Documentary maker and long-time traveller, Nafsika Hadjichristou speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about her love of photography and of travelling, about the countries through which she has travelled, especially the 2 years she spent in Latin America and how photography and travelling ‘weave together’ her human rights activism. To find out more about Nafsika, follow her on https://otherworlds.site/

Anglo Armenian film maker and writer from Cyprus, Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss speaks on kaleidHERscope from Los Angeles about finalizing her latest novel Love in Aleppo, about home, about love and loss and about memories….. Find out more about Victoria and her work: http://www.planetvix.com/

Ianthi Sparsis, an experienced Keith’s Cacao practitioner and Reiki Master, with many years of training in meditation, embodiment work, shamanic rites, and the ancient practices of women frame drummers speaks on kaleidHERscope about her first steps on the rhythmic path to transformation that connected her to the almost lost lineage of Aphrodite’s frame drumming priestesses, about her keen interest in healing sisterhood trauma and helping women empower other women by leading women’s frame drumming circles, and about the ‘super food’ Cacao and leading ceremonial cacao ceremonies and cacao circles.

Poet, ethnographer, and interdisciplinary qualitative researcher Nafia Akdeniz speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about the meaning of home, forced displacement, and about her poetry-based project "We Are Not Ghosts" - Varosha Narratives. https://d6.eu/sound-walking/

Slovenian documentary filmmaker, Anja Medved, speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about the priceless value of storytelling, about her collaboration with her mother, Nadja Velušček on collecting cross-border memories between Gorizia and Nova Gorica and her documentary Smugglers' Confessionary, and how these stories 're-weave' history.

With a background of mixing art & history, PhD candidate Aliénor Gandanger discusses the wartime godmothers of WW1, a theme about women, relationships, emotions and about portraying a wartime godmother through a comic book heroine and turning a history subject into a comic book. KaleidHERscope is brought to you by Magda Zenon.

Kainat Riaz, an education advocate and the keynote speaker at the ‘United for Peace, EU-UWC youth leadership’ forum in Cyprus recently, speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about October 9th 2012 when she was with Malala when she was targeted by the Taliban, about the value of education and the UWC and about ‘Beydaar Society’, the NGO she co-founded that helps to promote peace & harmony in Pakistan by using education as a tool.

Dr. Habiba Sarābi, the first Afghan woman to become a provincial governor and 1 of the 4 women at the negotiation table with the Taliban in Doha this year, speaks on kaleidHERscope about the life of the women in Afghanistan, the mental health of all Afghans and the rise in suicides and about how we can help.

Evie Theocharous, a researcher and a board member of Cyprus Youth DiplomaCY, speaks on kaleidHERscope about why it is imperative that there is a substantive inclusion of youth in the Cyprus Peace Process and about transitional justice, especially its gender perspective. Disclaimer: The House of Youth Representatives is a simulation of the House of Representatives co organised by Cyprus Youth Council and Cyprus Youth DiplomaCY. DISACT is a 5 year ERC - Funded Project. It investigates the logic of the crime of disappearances in repressive and (post)conflict settings. 

Naw Angeline, a Women Human Rights Defender, an educator and a member of WASL speaks on kaleidHERscope about Myanmar, one of the ‘invisible’ global conflicts; what is happening in the country now, the lack of security, the internal displacement, the humanitarian needs, the role of the women and Gen Z and the message she wants to send to the international community.