First days: Student presentations and visit to the German Chancellery

A small selection of photos from the Forum's first days, showing this year's participants as they present their first individual work, visit the German Chancellery for a discussion on Germany's involvement in ISAF, finishing of with a lovely dinner at a typical Berlin restaurant!

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by David Barnwell

  • Welcome to the 4th NATO Afghan Students Forum
  • A Croatian delegates rests his eyes
  • A Tatjiki student asking questions
  • A participant listens to Mr. Carp's speech
  • A student debates with Admiral De Paola via the interlink
  • An Afghan student makes his case
  • Coffee Break
  • Mohammad Edrees Dowarie is asking questions
  • Mr. Duray debates with Mr. Carp
  • Mr. Duray discusses with the students during the break
  • Mr. Krüger debates with students during Tuesday's morning meeting
  • Powerpoint preparation
  • Question time in the conference room
  • Relaxing Time
  • Four of the Afghan students listen intensely to today's key note address
  • Students prepare for their presentation
  • Students respond to a presentation
  • The Pakistani presentation
  • The Pakistani students during their presentation
  • Time for sightseeing
  • Ice cream and photos at Tuesday night's dinner

More student presentations and visit to the German Bundestag

On the second and third day of the 4th NATO Afghan Students Forum, the participants continued their presentations. On Wednesday, a round table discussion at the German Bundestag was attended, of course leading to intense debate and tons of questions!

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by David Barnwell

  • Questions in the Bundestag
  • Alyas and Mohammad (Afghanistan) listen to the debate
  • Mr. Ruprecht Polenz, former Chair of the Commitee of Foreign Affairs (center) and colleagues
  • Ghulamrasool Folladwand from Afghanistan expresses his opinions
  • The board listens
  • The Pakistani delegation and Shervonso Alamshoev from Tatjikistan (right)
  • Students of all nationalities were present at the round table
  • The board seen from the rows
  • Mr. Polenz chatting with students after the session
  • ... and of course taking time for pictures
  • Martin Hauge Pedersen, one of three students from Denmark
  • Debates continued back at the Hertie School of Governance
  • Coffee break chat between Shervonsho and organizer Antje Knorr
  • The Pakistani presentation group
  • Syed Zaidi in charge of his presentation

Visit to the the Checkpoint Charlie Museum and the Berliner Rathaus

Thursday started out with a visit to the Checkpoint Charlie-museum in the centre of Berlin. The students then moved on to the Berlin City Hall for a session og Q&A with State Secretary and Senate Speaker, Mr. Deng, before finally heading back to the Hertie School of Governance for yet another round of presentations!

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by David Barnwell

  • Juxhina Sotiri (Albania) and Parvaneh Ghorbani (Denmark/Afghanistan) in front of the Berlin Wall
  • Visit to the Checkpoint Charlie Museum
  • Parvaneh and Lida (Afghanistan) in the museum
  • Two students observe and absorb
  • Mr. Ghulamrasool Folladwand from Afghanistan
  • Students in front of the famous Checkpoint Charlie
  • Time for pictures in front of the Berliner Rathaus
  • The group before Thursday's meeting with Mr. Meng
  • Mohammad Edrees being interviewed for the Orangelog
  • The Danish delegation, Lena and Martin
  • Debate in the Berliner Rathaus
  • Mr. Meng, State Secretary and Speaker of the Berline Senate, answered the students' many question about Berlin and Germany
  • The beautiful scene of the Berliner Rathaus
  • Mr. Meng listens to his guests
  • ... and the guests listen to Mr. Meng
  • Mohammad Edrees (Afghanistan) and Katja Boettcher (Germany)
  • Juxhina from Albania debates with Mr. Meng
  • Back at the Hertie School of Governance, Colonel Lieutenant Christian Freuding, heads a session about Germany's involvement in ISAF
  • ... of course with students eager to know more
  • Especially the Afghan students had many questions
  • Robert Mikac, the Forum's only Croatian participant, seems surprised by the camera
  • Javid Ahmad (Afghanistan) in dialogue with a fellow student
  • Time for more presentations
  • The scene at the Forum's main venue, the Hertie School of Governance
  • Lida Mohd, Afghanistan
  • Bakhtiyor Tukhtabaev from Uzbekistan during Thursday's presentation round
  • Javid Ahmad leads the word
  • Anum Bashir from Pakistan with her special souvenirs

Presentations from Thursday and Friday

A small collection of the students' presentations and reactions from the Forum's last two days.

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by David Barnwell

  • Alyas Hammed Munib (Afghanistan) leads a follow up question round
  • Bakhtiyor Tukhtabaev (Uzbekistan) during his group presentation
  • Javid Ahmad from Afghanistan gives a speech on the Afghan youth's perception of NATO
  • Meanwhile, his group listens
  • Two Afghan delegates during Friday's final round of presentations
  • Once again, the theme was Afghanistan's youth
  • Martin from Denmark listens to the speakers
  • Parvaneh Ghorbani during her presentation on aid work, as seen from the rows
  • Ghulamrasool presents his work
  • Parvaneh Ghorbani (Denmark/Afganistan)
  • Parvaneh and Ghulamrasool were in charge of the Forum's last presentation on aid work
  • Ghulamrasool checks his slides
  • Final point of the presentation: Criticisms
  • The organizers: Dr. Antje Knorr and Ms. Bénédicte Borel

Closing Diploma Ceremony

Friday was the last day of the Forum, and by that it was also time to say goodbye and hand out the diplomas.

The OrangeLog-team thanks everybody involved in this year's NATO Afghan Students Forum, and hope to see you all again soon!

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by David Barnwell

  • Abdullah Faqiri, Afghanistan
  • Javid Ahmad, Afghanistan
  • Daniela Rodrigues, Portugal
  • Alyas Hameed Munib, Afghanistan
  • Lena Brogaard, Denmark
  • Ghulamrasool Folladwand, Afghanistan
  • Katja Boettcher, Germany
  • Louisa Puschel, France
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  • Lida Mohd, Afghanistan
  • Robert Mikac, Croatia
  • Nasria Phaston, Afghanistan
  • Duvile Sukyte, Lithuania
  • Anum Bashir, Pakistan
  • Juxhina Sotiri, Albania
  • Jawdat Bilal, Pakistan
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  • Anna Sulewska, Editor Orangelog
  • Roza Ovezova, Turkmenistan
  • Syed Ahmad Raza Zaidi, Pakistan
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  • Bakhtiyor Tuhktabaev, Uzbekistan
  • Thomas Alboth, Editor Orangelog
  • Gran Hewad, Afghanistan
  • Shervonsho Alamshoev, Tajikistan
  • Marco Riciputi, Orangelog
  • Mohammad Edrees Dowarie, Afghanistan
  • Parvaneh Ghorbani, Denmark/Afghanistan
  • Martin Hauge Pedersen, Denmark
  • Vera Ragone, Orangelog
  • Guillerme Correia da Silva, Orangelog
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  • Adrian Morales, Orangelog
  • Presents for the organizers, Antje Knorr and Bénédicte Borel
  • The NATO Afghan Students Forum Team 2009
  • Bye-bye!

The Orangelog Team

Anna Sulewska  | Julia Balanowski | Vera Ragone | David Barnwell | Guilherme Correia da Silva | Adrián Morales | Thomas Alboth | Marco Riciputi  |

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