Project 2
Side-by-Side in
Diversity
Side-by-Side in Diversity — (Hi)stories, memories and controversies of the Jewish-Arab Question in an intergenerational dialogue project
Project 2, 2011-2013
In this intergenerational project, an intercultural team of educators worked with a core group of 15 participants to impart historical and cultural knowledge and to communicate the idea of dialogue. The project included 17 history workshops as well as two educational one-day excursions plus two project days to reflect on the workshop subjects. In August 2013 were three more workshops to prepare for the project presentation. The educational work was predominantly conducted at the facility of Karame e.V. Other places of learning were at die Wille gGmbH, at the German Historical Museum Berlin as well as a visit to the exhibition "Friederisiko", about Fredrick the Great and his time, in Potsdam.
Moderated by the facilitators, two generations explored and learned collectively concerning the Middle East conflict and also about different point of views on historic events and background stories as the nexus.
The emphasis was placed upon the question of the coexistence of different groups of people of other cultures and how their coexistence was affected over the centuries. Furthermore, poems by Khalil Gibran, Mahmoud Darwish and Roni Somek revealed the complexity and richness of literary texts and in them the different perspectives and reading of the joint subject.
Project Management
Mohamad Zaher, Elisabeth Kahn
Participants
Batoul Abu-Yahya, Lyla Abu-Yahya, Kausar El-Hussein, Linda Wafa, Mohammed Abu-Yahya, Imad Chaachouh, Bassel El-Aschkar, Diab El-Issa, Abdul-Elah Darraj, Issam Hamdan, Yasser Hemade, Ahmad Ismail, Issam Mansour, Fuad Zaher, Gelaal Zaher
Facilitators
Samuel Schidem and Guy Band et al.
Project 2
Side-by-Side in
Diversity
Management
Mohamad Zaher
(director and co-founder of the non-profit organisation Karame e.V.) strives to devise intercultural projects which promote dialogue and explore memories and life history within the context of the Middle East Conflict. In his view it is imperative to address Anti-Semitism, National Socialism and the Holocaust to comprehend the history and events leading to the Middle East Conflict.
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Elisabeth Kahn
(Graduate of the Berlin Institute of Technology, majoring in Educational Sciences with major fields of study Human Rights and Anti-Semitism) has been active in cultural education since 2001 and has been working for Karame e.V. as a free-lance facilitator since 2004. She has diverse experiences devising and implementing transcultural projects and is interested to generate and explore political with cultural education as a means of education.
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Facilitators
Guy Band
(Master Student in Holocaust Studies; Communication and Tolerance, Touro College Berlin and B.A. in Israel Studies, Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan); free-lance facilitator in various projects in extra-curricular, political-historical education, e.g. Wannsee Conference Memorial Site (Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz). Jewish Museum Berlin and August Bebel Institute. Staff member der Wille GmbH, focussing on interreligious and intercultural dialogue, Middle East Conflict, National Socialism.
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Samuel Schidem
(PhD student in Middle Eastern Studies) lives and works in Berlin as a self-employed lecturer at the education department of the Jewish Museum, Topography of Terror Documentation Center, as a free-lance facilitator with the Jewish Museum Berlin on.tour. In addition he works and as independent advisor and lecturer. Focus areas: democratic and political education; minorities and their rights within the political system; European and Middle East Politics; interreligious dialogue; Jewish-Muslim relations.
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Videos / Photos
Frieder Aurin
Master in Communications Management, Berlin University of the Arts – emphasis: audiovisual media, neoformatistic film analysis, crisis management); is a free-lance media producer (video production, photography, media education with young people, project documentation) for various theatre companies, non-profit organisations, schools, artists and communication agencies.
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The history workshops were conducted by multi-cultural teams with an interreligious background who also participated into the project development.
Projekt 2
Side-by-Side in
Diversity
Fragments
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About the film
A 20 minute film introduces the thoughts of some participants on some subjects which were addressed in the history workshops.
A film made by Elisabeth Kahn and Frieder Aurin, commissioned by Karame e.V.
Produced by
Frieder Aurin Medienproduktion
www.frieder-aurin.de
Film selection
Fragments
Reading
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Diversity
Reading
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About the film
The poetry reading, recited at project presentation at the Foundation EVZ on Aug. 29, 2013.
The short film shows the participants while poems by Khalil Gibran, Mahmoud Darwisch and Roni Somek are read which were chosen for their emotional impact on the group.
A film made by Elisabeth Kahn and Frieder Aurin, commissioned by Karame e.V.
Produced by
Frieder Aurin Medienproduktion
www.frieder-aurin.de
Film selection
Fragments
Reading
Project 2
Side-by-Side in
Diversity
Project impressions
Photo Galleries
Workshops
Teaching history at Karame e.V.
Excursion
Visiting the exhibition „Friederisiko“ in Potsdam
Presentation
In conclusion of the project at the EVZ
Overview
Project Impressions
© 2013, Frieder Aurin
and Karame e.V.
Project 2
Side-by-Side in
Diversity
Teaching history at Karame e.V.
Fotogalerien
Workshops
Teaching history at Karame e.V.
Excursion
Visiting the exhibition „Friederisiko“ in Potsdam
Presentation
In conclusion of the project at the EVZ
Overview
Project Impressions
© 2013, Frieder Aurin
and Karame e.V.
Project 2
Side-by-Side in
Diversity
Excursion
Fotogalerien
Workshops
Teaching history at Karame e.V.
Excursion
Visiting the exhibition „Friederisiko“ in Potsdam
Presentation
In conclusion of the project at the EVZ
Overview
Project Impressions
© 2013, Frieder Aurin
and Karame e.V.
Project 2
Side-by-Side in
Diversity
Project presentation at the EVZ
Fotogalerien
Workshops
Teaching history at Karame e.V.
Excursion
Visiting the exhibition „Friederisiko“ in Potsdam
Presentation
In conclusion of the project at the EVZ
Overview
Project Impressions
© 2013, Frieder Aurin
and Karame e.V.
Project 2
Side-by-Side in
Diversity
Contact
info@ zusammenlebenverschiedener.de
Supporting Organisation
Karame e.V.
Mohamad Zaher, Einrichtungsleiter Wilhelmshavener Str. 22
D-10551 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30 390 355 16
Fax +49 (0)30 390 355 18
info@karame.de
www.karame.de
Sponsors
The Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" (EVZ)
Ulla Kux, Programme Manager (HI)STORIES IN DIVERSITY
Lindenstr. 20-25
D-10969 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30 259297-84
Fax +49 (0)30 259297-11
kux@stiftung-evz.de
Site Notice
Karame e.V.
Wilhelmshavener Str. 22
10551 Berlin
Mohamad Zaher
(address stated as above)
Registration Office/Registration Number
Amtsgericht Charlottenburg
13946NZ
Responsible for the content according to § 10 par. 3 MDStV
Mohamad Zaher (address stated as above)
Implementation
Photography: Frieder Aurin,
www.frieder-aurin.de
Design: Arne Teubel,
www.guerillamedia.org
Webtechnique: Valentin Finke
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