IMS talks about media and tabooes at youth festival in Copenhagen

Every country and generation has its tabooes – often issues that are in need of solutions. Media can help break the silence. Join us on 6th September from 11:45 – 12:30 in Valbyparken in Copenhagen in the Danish Arab Partnership Initiative tent (#39) to discuss the things we don’t talk about – with a special focus on Morocco and Denmark

Imagine you live in a country where freedom of speech is limited. In Morocco, a North African, Arabic country, freedom of speech is no given. Especially, when it comes to culturally sensitive issues such as women’s rights, sexuality, and religion. Meet two young Moroccan women, Sonia Terrab and Fatim Bencherki, who have decided to give young women a voice through their online media JawJab and their video-based programme “Marokkiat” (“the Moroccan Road”). In short 3-5 minute segments, young women share issues and opinions from their everyday lives that usually are not debated publicly.

Are there tabooes in Denmark? What are the difficult issues that young people in Denmark don’t feel comfortable talking about publicly and how could the online media platforms available today help to change this?

IMS invites the young audience at UFM to join our two visiting guests from JawJab media in Morocco to watch a couple of videos from Morocco and discuss how the two women got the idea for Marrokiat and what the reaction has been from audiences. Following this, we will debate what taboos still exist in Denmark – such as loneliness or suicide – and how online media platforms can be used to break the silence.