HAGUETALKS JOINS THE NIGHT OF CONFLICT
During this special edition HagueTalks joins the Night of Conflict. During this event we look back at the most important peace and security issues of 2018 and we dive into the complex world of conflict management and international security. You will get insights from high officials and diplomats, but also from biologists, philosophers, theater makers, soldiers and people from conflict countries.
HagueTalks facilitates personal stories from people who have experienced conflict first hand, and work for peace and justice. You will hear concrete experiences and insighs, and what the decisions f.e. at the UN Security Council really mean on the ground. Join the dialogue!
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Thana Faroq is a Yemeni documentary photographer and storyteller, based in The Hague Netherlands. In 2016 she was awarded Break the Silence-scholarship to pursue an M.A. in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at the University of Westminster in London. Her work aims to achieve a personal reportage that negotiates themes of memory, boundaries, and violence. She focuses on collaborative storytelling projects to tell personal anecdotes of displacement and migration. Previously, Thana worked with various international NGOs in Yemen to tell stories of displacement women and children in Yemen, portraying the suffering and highlighting on the forgotten crisis there. Her work appeared in several publications among them, Aljazeera, World Press Photo, BBC, Huffington Post, CNN and others. Currently Thana is a fellow artist the One Society Foundation NY.
She will talk about women and war in Yemen, and the five lessons she has learned. She will share her story documenting women’ lives during the war in Yemen. Through the power of storytelling and images, Thana presents insightful details on her personal encounters with the conflict, displacement, women resilience and the challenges they face during the war.
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Video credits: maaki.nl & melashvilli.nl
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