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14 writers, artists and musicians took in ICORN residency in Sweden, Denmark and Norway were gathered at the Foundation Biskops Arnö for a Creative Writing Seminar. From left: Weli Ayup, Iman Al Ghafari, Saiidi Sharif, Seywan Saeedian, Ashraff Bagheri, Mahideh Golroo, Jahanara Nuri, Ali Thareb, Ola Housamo, Babak Salimzadeh, Susanne Ibrahim, Kajsa Sundin, Supriti Dahr, Milagros Socorro, Tsegabrhan Goitom Habtemariam. Photo

Creative writing seminar at Biskop Arnö

02. Sep 2020

Investigative journalist Safaa Khalaf. Photo

Investigative journalist Safaa Khalaf welcomed in Stavanger

24. Aug 2020

Sedigheh Vasmaghi, lawyer, poet and woman rights activist from Iran. Photo.

On trial for threatening national security, Iranian lawyer, poet and activist, Sedigheh Vasmaghi’s issues statement of defence to the Court of Public Opinion

07. Aug 2020

Iranian singer Arya Aramnejad performing his One day I'll kiss you. Photo.

Another world is possible

05. Jul 2020

Visit GetFadaa.com, a digital platform for artists that envisions a new economy based on sharing spaces. Photo.

When the World Closed

03. Jul 2020

Syrian writer and journalist Suzanne Ibrahim, ICORN writer in residence in Östersund, Sweden. Photo: TEG Publishing/Sandra Lee Pettersson. Photo.

The High Priestess of Isolation

03. Jul 2020

UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Gillian Triggs, in a video message to ICORN on World Refugee Day 2020. Photo.

World Refugee Day 2020 - Every Action Counts

19. Jun 2020

The Daesh Cage project, the last project that was implemented by the Culture Militia in Iraq. ©Ali Thareb private photo. Photo.

A poetic revenge on a brutal reality

08. Jun 2020

PoesifestivalBerlin digital festival June 2020.Photo.

Re:writing borders – Film and poetry readings Saturday 6 June

05. Jun 2020

UNESCO - World Press Freedom Day - Journalism without fear or favour. From left: Zamira Abbasova, Amira Al Sharif, Nazeeha Saed. Photo.

Journalism without fear or favour - on #WorldPressFreedomDay 2020

03. May 2020

Monem Majoub, ICORN writer in residence in Brussels and Passa Porta: open letter to the coronated virus. Photo.

in residence: open letter to the coronated virus

23. Apr 2020

Stavanger City of Refuge and the Kapittel festival have initiated a digital diary with 11 writers who report from their everyday life during the time of the corona virus. Photo.

Digital diaries by writers and artists in exile during the pandemic

20. Apr 2020

Milagros Socorro at Litfest Umeå in March 2020 with Danish translator Kirsten A. Nielsen. Photo.

Ratatosk – Nordic translation project

14. Apr 2020

CORONICA by cartoonist ©Fadi Abou Hassan. Photo.

ICORN in the time of corona

23. Mar 2020

Colleague to Colleague, RSF Sweden's project connecting journalist colleagues in Sweden. ICORN.Photo

Connecting colleagues in Sweden

06. Mar 2020

Iranian journalist and human rights defender, Shiva Nazar Ahari in Ljubljana. Photo.

We will resist anyone who wants to separate and weaken us

04. Mar 2020

Berliner Fernsehturm, Alexanderplatz. Photo: ©Ahmed Al Ghasra.

Re:writing the future - the ICORN General Assembly 2020

07. Feb 2020

From top left: Mehdi Mousavi, Sahar Bayati. From bottom left: Elahe Rahroniya, Benyamin Farnam. Photo.

Four Iranian voices on Iran

06. Feb 2020

Cartoon by Iraqi artist Ahmed Falah: "The fall of the post-Saddam dictatorship in the hands of the people". Photo.

Young Iraqi Voices: Stories from Iraq through Biography and Art

09. Nov 2019

Forbidden voices - travels to the frontiers of expression. Authors: Jan Zahl and Finn E. Våga. Publisher Pelikanen Forlag. ICORN. Photo.

Forbidden Voices launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair October 2019

07. Nov 2019

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