Trialogue as a Method

Discussion panel with Ahmad Dakhnous (political educator, Nicht Einfach-team) and Lili Zahavi (filmmaker)

The Trialogue Project is a multi-discussion format that explores the Israel-Palestine conflict from multiple perspectives. It was initiated by Jouanna Hassoun and Shai Hoffmann. The project addresses the significant challenge of facilitating discussion on this topic and is situated at the intersection of political education and encounter pedagogy.

Participants engage in conversation about Israel and Palestine in a “Braver Space”, designed and moderated by an Israeli and a Palestinian.

Ahmad Dakhnous (he/him) is a political scholar and political education consultant. He works with multipliers on the topic of Israel/Palestine and how it is negotiated and represented in Germany. He works with schoolchildren as part of the Trialogue project. Together with Johanna Voß, he also organises the Denkwerkstatt project – critical political education on Palestine and Israel after 7 October. Other areas of focus include racism and antisemitism, human rights, displacement and migration, and the politics of memory. As part of the Nicht Einfach (Not easy) specialists team, Ahmad Dakhnous designed the content of this event.

Lili Zahavi (she/her) is a filmmaker with roots in both Israel and the former German Democratic Republic. Having grown up in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall, she is at home in both worlds. She studied film direction at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and currently works as an artistic consultant on projects for young people promoting pluralism and democracy, and combatting racism and antisemitism. She is also involved in the Trialogpatin der Gesellschaft im Wandel (Trialogue Mentor for a Changing Society) initiative.

This event is spart of the pluralistic Discourse Programme Not Easy: It invites dialogue on plural perspectives within contemporary German memory discourse and social coexistence. Starting from the life and work of the artist Irma Stern (1894–1966), it explores the complex entanglements of antisemitism, colonialism and racism. The programme encourages participants to expand their perspective on Stern’s ambivalent experiences between persecution and exile as a Jewish German woman, as well as her privileges as a white South African.

Developed by Ahmad Dakhnous, Tahir Della, Anna Yeboah and Yehudit Yinhar, accompanied by Pegah Byroum-Wand and Daniela Bystron.

Due to the limited number of participants, please register here. Participation in public events is included with the museum admission. Meeting point: ticket counter in the foyer.