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Sham Jaff is a journalist and political scientist from Berlin. She has been writing the English-language newsletter “What happened last week” since 2014. In it, she curates and prepares the most important international news primarily from Africa, Asia and Latin America for her readership (more than 15,000 subscribers) in simple and entertaining language from over 100 countries. She also moderates, edits and produces various podcasts. In 2021, Sham Jaff won the Grimme Online Award for her podcast "190220 - One year after Hanau". Her other podcast “Wir schaffen das - Ein Satz, der Deutschland veränderte” was nominated for the CIVIS Audio Media Award in the same year.

Sham Jaff

Events

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// Auditorium

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b° future Opening Session

With Ellen Heinrichs, Markus Beckedahl and Sham Jaff

- More details will follow soon -

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Münsterplatz

// Purple Tent

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b° future Welcome Night

Mit Ellen Heinrichs, Markus Beckedahl and Sham Jaff

The b° future festival team invites all festival guests and speakers to network and celebrate on the evening of the first festival day.

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Thalia am Markt

// Kuppelsaal

Ein Jahr Proteste im Iran: Zum Todestag von Jina Mahsa Amini

Mit Sham Jaff and Gilda Sahebi

Wo steht die revolutionäre pro-demokratische Bewegung im Iran heute? Und wie haben die deutschen Medien Bericht erstattet?

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// Training Room

Festival ticket required

Aiming for fairness: Confronting bias in foreign reporting

With Sham Jaff, Laura Postma and Zahra Salah Uddin

Foreign reporting in German media focuses on a limited number of countries — recent studies confirm this. Events in the rest of the world go unnoticed. This phenomenon is repeated in many Western countries. The causes of this attention imbalance and the measures that could be taken to address it will be discussed by Sham Jaff, along with Alena Jabarine and Laura Postma.

Session recordings