup kitchen back in August, the photo had suddenly captured the media’s attention; news crews flocked to his flat.
But while Assali may have been swept to fame overnight, he was no accidental activist.
Over the past 11 years, Assali has had to flee two countries - Syria and Libya -after speaking out against political corruption and human rights abuses.


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