Nuri Kino

Who is Nuri Kino?

Nuri Kino, born on February 25, 1965, in Tur Abdin in south-east Turkey, is a Swedish Assyrian freelance journalist, documentary filmmaker and ex restaurateur. Nuri Kino came to Sweden when he was eight years old. Kino’s Assyrian family originates from the village Kfar-Shomac, situated to the south of the town of Midyat. His parents were guest workers in Germany at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s. The family moved to Sweden in 1974. Nuri is the oldest of four siblings. Nuri Kino was one of Sweden’s first male medical recorders in 1985. He has run his own restaurant and represented asylum seekers. He became a journalist in earnest by accident in 1999 when he was in Istanbul at the time of the great earthquake there. Jolin Boldt, the then editor-in-chief of the magazine Sesam, knew that he was in Turkey, called him up and asked him to report. The previous year he had graduated from the Poppius School of Journalism in Stockholm. Since the Turkish earthquake he has worked for newspapers and magazines, as well as for radio and TV. Nuri Kino has also been seen as an expert on minorities in the Middle East, last in connection with a hearing in the U.S. Congress on June 25, 2013. Curious fact: Nuri Kino was one of 14 Swedish men selected for their excellent style by Swedish designer Camilla Thulin in her book Karlar med stil.