The board game, The UnKnown, is the new creative tool, produced by RiskMonitor Foundation as part of the INTEGRA information and awareness raising campaign. The game, available in hard copy and electronic version, is suitable for players of various ages. The UnKnown will challenge the players' knowledge and thinking of diversity in a fun and engaging way: even though we may recognize the faces of famous scientists, writers, innovators, athletes, and movie stars, there is much that remains hidden and unknown about them. Players will be surprised to learn how many of the famous persons included in the game have been forced to flee their home because of war or persecution, how many of them are second generation migrants, and how many have been inspired to become advocates and defenders of human rights.
The game can be used in formal and informal learning settings, by teachers and counselors from elementary, middle and high school to generate classroom discussions about migration, the refugee crisis, prejudices and stereotypes. The game is suitable also for social workers and professionals working with migrant and refugee children, and could be adapted to aid learners of Bulgarian language. The rules of the game can be modified to fit the specific learning objectives of the users.
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As a part of Project #INTEGRA Centre for Peace,nonviolence and human rights published a qoutation from Sheik Abusaeid, also know as Sheikh Abusaeid or Abu Sa'eed.
He was a famous Persian Sufi and poet who contributed to the evolution of Sufi tradition.
Abusaeid was born in the village of Mihne, part of Greater Khorasan, today located near Torbat-e Heydarieh in Khorāsān-e Razavī Province. His father was a herbalist and physician with an interest in Sufism.
Abusaeid's formal education included Islamic scholarship and Arabic literature that he continued until the age 23 when he left them for Sufism.
The majority of what is known from his life comes from the book "The Mysteries of Unification" written by Mohammad Ibn Monavvar, one of his grandsons, 130 years after his death.
The book, which is an important early Sufi writing in Persian, presents a record of his life in the form of anecdotes from a variety of sources and contains a collection of his words.
During his life his fame spread throughout the Islamic world, even to Spain. He was the first Sufi writer to widely use ordinary love poems as way to express and illuminate mysticism, and as such he played a major role in foundation of Persian Sufi poetry. He spent most of his life in Nishapur.
He also traveled to and spent time in small towns around the same province visiting other Sufis or his teachers.
