Deniz Alan Held

Are the men of Islamic countries really happy? How do they carry that burden, how do they cover everything they are expected to be? What is the real problem; the book or the interpretations? Nefise Özkal Lorentzen, seeks answers to those questions in the last film episode of her Islam Trilogy.

Freedom of speech counts as cornerstone of democracy. In Norway the internet is considered as an free arena where all can participate with own ideas. This is not the same in Turkey.

While the majority of older people have taken for granted to be governed by a hypocritical and corrupted state, the young ones revolted. Today nothing is as before in Turkey.

Author Yaşar Kemal has been awarded with Bjørnson Prize by Norway’s Literature and Freedom of Expression Academy. “Nobody should forget that every war is a death order,” he said at a panel after the award ceremony.