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…
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…
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 Israeli regime.
Masahat welcomes two new board members!
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…
Ingeborg Moa appointed new Chair of the Board
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…
Highlights from Masahat 2023
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…
Khaled Fahmy is keynote speaker at Masahat 2023 | خالد فهمي المتحدث الرئيسي في مهرجان مساحات
We are excited to announce that Egyptian historian and scholar Khaled Fahmy is the keynote speaker of Masahat-festival for arabisk kunst og kultur 2023! يسعدنا الإعلان أن المؤرخ والبروفيسور خالد فهمي سيكون المتحدث الرئيسي في مهرجان مساحات هذه السنة!
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:
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…
For Sama + Live Q&A with Waad Alkhateeb
English Norsk SPACE, Europafilm, Oslo Dokumentarkino and Human IDFF invite you to this online screening of Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning documentary For Sama (2019, 99 mins) and live Q&A with the filmmaker…