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Congress in Berlin

The fol­low­ing del­e­gates have already con­firmed their participation:

Olja Andrynowska stud­ied Religious Studies at the Jagiellonian University and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Uppsala University; lived for a while in Tel Aviv, cur­rently becom­ing a pro­fes­sional, writ­ing vagabond.

Ariel Efraim Ashbel (b.1982) is a Tel Aviv and Berlin based performance/theater artist.
Since 2000, He’s been pre­sent­ing his work in many fes­ti­vals and venues around Israel, such as the Akko fes­ti­val, Tmuna the­ater (TLV), hazira per­for­mance art cen­ter (Jerusalem), the cen­ter of con­tem­po­rary art (TLV) and many more. He stud­ied the­ater at the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem, and his BA in phi­los­o­phy and inter­dis­ci­pli­nary human­i­ties at Tel Aviv uni­ver­sity. Between the years 2008–2010 he was the asso­ciate artis­tic direc­tor of Tmuna’s Intimadance Festival. In the first half of 2011 he moved to Berlin fol­low­ing a schol­ar­ship from Goethe Institute and the International Theater Institution, for an intern­ship at HAU. Since then he’s split­ting his time between Tel Aviv and Berlin, adjust­ing to the European weather, DJ’ing and plan­ning new vicious work, that will con­tinue to take him where no Yemenite gay’s gone before.

Cicek Bacik is born in 1972 in Almus (Turkey). In the course of fam­ily reuni­fi­ca­tion, she immi­grated to Berlin in 1980. Between 1994 and 2003 she stud­ied con­tem­po­rary ger­man lit­er­a­ture and french philol­ogy at the Free University of Berlin and the Sorbonne III. During her stud­ies she worked as a social worker in Muslim fam­i­lies. After com­plet­ing her master’s degree, she began to work at Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research (BIVS) as a researcher in the field of migra­tion research. There she worked on projects such as “Political par­tic­i­pa­tion of migrants in the city” and “Government pol­icy towards Muslim minori­ties in the European Union.” She was espe­cially respon­si­ble for the sci­en­tific and admin­is­tra­tive coor­di­na­tion of the project “Turkish tele­vi­sion in Germany”. Between 2007–2009 she worked as a research assis­tant in the project “Muslims in Europe” at the European University Viadrina / Frankfurt Oder in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology. From 2010 to 2011 she worked as research asso­ciate in the Department of Economic and Social Geography in the project “Global Prayers, redemp­tion and lib­er­a­tion in the city”, deal­ing with the means of sci­ence and art, new man­i­fes­ta­tions of reli­gion in urban areas. In February 2012 she sub­mit­ted her doc­toral the­sis on “Turkish tele­vi­sion in Germany between mar­ket, state and mess” at the Philipps University/Marburg (depart­ment of polit­i­cal sci­ence). Between 2006 and 2009 she got a doc­toral schol­ar­ship at the Hans-Böckler-Foundation. She cur­rently works as a project assis­tant in the 7th Berlin Biennial with a focus on migration-specific art­works. Since tree years she is a board mem­ber of the Turkish Union in Berlin Brandenburg (Türkischer Bund in Berlin Brandenburg– TBB) — since March 2011 she is the spokes­woman of TBB. In March 2012, she was elected to the board of the Turkish com­mu­nity in Germany (Türkische Gemeinde in Deutschland) and to the board of the SPD in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Political focal points: cul­ture, media, urban devel­op­ment and immi­gra­tion policy.

Raji Bathish was born in the town of Nazareth 1970, is a writer, screen­play writer and cul­tural activist, all his writ­...