11 Facts About Nuri Kino

Nuri Kino is the author of several nonfiction books, and hundreds of stories and reports from the Middle East, western and eastern Europe as well as Africa over the past two decades.

Nuri Kino has won awards for his reporting on human-rights issues, and is the founder of human rights organization A Demand For Action which advocates for persecuted minorities in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and elsewhere in the Middle East.

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 as Tur Abdin.

Nuri Kino's 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.

Nuri Kino has run a restaurant; in 1994 he was chosen as Stockholm's most popular restaurant owner.

Nuri Kino was interviewed by international news agencies and wrote a widely cited report on the collapse of buildings that had been known to be weak; this was the real start of his career as a journalist.

Nuri Kino has since worked as a freelance investigative journalist for Dagens Nyheter, Expressen, Aftonbladet and Metro.

Nuri Kino's reporting has been focused on human rights, immigration and refugee issues, and he has worked for the media abroad in countries such as Turkey, Denmark, Norway, Finland, the US, and the Netherlands.

Nuri Kino was the first journalist to interview Irena Sendler, a Polish nurse who risked her life to smuggle 2,500 Jewish children out of the ghettos of Warsaw during World War II.

Nuri Kino was nominated a number of times until her death in May 2008 but never received the prize.

Nuri Kino was selected to host the Sommar radio program on P1 on June 18,2004.