Twinning
IMS twinning activities within the Media Cooperation Programme for the Arab World and Iran refer to partnerships established between journalists or media institutions in Denmark and the Arab region. A partnership should be focused on practical collaboration between media professionals. Through twinning, IMS aims to mutually strengthen the knowledge about Arab and Danish societies among media and their audiences, and to foster networks between media practitioners across the borders.Archive
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- The Danish connection to Fatah al-Islam
- The Danish connection to Fatah al-Islam Part II
- Danish radio live from Damascus
- Lebanese film maker directing film at the Danish Film School
- Ask Riz Khan from Al Jazeera!
- Film to focus on Palestinian women
- A visit to Radio Arabesque in Damascus
- Testing Danish TV formats for TV in Syria
- Sounding boards
- Debating the role of women
- Photos offer new views
- From Damascus to Copenhagen
- A rare insight
- Arab and Danish filmmakers pool their efforts
- Danish film students capture life in the Arab world
- Summer holds promises for future of Lebanese film
- "Borderlands" - synopsis
- Filmography of Sawsan Darwaza productions
- Award to film co-produced by Danes and Arabs
- Partnerships across borders
- Article (Danish): Familie frem for eventyr, 2005
- Artikel: Billedet af islam og billeder i islam, 18 February, 2005
- Artikel: for langt ude til Beirut, 2005
- Media in the Middle East Crisis: Co-production, professional self-reflection and improved conflict coverage, 2003
A rare insight
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In close collaboration, Ahmad Ghosein, a Lebanese filmmaker and his Danish counterpart, Georg Larsen, have produced a documentary film about the Arab community in Copenhagen. Simply by knocking on doors in the neighbourhood of Nørrebro in Copenhagen, Georg Larsen filmed when Ahmad Ghosein was invited into the homes of Danes with Arab roots for a talk about living in Denmark. The film can be seen on DR2 at 8 PM on Sunday 24 August 2008.
Where is home and what is a ghetto? These are some of the questions raised in the documentary film "An Arab comes to Town" by Georg Larsen, which has been produced with support from IMS and DCCD.
With the simple but clever idea to bring an Arab to town who offers the outside eye on Denmark as well as the inside view into the Arab community, he teams up with Lebanese filmmaker Ahmad Ghosein. Together, the two suceed in entering into homes that are rarely portrayed by the Danish media.
The film takes its departure in the Arab community in the neighbourhood of Nørrebro in Copenhagen. In the wake of the often heated debate of the impact of immigration into Denmark, Georg Larsen and Ahmad Ghosein set their minds to ask the basic question to the immigrants themselves: What is it like to live in Denmark with an immigrant background?
The result is a nuanced situation report from what is regarded a ghetto in Denmark, as the film portrays the teenage girls in the youth club and the young boys in the street. They all share their thoughts with Ahmad who has no previous experience with Denmark. He asks questions that may seem obvious to an Arab. But the answers take him by surprise.
"An Arab comes to town" is produced as part of a documentary exchange project - or "twinning" as IMS likes to call collaboration between media professionals . It is linked to a counter production called "Beautiful Beirut". This was also produced by Georg Larsen, and is portraying the divided society of Lebanon in the immediate aftermath of the armed crisis between Lebanon and Israel in the summer of 2006.
Listen to interview in Danish with Georg Larsen producer of "An Arab comes to town" at:
http://www.dr.dk/P1/P1Morgen/Udsendelser/2008/08/20/103933.htm