Turtles Can Fly by Bahman Ghobadi explores themes of war, refuge, and the lost innocence of childhood. It is set in a Kurdish camp somewhere on the Iraq-Turkey borders just before the US invasion. The movie begins by showing Soran, its protagonist, predominantly known as Kak Satellite (Soran...
Like many films of the Korean New Wave cinema, “Peppermint Candy” by Lee Chang-dong explores social issues that remain haunting the collective consciousness of South Korea through a highly personal lens. The movie retrospectively follows the unfortunate life of its protagonist, Kim Yongho (Sol Kyung-gu), after his implied...
Caramel (2007), which marks Nadine Labaki’s debut both as a film director and a writer, follows the life of five Lebanese women as they deal with issues of love, relationships, sexuality, and age. Most of the events of the movie take...
Moj Darraji, 27 years old, Architect and Project Manager (participant of the British Royal Fellowship of Architects and the International Business Administration Certificate).
I started mountain climbing by coincidence after a friend had insisted on going with her to climb a mountain peak in Indonesia...
Mina Ali, 18 years old,
I study medical laboratory techniques (pathological analysis) Babil Governorate I started my own journey when I discovered my passion for writing, and I realized then that there is no more comfortable shoulder than writing to lean on. I made sure...
Aya Mansour 28 Years Old, writer and journalist, Baghdad Teacher’s Institute Graduate
I am currently working in the Iraqi Network Magazine and Al-Jazeera Net website My passion for the world of journalism began from the first moment I became aware of the power of the...
Nooran Al-Taie 21 years Medical student Nineveh Governorate.
My life story began with my grandfather (may God have mercy on him), he was my role model. His house was a place full of magazines, books and newspapers; as he was a journalist. Out of curiosity...
Tara Salah Moneka, 17 Years Old, Half Baghdadi Half Basri.
I started singing early on in my life, I was just learning to properly pronounce words, I was four years old at the time. When I was six years old, I had to enroll in my...
