Stories

Bratislava welcomes writer, editor, and graphic designer Farhad Babaei as its first ICORN resident

‘We Are Each Other’s Remedy’: Aslı Ceren Aslan’s literary debut shines light on systemic injustice in Turkey

Reflections from The Garden Sessions and The Safe Havens Conference 2023

Journalist, writer, and translator Omer Abib is in ICORN residency in Östersund

Stockholm ICORN City of Refuge welcomes poet and writer Raafat Hekmat

Wesam Almadani: ‘If the deaths of 1873 children do not mobilise the world- will my words?’

Writer, translator, and activist Meryem Sultan takes up the ICORN residency in Lillehammer

Narges Mohammadi’s Nobel Peace Prize means that ‘the world has heard the voices of Iranian women’ says Moloud Hajizadeh

Taking a Stand for Freedom of Expression at the 2023 Gothenburg Book Fair

Mahdieh Golroo’s ‘Forbidden Letters’: Bravery and Weakness in the Fight for Women’s Rights

Documentary filmmaker Clay Pham takes up ICORN residency in Sweden

Nathalie Goethals on her work as ICORN coordinator: You learn to see your own environment, your city, your own organisation, through different eyes each time’.

Bergen celebrates 15 years as an ICORN City of Refuge

Artists Defying Repression in Iran – Arya Aramnejad in Interview with BBC Persian

Radio journalist, writer, and activist Wahab Michael Sbhatu is the ICORN resident in Kristiansand

Biskops Arnö Writing Workshop 2023: ’Great people, enlightening information, and wonderful nature’

Writer, journalist, and voice actor Saiful Baten Tito takes up ICORN residency in Gothenburg

Uplifting, raw, and angry: Ramy Essam’s new album 'Metgharabiin' is out

Jonas Kongstad Østergård: As ICORN coordinator, you must be open to new opportunities…Lots of trial and error!

Welcome to ICORN, Warsaw

Literary translator and writer Mamon Zaidy takes up the ICORN residency in Uppsala

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Report: Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk

'Resistance rising from the ashes’: Confess on European Tour and ‘Metal Theatre: Aftermath’

Olga Bubich: ICORN resident in Berlin City of Refuge

‘Hope Away from Home’ in Vilnius on World Refugee Day 2023

Pedro X. Molina wins the 2023 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent

ICORN voices at the World Expression Forum and the Young Experts Seminar

The Council of the European Union acknowledges the crucial role and protection needs of artists at risk

Chris Gribble: ‘The depth of commitment of individuals, organisations, and cities to making a difference, to making the world better, never dims’

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A week of understanding Iraq in Stavanger

Aaiún Nin is the first recipient of the Grimsrud Scholarship

Azhar Al-Rubaie is in ICORN residency in Malmö

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

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.’

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

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

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

Welcome to Gävle, Sara Khayat

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

'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

Leuven is now an ICORN City of Refuge!

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

Journalist Asia Gaboush is Tønsberg’s first ICORN resident!

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

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

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

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

Reflecting on an ICORN residency and the road to it: An interview with Marjan Poursharifi

The Municipality of Michałowo wins the 2022 edition of the Mayor Paweł Adamowicz Award