The current crisis in Iraq and Syria is not caused by religious differences, but it has its roots in the policies implemented in the past three decades. Nevertheless, it is an example of criminal misuse and manipulation of religious identities. The documentary aims to capture the disastrous consequences of this crisis, which affects all groups

Heidi de Carlo enters the Sudanese Migrant Associaiton in Hamrun, Malta and introduces her wrok as teacher at the center.

Maebel Mehari lives since one and a half years in Malta and visits with us his HipHop class.

This film was produced within a workshop conducted by artist-in-residence of the Kulturakademie Tarabya, Eva Maria Stotz, at Bahçeşehir University Istanbul April 2016. Love Story of a Syrian student in Istanbul by Ayob Dogoz, Lilas Nassrat and Ranim Kesibi

f you play ball with her using an animal carcass, if you climb the same scaffolding and you can’t make it and she laughs, if you teach her a song, if she teaches you a song, if you eat souvlaki with her, if she collects firewood for you to light the stove together, if you

Impressions from Berlin August 2013: Featuring Thomas Büsch eating pieplant lemonade and eating Currywurst at the restaurant Nola’s am Weinberg closed to Brunnenstrasse in East Berlin. We visited Kunstraum Kreuzberg at Mariannenplatz to see the show, We are not just here for fun. It was about Berlin’s subcultures and their former palces of the 1990th

Members of the Shabia at a checkpoint in Syria. The nightmare of every Syrian oppositional is to be stopped by them. They are mistreating, torturing and killing people randomly. “This is Why…” is trying to put the spectator in the place of a Syrian civilian being stopped by two Shabia. The fear of the Syrian

Beyond the Station by Bassil Halabi and Mohammad Fares is a reflection of the life of an immigrant. The two authors selected a suitcase as a symbolism for migration: there is someone who is putting himself in a suitcase as they did when they left Syria and as they came to Turkey. It is not the country

Acclaimed geography academic and Professor of Anthropology at City University of New York provides an interview on urban issues in the district of Tarlabaşı Istanbul, an area in the last throes of evictions for the long-standing residents. Tarlabaşı is in the process of a gentrification programme to create an upscale housing and shopping district in the centre

The map of Istanbul for tourists, which includes the Sultanahmed-Region and Beyoğlu, covers only about one or two percent of the real Istanbul map. In order to go beyond these two percent you can join an „alternative citiyguiding“ (or an architectural field trip as Orhan Esen calls it). Orhan Esen is active as a researcher, writer

An introduction video to Christina Kubisch’s Electrical Walks series of works. Electromagnetic radiations can be directly translated into the acoustic domain with the help of Christina Kubisch’s custom made special headphones. Awesome sounds can be heard with the headphones everywhere near any electrical or electronical device or installation, particularly in the cities, where there density