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Eedbeed will also help demystify German norms—both the serious and lighter ones."For instance, in Syria, if a woman takes a man to court her family will shame her, but here that doesn't happen. Women are more free," he told me. "And it will explain how to do 'cheers' with people. I was at a bar after a few months being here, and we did cheers, but then someone came up to me and told me if I didn't look people in the eye during cheers I got six years of bad luck." (Actually, Germans typically say you have six years of bad sex.)Zain Hazzouri, who is working on Eedbeed, made this video on how to use the Berlin metro for new refugees"I want this site to kill the hopelessness of waiting for asylum," said Denno, who arrived in Germany December 2014 but still hasn't gotten his asylum status because of the large backlog of applications. "In shelters, people are hopeless. They think they should wait for their documents from the German government, and then they can start to study, but they don't have to wait to do things.""I want this site to kill the hopelessness of waiting for asylum." —Ahmad Denno
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