Nuri Kino

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Nuri Kino (born February 25, 1965) is an Assyrian-Swedish freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker.


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[edit] Biography

Born in Midyat, (Tur-Abdin), in southeast Turkey, Nuri Kino moved with his family to Germany when he was about four years old and eventually settled in Sweden with his parents, younger sister and two younger brothers. For many years he bounced around from job to job working as a caretaker, teacher, bartender, medical secretary and pizza baker, until he became a journalist and filmmaker and published his first article seven years ago. But before that was his restaurant "Den Galne Kocken" announced Stockholms most popular by the tabloid Aftonbladets readers 1994. As an investigative journalist Nuri Kino has done one scoop after the other and is now one of Europes most awarded reporter. Kino shares writing credits with several other journalists from Sweden including Juan Flores, Bo-Göran Bodin, Margita Boström, and Jenny Nordberg for which they have received awards. Kino occasionally writes guest editorials for on-line Assyrian and Middle-Eastern sites and a all Swedish newspapers including their online outlets such as Aftonbladet, Göteborgsposten and Östgöta Corren, as well as his own Swedish blog that compiles news from around the world. He has also won the Golden Palm at the Beverly Hills Film Festival for his documentary Assyriska a National Team Without a Nation. He also serves as a jury member for the Humanity of the World Documentary Film Festival, and is, in the Middleeast, known as a Human Right activist. He has just finished a novel together with Jenny Nordberg published by Norstedst, one of Swedens largest publishing houses.

[edit] Awards and nominations

2008

  • Ikaros Prize for Best Public Service Radio program by the Swedish Radio

2007

  • Blatte de Luxe Award for Journalism [1]
  • Men with Style

2006

  • Suryoyo of the Year by Huyodo Magazine
  • Journalist of the Year by Qenneshrin and Suroyo TV a Syriac newspaper and satellite television
  • Blatte de Luxe Award for Journalism [2]
  • Assyrian of the Year by Zinda Magazine
  • Assyrian of the Year by the Assyrian Youth Federation of Sweden
  • The Golden Palm Award at Beverly Hills Film Festival

2004

  • Nominated for Guldspaden for a joint effort with Bo-Göran Bodin and Margita Boström for a Swedish Radio Report [3]
  • Ikaros Prize for Best Public Service Radio program by the Swedish Radio
  • Nominated for Best Radio News Piece of the Year by the Swedish National Radio Academy
  • Awarded Det lite storre Journalistpriest for journalist students at Mitt University in Sundsvall, Sweden

2003

  • Awarded Guldspaden for a joint effort with Jenny Nordberg and Margita Boström for a Swedish Radio Report [4]

2002

  • Awarded Guldspaden for journalism [5]
  • Nominated for Save the Children Prize for journalists

2000

  • Awarded Guldspaden for a joint effort with Wolfgang Hansson [6]

[edit] Director documentary film

  • The Cry Unheard (2001) documentary film about the Assyrian Genocide or Seyfo in Turkey during 1914-1918.
  • Assyriska: A National Team Without a Nation (2005), a five-part sports documentary film chronicling the Swedish Premier League Soccer Team Assyriska. The series was co-produced and co-directed by Nuri Kino and Erik Sandberg and executive produced by Laika Film & Television AB for Sveriges Television. In April of 2006, Part 3 of this documentary won the Golden Palm Award at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, a lesser known minor festivals which receives very few nods and coverage in the film community. BHFF was an obvious choice, since the five-part documentary film had previously been screened on Swedish Television, thus disqualifying it from all the major festivals.(Summary: They have no country to represent, nonetheless the Assyriska soccer team serves as a symbol of Assyrian identity. The fans tend to be a mixed bag from Assyrian suburban youth of Sweden which has a large and strong immigrant populations, to monks from Southeast Turkey and Assyrian kids in Iran. This documentary series interweaves elements of love, conflict and growth in a story about a team attempting to become number one in the Swedish Top Division.)

[edit] Book review

Nuri Kino's review of The Crimson Field by Rosie Malek-Yonan, published September 2005.

Excerpt: To read The Crimson Field is to understand that the Assyrians were not merely guests in Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. The country of Bet-Nahrin in Mesopotamia was the cradle of civilization and the homeland of Assyrians. Through her characters Malek-Yonan gives us an open window into a past history most would prefer to remain unstirred. She allows the reader to see the scars of her nation that have yet to heal. The only way to understand Assyrians of today is to understand their past.

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Preceded by
Sargon Dadesho		 Zinda Magazine Assyrian of the Year
2006 (6755)		 Succeeded by
Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo
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