Oslo

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Aziz Sangtarash, Soudabeh Alishahi, Benyamin Farnam, Reza Sharifi Boukani, and Emmanuel Shokrian. Credits: Deichman Library/ Oslo ICORN City of Refuge.

Oslo has been a City of Refuge since 2001.

The ICORN Programme in Norway's capital city is administered through the Deichman Library, where the writers, artists, and journalists in Oslo's ICORN residence have a workspace and equipement.

Oslo has welcomed 10 ICORN residents: Iranian writer Soudabeh Alishahi, Iranian short story writer, poet, and editor Aziz Sangtarash, Kurdish-Iranian journalist and translator Kosar Fattahi, Kenyan writers, journalist, and human rights activist Philo Ikonya, Kurdish-Iranian author and psychologist Masha Nikan, Iranian researcher and psychologist Emmanuel Shokrian, Iranian documentary filmmaker Benyamin Farnam, Kurdish-Iranian journalist and human rights activist Reza Sharifi Boukani, and Eritrean academic, writer, and translator Nasser Ahmedin Mohammed.

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