With more than 25 participants, the Masarat institute for cultural and media development launches a special workshop for empowering young people and activists and developing their abilities to form a peace-building team in areas that contain ethnic diversity.
The program aims to use all the capacities and sectors possible for conflict transformation and resolution that is going on at the moment or those which will occur in the future.
Masarat’s new team seeks to develop working methods that focus on tolerance, social justice, interdependence between communities, strengthen the partnership with the official authorities in those areas, and the investing all the efforts out there to establish coexistence and trust-building among the Iraqi people.
The participants, who arrived from the cities of Sinjar and Baghdad, were joined by a number of activists from Basra. They began their camp hosted by theater director and visual artist Mohammed Al-Amara, who provided a clear and comprehensive vision of the city’s history, its symbols, and the relationships among its components, as well as […]
One of the largest cities in Iraq, and the most diverse in terms of religion, nationality, and ethnicity. The smiling port of Iraq (as it is called) is characterized by its diversity, with its Muslim population consisting of both Shia and Sunni, and there is the Sheikhly sect, which has the large Mousawi Mosque in […]
After a journey that began at the international train station in Baghdad, the Dialogue Knights team arrived in the city of Maqal in Basra after nearly ten hours of travel by train. The second leg of the journey begins with the Dialogue and Understanding the Other camp, which will take place in the cities of […]
The evening before the launch of the Basra camp as part of the “With Dialogue We Remain and Rise” program. The General Coordinator of Masarat Foundation, Dr. Saad Salloum, met with the camp management team to discuss the final preparations for the camp, which is being implemented by Masarat Foundation in partnership with the House […]
