
Şehbal Şenyurt Arınlı
Şehbal Şenyurt Arınlı was born in 1962. She studied political science and journalism. She is a documentary film director/producer, journalist and writer, and she is Turkey’s first female camera operator.
In the 1990s, she worked for the international press and broadcasters and the news programme called 32nd Day. Her films were screened in many countries around the world. She is the founder of BSB, The Documentary Filmmakers’ Association. She has developed various workschops and training programmes at universities, especially to strengthen the presence of women in the field of cinema.
She has conducted oral history and social memory projects on issues such as exile, population exchange, minority rights and genocide. She has taken active roles in political parties and congresses and on platforms for the democratic solution of the Kurdish problem. In 2011, she was elected as the Labour Freedom Democracy Blog parliamentary candidate from the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) She has been involved in the BDP Assembly, the DTK (Democratic Society Congress) and the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party).
Her various articles have been published in newspapers such as Özgür Gündem and Azadiye Welat and in various magazines. She contributed to the establishment of the Jinha women’s news agency and to the continuation of its broadcasts. She has carried out projects with the perspective of questioning prejudices and hearing the voice of the subaltern in areas such as minority rights, the Kurdish issue, anti-militarism, the struggle for women’s rights, and revealing ecological alternative life models. She was detained and had to go abroad, and she now lives and works in Germany.
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Media-theme Keynotes
* Can Dündar – Are We Really Free in Exile? * Şehbal Şenyurt Arınlı – Exile, Beyond the Generations…