BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//masahat - مساحات - ECPv6.16.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:masahat - مساحات X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://masahat.no X-WR-CALDESC:Events for masahat - مساحات REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Oslo BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20150329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20151025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20160327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20161030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230924T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230924T180000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20230906T094029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250706T195058Z UID:19714-1695571200-1695578400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Decolonize the Gaze with Orwa Nyrabia DESCRIPTION:Decolonizing the documentary has been a recurring theme at IDFA\, the world’s largest documentary film festival\, since Orwa Nyrabia became the Artistic Director in 2018. Under his leadership\, the festival has been tackling the difficult questions of representation\, equity and inclusion. \nWho has the power to represent and narrate? How can arts and cultural institutions challenge hegemonic powers\, amplify marginalized voices and foster a more equitable and representative cultural landscape? \nIn this conversation\, we ask Orwa Nyrabia to talk about his experience and vision leading IDFA. Afterwards\, he will be joined by Anne Szefer Karlsen to continue the discussion on the critical role major festivals and established cultural institutions can play in reshaping the cultural narrative\, acknowledging historical injustices\, and embracing diversity and inclusion. \n  \nThis event is in collaboration with Mirage\, Human IDFF\, Oslo Dokumentarkino and Fritt Ord foundation. \nThis conversation is part of Masahat Screens where we spend the last day of Masahat festival at VEGA Scene. \n  \nMasahat Screens Program:  \nPART I: Bloody Beans. Buy tickets HERE. \n\n14:30-16:00: Bloody Beans (2013\, 80 mins) dir. Narimane Mari\n\n  \nPART II: Conversation + short films. Buy tickets HERE. \n\n16:00-17:15: Decolonize the Gaze with Orwa Nyrabia in conversation with Anne Szefer Karlsen\n17:15-18:00: Mingling + finger food with Orwa Nyrabia and Masahat Screens guests\n18:00-19:00: Litanies against fear (55 mins)\, a short films program curated and introduced by Maha Maamoun. URL:https://masahat.no/event/masahat-decolonize-the-gaze-with-orwa-nyrabia/ LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Decolonize-the-Gaze.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230924T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230924T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20230906T090607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250726T053842Z UID:19690-1695565800-1695582000@masahat.no SUMMARY:Masahat Screens DESCRIPTION:Masahat Screens\nJoin us on the last day of Masahat festival for a thought-provoking and inspiring Sunday at VEGA Scene with film screenings\, conversations\, mingling and more. \nThe day starts with the screening of Bloody Beans (2013\, 80 mins) directed by Narimane Mari\, which won the top prize at the prestigious documentary festival CPH:DOX. In her hybrid documentary\, Mari experiments with how children can appropriate a complex history while they try to reenact the colonization and the Algerian War of Independence. \nLater in the day\, we will have Orwa Nyrabia\, Artistic Director of IDFA\, as our main guest at Masahat Screens. Under the title “Decolonize the Gaze”\, Nyrabia will talk about his vision and work at IDFA since he became the Artistic Director in 2018\, then he will be joined by Anne Szefer Karlse to continue the conversation and discuss how major festivals and cultural institutions can address the questions of representation\, equity and inclusion. \nWe then end the day with a short films program curated and introduced by Maha Maamoun. \nProgram\n\nPART I: Bloody Beans. Buy tickets HERE.\n\n\n14:30-16:00: Bloody Beans (2013\, 80 mins) dir. Narimane Mari\n\n\nPART II: Conversation + short films. Buy tickets HERE.\n\n16:00-17:15: Decolonize the Gaze with Orwa Nyrabia in conversation with Anne Szefer Karlsen\n17:15-18:00: Mingling + finger food with Orwa Nyrabia and Masahat Screens guests\n18:00-19:00: Litanies against fear (55 mins)\, a short films program curated and introduced by Maha Maamoun\n\n\n\n  \nBloody Beans\n(Loubia Hamra) Narimane Mari I France\, Algeria | 2013 | 77 min\nLanguage: Arabic\nSubtitles: English \nAlready an established producer before she turned to directing\, Narimane Mari is part of an exciting wave of experimental cinema coming from Algeria. Her debut feature\, Bloody Beans\, won the top prize at the prestigious documentary festival CPH:DOX\, though to call it merely a “documentary” is reductive: described in Film Comment as an “expressionistic hybrid\,” Mari’s film is a comedy\, a tragedy about the past\, and a portrait of colonialism in the present. Shot over nine days\, with limited rehearsals and almost no reshoots\, Mari’s film is set at some unspecified point during Algeria’s War of Independence\, and explores the legacy of France’s brutal 132-year occupation of the country through the eyes and energies of children from the Bab El Oued and Bologhine neighborhoods of Algiers. The results are less “kids say the darndest things” than something akin to an hallucinatory experience\, the surreal atmosphere aided by a score from Zombie Zombie. \n\nLitanies against fear\nA short films program curated by Maha Maamoun.\nAn anxiety runs deep in these films. It animates the bodies of the protagonists circumambulating their phantom homes and this film program. Contemporary experiences of separation from home-be they physical or psychological experiences\, find their roots and resonances in narratives of forced displacement\, colonialism and rising fascisms old and new. \n\nOnly When All the Poison Has Gone (The Healing of Emily Ruete) (2023\, 18 min) dir. Doa Aly\n\nOnly when all the poison has gone (The healing of Emily Ruete) is an audio-video installation based on the memoirs and letters of Emily Ruete\, born Salamah bint Said bin Sultan\, Princess of Oman and Zanzibar (1844-1924)\, as introduced by E. Van Donzel in An Arabian Princess Between Two Worlds: Memoirs\, Letters Home\, Sequels to the Memoirs\, Syrian Customs and Usages. Emily/Salamah was prevented from returning to her homeland after eloping with a German merchant. This film seeks to turn the unconscious processes in Emily’s writing into a conscious awareness of movement\, through choreography\, to create an immersive field of healing feminine energy\, a meditation\, using her character as an effigy in a cathartic experience\, for and by her. \n\n30KG Shine (2017\, 20 mins) dir. Shadi Habib Allah\n\n30KG Shine (2017) is a video installation that examines various states of existence-object\, body and spirit – and how they exchange roles and share enmeshed forms of agency. Paying homage to a 1930s urban myth about a ghost that haunted the Old City of Jerusalem\, the film records how an elderly woman\, currently living where the fable is set\, secures her home and family heritage by leading life in confined quarters\, often at the expense of her own livelihood and health. The work also features footage of a ‘tunnel cemetery’ being constructed to house 22\,000 displaced corpses; these bodies claim presence and ownership of the place where they will lie. \n\nCapital (2023\, 17 mins) dir. Basma al-Sherif\n\nReferencing the Italian “white telephone” films of the late 1930s and 40s\, that were considered as precursors to fascist propaganda films\, al-Sherif’s latest film reflects on the grotesque via a purview of contemporary urban planning projects and their promise of comfort and docility. URL:https://masahat.no/event/masahat-screens/ LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Masahat-Screens.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230922T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230922T203000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20230816T113655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T110743Z UID:19323-1695402000-1695414600@masahat.no SUMMARY:Reclaiming History DESCRIPTION:انضموا إلينا يوم الجمعة 22 سبتمبر/أيلول في ثاني أيام مهرجان مساحات لأمسية ممتعة في مكتبة دايكمان بيورفيكا نناقش فيها الحق في استعادة التاريخ، وسياسات الأرشيف في مصر والنرويج. \nJoin us on Friday 22 September\, the second day of Masahat festival\, for an insightful & inspiring evening at Deichman Bjørvika to talk about the right to history\, archives\, and heritage politics from Egypt and Norway. \nالبرنامج\n17:00 – 18:45 عرض فيلم سلطة بلدي إخراج ناديا كامل (2008\, 105′) \n19:00 – 19:30 محاضرة: استعادة التاريخ: الشعب، السلطة والأرشيف مع خالد فهمي \n19:30 – 20:30 نقاش: خالد فهمي مع ميشيل تيسدل، تدير الحوار رنا عيسى \nProgram\n17:00 – 18:45 Film screening: “Salata baladi” (Egyptian salad) dir. Nadia Kamel (2008\, 105′) \n19:00 – 19:30 Lecture: “Reclaiming History: People\, Power\, and Archives” with Khaled Fahmy \n19:30 – 20:30 Discussion: Khaled Fahmy and Michelle A. Tisdel led by Rana Issa \nاللغة: انكليزية \nالدخول مجاني، ولكن يتطلب التسجيل مسبقاً للحصول على بطاقة \nهذه الأمسية بالتعاون مع مكتبة دايكمان بيورفيكا ومركز الدراسات الإسلامية والشرق أوسطية في جامعة أوسلو.  \nLanguage: English \nFree entry\, but registration required. \nThis event is in collaboration with Deichman Bjørvika and the Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies\, UiO  \n Reserve your free ticket | لحجز البطاقات المجانية \nWhen people move to a new country\, they bring their home country’s history with them. But what history is that\, and how well do you really know those who came before you? Masahat invites you to take a deep dive into history writing and the struggle to own your own\, everyday history. Are you sure you actually know the whole story? \nLECTURE: “RECLAIMING HISTORY: PEOPLE\, POWER\, AND ARCHIVES” WITH KHALED FAHMY \nHow do you take ownership of your own history after being written out of it for generations? In Norway\, we have tried to find out how we can democratize history writing and cultural heritage policy to include diverse stories where the majority and minority populations are represented. Whether we have succeeded in this process is up for debate. \nIn the Arab world\, schools\, museums\, and national archives celebrate the state’s history and “great men”\, while the people’s history is erased and forgotten. Based on his research in the Egyptian National Archives\, the Egyptian historian and academic Khaled Fahmy will reflect in his lecture on his own attempt to break this silence by telling the story of the average Egyptian. \nDISCUSSION: KHALED FAHMY AND MICHELLE TISDEL \nAfter the lecture\, Khaled Fahmy will meet Michelle A. Tisdel for a conversation on identity\, history writing\, and the meeting point the archives\, cultural heritage and definitional power in narrating history in Norway and the west. The conversation will be moderated by Rana Issa.  \nFILM SCREENING: “SALATA BALADI” (EGYPTIAN SALAD)\, (2008\, 105 minutes) \nThis documentary explores the complex cultural and religious heritage of the Egyptian filmmaker Nadia Kamel’s own family. Her mother has Jewish and Christian Italian origins\, and converted to Islam when she married Kamel’s Turkish-Ukrainian father. Accompanied by her 80-year-old mother and her 10-year-old Palestinian nephew\, Kamel embarks on a journey to Italy and Israel in an attempt to tell the story of an Egypt that no longer exists. URL:https://masahat.no/event/reclaiming-history/ LOCATION:Deichman Bjørvika\, Oslo\, 0150 CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Reclaiming-History-Website-banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221105T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221105T220000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20221021T113100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T111549Z UID:18696-1667660400-1667685600@masahat.no SUMMARY:Salon Marie Rose: Queer Arabs in Exile DESCRIPTION:English\n العربي\n English \nWelcome to Salon Marie Rose: Queer Arabs in Exile\, a day including a pop-up library\, films on loop\, finger food\, poetry and readings hosted by Frida Marida and ending with a stand-up comedy show with Shaden (comedy show in Arabic only). Salon Marie Rose is taking place at Melahuset on Saturday 5 November from 15.00 to 22.00. \nA queer Arab exilic pop-up social gathering space in Oslo\, Salon Marie Rose is commemorating the memory of the beautiful and mountainous queer artist\, poet and writer Etel Adnan (1925-2021) who passed away in November 2021\, and takes its inspiration from her novel about the Lebanese civil war “Sitt Marie Rose”. \nAdnan’s composite and diasporic identities that include Greek and Syrian parents\, Lebanese upbringing\, American and French exiles has been a towerting inspiration for queer Arab arts and literature for more than five decades. Adnan’s multidisciplinary practice\, emancipatory and whimsical in form and content\, coupled with her cosmopolitan national and gender identities provide a prismatic backdrop for Salon Marie Rose as a queer Arab exilic pop-up social gathering space in Oslo.  \n العربي \nنرحب بكم في صالون ماري روز: مساحة كويرية في المنفى. نلتقي خلال يوم كامل مع مكتبة مؤقتة، عروض أفلام، قراءات وشعر ومأكولات خفيفة. تستضيف الصالون فريدا مريضة وتنتهي الأمسية بعرض كوميدي لشادن. (العرض ستاند آب كوميدي بالعربي فقط). \nنلتقي في صالون ماري روز يوم السبت 5 نوفمبر/تشرين الثاني في ميلا هوسيه من الساعة 3 عصراً حتى الساعة 10 مساءً. \n  \nيحتفي صالون ماري روز بذكرى الفنانة والشاعرة والكاتبة الجميلة إيتيل عدنان (1925-2021) التي رحلت عن عالمنا في نوفمبر الماضي، ويستوحي الصالون اسمه من رواية عدنان عن الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية “ست ماري روز”.  \nشكلت حياة ايتيل عدنان المنطوية على عدة هويات مركبة من أبوين من أصول سورية ويونانية، وتنشئتها في لبنان ومن ثم حياتها في المنفى في فرنسا وأمريكا، مصدر إلهام للفن والأدب العربي الكويري على مدى العقود الخمسة المنصرمة. يتكئ صالون ماري روز على إرث إيتيل عدنان الفني التحرري وغير المألوف في الشكل والمضمون ويستوحي من هوياتها الجندرية والقومية المتعددة محاولة لخلق مساحة ثقافية واجتماعية في المنفى للالتقاء والتعارف والنقاش. \n Program\n البرنامج\n Program \nProgram \nSalon Marie Rose (matiné) \nFREE entry – Language: English and Arabic \n\n15.00: Salon Marie Rose is open\n15.00-18.00: Mingling & a pop-up library & films on loop with possibility of buying books by and about queer arabs curated for this event\n\nSalon Marie Rose (soirée) \nGet ticket –  Language: English and Arabic \n\n18.00: Opening by Frida Marida & serving finger food\n18.15-18.45: Poetry reading in memory of Etel Adnan reading by Rana Issa\, Hanna Asefaw\, Raphael Amahl Khouri and Suneela Mubayi.\n19.00-19.50: Film screening: Ismyrna (2016\, 50 min) Directed by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige\n20.30-21.45: Stand-up comedy show with Shaden (in Arabic only)\n\nAfter six sold-out shows in Paris\, Berlin and Amsterdam and more than 80 sold-out shows in Beirut\, Shaden will be performing her latest special _All Hell Broke Loose_ in Oslo for the first time ever at Melahuset on Saturday\, 5. November! \n البرنامج\n البرنامج——–صالون ماري روز (ماتينيه)الدخول مجانياللغة: عربي وانكليزيالساعة 15.00: يفتح صالون ماري روزالساعة 15.00-18.00: صالون ماري روز مفتوح للزيارة ومشاهدة عدة أفلام معروضة على مدار الساعة، وزيارة مكتبة مؤقتة مع إمكانية شراء كتب كويرية عربية تم انتقاؤها لهذه المناسبة صالون ماري روز (سواريه)لشراء البطاقةاللغة: عربي وانكليزيالساعة 18.00: فريدا مريضة تفتتح صالون ماري روز سواريهالساعة 18.15-18.45: قراءات وأشعار في ذكرى إيتيل عدنان من قبل رنا عيسى، سونيلا موباي، ورافايل خوريالساعة 19.00-19.50: عرض الفيلم الوثائقي سميرنا (2016، 50 دقيقة)الساعة 20.30-21.45: عرض كوميدي بالعربي مع شادن (اللغة: عربي)  \nشادن ستقدم عرض الستاند أب كوميدي «لقد انتا* الوضع كلياً» في أوسلو لأول مرة يوم السبت 5 نوفمبر/تشرين الثاني في ميلاهوسيه! \nقدمت شادن هذا العرض مع أوكوورد كوميدي في بيروت في أكثر من 80 عرضاً تم بيع بطاقاتهم بالكامل في العام الجاري. بالإضافة إلى جولتها الأوروبية الحديثة على مدار ستة عروض تم بيعها بالكامل في برلين وباريس وأمستردام. \nSee less \nFilm program during Salon Marie Rose\nFilms on loop during Salon Marie Rose  (matiné)\n Marco (2019\, 22′) \nMarco (2019\, 22′) \nDirected by Saleem Haddad \nLanguage: English & ArabicSubtitles: English \nOmar has been living in London for a decade. He spends his days working in the City\, and his nights ignoring phone calls from his family back in Lebanon. One evening\, restless after another pleading voicemail from his mother\, he invites over Marco\, a Spanish student newly-arrived in London\, who’s doing sex work to earn some extra cash. But when Marco arrives\, Omar can’t shake the feeling that something’s not quite right about the young man. As their night together progresses truths are revealed\, defences are lowered\, and Omar discovers the lengths that Marco has gone to to arrive in London. \n Run(a)way Arab (2018\, 12′) \nRunaway Arab (2018\, 12′) \nDirected by Amrou Al-Kadhi \nLanguage: Arabic \nSubtitle: English \nNAZEEM is a 26 year old Middle Eastern drag queen who names herself QUEEN ZA DREAM – she is preparing for a show with the utmost gravity\, with an outfit evocative of an Egyptian deity.Interwoven with this is the story of NAZEEM as a genderqueer 8 year-old boy\, and the close bond he has with his Iraqi-Egyptian mother\, HALIMA. Whilst flamboyant and in many ways a drag queen herself on the surface\, HALIMA is governed by the strict expectations of gender in Arab society.When a young NAZEEM transgresses these boundaries\, HALIMA reacts in a way that is utterly confusing to him. Only though his drag\, is the adult NAZEEM able to keep sacred the memories of his mother before this painful moment\, and hold on to their connection. \n Another Dream (2019\, immersive) \nDirected by: Tamara Shogaolu \nAnother Dream\, a hybrid animated documentary and VR game\, brings the gripping\, true love story of an Egyptian lesbian couple to life. Faced with a post-revolution backlash against the LGBTQ community\, they escape Cairo to seek asylum and acceptance in the Netherlands. \nFilm screening during Salon Marie Rose  (soirée)\n ISMYRNA (2016\, 50′) \nIsmyrna (2016\, 50) \nLebanon/France/UAE 2016Directed by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil JoreigeLanguage: FrenchSubtitles: English \nJoana met the artist and poet Etel Adnan at the end of the 1990s. They quickly grew close\, bound by links to a city they had never been to: Smyrna formerly\, Izmir today. Joana’s paternal Greek family were forced into exile from Smyrna by the Turkish armies after the end of the Ottoman Empire. Etel’s Greek mother\, was born in Smyrna\, married to a Syrian officer of the Ottoman Army and exiled to Lebanon after the fall of the empire. Etel and Joana lived in an imaginary Smyrna\, today Izmir\, without ever setting foot there. At present\, both find themselves engaged in questions around the transmission of history\, and interrogate their attachment to objects\, places\, the constructions of imaginaries and mythologies without images. Their personal experiences\, their stories serve as a background to the region’s changes after the fall of the Ottoman Empire\, the evolution of the borders questionning the notion of identity and belonging. \n \n Tickets\n \n Salon Marie Rose is a project by Masahat for Arab Culture in Exile\, in collaboration with Skeiv Verden\, Oslo World and Melahuset. \nGuests الضيوف URL:https://masahat.no/event/salon-marie-rose-queer-arabs-in-exile/ LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,عربي ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/salon-marie-rose.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220925T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220925T163000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20220831T141116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220921T124259Z UID:17756-1664114400-1664123400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Masahat Screens: Let’s hope it rains DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.  \n  \nMasahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n🌍 Language: English \nProgram\n\nWelcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.\nHow to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)\nNIUN (2018\, 7′) \nMatters of Time (2019\, 6’) \nDreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen.\n\nMasahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \nAbout the films\n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)\, Finland\, Denmark \nDirected by Tuija Halttunen\nScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n NIUN (2018\, 7′)\, Saudi Arabia \nDirected by Ahaad Alamoudi\nAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan \nMatters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\nDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly\n“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. \nThis piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21′)\, Lebanon \nDirected by Mira Adoumier\nI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. URL:https://masahat.no/event/masahat-screens-lets-hope-it-rains/ LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Masahat-screens-FB-Event-Cover.