Time:   14:00 Kabul, 14:30 Dushanbe, 13:00 Tehran

• Workshop Equality, Universality, Particularism and Citizenry. Dawoud Erfan (lecturer Herat University), Manija Ramezi (lecturer Kabul University)

Time:  15:00 Paris, 17:30 Tehran, 18:30 Kabul

• Conference Gender and Nation (Persian) 90 Mins.

  ZOOM LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89899249520

  ID: 898 9924 9520

Speakers: Dr. Azadeh Kian, Professor of sociology, Director of the Centre for Teaching, Documentation and Research in Women’s Studies (CEDREF) and Director of Les Cahiers du CEDREF journal.

Dr. Sayed Noureddin Alawi, sociology researcher and Professor at Kabul University and President of the Sociology Society of Afghanistan. 

Moderator: Guissou Jahangiri, Vice President FIDH & Executive director of OPEN ASIA|Armanshahr Foundation   

(SEE Biographies)

Time:  14:30 London, 15:30 Paris, 18:00 Tehran, 19:00 Kabul

ZOOM LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7965941387 ID: 796 594 1387

• Roundtable Oblivious States, Alert People; Celebrating Cultural Figures (in Persian). An evening of exchange and poetry in memory of Dr. Humaira Nekhat Dastgirzadeh (poetesse -Afghanistan), Maestro Mohammad Reza Shajarian (singer -Iran), Master Najmeddin Arabzoda Bahmanyor (writer-Tajikistan), Master Golnazar Keldi (poet-Tajikistan).

• Launch of Call for the 7th Edition of the International Simorgh Peace Prize

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• The Simorgh Peace Prize in the Heart of Asia, OPEN ASIA, 24 mins (English subtitles)

• My Ideal City, Afghanistan Children on Peace, OPEN ASIA, 4 mins (English subtitles)

Time: 14:00 London, 15:00 Paris, 17:30 Tehran, 18:30 Kabul

• International Conference Of War and Collective Memory (in English) in collaboration with and supported by FIDH, UKRI, GCRF and ICAN.

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Speakers:  Dr Naji El Khatib lecturer, writer and activist, Farhad Golyardi sociologist & co-founder of the Eutopia Institute, Dr. Sayed Askar Mousavi lecturer and writer, Debbie Stothard Human rights activist & Founder of Altsean-Burma, Ilya Nuzov lawyer & Head of FIDH Eastern Europe &  Central Asia Desk, Dr. Muborak Sharif sociologist and co-founder of OPEN ASIA, Daniele Rugo Award-winning film maker and lecturer. 

Discussant: Dr. Neelam Raina Associate Professor, Challenge Leader for Security, Protracted Conflict, Refugees and Displacement Global Challenges Research Fund GCRF, UKRI.

Moderator: Guissou Jahangiri, Vice President FIDH & Executive director of OPEN ASIA|Armanshahr Foundation

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CLICK & WATCH Curated films: 

• About a War, Daniele Rugo and Abi Weaver,  1h 24mins. A feature length documentary exploring violence and social change through the stories of ex-fighters from the Lebanese Civil War.

• Touran Khanom, Rakhshan Banietemd & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb. 1h 31mins. " Turn Great Grief to Great Work". Touran Mirhadi- the preeminent architect of the childhood institution in Iran -- strives to follow through with her vision of "Peace needs to be cultivated at childhood".

• 11 000 km far from New York, Orzu Sharipov, 20mins. During the 1992-1997 civil war in Tajikistan 100 000 Tajik refugees received hospitality in war-torn Afghanistan. In November 2001 the fire of the Taliban war forced thousands of Afghans to take refuge on the islands of the Panj-river, bordering Afghanistan and Tajikistan. They hoped that Tajikistan would open its doors to them. The borders however remained closed.