{"id":11229,"date":"2023-01-18T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T08:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-v2.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2023-07-06T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:41:12","slug":"new-afghanistan-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/new-afghanistan-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"KWI welcomes new Afghan fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan Program Coordinator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academy-in-exile.eu\/about-the-academy\/aie-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frangis Dadfar Spanta<\/a> joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academy-in-exile.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academy in Exile<\/a> in August 2022. Thanks to her efforts, most of the Afghan fellows have arrived in Germany and are settling in.\u00a0At KWI we welcome Lida Nazarian, Fatemeh Rezaie and Farzana Wahidy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lida Nazarian is\u00a0an assistant professor\u00a0and civil rights activist. She has\u00a0a bachelor&#8217;s degree in nursing and a master&#8217;s degree in general psychology and has\u00a0been a lecturer at the Herat Institution of Medical Science (Afghanistan) and its partner institutes such as Cap Anamur and World Vision.\u00a0Her current research project, \u201cAssessing the Depression of Afghan Women after Migration,\u201d focuses on women in Germany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fatemeh Rezaie is pursuing her BA in photography from the University of Arts in Tehran, after studying mathematics and physics. She has had several exhibitions on Afghan women and diaspora members in Iran. Her current project focuses on Afghan women\u2019s lives in exile. Her aim is to use her artwork to be the voice of others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farzana Wahidy is an award-winning Afghan documentary photographer best known for her photographs of women and girls from Afghanistan. She was the first female Afghan photographer to work with international media agencies. Wahidy has been documenting the lives of Afghan women for more than a decade, and she recently established the Afghanistan Photographers Association. Her photographs have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in several countries around the world. Her current project, \u201c100 Afghan Women,\u201dshowcases women\u00a0of different ages, backgrounds, occupations and lifestyles\u00a0living inside and outside Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan Program Coordinator Frangis Dadfar Spanta joined the Academy in Exile in August 2022. Thanks to her efforts, most of the Afghan fellows have arrived in Germany and are settling in.\u00a0At KWI we welcome Lida Nazarian, Fatemeh Rezaie and Farzana Wahidy. Lida Nazarian is\u00a0an assistant professor\u00a0and civil rights activist. She has\u00a0a bachelor&#8217;s degree in nursing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":9701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[476],"tags":[445,642,488],"class_list":["post-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academy-in-exile","tag-academy-in-exile","tag-afghanistan","tag-international-fellowships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}