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220922T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220922T191500 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20220829T123109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250706T200058Z UID:17665-1663866000-1663874100@masahat.no SUMMARY:Wild Relatives - Film + discussion DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the film screening of Wild Relatives (2018\, 64′) followed by a conversation between Reem Shadid and Edwin Nasr titled Slow violence and ecological erasure in artistic practices from Syria\, Lebanon and Palestine. \nProgram\n\n17.00-18.05: Film screening\n18.05-19.15: Discussion and Q&A\n\nLanguage: English \n\nThe film: Wild Relatives (2018\, 64’)\nDirected by: Jumana Manna\nCountry: Germany\, Lebanon\, Norway | Year: 2018 | Languages: Arabic\, Norwegian\, English | Subtitles: English \nDuration: 64 min \nDeep in the earth\, beneath the Arctic permafrost\, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to provide a backup should a disaster strike. Wild Relatives starts from an event that has sparked media interest worldwide: in 2012 an international agricultural research center was forced to relocate from Aleppo to Lebanon due to the Syrian Revolution turned war\, and began a laborious process of planting their seed collection from the Svalbard back-ups. \nFollowing the path of this transaction of seeds between the Arctic and Lebanon\, a series of encounters unfold a matrix of human and non-human lives between these two distant spots of the earth. It captures the articulation between this large-scale international initiative and its local implementation in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon\, carried out primarily by young migrant women. \nThe meditative pace patiently teases out tensions between state and individual\, industrial and organic approaches to seed saving\, climate change and biodiversity\, witnessed through the journey of these seeds. URL:https://masahat.no/event/wild-relatives-film-discussion/ LOCATION:Kunstnernes Hus\, Wergelandsveien 17\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Wild-Relatives-Event-Cover.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220427T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220427T203000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20220422T103518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T063938Z UID:17186-1651082400-1651091400@masahat.no SUMMARY:War in Ukraine: The Earth is Blue as an Orange DESCRIPTION:Does art have power during war?\nArt does have power – it cracks the ice between us; it facilitates the processing of trauma. It gives witness to all that is funny\, joyful and faced with laughter in the midst of remarkable darkness. \nDirector Iryna Tsilyk\n\nSingle mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas\, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos\, the family is managing to keep their home as a safe haven\, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema\, motivating them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. \nThe creative process raises the question of what kind of power the magical world of cinema could have during times of disaster. How to picture war through fiction? For Anna and the children\, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.\nThe film gives us a strong sense of what it is like to live in a war zone and how difficult it can be to leave. \nTo live between two worlds\nAs we are writing this text over 10 million Ukrainians have become refugees and more than 3 million have left the country. For the refugees who find safety abroad\, the war is in a way over\, but on the other hand it’s not. While they themselves are safe\, they are still closely connected with people living in the midst of the war. To live ” between two worlds” like this can be traumatic in itself. How are Ukrainians dealing with this and what can be learnt from the experiences of exiled Syrians? \nIn the talk after the screening we want to focus both on the situation for refugees from an ongoing war\, and on the power of documentary films to create empathy for the victims of war\, and how films can be an extremely important addition to the news media. \nPanel\n\nOleksandra Hrybenko (28) is from Donetsk\, Ukraine. She is currently working as a PhD Fellow at the Faculty of Journalism and Media Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University researching the safety of women journalists reporting on the conflict in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in 2014 she has worked as a journalist and field producer for international media reporting on the conflict in Ukraine.\nOsama Shaheen (31) is a journalist for the Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende and founder of the Arab language magazine DER. He is a stateless Palestinian and came to Norway from Syria in 2015.\nModerator: Zeina Bali\, Masahat.\n\nIn collaboration with Oslo Dokumentarkino\, DocuDays Ukraine\, The Ukrainian Association in Norway\, Human idff\, Harbitz Consulting and Vega Scene. URL:https://masahat.no/event/war-in-ukraine-the-earth-is-blue-as-an-orange/ LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/The-world-is-blue-as-an-orange.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211106T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211106T180000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20211025T200019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T064254Z UID:16879-1636216200-1636221600@masahat.no SUMMARY:Ten Years After the Arab Spring - Oslo World DESCRIPTION:Ten years ago\, Arab protesters reclaimed the public space for the first time in decades\, sparking an explosion of defiant artistic and cultural expressions against the authoritarian powers. A decade on\, the reality has drastically changed in many Arab and European cities in the aftermath of exile\, violent crackdown\, conflicts\, mass displacement and dispossession of millions of Arab citizens.  In this event\, we will first screen Odorless Blue Flowers Awake Prematurely\, a short film by Panos Aprahamian. Then we will have an open discussion with Jeffrey Karam about the aftermath of the disastrous triumph of counter revolutionary forces in the Arab world. We will think together about to survive and fight back\, what possibilities of resistance still exist and what political labour can we engage to bring change about? \n  \nThe discussion will be led by Rana Issa. \n  \nDr. Jeffrey G. Karam\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Lebanese American University; Associate\, Middle East Initiative\, Harvard University; and EUME Fellow of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and FU Berlin. Karam is a scholar and activist between Beirut and Berlin. He is the author and editor of numerous publications\, including The Middle East in 1958: Reimagining A Revolutionary Year (London: I.B. Tauris and Bloomsbury\, 2020). Karam is likewise the co-editor of the forthcoming book\, The Lebanon Uprising of 2019: Voices from the Revolution\, which I.B. Tauris and Bloomsbury will publish in 2022. \nAbout the film\n“Odorless Blue Flowers Awake Prematurely” is the dystopia-as-documentary rather than as fiction. For many inhabitants of this world\, the apocalypse is not a future possibility but a historical reality. The short documentary essay explores Beirut’s overlooked and marginalized areas that were also affected by the blast on August 4\, 2020. These areas sit on both sides of the Beirut river’s banks. The river became a conductor for the blast’s wave due to its length and the fact that it is devoid of barriers. The film refers to the 4th of August\, 2020\, as the day the world ended. Yet\, reality in this area kept on in an apocalyptic state: a global pandemic\, deadly pollution\, desolate neighborhoods\, financial meltdown\, resource scarcity\, and food shortage.\nIt’s as if the explosion came to announce the end of the world. There is nowhere to go\, no refuge\, no scent to the flowers that grow over human limbs\, and nothing to be said for the end of the world. Even the river that never ceases to flow to the sea is dead. In this moment of staggering impotence\, how does one make a film about the end of the world? Silence is perhaps darkness’ last friend. \nThis event is organized in collaboration with Oslo World and Kunstplass URL:https://masahat.no/event/ten-years-after-the-arab-spring-oslo-world/ LOCATION:Kunstplass\, Akersgata 1\, Oslo\, 0158\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/odorless.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211019T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211019T203000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20211007T054535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T203236Z UID:16782-1634670000-1634675400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Arna's children DESCRIPTION:Arna was an Israeli anti-occupation activist\, married to a Palestinian\, and the founder of the Jenin Refugee camp Freedom Theatre. The Arna’s Children film documents the return of Arna’s son to the refugee camp. He discovers that some of the playful children he knew\, once gasping for cultural expression in a suffocated environment\, were either killed by the Israeli army or joined the Palestinian armed resistance movement. \nOne of Arna’s Children that we follow in the film is Zakaria Zubaidi\, who has recently made international headlines\, together with other five Palestinian political detainees\, upon their escape from the Israeli Gilboa prison. \nThe movie offers a bleak but poignant view into the life of Zubaidi and the future of Palestinian generations deprived of freedom. \nMasahat\, in collaboration with Palestinakomiteen and Kunstnernes Hus invite you to the film screening followed by a panel discussion on the role of culture and theatre in Palestine and conditions of Palestinian detention. \nPanelists\n\nLine Khateeb\, Leader of Palestinakomiteen & Masahat Chair of the Board\nOther guests TBC URL:https://masahat.no/event/arnas-children/ LOCATION:Kunstnernes Hus\, Wergelandsveien 17\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Arnes-Children3-e1633585574606.