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: 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…
Trajectory of Hope – Zeina Bali
Zeina Bali’s talk about the Trajectory of Hope at a NUPI seminar on Syria. Bali is one of the co-founders of SPACE.
Artist Talk: Sulafa Hijazi / Golan Haji / Fadlabi
SPACE, in collaboration with Globaliseringskonferansen, organized Artist Talk: Sulafa Hijazi / Golan Haji / Fadlabi on Oct. 30. More about the event.
The Syria International – Robin Yassin-Kassab
Why should the world be interested in Syria at all? Is the world interested, at what level? What are the existing internationalist networks that work with and for Syrians…
Syria: between political catastrophe and cultural resilience – Karam Nachar
While the Syrian war seems to embody all that is complex, alien, and thus incomprehensible about the Middle East, the five-year-old brutal conflict can in fact be explained through…
Misreading Syria: Sectarian Secularism – Thomas Pierret
Persistent claims that the Syrian regime is “non-sectarian” result from a failure to distinguish between sectarianism as an explicit ideology, and sectarianism as an often unspoken technique of power. Whereas…
Iyad El-Baghdadi – Lightning Talk
“Refugees do not want charity, they want solidarity – and solidarity is recognizing that it’s one struggle.” Iyad el-Baghdadi’s lightning talk in The Question of Syria 2016. More about the…
The Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution – Sana Yazigi
Sana Yazigi – Oslo, 26 September 2015 “There is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory. Effective democratization can always be measured by this essential…
Performing Democracy: Syrian Art Practices Today
Mohammad Al Attar and Zaher Omareen. Moderated by Rana Issa Through their different media and production techniques, Zaher Omareen and Mohammad Al Attar will reflect on how democracy is performed in…