Konstantinos Poulis
Greek language teacher
Konstantinos was born in 1973. He holds a BA in Sociology and an MA and PhD in Classical Drama. His publications include essays on literature, philosophy, and theatre plays. He is actively involved in theatre productions as an actor and a director and he recently bought a new bouzouki. Konstantinos has also worked as a Greek language teacher at the Ikarian Centre since the summer of 2007.
pouliskonstantinos.blogspot.com
Neşe Yaşın
Administration, workshops, lectures and debates about Cyprus
Neşe Yaşın was born in 1959 in Cyprus. She is a poet well known and read on both sides of divided Cyprus. She studied Sociology at Middle East Technical University in Ankara.
She directed and presented a literary program called “41st Room” at CYBC radio (1992-2007) and the program Peace Garden (2001-2003) at radio ASTRA.
She is currently teaching language and literature in the Turkish Studies department of the University of Cyprus, and writing weekly columns for BirGün newspaper (Turkey) and Yenidüzen newspaper (Cyprus). She has published six volumes of poetry: Hyacinth and Narcissus (1979)‚ Tears of Wars (1980), Doors (1992)‚ The Moon is Made of Love (2000), Chambers of Memory (2005 ) Selected Poems (2008) and one novel‚ Secret History of Sad Girls (2002). Her poetry has been translated into 20 languages and published in literary magazines and anthologies. She has participated in poetry festivals and readings around the world. She has been the recipient of many awards, among them the Anthias Pierides Award in 1998.
Laura Weikel
Administration, coordination
Laura Weikel is originally from Los Angeles, California. She holds a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been living in various European cities for the past four years since she originally arrived at the end of 2008 for an Erasmus Mundus Master program in Cultures Littéraires Européennes, which she completed with a multi-cultural group of students from around the globe on a full scholarship. She currently resides in Nice, France where she works as a writer and editor for an EFL textbook publisher. She loves written and spoken language and for this reason she is passionate about writing, literature, language acquisition, teaching, and film.
Ksenia Sokolenko
Administration, coordination
We are still waiting some info from Ksenia 
Konstantinos Tsitselikis.
Workshops, lectures and debates about minorities
Konstantinos is an associate professor of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. He teaches human and minority rights. He has worked for OSCE, the UN, and the Council of Europe, mostly in democratisation and human rights mission. He has published a series of monographs, articles and studies on human rights, minorities and international law.
Ali Huseynoglu
Workshops, lectures and debates about minorities
Ali Huseyinoglu was born in Komotini-Greece on 22 March 1979. After his secondary and high school education in Istanbul-Turkey, he received his BA and MSc from the Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. His master’s thesis, which was awarded best thesis of 2005 at METU, was about continuities and changes of the Greek minority policy of Western Thrace in the post-Cold War era. In May 2012, he finished his doctoral studies. His dissertation focusses on the historical development of the educational regime of the Muslim Turkish Minority of Western Thrace in Greece after the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.
Christina Georgantidou
Greek language teacher
Christina has completed the graduate program of Linguistic Communication and Modern Greek as a Foreign Language at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. At the undergraduate level she participated in Erasmus and Socrates programs, studying for a semester at the University of King’s College, London in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. She has also taught Greek language and culture through the European program for Lifelong Learning Comenius in Charleroi, Belgium. She also teaches Greek as a foreign language for various institutions in Greece (International Summer School of Greek Language, History and Culture – Foundation for Balkan Studies, School of Modern Greek Language at Aristotle University, Ikarian Centre ). She has participated in many seminars and conferences on the teaching, intercultural education and the use of ICT in education. She speaks English, French and Italian.
Nursah Sak
Turkish language teacher
Nursah Sak was born and raised in Aydin. She has been interested in languages since childhood. Completing her high school studies in English language in 2004, she won a full scholarship for her undergraduate studies at Bilkent University, one of the most prominent universities in Turkey. She graduated second in her class from the Department of American Culture and Literature in 2008. She has worked as a teacher in private schools and given lessons in the aim of teaching both English and Turkish while studying for an MA in American History at Bilkent University. In 2011, she obtained a certification of English Language Teaching after completing a year of study at Hacettepe University, Ankara. In the same year, she started working officially as an Instructor of English at Gazi University, Ankara. Apart from this, she still continues to teach private lessons of English and Turkish to adult students. She is also interested in Greek culture and has an amateur radio show online on Greek music.
Esra Yıldız
Turkish language teacher
Esra Yıldız earned her BA jointly from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature as well as from the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Bogazici University. She is currently pursuing her MA there in the Department of Linguistics. She is also working as a teaching assistant in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures.
Özge Sayiş
Turkish language teacher
we are still waiting some info from Özge
Serdar Altok
Administration, coordination
Serdar is 35 years old and works as an assistant professor in the Department
of Mathematics at Bogazici University in Istanbul. Apart from work, he is involved in some social projects, including BUKOOP, a cooperative at the university. He speaks
basic Greek and is very happy to be a part of the parallel course project.
Panikkos Chrysanthou
Screenings, lectures and debates about Cyprus
Born in Kythrea, Cyprus – 15/08/1951, University of Athens degree in literature and philoshophy, Assistant director and executive producer in Greek and Cypriot films, Journalist, Film Critic, Curator of the Nicosia Film Club, Curator of the Cyprus Film Archive, Director of the art cinema “Studio” in Nicosia, Curator of the Cyprus Film Archive
Films
1985 – 1987, A Detail in Cyprus. Producer and director. Screenings: Panorama Berlin Film Festival 1987, Cinema Mediterraneen Montpellier 1987, Mostra de Valencia 1987, Thessaloniki Film Festival 1987, Cinema du Reel 1988
1993, Our Wall (Zypern Unsere Liebe) Director. Produced by Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, ZDF. Shown by ZDF, ARTE. Screenings in Universities (Harvard, New York, London School of Economics, Lyon, Athens, Istanbul) and international seminars on ethnic conflicts. Ipekci Peace Prize 1997
1996, The Footprints of Aphrodite. Producer and director.
2002, Sylikou. Producer and director.
2002, Our country. Producer and director
2003, Parallell Trips. Producer and director with Dervis Zaim Kutlu Adali Price 2005
2006, Akamas. Producer and director. Venice Film Festival Best Film Los Angeles Greek Film Festival
Currently in production:
The Story of the Green Line, Producer and director. Feature Film
Stories of the Green Line, Producer and director. Documentary
Mihalis Kavouriaris
Project’s manager, coordination, Greek language teacher
I must find some time and write something about me. In a while…
Institutions and organizations supporting the project
ANTIGONE – information and documentation centre on racism, ecology, peace and non violence.