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210922T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210922T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20210915T063515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T203045Z UID:16754-1632331800-1632337200@masahat.no SUMMARY:Arabisk høstkveld: "What happens to a displaced ant" DESCRIPTION:تدعوكم مساحات بالتعاون مع مكتبة هولمليا لحضور الفيلم الوثائقي “ماذا يحدث لنملة مشردة” للمخرجة شيرين أبو شقرا. \n“ماذا يحدث لنملة مشردة” (٢٠١٧، ٤٢ دقيقة) هو فيلم مستوحى من تجربة المخرجة أثناء مشاركتها في مهمة إنقاذ، امتدت لخمسة أشهر، مع منظمة أطباء بلا حدود لمساعدة اللاجئين على عبور البحر الأبيض المتوسط. يدور الفيلم الوثائقي-الروائي حول تبادل رسائل بين ممرضة تعمل في المجال الإنساني، وحبيبها المؤرخ المعماري. بعد الفيلم سنقوم بحوار مفتوح حول الفيلم مع الحضور. \nالدخول مجاني و مفتوح للجميع، لكن التسجيل مطلوب لمحدودية الأماكن: holmlia@deichman.no\nأهلاً وسهلاً بكم! \nهذه الفعالية هي ثاني أمسية من سلسلة أمسيات ثقافية عربية ننظمها في مساحات بالتعاون مع مكتبة دايكمان هولمليا كل رابع أربعاء من الشهر خلال خريف ٢٠٢١ \nVelkommen til gratis filmvisning What Happens to a Displaced Ant + åpen samtale med publikum. Samtalen foregår på norsk og arabisk. \n«What happens to a displaced ant» (2017\, 42 min) er inspirert av regissørens fem måneder lange redningsoppdrag for Leger Uten Grenser i Middelhavet\, og hennes møte med flyktninger der. Dokufiksjonen er en epistolær korrespondanse mellom en sykepleier i det humanitære feltet – og hennes elsker\, en historiker og arkitekt. \nGratis inngang og åpent for alle\, men begrenset antall plasser! \nPåmelding kreves: holmlia@deichman.no \nEventet er den andre “Arabisk høstkveld” i en rekke arrangert av Masahat i samarbeid med Deichman Holmlia! Disse vil foregå hver fjerde onsdag i måneden i løpet av høsten 2021. URL:https://masahat.no/event/arabisk-hostkveld-what-happens-to-a-displaced-ant/ LOCATION:Deichman Holmlia\, Holmlia Senter vei 16\, Oslo\, 1255\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ant-film.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210612T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210612T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20210610T153351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T203438Z UID:16531-1623513600-1623524400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Insiders Narrative - From Gaza DESCRIPTION:This film screening and panel discussion titled “Insiders Narrative” will shed light on how Gazan youth have experienced and continue to experience war and military aggression. After the 11 day aggression Gaza’s youth have less prospects and envision a bleaker future. The film “Ambulance” will be screened and followed by a panel discussion. Ambulance is a movie that captures the brutal aggression on Gaza in 2014. \nGuest speakers\n\nMohammed Jabaly\, Filmmaker from Gaza\, ‘Ambulance’ Director\nLine Khateeb\, Director of Palestinakomiteen\nRana Mortaja \, 24 years old mother\, Community worker\nOmar Alrabi\, 24 years\, English Literature graduate\nBissan Ouda\, 23 years\, Community volunteer\n\nModerated by Bahaa Eleyan.  This event is organized by Masahat in collaboration with TVIBIT\, and is part of the Citizen Academy project by Masahat and the Gaza-Tromsø twincity project by TVIBIT\n\nBook your free ticket URL:https://masahat.no/event/insiders-narrative-from-gaza/ LOCATION:Hålogaland Teater\, Teaterplassen 1\, Tromsø\, 9007\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/insiders-narrative_.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210315T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210320T235900 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20210309T090830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T202243Z UID:16256-1615766400-1616284740@masahat.no SUMMARY:Six Ordinary Stories DESCRIPTION:في فيلمه ست قصص عادية (٢٠٠٧) يرافق المخرج ميار الرومي سائقي تاكسي في عملهم اليومي في مدينة دمشق. يأخذنا الفيلم في رحلة ضمن شوراع دمشق وقصص سائقي التكسي اليومية. \nSix taxi drivers open up in the intimacy of their cars\, and take us into their daily stories\, wandering in the streets of Damascus. They are ephemeral heroes\, airing their hardships and visions of life. These six ordinary stories told in a seeming light tone\, hold all the sarcasm and truth of people living without well knowing what tomorrow may bring. \nDirector: Meyar Al Roumi \nYear: 2007 \n62 min –\nSpoken languages: Arabic. Subtitles: English URL:https://masahat.no/event/six-ordinary-stories/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/six-histoires.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210315T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210320T235900 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20210308T211315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T202154Z UID:16212-1615766400-1616284740@masahat.no SUMMARY:In the Last Days of the City آخر أيام المدينة DESCRIPTION:، وسط المدينة، ديسمبر ٢٠٠٩. يحاول خالد، صانع الأفلام الشاب، أن يصنع فيلماً يلتقط فيه نبض المدينة في لحظة يكاد أن يفقد فيها كل شيء. بمساعدة رسائل الفيديو التي تصله من أصدقاءه في بيروت وبغداد وبرلين، على خالد أن يجد طريقه عبر قسوة وجمال آخر أيام المدينة. رابط الفيلم مخصص للعرض في النرويج حصراً \nDowntown Cairo\, 2009. Khaled\, a 35 years old filmmaker is struggling to make a film that captures the soul of his city while facing loss in his own life. With the help of his friends\, who send him footage from their lives in Beirut\, Baghdad and Berlin\, he finds the strength to keep going through the difficulty and the beauty of living In the Last Days of the City. Tamer El Said’s debut film is a cinematic poetic journey through cities on edge \nAvailable for free screening in Norway only \nDirector: Tamer El Said \nYear: 2016 \n1h 58min –\nSpoken languages: Arabic. Subtitles: English \n  \nملاحظة: هذا الفيلم متوفر للعرض في النرويج فقط \nRegistration is closed for this event URL:https://masahat.no/event/in-the-last-days-of-the-city/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/in-the-last-days-of-the-city.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210315T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210320T235900 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20210308T203801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T201905Z UID:16218-1615766400-1616284740@masahat.no SUMMARY:Underdown تحت التحت DESCRIPTION:In the concrete jungle that is Beirut\, Lebanon\, the outspoken taxi driver Abu Hussam is doing his best to survive. His dream is to find a roof above his head. Until that day comes\, he’ll sleep on the street and drive around the streets of Beirut with smoke pouring from the hood of his car. Beer offers some solace\, for a while. He explains why he’s happy in this hectic city: “The chaos suits me because if this country had order\, I wouldn’t be able to drink and drive.” \nElsewhere in the city\, a runaway Syrian boy named Ali has chosen to live alone on the streets. He loves the sea and his missing friend Azzam\, whom he’s waiting for day in and day out. We also meet Samya\, a whiskey-drinking woman who’s trying to finance an operation for her almost-blind mother. Just like Abu Hussam and Ali\, she’s hoping for better times\, and on occasion there’s a flicker of light at the end of the tunnel. Director Sarah Kaskas composed Underdown’s powerful soundtrack as well\, which also features music by Lebanese band Kinematik. \nDirector: Sarah Kaskas \nYear: 2018 \n72 min –\nSpoken languages: Arabic. Subtitles: English \n  \nRegistration is closed for this event URL:https://masahat.no/event/underdown/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/underdown.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200913T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200913T200000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20200829T203510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T201156Z UID:3115-1600020000-1600027200@masahat.no SUMMARY:Syrian Doc Days: Mellom to verdener DESCRIPTION:Velkommen til den tredje utgaven av Syrian Doc Days i Oslo!\nI år skal vi se nærmere på hvordan flyktninger i Norge opplever å leve mellom to verdener\, konsekvensene som følger\, og hvordan det norske systemet kan håndtere dette. \n\nProgrammet for kvelden\n\n18.00 – 18.40: Visning av to kortfilmer\n\nSyrialism\, av Dalia Alkury (Norge\, 2020\, 21′)\nI have seen nothing\, av Yaser Kassab (Libanon\, Sverige\, Syria\, 2019\, 19′)\n\n\n18.45 – 19.00: Spørsmålsrunde med filmregissør Dalia Alkury\n19.30 – 20.00: Panelsamtale\n\n\nMellom to verdener: Møtet mellom nåtid og fortid for flyktninger i Norge\nFor mange av oss som har kommet til Norge etter å ha levnet et hjemland\, familie og nære i krise\, kan virkeligheten nærmest oppleves som schizofren – vi lever i to verdener. Våre følelser og tanker er hjemme\, mens vi forsøker å starte våre nye liv i Norge.\nVi prøver å lære et nytt språk\, sliter med å finne vår plass i et nytt samfunn\, og lærer stadig hvordan ting fungerer\, mens vi også sliter med angst og frykt for hva som skal skje med våre kjære som fortsatt befinner seg der vi dro fra dem. Vi opplever skyldfølelse for at vi har overlevd\, traumatiske minner\, og vi mangler en følelse av tilhørighet. \nMange flyktninger sier at de har fått psykiske plager etter at de kom til Norge. Å leve i fredelige Norge beskytter ikke flyktninger fra å oppleve den psykiske bagasjen de har båret med seg fra konflikter og uroligheter. Hvordan skal vi håndtere denne virkeligheten? Hvordan kan det norske helsesystemet bli bedre skodd for å møte disse behovene? \nFor å snakke om dette har vi fått med oss: \n\nLars Lien\, Professor II\, Høgskolen i Innlandet\nAngie Hussami-Finvold\, syrisk-norsk aktivist og flyktningguide\nBaraa Alowais\, syrisk-norsk lege\nOrdstyrer: Tove Gravdal\, journalist og skribent\n\nI samarbeid med Oslo Dokumentarkino og Syrian Doc Days – Denmark.\n\n\nBegrensede plasser\, husk å kjøpe billett: https://checkout.ebillett.no/287/events/13447/purchase/corona. Vel møtt! \nSupported by: URL:https://masahat.no/event/syrian-doc-days-mellom-to-verdener/ LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Mellom-to-verdener-Motet-mellom-nåtid-og-fortid-for-flyktninger-i-Norge.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200823T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200823T203000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20200829T120916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T192800Z UID:3110-1598205600-1598214600@masahat.no SUMMARY:Beirut - Underdown. Filmvisning og samtale DESCRIPTION:Det er hardt å være araber og SPACE ønsker velkommen til Underdown filmvisning om livet i Beiruts gater og en samtale med Rana Issa\, Antoine Fadel og Khaled Zaza om det som skjer i Beirut nå. \nDen 4. august ble Beirut rystet av en voldsom eksplosjon som la byen i ruiner. 2750 tonn med ammoniumnitrat hadde blitt lagret flere år i byens havn\, og til tross for at myndighetene kjente til dette\, ble det aldri gjort noe med. Dette var siste dråpe for libanesere som lenge har lengtet etter politisk forandring.