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…
Det okkuperte Libanon
Oversatt fra arabisk av Linn Blomkvist Photo: Twitter Byen vår eksploderte, og lærdommen vi sitter igjen med er det vi visste så godt fra før: Det politiske lederskapet dreper oss,…
Covid-19 i Syria
Grunnen til at jeg skrevet artikkelen var at helsedirektør i Idlib, Monzer Al Khalid, deltok i en panelsamtale i regi av SPACE i Oslo den 3. april 2020, og i…
Krig og dokumentasjon
Det er fortsatt krig i Syria, men regimets dokumentasjon av den; hvorfor krigen ble så omfattende, hvem som gav ordre om hva og hvem som er ansvarlig for antall døde,…
Book Review – The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria
Two weeks ago, I was invited to talk at Rafto Conference in Bergen on the occasion of awarding Syrian-Lebanese Rouba Mhaissen the Rafto Prize for her work defending the rights…
Why Hope?
SPACE has been working since early 2015 to diversify and enrich the discussion about Syria, primarily through giving space to many underrepresented Syrian voices, broadening the set of questions and…
Books SPACE Recommends
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The Space to Think of Syria: Art and Culture in times of Revolutionary Turmoil
This article was originally published in Norwegian in Ny Tid – By Rana Issa Her father’s yellow car was the only place that Sana Yazigi felt safe enough to think.…
Anna Politkovskaya and Razan Zaitouneh
Today we remember the courageous Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya. Anna is widely known for her brave coverage of the human rights violations committed by the Russian…
Fader Paolo, savnet i Syria
Dagsavisen Den italienske jesuittpresten Fader Paolo Dall’Oglio bodde i klosteret Deir Musa nord for den syriske hovedstaden Damaskus i tre tiår. Fader Paolo så det som sitt livs plikt til…