The renowned Palestinian artist Nai Barghouti will open Masahat festival 2024. Join us for an evening of grief, hope and joy at Grønland Kirke on the 18th of September. Nai will perform a curated concert dedicated to Gaza. Wednesday, 18 September at Grønland Kirke (NB! Limited number of early-bird tickets are available until…
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Masahat for Arab Culture in Exile is looking for an enthusiastic and self-driven Communications Coordinator to lead the communications and media outreach around Masahat festival for Arab Arts and Culture taking place 18-22 September in Oslo. We are a small, dynamic and passionate team working to make Masahat Festival a landmark in the cultural scene…
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The theme for Masahat festival 18-22 September 2024 is “Protest”.
Since the onset of the war on Gaza, the Norwegian public has shown immense solidarity for Palestine, with thousands of people relentlessly organizing to protest the complicity of Western governments in the ongoing genocide, and calling for divesment from the Israeli regime.
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We are so excited to welcome the latest additions to our board: Selma Benmalek and Jan Lothe Eriksen! Eriksen, a cultural entrepreneur and former musician and director of Safemuse, brings a great experience from the music field, cultural politics and management, while Benmalek, a program consultant in literature and debates at the public library in…
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We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Ingeborg Moa as the new Chair of the Board of Masahat. Ingeborg has been a close supporter of Masahat since the early days of its conception as an idea in 2014, and has served on the Advisory Board of Masahat since 2020. A seasoned leader, an avid…
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Welcome to “Coping with racism & building resilience – Applied drama workshop” with Mona Abdel-Fadil on Saturday 25 November, 11:30-14:30 at Nordic Black Theater. How do we cope with the various types of racist encounters that shape our lives? We live in precarious times. Racist ideas may get entangled in war propaganda, media framing, public…
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Norsk English Stiftelsen Fritt Ord, Masahat for Arab Culture in Exile og Vega Scene inviterer til samtale onsdag 29. november 2023 kl. 18.00–20.00 på Vega Scene i Hausmanns gate 30, Oslo. Amund Bakke Foss, fagleder for utenriks i VG, leder samtalen med Jumana Manna, kunstner basert i Berlin, Nadim Khoury, førsteamanuensis ved Institutt for rettsvitenskap,…
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In its third edition, Masahat festival 2023 was a great success! The festival took place during 21-24 September in Oslo in nine venues, in collaboration with 17 partners hosting 38 guests from more than 12 countries, with a record number of tickets sold and audiences reached. “This was not a festival. It was a community”,…
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Buy tickets I لشراء البطاقات English العربية English Decolonizing the documentary has been a recurring theme at IDFA, the world’s largest documentary film festival, since Orwa Nyrabia became the Artistic Director in 2018. Under his leadership, the festival has been tackling the difficult questions of representation, equity and inclusion. Who has the power to represent and narrate?…
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Masahat Screens Join us on the last day of Masahat festival for a thought-provoking and inspiring Sunday at VEGA Scene with film screenings, conversations, mingling and more. The day starts with the screening of Bloody Beans (2013, 80 mins) directed by Narimane Mari, which won the top prize at the prestigious documentary festival CPH:DOX. In…
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