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19:00 performance M-A is a collective of Iranian women artists based in Belgium. M-A are the initials of Mahsa/Jina Amini, the Kurdish 22 years old Iranian woman arrested on 13th September in Tehran by the morality police because of her “unproper” hijab, She was killed on 16th September while in Police custody. Though the artists in the collective have diverse approaches, they are joined together through their shared experience, and the strong need to speak out. M-A collective’s performances are each time an invitation to witness all the lives that have been taken, to mourn the innocent blood that was spilled, and to explore the value of life in the face of adversity. https://www.instagram.com/ma.collective_/ 19:30 talk with Sachli Gholamalizad, Elly Mansouri, Niuscha Bassiri - moderated by Mahdieh Fahimi Elly Mansoury was born in Tehran and grew up in Belgium. She is a political scientist at the Department of Political Science at the VUB and is head of research at Erasmus University College Brussels. Until recently, she travelled frequently to Iran. Elly regularly comments on the protests in Iran for radio and TV programmes such as De Ochtend, De Afspraak and Terzake. She recently appeared in the written press with an opinion piece in De Morgen "Protesten tegen regime in Iran blijven duren, maar wil overgrote meerderheid een echte regimewissel?" and with interviews in HUMO and BRUZZ. Niuscha Bassiri is Iranian by background and a German lawyer. She is a partner at the prestigious law firm of Hanotiau & van den Berg in Brussels with 20-years of experience. She is counsel and arbitrator in numerous international commercial and investment arbitrations. She is also a sought-after strategic adviser on setting-aside and enforcement of arbitral awards in multi-jurisdictional proceedings. She is a member of the faculty of the University of Miami White & Case International Arbitration LLM program as well as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. She was a guest lecturer in the Geneva LLM in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) program and a long-time lecturer in the master’s program of the ICHEC Business and Management School in Brussels on International Commercial Law and Dispute Resolution. She regularly speaks at leading conferences and seminars and publishes on novel matters concerning international arbitration. For many years Niuscha ranks amongst the best arbitration practitioners worldwide with her peers and clients giving her the highest praise such as being a “brilliant arbitrator” who is a “very smart and hard-working lawyer” who “displays excellent judgment” and is “highly recommended for her leading (…) arbitration expertise” She is also considered as one of the five leading lawyers for dispute resolution and international arbitration in Belgium. http://www.hvdb.com/niuscha-bassiri/ Sachli Gholamalizad is a theatre creator and works in film and television as an actress. She studied theatre at RITCS in Brussels and took acting classes from Jack Waltzer in Paris. In 2013 she created her first play, A Reason to Talk, as the first part of a trilogy. The production won a number of prizes (Fringe First 2015, Circuit X, Roel Verniers, Shortlist Amnesty International, ...), toured in several countries and was met with great enthusiasm. In 2016 she created the follow-up (Not) My Paradise. She is one of the KVS faces, and was artist in residence at Vooruit in Ghent. In May 2019 her third solo performance Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season premiered at KVS and Kunstenfestivaldesarts. Sachli Gholamalizad can often be seen on the big screen. She plays in Brian De Palma’s new film Domino (2019) and Mijke De Jong’s Layla M (2016). She also acts in various (inter)national television series, including Stockholm Requiem (2019), Bullets (2018), De Twaalf, Loslopend Wild (2012-2018). She took on a lead role in De Bunker (2015). She tours internationally with her plays. In previous years she performed amongst others in Toronto (Canada), Buenos Aires (FIBA), Barcelona (GREC Festival) and at the Edinburgh Fringe. Besides her work in theatre and film, she also writes a column for MO Magazine. https://www.instagram.com/sachli_gholamalizad/ Mahdieh Fahimi is an interpreter and translator Dutch-Farsi and freelance film curator. She is passioned about films by makers mainly from South-West Asia and North Africa. She has previously worked with VUB Crosstalks, MOOOV and KASKcinema, among others. Mahdieh is co-host of the Ghent radio programme on film, Kuleshov and co-founder of Woman Life Freedom collective Ghent.

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