Artist portrait: Ahmed Umar – پورتريه فنان: أحمد عمر
On the last day of the Right to the City festival, we are excited to share this portrait with the talented Sudanese/Norwegian visual artist Ahmed Umar. Ahmed tells us about…
Time, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul – Omar Mohammad
Mosul has been for centuries a city of unique coexistence and had its own identity locally and internationally. Christians were not only leading their own community, they were the alternative…
An Update from Lebanon – Rana Issa
Rana Issa (Assistant Professor at the American University in Beirut and SPACE board member) has been part of the protests in Lebanon since the start of the Lebanese revolt on…
When Home is Unattainable, What Replaces it? – Alia Malek
In 2015, Malek traveled from Greece to Germany with a group of Syrians fleeing their country’s disintegration. The refugees had met while marooned on the same raft in the middle…
Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return – Nadim Khoury
The right of return has been central to the Palestinian struggle since 1948. What home Palestinian refugees should return to, however, has been less than obvious. In this talk, Nadim…
Chronicles of Hope: Syrian Voices on the Past and Future – Wendy Pearlman
Chronicles of Hope: Syrian Voices on the Past and Future Just as the Syrian revolution was a triumph of hope over fear, so is the challenge before Syrians today to…
The Shadow of Oslo is Only Getting Darker – Nadim Khoury
The Shadow of Oslo is Only Getting Darker – Nadim Khoury Coming of age during the “peace process,” my trajectory was shaped by the Oslo agreements. Twenty-five years ago, my…
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…