\n«Alle betyr alle» ropes i gatene og symbolske galger er satt opp. Revolusjonen som startet i oktober i fjor lever videre\, og målet er at det politiske lederskapet skal falle. \nOm filmen\nI Sarah Kaskas’ «Underdown» møter vi Abu Hussam\, en taxisjåfør som gjør sitt beste for å overleve i Libanons hovedstad Beirut. Abu Hussams drøm er å finne tak over hodet\, men fram til det skjer skal han fortsette å sove på gata og kjøre rundt i gatene med røyk sigende fra panseret på bilen. Å drikke øl gir ham noe trøst\, for en liten stund. Han forklarer hvorfor han er glad i denne hektiske byen: «Kaoset passer meg\, fordi hvis dette landet hadde vært i orden\, hadde det vært umulig for meg å drikke og kjøre.»\nEt annet sted i byen møter vi den syriske gutten Ali\, som har valgt å leve alene på gata. Han elsker havet\, og savner Azzam\, en kompis som han fortsetter å vente på. Vi møter også Samya\, en whiskeydrikkende kvinne som prøver å finansiere en operasjon for sin nesten blinde mor. Akkurat som Abu Hussam og Ali\, håper hun også på bedre tider. \n \nOm samtalen\nFor å diskutere hva som foregår i landet har vi fått med oss Rana Issa\, medgrunnlegger av SPACE og assisterende professor på Det amerikanske universitetet i Beirut (AUB)\, Antoind Fadel\, arkitekt og medgrunnlegger av Active Lebanon\, og Khaled Zaza\, konsulent og forskningsassistent spesialisert i internasjonal rett og menneskerettigheter. \nPåmelding\nFor å reservere billetter registerer du deg her på Facebook eventet og vippser 50 kroner eller mer til 618777. Alle pengene går til Basmeh & Zeitooneh\, en organisasjon som opprinnelig jobber med syriske og palestinske flyktninger i Libanon\, men som nå også jobber med libanesiske familier som er påvirket av eksplosjonen i Beirut. Ikke nøl med å ta kontakt dersom du har spørsmål om pengene eller organisasjonen. Du kan lese mer om Basmeh & Zeitooneh her. \n  \nSupported By URL:https://masahat.no/event/beirut-underdown-filmvisning-og-samtale/ LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Beirut-underdown.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200624T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200624T200000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20200616T073652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T201122Z UID:2967-1593027000-1593028800@masahat.no SUMMARY:For Sama + Live Q&A DESCRIPTION: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 Waad Alkateab on 24th June at 19.30 Oslo time. \nHow does this work?\n\nYou can watch the film online anytime you want\, by clicking on this link.\nOn June 24th\, you can meet the filmmaker Waad Alkateab live on SPACE Facebook page and ask her any questions on the film\, or if you cannot attend\, you can send us your questions in advance and we will ask her for you.\n\nHow can YOU help?\nThe first question that people ask after watching For Sama is\, “How can I help?” Here are three ways: \n\nBear witness: many people are still confused about what happened and still happening in Syria. For Sama tells us a Syrian story of love and courage facing injustice and oppression. When you watch the film\, you help by bearing witness and preserving the narrative.\nShow solidarity: Waad Alkateab says that the hardest way for people to die is in silence. After watching For Sama\, please take a picture of yourself with a message of solidarity to show Syrians across the world that you are hearing their stories and standing with them in their struggle for freedom and democracy. Share it on social media and tag @ActionForSama. Hashtags: #forsama #actionforsama #stopbombinghospitals.\nTake action: One of the ways you can support is to give to the heroic humanitarians and medics still saving lives on the ground in Syria. As the global Coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the world\, the people of Syria need our help more than ever. The humanitarian conditions are appalling and there is always the threat of further conflict. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced and are now living in overcrowded camps\, with no chance of self isolation.\n\nYou can donate by card or PayPal online. All of the money donated to Action For Sama goes via our partners at Help Refugees\, who ensure that every penny goes directly to those working inside Syria. \nBackground on the film\nFor Sama is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter\, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo\, Syria as she falls in love\, gets married and gives birth to Sama\, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss\, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life\, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much. The film is the first feature documentary by Emmy award-winning filmmakers\, Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts. \n\nSPACE\, Europafilm\, Oslo Dokumentarkino og Human IDFF inviterer deg til en online visning av den Oscar-nominerte\, BAFTA-prisvinnende dokumentaren For Sama (2019\, 99 min.)\, samt en live spørsmålsrunde med filmskaperen Waad Alkateab den 24. juni klokken 19.30. \nHvordan funker det?\n\nDu kan se filmen på nett når du vil\, ved å klikke på denne linken.\nDen 24. juni kan du møte filmskaperen Waad Alkateab live på SPACE sine Facebook-sider\, der du kan sende inn spørsmål. Kan du ikke delta 24. juni\, er du velkommen til å sende oss dine spørsmål på forhånd\, så passer vi på at spørsmålene dine blir stilt.\n\nHvordan kan du hjelpe?\nDet første spørsmålet folk spør seg etter å ha sett For Sama\, er «hvordan kan jeg hjelpe?». Her er tre måter du kan hjelpe på: \n\nVær et vitne: Mange føler fortsatt på en forvirring rundt det som har skjedd og fortsatt skjer i Syria. For Sama forteller oss en syrisk historie om kjærlighet og mot i en urettferdig og undertrykkende situasjon. Når du ser filmen\, hjelper du ved å være et vitne og bevare fortellingen.\nVis solidaritet: Waad Alkateab sier at den vanskeligste måten å dø på\, er å dø i stillhet. Etter å ha sett For Sama\, kan du ta et bilde av deg selv med en solidaritetsmelding for å vise syrere i verden at du hører dem og står sammen med dem i kampen for frihet og demokrati. Del meldingen din i sosiale medier og tag @ActionForSama. Hashtagger: #forsama #actionforsama #stopbombinghospitals\nDonér: En av måtene du kan vise støtte på\, er å donere til de humanitære og medisinske heltene som fortsatt redder liv på bakken i Syria. Når den globale koronapandemien herjer i verden\, trenger syrere vår hjelp mer enn noen gang. Den humanitære situasjonen i Syria er forferdelig\, og konflikttrusselen er alltid der. Flere hundre tusen har blitt tvunget på flukt og lever nå i overbefolkede leire\, hvor isolasjon og karantene er umulig.\n\nDu kan donere ved bruk av kort eller PayPal. Alle pengene som doneres til Action For Sama går via våre partnere hos Help Refugees\, som sikrer at hvert øre går direkte til humanitært arbeid innad i Syria. \nFilmens bakgrunn\nFor Sama er både en intim og storslått reise inn i den kvinnelige opplevelsen av krig. Som et kjærlighetsbrev fra en ung mor til hennes datter\, forteller filmen historien om Waad al-Kateabs liv gjennom fem år i Aleppo\, hvor hun forelsker seg\, gifter seg og føder datteren Sama\, samtidig som krigen herjer rundt henne. Kameraet hennes fanger utrolige øyeblikk av tap\, latter og overlevelse\, samtidig som Waad sliter med det umulige valget – om hun skal eller ikke skal flykte fra byen for å beskytte datterens liv\, når det å flykte betyr å levne kampen for frihet\, en kamp hun allerede har ofret så mye til.Filmen er den første dokumentaren av de Emmy-prisvinnende filmskaperne Waad al-Kateab og Edward Watts. Filmanmeldelser i norske medier:\n– For Sama – P3\n– Filmanmeldelse: «For Sama» er noe i nærheten av en klassiker URL:https://masahat.no/event/for-sama-live-qa/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Filmvisning-live-QA-med-Waad-Alkatean.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200227T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200227T183000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20200205T075654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T075113Z UID:2821-1582819200-1582828200@masahat.no SUMMARY:Fighting War Crimes in Syria – Can Norway Play a Part? DESCRIPTION:Film: Syria’s Disappeared: The Case Against Assad\nUK/ 2017 / 50 min / Dir: Sara Afshar \nTens of thousands of Syrians have been tortured and killed in secret prisons\, by the Assad regime. The Film Syria’s Disappeared – The Case Against Assad by Sara Afshar brings forward testimonies from victims and asks the question; is it possible to prosecute the people behind these crimes? \nMazen Alhummada is one of the characters in the film. He was arrested and brutally tortured in a state controlled prison. Today he lives in exile and fights for justice for the victims of torture and murder in Assads prisons. \nWe also meet investigators\, journalists and lawyers working to fight impunity in Syria. \nPanel talk: Fighting War Crimes in Syria – Can Norway Play a Part?\nWar crimes that go unpunished\, leaves a crippled society. Countless human rights violations\, and crimes have been committed in Syria since the beginning of the uprising in the spring of 2011. Those responsible remain largely unpunished. \nIn November 2019\, a group of Syrian plaintiffs filed criminal complaints with Norwegian police and asked for investigations of named heads of Syrian intelligence services and other institutions responsible for torture and other grave abuses.\nOn this background\, we ask politicians\, legal experts\, activists\, and victims who have found protection in Norway\, how Norwegian authorities and authorities in other democratic countries can contribute to fighting impunity in Syria. \nPanel \n\nIbrahim Olabi\, Barrister at Guernica 37 and Director of Syrian Legal Development Programme\nBrynjulf Risnes\, lawyer\, Matrix Advokater – Defense and Litigation Attorneys\nSofie Høgestøl\, Associate Professor\, Faculty of Law UiO\nGunnar Ekeløve-Slydal\, Director of policies\, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee\nLawrence Almala Ali\, torture survivor from Syria.\nPetter Eide\, MP Socialist Left Party\, Norway\nBritta Redwood\, Legal Fellow\, European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)\nModerator: Stig-Arild Pettersen\n\n  \n \nThis event is part of HUMAN International Documentary Festival\, in cooperation with The Norwegian Helsinki Committee and SPACE. URL:https://masahat.no/event/fighting-war-crimes-in-syria-can-norway-play-a-part/ LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/fighting-war-crimes-in-syria-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191207T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191207T173000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20191120T082959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201054Z UID:2610-1575730800-1575739800@masahat.no SUMMARY:The Cave - Syria: Kampen om historien DESCRIPTION:En kvinnelig lege ledet et underjordisk sykehus i Ghouta\, Syria\, under beleiringen fra 2013 til 2018. Filmen The Cave skildrer livet under bomberegnet og arbeidet til lege Amani Ballour og hennes kolleger. Filmen vant publikumsprisen på den prestisjetunge Toronto internasjonale filmfestival i september og er nå med i Oscar-løpet. \n  \nThe Cave\n\nThis extraordinary film allows viewers to bear witness to courage and dedication in their finest forms.