Your editorial is small, but your goals and dreams are great. Ten foreign journalists sit at a table in Berlin. To survive, y fled from war and violence. They left ir homeland to start a new life.
The news platform Amal, Berlin! Gives ten journalists from Syria, Afghanistan and Iran chance to report on politics, culture and society in ir mor tongue. They inform people who, like m, have fled and found refuge in Germany, about formation of government in Bundestag as well as about demonstrations in Iran and about fashion week.
One of journalists is Shah Jahan Ahmadi. She has collected more than ten years of journalistic experience in a country where war has been going on for a long time: Afghanistan. Ten journalists and media workers were killed re last year within six months, twelve were injured.
Ahmadi worked as a lecturer at university and also in a media centre in Masar-i-Sharif. In this city in north Afghanistan is largest camp of German Bundeswehr. The German ISAF soldiers advised and supported Bayan Shamal Media Center. That means "voice of North". The Afghan journalists inform population about print media, Internet, television and radio.
© Time online Nastaran Nawras journalist from Afghanistan to authors pageShah Jahan was employed for about eight years in field of print at this Media Center. "Bayan Shamals goal is to show population how state's development is progressing, thus strengning morale," says Ahmadi.
When ISAF's mission to Afghanistan ended on December 31, 2014, life became more dangerous for some of se journalists. They were given death threats from Taliban because y had been working with Germans. ISAF advocated that vulnerable journalists could travel to Germany from Afghanistan. There is no indication as to how many journalists were able to travel through Bundeswehr in general. Afghanistan ranks 120 of 180 on rank of press freedom.
The 33-year-old journalist Ahmadi got a sponsorship support. Since end of 2014 she lives in Berlin. Here she is safe, but far away from her homeland Afghanistan. There, she earned more than 1,000 dollars a month and was able to write about current topics every day. In Germany, she had to start from scratch. "Language is journalist's tool," she says. Unfortunately, German language is as difficult as when someone tries to split a mountain with a hatchet.
Date Of Update: 21 January 2018, 12:02
