Unveiling Ceremony of “Inha” Magazine Held in Mashhad
Unveiling Ceremony of “Inha” Magazine Held in Mashhad
The unveiling ceremony of “Inha” magazine, dedicated to Afghan migrant youth, took place on Friday, November 30, 2024, at the Immigrants Art House of Khorasan Razavi. The event was attended by cultural figures, writers, poets, and a group of migrant adolescents.
This ceremony was organized through the efforts of the Dorre Dari Cultural Institute and the Immigrants Art House of Khorasan Razavi.
Sayed Abutaleb Mozaffari, a prominent Afghan poet and writer, referring to the declining interest of today’s generation in print media, added:
“Nowadays, interest in printed materials has diminished, and this is one of the societal afflictions we face. We elders, living in this era, must be able to leave the best legacy for the next generation. For me, the most important aspect of a publication is its being in print, because this medium has many positive effects, and I can be confident that these positive influences will remain for future generations, especially among adolescents and children.”
Following that, Hossain Haydar Beigi, an Afghan migrant writer, pointed to significant gaps in children’s and young adult literature within the migrant community, stating:
“The magazine ‘Inha’ is a publication for the second and third generations of Afghan migrants. Its strength lies in the fact that most of its writers are themselves children and adolescents, which helps nurture a generation of youth growing in the field of literature.”
Basir Ahmad Hossainzada, a communications researcher and writer, also addressed the history of children’s and youth press in Afghanistan during the next part of the ceremony, saying:
“The magazine ‘Siraj al-Atfal,’ published over a century ago by Mahmoud Tarzi, was the first children’s and youth publication in Afghanistan. Later, in the 1960s (solar calendar 1340s), the magazine ‘Anis-e Koodakan’ also played an important role in this field.”
In the closing segment of the ceremony, Ahmad Modaqeq, the magazine’s editor-in-chief and migrant writer, read a portion of the publication and spoke about its approach:
“The magazine ‘Inha’ is a publication for the second-generation migrant youth, a generation that cannot be considered fully Afghan or Iranian. They possess a hybrid identity shaped by both sides of the border — an identity that is not a choice but a social and cultural reality. This generation’s concerns are different, and this magazine has come to bring those concerns to the cultural table.”
He went on to describe Mashhad as a city with high cultural capacity and expressed gratitude to the event’s organizers for their collaboration.
The unveiling ceremony concluded with the presence of cultural figures attending the program, and copies of ‘Inha’ magazine were presented as gifts to the children and adolescents.