\n– The Washington Post \n\nØst-Ghouta utenfor Damascus var beleiret i fem år\, fra 2013 til 2018. Dette er den lengste beleiringen i krig i moderne tid. Befolkningen på flere hundre tusen var stengt inne og utsatt for massiv bombing. Det var mangel på mat og medisiner. \nAmani Ballour\, en ung kvinnelig lege\, ledet et undergrunnssykehus som tok seg av de skadde under beleiringen. \nDette er en film om enormt mot som til tider er vanskelig å se på. Men den er viktig. Når historien om krigen i Syria nå skrives vil regimet og deres støttespillere ønske å utelate slike historier som dette fordi den viser noen av de enorme krigsforbrytelsene begått av regimet mot egen befolkning. \nFilmen kjemper om en Oscar og vant publikumsprisen for beste dokumentar på Toronto internasjonale filmfestival i september 2019. \n \nThe Cave av Feras Fayyad. (Syria/Danmark/USA 2019\, 95 min.) Fayyad har tidligere laget blant annet Last Men in Aleppo som var Oscar-nominert i tillegg til å motta en rekke priser. \n\nHow on earth did they manage to film this and live to tell the tale? (…) Fayyad pulls off something miraculous with “The Cave\,” which concludes with a devastating final act in flames.”\n– Variety \n\n\nKRIGEN I SYRIA – KAMPEN OM HISTORIEN \nHvis Partiet kunne strekke sin hånd tilbake i fortiden og si om den og den hendelsen at den aldri hadde hendt\, var da ikke dette enda grufullere en bare tortur og død? – 1984\, George Orwell. \nKrigen i Syria er ikke over. Idag sitter folk fast i Idlib og er utsatt for noe av det samme som det som skjedde i Øst-Ghouta og andre steder som har vært under beleiring og bombing i Syria. \nMen likevel er kampen om narrativet allerede igang. Det syriske regimet har initiert en egen institusjon (Watan Document Foundation) som skal dokumentere krigen i Syria og samle inn historier. Sannsynligvis vil denne institusjonen forsøke å legge lokk på krigsforbrytelser begått av regimet og legge fram et narrativ som støtter Bashar al-Assads og hans regjerings fortelling om krigen. Denne historien gjengis i russisk propaganda og av andre som av en eller annen grunn støtter opp om Assads fortsatte diktatur. \nHvorvidt regimet lykkes i å gjøre sin historie gjeldende vil avhenge av om det finnes andre historier som er med å skape et bredere og riktigere bilde av virkeligheten. \nHeldigvis er vi ikke like ille ute som samfunnet i boka 1984 av George Orwell\, som sitatet over er hentet fra. Det er mange som jobber med å dokumentere krigen i Syria på en sannferdig måte og det finnes enormt mye video-\, bilde- og tekstmateriale. \nProgram\n\nInnledning ved Cora Alexa Døving som er forsker ved HL-senteret (Senter for studier av Holocaust og livssynsminoriteter) og Uğur Ümit Üngör som er førsteamanuensis i historie ved Utrecht universitet og forsker ved det nederlandske ‘Institute for War\, Holocaust\, and Genocide Studies’\, NIOD.\nQ&A etter visningen med Per K. Kirkegaard (klipper) og Peter Albrechtsen (lyddesigner).\n\nUğur Ümit Üngör har startet noe som heter Syria Oral History Project og har skapt et rammeverk for hvordan krigen i Syria kan dokumenteres. Han har blant mye annet skrevet denne artikkelen om kampen om narrativet når det gjelder krigen i Syria. Üngör kan ikke være tilstede på arrangementet på Cinemateket men har laget en kort video med sin kommentar til dette temaet som vi vil vise før filmen. URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-cave-syria-kampen-om-historien/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/the-cave-by-feras-fayyad.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190907T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190907T213000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20190825T154552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201041Z UID:2233-1567879200-1567891800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Songs of Separation: Film & Concert DESCRIPTION:SPACE\, in collaboration with Oslo Dokumentarkino\, Arabiske Filmdager\, Vega Scene and Syrian Doc Days\,  invite you to a mystical evening at Vega Scene on Sept 7th. The evening starts with a film taking us on a timeless journey into the majestic world of music in Syria before the war. The film then chases the paths of three passionate musicians turned refugees as they rebuild their lives in exile. They resort to their love of Sufi music to find meaning in the aftermath of destruction and atrocity. Ibrahim\, one of the musicians featured in the film\, will join us later along with three world-renowned Syrian musicians in a Sufi-inspired concert. \nPROGRAM\n\n18.00 Wajd: Songs of Separation (Film)\n19.30 Q&A with film director\n20.00 Break\n20.30 Songs of Separation (Concert)\n\n  \nWajd: Songs of Separation (Film)\nInspired by the traditional sacred music of Syria\, filmmaker Amar Chebib travelled to Damascus and Aleppo in 2010. Six months later the revolution began\, escalating into a civil war and a humanitarian crisis. Touched by the harrowing experiences of the friends he made\, Wajd transformed into the stories of three musicians turned refugees following them over five years. \nIntimate footage of their daily lives weaved together with bittersweet musical performances\, extremely rare Sufi ceremonies\, and poetic imagery of a pre-war Syria that no longer exists. What unfolds is a cinematic meditation on loss\, yearning\, and faith. \n \nSongs of Separation \nFour prominent Syrian musicians are coming together from Turkey\, the UK\, Denmark as well as Norway to bring you a memorable evening of oriental rhythms fused with Sufi-inspired performance. The concert will revive the Sufi Levantine musical heritage\, featuring Aleppine Qudud (Qudud Halabiya) and classical Arabic Muwashahat\, a centuries-old genre spanning practices from Aleppo to Andulsia. \n\nAbout the Musicians\nIbrahim Muslimani\, now lives in Gaziantep\, Turkey\, was born in Aleppo to a family with a passion for Inshad\, a form of Sufi choral singing. In 2003\, Ibrahim joined Aleppine Inshad groups as a professional Daf player. In 2006\, he started collecting Syrian musical heritage focusing on the orally passed-down\, almost lost musical heritage and the rare Muwashahat\, Qudud\, Maqamat\, rhythms and musical manuscripts and records. In 2012\, he fled to Turkey where he further cultivated his passion for traditional music. He got a certificate in the essentials of classical Turkish music from the Directorate of Culture in Gaziantep\,Turkey. Ibrahim is still studying the essentials of musical theories\, rhythms and maqamat of the Ottoman Music\, Oud playing and ethos of music with the master Mohammad Saif Addin Zein Al-Abedin. He is a co-founder and CEO of “Nefes Institution for Arts and Culture”. \n\nRihab Azar\, now lives in the UK\, was born in Homs\, Syria to a musical family. Her father\, luthier Samir Azar made her first oud and started teaching her when she was 7 years old. She continued her musical quest later at the Conservatoire of Damascus and was taught by masters of the oud in Syria. The influences at the Conservatoire included Azerbaijani\, Arabic\, Turkish and Western classical music. In 2014\, She became the first woman oudist to perform accompanied by the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music. Rihab was the oud player of the “Syrian Female Oriental Takht” from 2006 until 2015\, the year in which she moved to the UK to study Music Education at University College London. Arts Council England recognised her as a musician of “Exceptional Promise” in December 2016. \n\nBakri Hemmami is a Syrian singer and musician based in Denmark\, where he was invited to many cultural and academic events to talk about the Syrian traditional and Sufi music\, and perform his art in front of the Danish Audience. \n\nMuhammad Fadel Kuj\, lives in Kristiansand\, Norway\, is a Syrian oriental performer and conductor. He studied classical music education and performing at Homs\, where he was born. Muhammad lives in Norway since 2014 and studied musical conducting at University of Stavanger\, he is working since 2017 with Norwegian choir association as a chief conductor for choir of Søgne. \n\nTiltaket er delvis støttet økonomisk av: URL:https://masahat.no/event/songs-of-separation-film-concert/ LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Musikk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Wajd_Songs_of_Separation_with_Logos_Eventdetails.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190323T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190323T184500 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20190317T231115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201457Z UID:2044-1553356800-1553366700@masahat.no SUMMARY:Still Recording DESCRIPTION:I samarbeid med Arabiske filmdager og Norsk PEN inviterer vi til visning av Still Recording + samtale med regissøren på lørdag den 23 mars kl. 16.00. Filmen følger to kunststudenter i Douma\, en forstad som kontrolleres av opprørere mot regimet. I en periode på over fire år følger vi de to vennene og deres omgangskrets og alt de går igjennom: sult\, angrep og beleiring\, men også latter\, fest og en utrettelig tro på det gode i mennesker. Still Recording vant kritikerprisen i Venezia. \nبالتعاون مع مهرجان الفيلم العربي ومنظمة قلم النرويجية، ندعوكم لحضور فيلم لسّه عم تسجّل مع نقاش بعد عرض الفيلم بحضور غياث أيوب، مخرج الفيلم يوم السبت 23 آذار الساعة 4 مساءً. يرصد الفيلم حياة صديقين في دوما المحاصرة الخاضعة لسيطرة المعارضة، حيث أنشأا محطّة راديو محليّة واستوديو تسجيل. ظلّت الكاميرا بين أيديهما يصوّران فيها كلّ شيء إلى أن صورتهما ذات يوم. يروي الفيلم من خلال تصوير أربع سنوات، ماهي الحياة تحت الحرب بما يتخللها من حصار، قصف، ضحك، احتفالات، جوع وكل ما يجعلنا نؤمن بإنسانيتنا. ربح الفيلم جائزة النقاد في مهرجان فينيسيا. \nWe invite you to the screening of the Syrian documentary film Still Recording on Saturday\, March 23rd at 16.00 followed by a discussion with Ghiath Ayoub\, film director and others. Following two art students in the opposition-held Douma for four years the film captures life under war and all it encompasses from hunger\, siege\, laughter\, bombardment\, celebrations\, and the tireless belief in what makes us humans. The film won the critics’ award in Venice film festival. \nPanelists\n– Ghiath Ayoub\, director of Still Recording\n– Mohammed Alayoubi\, journalist og photographer for NRK\n– Murhaf Fares\, SPACE\n– Elisabeth Eide\, Norsk PEN \nStill Recording\nThis film is an observation of what happened for us\, for all my generation – one that believed in the Revolution. A reflection from a calm perspective\, in an attempts to learn lost or forgotten lessons\, pay tribute or make some excuses.  – Saeed Al Batal \nTwo hours of raw footage distilled from 450 that Saeed Al Batal\, Ghiath Ayoub and six other videographers shot between 2011 and 2015\, Still Recording was smuggled out of Syria on hard drives. It is bleak indeed\, but required viewing as a savage critique of man’s inhumanity\, a testimony of horror but also an homage to the filmmakers who have chosen to witness it on our behalf. – The Hollywood Reporter \n  URL:https://masahat.no/event/still-recording/ LOCATION:Vika Kino\, Ruseløkkveien 14\, Oslo\, 0251\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/afd-still-recording.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190301T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190301T223000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20190301T190000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201437Z UID:1903-1551470400-1551479400@masahat.no SUMMARY:The Silence of Others - No Peace without Justice DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival and Nobel Peace Center \nThe Silence of Others\nA shocking history about how the lack of justice after the dictatorship of Franco’s regime in Spain has forced hundreds of thousands of victims and their families to stay silent about their suffering\, even today. A turning point came in 2010\, when a group of courageous survivors and their families circumvented the Spanish justice system\, with aid from an Argentinian court\, where they accused former people of power for crimes against humanity. Through six nerve-wracking years we follow the court and a growing number of plaintiffs who dare to step forward. \n \nFrom Franco to Assad: No Peace without Justice\nTalk following the screening of The Silence of Others \nIn Syria\, hundreds of thousands have been arbitrary detained and forcibly disappeared\, the vast majority at the hands of the Assad regime. Driven by an uncompromising belief in human rights\, Syrians are organizing to find\, free and demand justice for their loved ones. Inspired by the many justice seekers before them from Argentina to Bosnia and Spain\, Syrians recognize that this is a lifelong struggle. \nForty years after the end of Franco’s dictatorship\, Spaniards continue to fight for justice. They find no peace in the silence of others and still navigate painful pathways to reconcile with the horrors of the past and the state-imposed amnesia of the present. \nThis panel addresses questions on confronting the past\, dealing with inter-generational trauma and reckoning with the legacy of ruthless dictators and their regimes. \nSpeakers: \nDr. Hale Hilal\, member of Families for Freedom\nAlmudena Carracedo co-director of The Silence of Others.\nModerator: Pardis Shafafi\, applied anthropologist on political violence and enduring trauma. URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-silence-of-others-no-peace-without-justice/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/no-peace-without-justice-e1549456890917.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190226T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190226T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20190226T170000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201244Z UID:1936-1551204000-1551214800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Privacy of Wounds DESCRIPTION:Hasan\, Mazen\, and Khaldoon are former prisoners of conscience from some of Syria’s most notorious prisons. Convinced that the three strangers will communicate openly and honestly with each other\, the director observes them from the outside of a simulated prison cell in Oslo\, using three remote-controlled cameras. \nDespite the horrors they experienced in captivity in Syria\, these men never gave up hope for a brighter future. Dalia Kury’s documentary raises awareness about how the three men apprehend their own state of being\, and what type of psychological challenges they have to deal with. Their dialogue and reflections about the war in Syria invites the audience into a soulful journey\, highlighting what life is really about. \nPrivacy of Wounds is about what survivors tell themselves to conquer their ghosts from the past. \nDiscussion after the screening\nFollowing the screening\, two of the former prisoners of conscience\, Mazen Esmaiel and Khaldoon Hawaley\, will take part in a conversation about life in and after prison\, and what it means to be a political prisoner in Syria\, together with director Dalia Kury\, and moderated by Zeina Bali. \nThis event is part of the HUMAN International Film Festival\, in collaboration with  SPACE – Syrian Peace Action Centre and Fritt Ord. URL:https://masahat.no/event/privacy-of-wounds/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Credit-UPNORTH-FILM-3-e1550689501612.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180908T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180910T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20180908T150000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201209Z UID:1729-1536426000-1536606000@masahat.no SUMMARY:Syrian Doc Days - Oslo DESCRIPTION:Syrian Doc Days – Oslo\nWhat Syria Was and What it Must Not Be\nIn this first ever Syrian Doc Days in Oslo we will take a deep look into the Syrian society under the authoritarian rule of the Baath party and the Assad regime. \nThrough documentary films and discussions we will examine the relationship between the Syrian state and its citizens and how Syrians under the one-party rule were subjected to systematic censorship and institutionalized humiliation. \nOn the last day we will look at how Syrians in exile\, fleeing the war\, are forced into new hierarchies of oppression. \nProgram \nSaturday Sept. 8th:\n17:00 – 17:30: Introduction by Kjetil Selvik and Zeina Bali\n17:30 – 18:20: A Flood in Baath Country (2003) by Omar Amiralay\n18:20 – 18:45: Step by Step (1978) by Ossama Mohammed\n19:00 – 20:00: Talk with Ossama Mohammed \nSunday Sept. 9th:\n14:00 – 14:10: Introduction\n14:15 – 15:00: Talk with Faraj Bayrakdar and Elena Chiti\n15:00 – 16:45: Tadmor (2016)\, 103 min\n16:45 – 17:00: Tadmor’s director Monika Borgmann in conversation with Dalia Al Kury \nMonday Sept. 10th:\n17:00 – 17:15: Introduction\n17:15 – 18:40: Taste of Cement (2017) by Ziad Kalthoum \n\nTickets can be bought on cinemateket.no.  \n  \nDay 1: Saturday Sept 8th. 17:00 – 20:00\nPublic Theaters of Humiliation. The film A Flood in Baath Country from 2003 zooms in on a Syrian village that represents a microcosm of the Baath party and their rule. The leaders promised socialism but instead introduced a strict autocracy that forced people into submission through brutal force\, indoctrination and systematic humiliation that started in primary schools. Step by Step is an experimental documentary film from 1978\, by Osama Mohammed\, that shows the harsh reality of the dictatorship and the consequences for people and society. \nBetween and after the films\, Syrian filmmaker Ossama Mohammed\, director of Step by Step\, and Kjetil Selvik will talk about the Syrian society and how it is to make films under a dictatorship. \nGuests: Ossama Mohammed\, award-winning film director\, and senior researcher at NUPI Kjetil Selvik. Zeina Bali from SPACE will introduce and host the event. \n  \nDay 2: Sunday Sept 9th. 14:00 – 17:00\nFrom Schools to Prisons. Tadmor from 2016 reconstructs the infamous Tadmor torture prison in Palmyra in Syria. The film is an attempt by former prisoners to come to terms with the incomprehensible brutality and humiliation they were subjected to over years. Tens of thousands of people have died in state run prisons as a result of torture or starvation. \nGuests: Syrian poet and former prisoner in Tadmor\, Faraj Baraykdar and film director Monika Borgmann will talk before and after the screening of the documentary film Tadmor. \nDay 3: Monday Sept 10th. 17:00 – 19:00\nIn Exile. Taste of Cement from 2017 shows how Syrian workers in exile are exposed to new types of oppression. In this visually beautiful\, stylized documentary Syrian refugees in Beirut are working on the reconstruction of a city that was destroyed not that long ago\, in contrast to their own country which is being destroyed\, exposing the meaningless cycles of destruction and construction that war feeds. \n  \nDalia Al-Kury \nDalia Al Kury is a Jordanian-Palestinian filmmaker. She she graduated from the Goldsmiths University in the UK in 2007 with an MA in Screen Documentary. Documentaries she has directed include “Possessed by Djinn”\, “Arabizi” and “Smile\, You Are in South Lebanon.” Her work has been broadcast on MBC Arabia\, Al Jazeera\, and Al Arabiya and has been screened at international film festivals. \n\nFaraj Bayrakdar \nFaraj Bayrakdar is a Syrian writer and award-winning poet. He was imprisoned by the Hafez al-Assad regime in 1987 on suspicion of belonging to the Communist Action Party. He was released 14 years later. Bayrakdar is author of more than six books of poetry and prose\, including “Mirrors of Absence” which taps into how the poet survives under tyrannical regimes\, the notions of “imprisonment” and identity\, and the concept of freedom. \n\nKjetil Selvik \nKjetil Selvik is Senior Researcher in NUPI’s Research Group on Peace\, Conflict and Development. He holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po in Paris and works on struggles over states and regimes in the Middle East. Selvik har previously worked as researcher at Fafo and at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and been Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics\, University of Bergen\, and at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Language\, University of Oslo. \n\nMonika Borgmann \nMonika Borgmann is a filmmaker and co-director of NGO UMAM Documentation & Research. She studied Arabic and Political Sciences in Bonn and Damascus. She worked as freelance journalist in the Middle East and North Africa for over a decade. Since 2001\, she lives in Beirut where she co-founded the NGO UMAM Documentation & Research and the online archive Memory at Work. \n\nOssama Mohammed \nOssama Mohammed is a Syrian screenwriter\, cinematographer and film director. He graduated from VGIK in 1979\, where he studied at the Laboratory of Igor Talankin. His diploma film was the short documentary Step by Step. He completed his first fiction feature Stars in Broad Daylight in 1988. The title refers to Igor Talankin’s film with the same title. Deemed to be the most scathing critique of contemporary Syrian society trapped in the iron grip of the Baath regime\, the film has never