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Stavanger. Photo: Stavanger Municipality

ICORN is hiring!

02. Jun 2023

From top left to right: Safaa Khalaf; Selma M. Yonus (Photo: Anne Lise Norheim). From bottom left to right: Basim Mardan (Photo: Ieva Paberžytė); Otba Fathalla Jakob.

A week of understanding Iraq in Stavanger

26. May 2023

Aaiún Nin. Photo: Willa Decjusza

Aaiún Nin is the first recipient of the Grimsrud Scholarship

22. May 2023

Azar Al-Rubaie. photo.

Azhar Al-Rubaie is the new ICORN resident in Malmö

10. May 2023

UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day 2023.

‘Freedom of expression as a driver for all other human rights’ on World Press Freedom Day 2023

03. May 2023

Cartoon by Khalid Albaih.

Khalid Albaih: ‘In this dark moment of fear and despair, these people give me hope that Sudan can and will have a better, brighter future.’

02. May 2023

Arya Aramnejad, Abdalla Basher, Justina, and Duaa Kamel are the ICORN residents performing at the 9th World Summit on Arts and Culture in Stockholm, Sweden.

ICORN at the 9th World Summit on Arts & Culture!

28. Apr 2023

The Loneliness of the Migrant 1979. Guillermo Gomez Pena

How to Be a Border and How to Cross It: What Art and Literature Know about Democracy

26. Apr 2023

Ali Al Ibrahim in Orlando, Florida. Photo: Private.

Ali Al Ibrahim awarded the 2023 AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism

24. Apr 2023

Graphic designer, illustrator, and visual artist Sara Khayat. Photo: Private

Welcome to Gävle, Sara Khayat

18. Apr 2023

A scene from ‘The Empty Suitcase’. Photo: Naseer Turkma.

‘The Empty Suitcase’ by Kaveh Ayreek staged at Théâtre de la Ville in Paris

13. Apr 2023

'Capturing the Sense of Belonging While Enriching with Our Differences and Crossing Our Borders': Aslı Ceren Aslan's reflections on the 2023 ICORN Network Meeting in Brussels

31. Mar 2023

From left to right: Ilke Froyen (Director of Passa Porta), Ans Persoons (Deputy Mayor of Brussels), Vafa Mehraeen (journalist, scholar, activist, current ICORN resident in Brussels), Lucy Kassa (journalist, current ICORN resident in Lund, Sweden), Lies Corneillie (Deputy Mayor of Leuven) and Chris Gribble (ICORN Chair of Board). Photo: Caroline Lessire.

Leuven is now an ICORN City of Refuge!

30. Mar 2023

The 2023 ICORN Network Meeting in Brussels - 22nd- 24th March 2023

20. Mar 2023

Asia Gaboush, together with the Mayor of Tønsberg Anne Rygh Pedersen and Library Director Birgithe Schumann-Olsen.

Journalist Asia Gaboush is Tønsberg’s first ICORN resident!

14. Mar 2023

From top left: Moloud Hajizadeh (Iran/ Larvik) Photo: Håkon Eliassen; Amira Al-Sharif (Yemen/Paris), Photo: Huda Al-Sharif; Jannatun Nayeem Prity (Bangladesh/Paris), Photo: Private; Evan Hikmat (Iraq/ Haugesund), Photo: Private, Sahar Bayati (Iran/ Haugesund), Photo: Østlendingen.

Empowerment, Equality, and Strength: Every Day and on International Women’s Day

08. Mar 2023

Aslı Ceren Aslan. Photo source: PEN/Opp.

Aslı Ceren Aslan on the Turkish government's inaction in the aftermath of the earthquakes

22. Feb 2023

Top left: Ali Al Ibrahim (Photo by Johan Werner Avby). Top middle: Parvin Ardalan (Photo by Fredrik Elg). Top right: Khaled Harara (Photo by Joakim Roos). Bottom left: Jude Dibia (Photo by Ejiro Onobrakpor). Bottom middle: Yasmine El Baramawy (Photo by Linda Björk). Bottom right: Karin Hansson.

Sharing perspectives on free expression and democracy at Folk och Kultur

10. Feb 2023

Hayat Al-Sharif. Photo: Huda Al- Sharif

Hayat Al-Sharif is Stavanger’s new ICORN resident!

02. Feb 2023

Project +93 performing in Stockholm’s Kulturhuset Stadsteatern. Photo: Arya Aramnejad: Facebook.

Project +93: Where music, inspiration, and solidarity meet

26. Jan 2023

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