Nuri Kino

Nuri Kino, (born February 25, 1965, Mardin Province, Turkey), is a Swedish-Assyrian journalist, documentary filmmaker and author. He has won awards for his reporting on human-rights issues, and founded A Demand For Action to assist minorities in Iraq, Syria,Turkey and elsewhere in the Middle East.

Life and career

Nuri Kino is the eldest of four children of an Assyrian family that originates from the village of Kfar-Shomac, south of the City of Midyat, in a region known by Assyrians as Tur Abdin. His parents moved to Germany as guest workers when he was four; in 1974, when he was eight, they visited his grandparents in Sweden and decided to stay because there were more jobs. He was kidnapped twice in childhood. In 1985 he became one of Sweden’s first male medical recorders. He has also run a restaurant; in 1994 he was chosen Stockholm's most popular restaurant owner.

In 1998 he graduated from the Poppius School of Journalism in Stockholm. The following year he was in Istanbul when the Marmara earthquake occurred. He was interviewed by international news agencies and wrote a widely cited report on the collapse of buildings that had been known to be weak, the real start of his career as a journalist. He has since worked as a freelance investigative journalist for Dagens Nyheter, Expressen, Aftonbladet and Metro. In 2002 he started freelancing for the Swedish radio station Sveriges Radio. His reporting has focused on human rights, immigration and refugee issues, and he has worked for the media abroad in countries including Turkey, Denmark, Norway, Finland, the U.S., and the Netherlands (reporting for the BBC and on the Dutch program Dit is de Dag).

Nuri

Nuri is a place in modern Sudan on the south (east) side of the Nile. Close to it, there are pyramids belonging to Nubian kings. Nuri is situated about 15 km north of Sanam, and 10 km from Jebel Barkal. All these remains belonged to the ancient city Napata, the first capital of the Nubian kingdom of Kush.

The earliest pyramid (Nu. 1) at Nuri belongs to king Taharqa which measures 51.75 metres square by 40 or by 50 metres high. His successor Tantamani was buried in el-Kurru, but all following Nubian kings and many of their wives till Nastasen (Nu. 15) (about 330 BC) were buried here. The pyramids at Nuri are in general smaller than the Egyptian ones and are today often heavily destroyed, but they often still contained substantial parts of the funerary equipment of the Kushite rulers who were buried here. During the Christian era, a church was erected here. The church was built of many old stones, including several stelae originally coming from the pyramids.

The pyramids were systematically excavated by George Reisner.

Nuri (name)

Nuri (also spelled Nouri or Noori, Arabic: نوري‎, Korean: 누리, Syriac: ܢܘܪܝ‎) is a name which may refer to:

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Nuri (disambiguation)

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