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The Last Days of Hasankeyf

18. Mai 2020

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Hasankeyf, located in the Turkish border area with Iran, Iraq and Syria, is at least 12,000 years old and thus one of the oldest settlements of mankind. Turkey is building a gigantic dam here, the place will sink into the associated reservoir. And below the reservoir, the wetlands of the Tigris will dry up.

Cultural Programs

Religion in the Buffer Zone

2. März 2020

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The island of Cyprus has been divided since 1974. Salpy Eskidjian Weiderud is the initiator of an interfaith dialogue that aims to overhaul the almost fifty-year political division of the Mediterranean island on a religious level.

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The Last Days of Hasankeyf

16. Januar 2020

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A huge water reservoir is created in the South of Turkey. The photographer Mehmet Kaçmaz documented the last days of the settlement in Hasankeyf.

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Poisonous Gold

19. Oktober 2019

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The protest movement in the geese mountains in Turkey.

Cultural Programs

Monsieur Doumani

24. September 2019

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The island of Cyprus has been divided for 45 years. Local musicians, however, are crossing the south-easternmost border of the EU. Monsieur Doumani is an internationally acclaimed Greek-Cypriot musician trio on the island of Cyprus. Thirty years after the dissolution of the Iron Curtain in Europe, the band musically defies the division of the island. […]

Cultural Programs

Court Case Osman Kavala

20. Juni 2019

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On the occasion of the re-elction in Istanbul and the beginning of the court case on June 24 - 25 against Osman Kavala and 15 others, the program explores the independent exhibition center DEPO and its current exhibition Shared Sacred Sites.

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Life after DAESH in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

4. Mai 2019

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While ISIS’s territorial caliphate in Iraq and Syria has come to an end, the threat presented by the group and others like it is alive and well. Tens of thousands of ISIS fighters, both foreign and local, as well as their families and children, are now in the hands of the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Iraqi military and security services, presenting an immediate and pressing challenge.

Cultural Programs

Mosul, My Home

29. April 2019

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Art and Culture in Conflict Areas ORF – Kulturmontag, 29.4.2019 7 min The artist Adalet R. Garmiany and his art initiative ArtRole is working on a new project: a documentary about Mosul after ISIS. One of the largest ArtRole’s project in recent years. ‘Mosul My Home’ Is a project addressing the hope and dreams of people […]