As part of the project, the so-called Trainings of Mentors (ToM) took place, in which former participants from the 2020/21 project year were trained to become mentors to learn from the experiences of the former development fund projects.
The group of mentors consists of experts from the first project intake and newly acquired experts in the network to be able to use the Mentor program in a targeted manner.
Abduljabbar Alsuhili
Abduljabbar Alsuhili is a young Yemeni cultural activist with six years of experience as the representative director of the art critics group “Rawbit Cultural and Media Foundation” and a ICORN artist in Helsingborg, Sweden, as well as the co-founder ECHO organization that aims to advance educational and cultural empowerment for the Yemeni youth in and outside of Yemen.
Fatma Al-Baiti
Fatma Al-Baiti is a referent for politics and administration in the public sector in the UK with experiences in project management in the British cultural sector. She is a co-founder and the communication manager of ECHO and works as a mentor for instance for the project “Cultural Networks Yemen” of the Goethe-Institut.
Safa'a Al-Watari
Safa’a Al-Watari is a certified digital project manager with extensive experience in leading projects at local and international scales. Besides design and development, she is also responsible for the monitoring of innovative programs.
Andres Buenaventura
Andres Buenaventura is a staff training and developing senior specialist. His skills include writing and editing of texts and formulating strategies and developing employee skills in various areas. He is a consultant at ECHO and has also participated as a mentor in ECHO’s “Hably Hablak” mentorship program.
Ahmed Al-Arefi
Ahmed is one of Yemen’s leading Art Directors and Graphic Designers, with extensive and diverse experience. He has successfully lead the art direction of several cultural and business projects at both local and international levels and is the co-founder of ECHO.
Akhter Qasim
Akhter Qasim is a theater director and elocution instructor at Jameel Ghanem Institute of Fine Arts. He is also managing programs at the “The German House for Culture & Cooperation” and has performed numerous readings, plays, and Youtube episodes, as well as radio episodes and cultural events in this context.
Aseel Ehab
Award-winning Yemen artist and cultural activist working on documenting the Yemeni cultural anti-material heritage through “Boncast”. He has been working on data-visualized, animated, and listened productions for multiple partners like Resonate Yemen, Comra Films, UNDP, UNICEF, and Care.
Atiaf Alwazir
Atiaf Alwazir she is a writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children's stories. Besides the exploration of the concepts of identity and 'home' and the discussion of social issues, her work also focusses on the protagonists’ inner drives. She has published articles, essays, a short story, poems as well as a photo book.
Marwan Al-Juraidy
Marwan Al-Juraidy is a Yemeni cultural and art activist, the founder and executive director of the digital and realistic platform “Art Booster”. Marwan organizes and coordinates many cultural and artistic projects and activities inside and outside Yemen. His work belongs to visual arts and deal with social issues.
Mazen Sharif
Mazen Sharif is a cultural activist and the CEO of the cultural foundation “Aden Again”. He has years of experience in cultural management by running a number of projects and participating in exhibitions locally and externally, such as Aden I Exhibition and TEDx Aden.
Mohammed Almahdi
Mohammed Almahdi is the director and producer of the cinematic documentary “Nostalgia”. He works as a journalist, filmmaker and chairman of “Shift Foundation” where he leads a motivated team of volunteers. The “Shift Foundation” is one of the leading institutions in the field of Yemeni cinema.
Mohammed Almahfali
Mohammed Almahfali is a researcher at the Columbia Global Centers in Amman and since 2017 he has had a fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at the University Lund in Sweden. His research interests include discourse analyses, literature studies and peace and conflict studies. In the past years he has been a lecturer and assistant professor at the Hadhramaut University.
Mohammed Al-Shahethi
Mohammed Al-Shahethi is a digital marketing and social media specialist and trainer and works at the moment as a social media officer at “Doctors without borders” in Yemen. Furthermore, he is the founder of the company “Trend for digital Marketing”, which provides training and consultancy in digital marketing.
Mohamed Bawazir
For 10years Mohamed Bawazir has been an active social and cultural activist and at this moment he works as a knowledge analyst for McKinsey & Partners. Furthermore, he has a bachelor’s degree in management for oil and minerals and focusses on entrepreneurship, culture and the creative economics.
Najla Alshami
Najla Alshami is a Yemeni visual artist whose portraits embody storylines about select Yemeni subjects, such as displacement and women. Recently Najla has launched the “Yemen Art Base” in order to establish a database with information about Yemeni artists, their work and audiovisual and other materials of these artists.
Osama Khaled
Osama is a Yemeni independent filmmaker based in Berlin with over seven years of experience in visual creation. He worked on several commercial videos, documentaries and campaigns for Netflix, FUNK, MTV Germany, Meta and Amazon Prime.
Sabreen Alyousefi is a Yemeni filmmaker and social activist who has produced multiple films. She is one if the co-founders of the cultural podcast “Bon Cast” and has been the director for the platform “Yemen Art Base” as well as the project manager for Comora films.
Sarra Al-Hadi
Sarra Al-Hadi is a Content writer, storyteller and screen writer who also took part in the establishment of the cultural podcast “Bon Cast”. Furthermore, Sarra is a cultural activist and a strong believer of the role media plays in the healing process during post-war recovering phases.
Shaima Bin-Othman
Shaima bin Othman is a co-founder of Meemz Art Initiative and a socio-cultural activist dedicated to using her arts and culture as a method for social change. She is an independent writer and researcher who works intensively with issues on women and youth.
Shihab Jamal
Shihab Jamal is a writer in the scientific and cultural fields and a member of the national Union of Scientific authors. Since 2022 he has published articles in the scientific journal ”Nature” and works as an author for the Basement Cultural Foundation in Sana’a in Yemen.
Shroq Alramadi
Shroq Alramadi is an architect and pioneer in the cultural and social fields. AShroq is the Executive Director of the “Hadhramout Cultural Foundation” and acts as the advisor at “Takween” Cultural Club. Furthermore, she is a researcher at the Yemen Polling Center.
Thana Faroq
Thana Faroq is a Yemeni educator and works as a photographer with photography, texts, sound, and the physicality of the image itself to express her life changes and her feeling of belonging. In 2020, she has published her first book called “I don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows”.
