Zohre Esmaeli

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On November 5, 2011, Zohre Esmaeli will present Afghan fashion during the “Afghan Night” in Bad Kreuznach at the invitation of the “Afghanistan - Help that Arrives” association.

Zohre Esmaeli (* 1985 in Kabul ) is an Afghan model living in Berlin .

biography

Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, Esmaeli fled to Germany with her family from Afghanistan in 1999. She first lived in Kassel and attended school there.

She was discovered as a model by the then Miss Hessen in a fashion store, which she referred to a photographer.

When she was eighteen, she had pictures taken and worked with a modeling agency. In addition to fashion series with Vogue and Cosmopolitan , as well as other well-known fashion magazines, she is often in New York and other fashion capitals.

Since 2017 Esmaeli has been the face of the location campaign of the Federal Government of Germany - Land of Ideas .

social commitment

Esmaeli supports the association Afghanistan - Hilfe die Ankommen eV in Bad Kreuznach . She is an ambassador for the non-profit organization 'Save Society', which she co-founded. In November 2015 Zohre Esmaeli presented her own project 'Culture Coaches', which aims at the permanent integration of refugees and is supported by the Berlin Community Foundation . With the help of the community foundation she founded the Zohre Esmaeli Foundation . In order to actively help “children in need”, she designed a buddy bear herself , which was auctioned off at a large charity event for the benefit of her foundation.

In 2014 Esmaeli was appointed ambassador for the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency .

literature

  • Zohre Esmaeli, Barbara Opitz, Kuno Kruse : My new freedom. From Kabul over the catwalk to myself . 1st edition. Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-404-60772-3 .

Web links

Commons : Zohre Esmaeli  - Collection of Images
  • Website of Zohre Esmaeli (biography, pictures, charity, media appearances)

swell

  1. ↑ Barbara Opitz, Kuno Kruse, Benne Ochs: Zohres long way into the light . In: Stern, No. 11/2013 . March 7, 2013, p. 134-144 .
  2. ↑ Julia Schaaf: Your pathos has nothing to do with false national pride, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin, May 2017, p. 22.
  3. ^ Save Society: Zohre Esmaeli
  4. ↑ Anita Tillmann invites celebrities to the “Refugee Fundraising” dinner, Berliner Morgenpost
  5. ↑ Zohre Esmaeli's project Culture Coaches ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / buergerstiftung-berlin.de
  6. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost, November 5, 2016: "Bears for a good cause"
  7. ↑ Round table of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency on the theme year against racism
personal data
SURNAME Esmaeli, Zohre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan model
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul , Afghanistan