Activities

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.

Recording of a Screening on Nov 3
On November 3, we had a screening with the movie The Etilaat Roz by Abbas Rezaie at postaneistanbul. The newspaper’s offices became a fortress between August and October 2021, when the US pulled out of Afghanistan and the Taliban again seized power.
News

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

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
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

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.

How to create Podcasts by Hazal Sipahi
Recording of the second session introducing the production of podcasts by Hazal Sipahi on October 14th at Postane. Translation support is provided by Shahzad Mudasir.

Introduction by Hazal Sipahi to Podcasts
Recording of the first session introducing the production and creation of podcast by Hazal Sipahi on October 7th at postane.
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.