Jahr: 2015

Crowdfunding Afghan theater in Kabul: a success against the refugee drain

Crowdfunding Afghan theater in Kabul: a success against the refugee drain

This year’s 2nd annual Kabul Students Theater Festival, held from Nov. 8th-11th 2015, for which I had launched a fundraising call in cooperation with the University of Kabul, turned out to be a great success. The team of the Fine Arts Faculty did a great job. Eleven plays were on stage this year, for which…

Paropamisus: find my Afghanistan Blog here

Paropamisus: find my Afghanistan Blog here

Find my Afghanistan Blog here. I’ve been compiling the blog in the last years to point to and raise awareness for independent voices, views and concerns of Afghans in the political, cultural and intellectual debate on Afghanistan, something missing very often in Western news presentations, publications or official statements from the various sides. The blog…

Save the Afghan theater! Fundraising Call

Save the Afghan theater! Fundraising Call

This fundrasing initiative has been started by myself in cooperation with the Faculty of Fine Arts at Kabul University for the newly established Afghan Student Theater Festival. After the recent rise in terrorist violence in Afghanistan, artist and culture events of practically any kind are threatened. HELP KABUL’S STUDENT’S THEATER FESTIVAL – WHAT IS AT…

Finding Afghanistan – Berlin Exhibition

Finding Afghanistan – Berlin Exhibition

The Berlin Atelier für Fotografie will show my exhibition Finding Afghanistan from September 3rd – 16. October 16th. The exhibition is funded by Hypo-Kulturstiftung Munich and has previously been shown in the exhibition spaces of Deutschlandfunk, Germany’s National Radio Broadcaster, for whom I have been an correspondent in the Afghan conflict from 2001 onwards. See…