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Alumni highlights
Alumni 2009
Amahl Khouri started the Kanhoor project and was granted 2,6 million Swedish Kronas by SIDA. It is an online Arab film portal consisting of a film festival and magazine, with a core objective of promoting freedom of expression in the region. It will also include a film production fund targeting LGBT and women's voices for inclusion and exposure.
It will be implemented together with IMNS of Stockholm, Greycale Films of Amman/Beirut and Meem (Lesbian support organization) of Beirut.
Alumni 2008
On 17 January, Rabie Abulatifah and Charlotta Åsell together with the Hyper Island graduate Ola Möller started a study tour in Palestine as a part of their upcoming project Image vs. Images. The project, inspired by the YLVP, will bring Palestinian and Swedish young leaders and social media practitioners together in a series of workshops to be held in Ramallah in the autumn of 2010.
"YLVP gave us the chance to meet and create networks, and now we want to help each other create networks where young people can learn and help each other", says Rabie Abulatifah.
The project is composed of two parts. Part 1 is a series of workshops and seminars and the other part is a photo exhibition that will open alongside the workshops and seminars.
Fadi Zaghmout is now working as a senior webmaster at the office of Queen Rania of Jordan. He is in charge of her website, Queenrania.jo. Previously he worked as a web designer at an American development company in Amman, Jordan.