Activities
The Etilaat Roz
Public Film Screening in the Frame of the Kite Runner Activities with the movie Etilaat Roz by Abbas Rezaie. Abbas Rezaie observed the atmosphere in the team of independent newspaper Etilaat Roz when the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan.
Making of Podcast
Podcasts are a type of media that can be used to process content from anywhere in the world. You can choose how to make, host, and distribute the episodes.
Drawing Workshop with Nora Byrne
Nora Byrne, an Istanbul-based American artist, teaches observational drawing techniques used for different forms of digital storytelling to Afghan participants living in various countries.
News
Tamana Zaryab Paryani
Report and Interview by Suhaila Sama Tamana Zaryab Paryani is a young voice from Afghanistan questioning common narratives. Since August 2022, Paryani has lived
The Only Survivor
The devastating earthquake in western Afghanistan has resulted in a multitude of deaths and injuries, and a significant number of individuals remain missing. A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the Zindajan district and several other districts of Herat, as well as the neighboring provinces of Herat, with more than fifteen reverberations.
Homaira Afghani
Homaira Afghani is one of the Authors on the Kite Runner Platform, expressing herself with witty radical cartoons condemning the Taliban’s suppressive politics against
Movies
Screenings
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
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.
Third Podcast Session with Hazal Sipahi
During the session, Shahzad Mudasir was introducing his podcast concept for Untold Stories by Shahzad Mudasir. He was also presenting the recording of the podcast trailer and the recording of the first episode in Dari. The first episode is about and with Tamama Zaryab Paryani.
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.