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Activities

Walk Through Memento

Live-streaming of a walk through the Memento exhibition on Saturday, November 23 with Sabine Küper-Büsch, Kabir Mokamel and Nimad Rawan at the Ioakimion Girls High School.

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Phoenix with ArtLords

Artist Kabir Mokamel (ArtLords) createed a Mural for the Memento Festival at Ioakimion Girls High School. The motive was developed in cooperation with artists in different countries on the Kite Runner Platform since August.

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Opening Ceremony of Memento

The Festival is organized by the team of the cultural initiative diyalog (the Mahalla Festival) in cooperation with the Kite-Runner program supported the International Media Support – IMS – and the Cultural Ministry of Austria.

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News

Journalism in Exil

Turkey is often the first stop for many journalists who no longer work in their home countries because of authoritarian governments or war. Media organizations and foreign journalists have built a base in Istanbul to work from exile. Hear from journalists in person and the challenges they face reporting about their homelands.

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Movies

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

Sand Castles

Shakiba Nazari and Marjan Wafa got selected to participate in “Sand Castles”. An exhibition at Merkezkaç Art collective in Dıyarbakır.   Based on the concepts

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Working Group for Women 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

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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.

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