En ildsjel for det nye Syria
– Jeg snakket om en «offentlig komfortsone». I Syria hadde vi aldri det. Vi var trygge i våre egne hjem. Men i 2011, da folk gikk ut i gatene og…
SPACE at HUMAN film festival 2018: Taste of Cement & Talk with Samer Frangie
As part of the HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival in Oslo, SPACE organized a screening of Ziad Kalthoum’s award-winning documentary Taste of Cement. The screening was followed by a talk and discussion with Samer…
Faktasjekk, Klassekampen!
For noen måneder siden utvekslet jeg et par e-poster med Bjørgulv Braanen. Jeg spurte ham om Klassekampen faktasjekker de bidragene de mottar til sin debattseksjon, spesifikt med tanke på Syria.…
Snapshots of Aleppo’s Social Urban History – Karam Nachar
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, Aleppo was the most important city in the Ottoman empire boasting an extremely rich and complex history. By universalizing the discussions of Aleppo,…
Aleppo City Market: Defining Space and Time – Annika Rabo
Author of A Shop of One’s Own, Independence and Reputation among Traders in Aleppo, Rabo shares insights from her fieldwork during 1997-2002 in Souk al-Medina (the city’s market) as one…
My Aleppo: When Memory Becomes Resistance – Lina Sergie Attar
You know Aleppo as a vast landscape of bombed and burning historic buildings, cratered streets, and endless lines of fleeing, destitute families. But I will tell you about a time…
Aleppo: Revolutionary Culture – Leila Nachawati
Long before March 2011, Syria was known as the “kingdom of silence”. All forms of artistic and public expression were controlled by the regime, only those who mastered the regime’s…
Aleppo’s Fall
Oslo Dokuemntarkino, Fenris Film, Stray Dog Productions, International Media Support (IMS) and SPACE organized the Oslo premiere of Nizam Najjar’s documentary Aleppo’s Fall. The screening was followed by Q&A with the director…
Aleppo: The Fall – Mohamad Katoub
In 2016, one of the worst human tragedies took place in Aleppo. After a few months of siege and indiscriminate shelling, tens of thousands of people were evicted from the…
Syria’s Disappeared: The Case Against Assad
SPACE, Oslo Dokumentarkino and FN-sambandet organized a screening of the documentary film Syria’s Disappeared: The Case Against Assad and a panel discussion about the prospects of prosecuting war crime committed…