Moving Voices 2012 participants
The IMS-supported Moving Voices Radio Documentary Course provides a unique opportunity for young Middle Eastern and Afghan refugee journalists recently granted asylum in the Nordic countries, to learn how to produce professional radio features and documentaries.
In 2012, the course took place in three intensive seven-day workshops from January to June. The course participants worked on their productions in between these workshops in close collaboration with a coach. Meet the participants below.
Listen to the productions from the 2012 course here
 | Jan Pêt Khorto (Syria)Jan Pêt Khorto (1986), is a Syrian journalist, poet, writer and political activist who studied Journalism and Mass Media at the University of Damascus. Jan Pêt Khorto is the founder and former editor in chief of two underground publications in Syria. He was arrested and jailed for 107 days after publishing his second poetry collection and a number of articles about the Syrian government. Jan Pêt Khorto lived underground travelling from Syria through Europe without a passport for more than a year before applying for political asylum in Denmark in 2008. Bibliography:
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 | Leila Saadati (Iran)Leila Saadati (1979) studied journalism at the Azad Teheran University and has worked as a journalist in Iran since 2001 writing mainly about social and cultural issues. She has worked with reformist newspapers and BBC Persia. Threats facing reformist journalists after the election in 2009 led Leila Saadati to flee to Turkey in 2010 where she stayed for 14 months before receiving asylum in Norway in August 2011. While in Turkey, Leila participated in a multimedia course with International War and Peace Reporting (IWPR). Leila Saadati now lives in Steinkjær in northern Norway. She is studying Norwegian and writing a book about the situation for Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey. |
 | Shakiba Adil (Afghanistan)Shakiba Adil (1985) grew up in Kabul, where she was trained as a documentary-filmmaker and camerawoman at the Aina Media and Culture centre. Shakiba Adil produced a number of documentaries before fleeing to Finland where she lives now as a refugee. Interested in womens rights topics, her last documentary project in Afghanistan investigated the death of a female journalist and head of a radio station in Afghanistan. Shakiba Adil has worked with documentary making, TV and radio in Afghanistan and Finland. |
 | Nihal Afana (Palestine)Nihal Afana (1982) grew up in Gaza city where she worked as a film-maker together with Gaza International Documentary Film Festival. Nihal Afana has a BA in English Literature from AL-Azhar University in Gaza. In 2009, Nihal Afana was the local manager for the Gaza-Tromsø city to city project, arranging workshops and collaborative activities. She is currently working on a documentary about life around the border between Gaza and Egypt. Nihal Afana moved to Norway in 2010. Filmography: |
 | Noufel Bouzeboudja (Algeria)Noufel Bouzeboudja (1981) is a writer, performer and journalist from Algeria. He began writing his first novel Espoirs Déchus (Deceived Hopes) at the age of 17. Before leaving Algeria in 2009, he taught English and drama-techniques at the University Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou. Noufel Bouzeboudja contributes to several newspapers and websites and hosted a literary radio program on Radio Numydia from 2009 until 2011. He has participated in collective and individual recitations in Algeria, Spain, France, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. He is now living in Denmark as an ICORN (International Cities of Refugee Network) writer, collaborating with Danish PEN and European universities and institutions giving lectures and participating in seminars and debates. Published poetry collections and novels:
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 | Sheida Jahanbin (Iran)Sheida Jahanbin (1984) is an assistant teacher on the Moving Voices Radio Documentary course and a a journalist, blogger, musician and human rights activist. She studied journalism at the Azad University of Teheran and has worked as a journalist from 2004 in news agencies, newspapers and since 2011 as a freelance radio documentary producer for the Norwegian broadcasting corporation NRK. Sheida Jahanbin and her husband Madyar (Mojtabah) Samienejad fled Iran in 2008 and spent 2 years in Turkey as political refugees. They were granted asylum in Norway in October 2010. |
