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Masahat: Poems of Consumption / Hamed Sinno med live strykekvartett

Det er med stor glede at Masahatfestivalen 2024 presenterer den ikoniske libanesisk-amerikanske Hamed Sinno med deres solodebut Poems of Consumption på Riksscenen den 21. september. Hamed Sinno er tidligere vokalist i det legendariske indie-rock bandet, Mashrou’ Leila.  Det kritikerroste «Poems of Consumption» er en litterær sangsyklus og en multimediaforestilling som…

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Lina Attalah: Keynote speaker at Masahat 2024

We are beyond excited to announce that Lina Attalah is the first keynote speaker at Masahat Festival 2024 . Lina is publisher and founding editor of Mada Masr, a Cairo-based news website at the forefront of investigative journalism in Egypt. She leads a team of fearless reporters who expose high-level…

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Nai Barghouti opens Masahat festival

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.

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Masahat is hiring Communications Coordinator

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…

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Masahat festival 2024 مهرجان مساحات

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…

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Masahat x HUMAN 2023

Next week starts HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival with a week full of interesting documentaries, talks, theater and workshops! We are glad to partner with HUMAN IDFF in two events:

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NEW DATE: 26 April. Arts, culture, and feminism in MENA

UPDATE : NEW DATE: Panel and concert are postponed to 26th of April. Due to the strike in France, Souad Massi will not make it to Oslo on 8th of March. Follow the link for more info: https://cosmopolite.no/en/program/belleville/2023/march/arts-culture-and-feminism-mena-new-date-26042023 https://cosmopolite.no/en/program/cosmopolite/2023/march/souad-massi-new-date-26042023 —— On the international women’s day, the 8th of March, Cosmopolite…

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Grønnvaskingen av Egypt

Av Mostafa Elsayed Hussin, egyptisk aktivist og forsker og Zeina Bali, daglig leder, Masahat for Arab Culture in Exile5 «Tirsdag, rett før lysene slås på, skal jeg drikke min siste kopp te i fengsel. Og etter fem dager, når lysene slås på søndag sjette november, skal jeg drikke mitt siste…

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Islam: the Perfect Enemy

First published in Norwegian in Klassekampen, on Nov 5, 2020 It could have been me. Samuel Paty! I too show such drawings in a classroom setting to provoke students to describe their reactions. I show such images to invite them to reflect on how Islam is discussed in the West.…

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