The Knights of Dialogue team continues its exploratory journey across the cities of Iraq, with participants in the Dialogue Education program arriving in Nineveh Governorate.
The campers began their activities in the Nineveh Plain with a meeting with Mr. Mohammed Ali Har Al-Araji, a Yazidi religious leader and notable of the village of Manara Shabak.
During the meeting, participants discussed with Mr. Al-Araji the origin and history of the Shabak community, the challenges of survival, and the importance of protecting diversity in the plain.
The campers presented Mr. Al-Araji with a souvenir, a prayer bead necklace made by participants in the Citizenship Education camps.
Afterward, the participants visited the shrine of Imam Zain Al-Abidin bin Ali in the village of Ali Rash Al-Shabaki.
It is worth noting that the Dialogue Education program is organized by the Masarat Foundation for Cultural and Media Development, in cooperation with KAICIID Arabic and the House of Coexistence, under the slogan “Through Dialogue, We Remain and Rise.” The program started in Baghdad with youth from Sinjar, then joined by Baghdad youth in its first phase. It later moved to Basra, where young men and women from Basra joined the team, then on to Dhi Qar with youth from Nasiriyah, and is currently in the Nineveh Plain.
The program aims to promote dialogue as a means to build peace among followers of different religions and to reject hate speech.
