Activities
Cross Media Lab with Lotte Laloire
Lotte Laloire will draw a conclusion about her last session about investigative journalism and will talk this time about the safety of journalists in conflict regions.
Podcast Session with Hazal Sipahi
During the last session, the participants presented their new episodes of their podcasts. Check out the recording.
Recording of the Media Lab Nov 4th
During the last session of the Cross Media Lab on Saturday Nov. 4th we spoke with Hazal Sipahi about the new projects you are developing for the Kite Runner Hub.
News
Zahra Nader – Awarded Journalist
By Somaia Valizadeh I was discussing her activities and the Zan Times media with Zahra Nader, a journalist who was exiled and founded the
Gender Apartheid in Herat
Nafisa Noorzai was in the courtyard of her house on October 7th, when an Earthquake hit the Province, Herat at 11:15 in the morning.
Parwana Ibrahimkhel Najrabi
By Somaia Valizadeh Parwana Ibrahimkhel Najrabi lives in Stuttgart today. A 23-year-old woman is leading a protest with a group of Afghan women’s rights
Movies
Screenings
![KABUL CITY IN THE WIND | Trailer deutsch german [HD]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Hk3ezV-6Y94/maxresdefault.jpg)
The Istanbul based association Diyalog in cooperation with the
International Media Support (IMS) started in August 2022 the Kite
Runner activities in Istanbul. 2023 the program will continue with language courses, film screenings, digital storrytelling lab, a working group for female journalists and much more.
Digital Storytelling
Storytelling Lab
Next Saturday, April 20th at 5 pm Istanbul, we will have our next session of the Digital Storytelling Lab at postane. During the session, we will discuss the details of the upcoming program and the new activities Kite-Runner is going to offer with new team members.
Drawing Workshop – March 9th, 2024
Watch the video recording of the Drawing Workshop with Nora Byrne.
Drawing session with Nora Byrne
Colors are considered very emotional – they can define the psychological effect of a piece. Nora Byrne explains the different characters of colors and how to use them in drawings and paintings. Watch the recording of the session.
Working Group for Female Journalists
Maryam Soltani
Women are deprived from Healthcare by the Ban on Female Students A report by Selsela Imamzadeh Maryam Soltani was a medical student at Khatam
Shakiba Nazari: The Story Of My Life
Video-Portrait of Shakiba Nazari. She is an Afghan women’s- and human rights activist in exile in France. She is one of the authors of the Kite Runner media hub.
Afghanistan: Burial Ground of Women’s Hopes
Simin and Parvin live on the Barchi road west of Kabul. It is the place where the two young women have grown. Most of them are middle-class and from the Shiite minority of the Hazara, but likewise, they are poor when it comes to income.
The Ban on Beauty
By Maela Sanmartin (Text) and Homaira Afghani (Drawing) Progressive closings have made the streets look emptier, and even women’s faces have been covered with
My Pencil Fights Injustice
I remember being between 7–8 years old. We had a tiny black-and-white TV. One day, a show about the life of a Palestinian cartoonist named Naji Ali was shown on TV. Every scene of his life seemed to overlap with mine, which impressed me greatly…
Return To Zero
As a child Shokria was a “Bacha Posh”, a girl that was supposed to appear and act like a boy. Anyway, allthough of all this hardship she found her path, but got suddenly back to zero forced by the Taliban.