Screening of “Hawar – My Journey to Genocide”
January 31st, 2017
Join us for a screening of “Hawar – My Journey to Genocide” and following discussion with renowned German filmmaker Düzen Tekkal.
Her film portrays the events following the Islamic State’s attack on Iraq’s Yazidi minority in August 2014 – leaving 5,000 dead, half a million displaced and more than 3,000 girls and women forced into sexual enslavement. “Hawar” is the story of Düzen Tekkal’s journey back to her Yazidi homeland and her arrival to an ISIS bloodbath.
Watch the official trailer here.
About the speaker:
Düzen Tekkal is an award-winning German journalist and human rights activist of Kurdish-Yazidi origin and current chairwoman of HAWAR.help. Her former journalistic activities include authorship and reporting for German TV stations RTL and ZDF.
Tekkal’s intercultural skills and knowledge on immigrant communities make her a highly valued speaker in political settings in Germany and around the globe. She was recently invited to the United Nations for the appointment of escaped ISIS victim Nadia Murad as UN Goodwill Ambassador. Tekkal was the first journalist to feature Murad in her documentary “Hawar”, helped her seek asylum in Germany and has been a leading figure in the movement to get the Sinjar massacre recognized as genocide.