been allowed a public screening in Syria. Internationally it earned the filmmaker great critical praise. His films\, Sacrifices (2002) and Silvered Water (2014) were shown at Cannes Film Festival. \n\nZeina Bali \nZeina Bali is one of the founders of SPACE (Syrian Peace Action Centre). Bali has worked and done research with several NGOs and non-profits in Syria\, Turkey\, and Norway on education and youth engagement. \n  \n\nThis event is partly funded by Stiftelsen Fritt Ord URL:https://masahat.no/event/syrian-doc-days-oslo/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/syrian-doc-days-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180310T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180310T213000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20180310T180000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T094228Z UID:1537-1520708400-1520717400@masahat.no SUMMARY:HUMAN Festival: Taste of Cement DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival and Kunstnernes Hus \nThe Film: Taste of Cement\nA portrait of workers in exile\, Taste of Cement is an empathetic encounter with people who have lost their past and their future\, locked in the recurring present. \nA poetic essay documentary about Syrian construction workers building new skyscrapers in Beirut. As they help rebuild ruined neighbourhoods in the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war\, their own houses at home are being shelled. The Lebanese government has imposed curfews on refugees and so the workers are locked in the building site over-night. Every night in their pit below the skyscraper the news from their homeland and the memories of the war haunt them. Mute and imprisoned in the cement underground\, they must endure until the new day arrives where the hammering and welding drowns out their nightmares. \nWith exquisite framing\, unorthodox editing\, and dreamlike narrative detours Taste of Cement is a daring\, imaginative and visually challenging cinematic work. \n \nThe Talk: Reconstruction for whom?\nDespite the ongoing war\, severe lack of humanitarian access in several areas in Syria and absence of accountability\, the international community has started to discuss the issue of reconstructing Syria\, but reconstruction for whom? \nWhat are the preconditions to start the reconstruction process\, and the healing of a nation in a broad sense? How do the social and political landscapes of war-torn cities contribute to shaping the national identity in the future\, if at all? What is the relationship between reconstruction and collective memories? \nThese questions will serve as a starting point for a talk with Samer Frangie\, Assistant Professor in Political Studies at the American University of Beirut. URL:https://masahat.no/event/human-festival-taste-of-cement/ LOCATION:Kunstnernes Hus\, Wergelandsveien 17\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/taste_of_cement.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180123T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180123T213000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20180123T180000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201756Z UID:1519-1516734000-1516743000@masahat.no SUMMARY:Aleppo's Fall DESCRIPTION:Om filmen\nAleppos opprør mot regimet og senere sammenbrudd under massivt bombardement er som et symbol på den arabiske våren. Folket reiste seg i protest mot diktaturet men motstanden var splittet i mange fraksjoner og den klarte aldri stå imot volden fra regimet. \nI filmen Aleppo’s Fall reiser den norsk-syriske regissøren Nizam Najjar tilbake til sin hjemby. Bevæpnet med sitt kamera følger han en gruppe sivile som under fanene til The Free Syrian Army griper til våpen for å forsvare seg mot sin egen regjering. Skredderen Haj Khaled\, som begynner med å sy flagg til de fredelige demonstrasjonene mot diktaturet\, ender som leder av en milits av unge menn med ulike motivasjoner og agendaer. \nI kampen mot Assad og Putin på den ene siden\, og IS på den andre\, forsøker han å holde gruppen samlet og moralen oppe. Filmen følger dem fra de håpefulle dagene\, gjennom desperasjon\, død og splittelse – inntil byen faller\, og de overlevende må flykte. \n  \nSamtale etter filmen\nHva skjedde i Aleppo? Hvorfor var opposisjonen så splittet? Hva er situasjonen idag for de som måtte flykte fra byen? Hvordan er det å rapportere fra krigen i Syria? Hva får vi vite og hva får vi ikke vite? \nDELTAKERE: \n\nNizam Najjar er en norsk-syrisk filmskaper\, født og oppvokst i Aleppo. Han har tidligere laget filmen Diary from the Revolution (Dagbok fra revolusjonen) fra krigen i Libya og var regiassistent på den prisbelønte dokumentarfilmen 69 minutter av 86 dager.\nWaad Al-khateeb er en syrisk journalist og filmskaper som bl.a. rapporterte for Channel 4 under opprøret i Aleppo. Alkateab var en av de siste som forlot byen efter beleiringen. Hun lever i dag i Tyrkia\, og følger utviklingen i Syria tett. Hun mottok en Emmy i 2017 for sine reportasjer fra Syria.\nRasmus Steen er Programme Manager ved International Media Support (IMS) som jobber med å støtte lokale medier i konfliktområder for å redusere konflikt\, styrke demokratiet og fasilitere dialog.\nKaram Nachar er en syrisk skribent og akademiker. Han er en av grunnleggerne av aljumhuriya.net\, en uavhengig mediaplattform som publiserer reportasjer og analyser av konflikten i Syria og regionen. Han underviser i Midtøstenpolitikk ved universitetet Isik i Istanbul.\nZeina Bali er fra Syria. Hun bor i Norge og er en av grunnleggerne av Syrian Peace Action Centre (SPACE).\n\nOslo Dokuemntarkino i samarbeid med Fenris Film\, Stray Dog Productions\, IMS og SPACE. URL:https://masahat.no/event/aleppos-fall/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/aleppos-fall-1-main-still-attack-in-the-tunnel-framegrab-800x450.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171117T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171117T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20171117T170000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201641Z UID:1454-1510941600-1510952400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Last Men in Aleppo - Film & Discussion DESCRIPTION:The air is still filled with dust from demolished buildings. Hands search desperately through what is now a total ruin\, moving bricks and rebars in hope of finding someone alive. We follow Khalid\, Subhi\, and Mahmoud\, three Syrians who volunteer for the organisation known as The White Helmets. Now they are doing everything in their power to find surviors in the ruins of the battle for Aleppo\, and to bring out the dead. \nIn the midst of all the misery and bomb raids\, we also get to take part in beautiful everyday moments\, such as an improvised game of street soccer or a visit to the playground. Last Men in Aleppo takes us inside the war in Syria\, but this is not a film about war. First and foremost\, it is about ordinary people’s resilience and courage. How do they live under the bombs and a looming siege? Why do they risk their lives to save others? This award-winning documentary is a captivating experience\, and a tough watch\, but a film that demands to be seen. \nThere will be a short discussion on the situation in Syria before the film and a short Q&A session with the director\, Firas Fayyad after the film – stay tuned for more details! \nThe event is a collaboration between Films From the South\, Arab Film Days and Syrian Peace Action Center (SPACE). URL:https://masahat.no/event/last-men-in-aleppo-film-discussion/ LOCATION:Vika Kino\, Ruseløkkveien 14\, Oslo\, 0251\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/LastMenAleppo-alt.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T181500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T184500 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20171008T091552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211029T074913Z UID:15683-1508004900-1508006700@masahat.no SUMMARY:Short Film: One Day in Aleppo DESCRIPTION:One Day in Aleppo by Ali Alibrahim\nAfter five months of the suffocating siege and daily bombings of the city of Aleppo\, a group of children take it upon themselves to start painting colors in their city as a game in order to forget their daily struggles and to sow some optimism among the hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the city. \nThis film documents such episodes and other stories of civilians inside the besieged neighborhoods of Aleppo. More than 280\,000 civilians languishing under siege imposed by the Syrian regime forces and Russia\, cutting off the supplies of food and medicine though the daily bombardments. \nOne day in Aleppo is a film about a devastated city with no food\, no fuel\, no water\, no place to bury one’s dead\, and nowhere to treat the wounded and where hospitals no longer function. Thousands under siege expressing their hope though daily endeavors such as a small groups of kids with their colors. URL:https://masahat.no/event/one-day-in-aleppo/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/one-day-in-aleppo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171004T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171004T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20171004T160000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T233501Z UID:1393-1507140000-1507150800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Syria's Disappeared: The Case Against Assad DESCRIPTION:SPACE\, Oslo Dokumentarkino and FN-sambandet invite you to a screening of Syria’s Disappeared: The Case Against Assad followed by a panel discussion about the prospects of prosecuting war crime committed in Syria in Norwegian courts. \nAbout the film\nThis documentary tells the hidden story of tens of thousands of men\, women and children forcibly disappeared by the regime of Bashar al Assad into a network of clandestine detention centres. \nWith unprecedented access\, we follow survivors of detention\, families of detainees\, regime defectors and international war crimes investigators as they fight to bring the perpetrators to justice and desperately campaign for the release of the disappeared. \nThe film’s director Sara Afshar will introduce the film and participate in the discussion after the screening. \nAbout the panel discussion\nNorway and Germany are the only two European countries with pure universal jurisdiction over war crimes\, crimes against humanity\, and genocide – meaning that the law does not require any connection between Norway and the relevant grave international crimes committed abroad. In this panel debate we will examine the legal avenues to investigate the serious crimes committed in Syria and to prosecute the perpetrators. \n  \nAnwar al-Bunni is a Syrian human rights lawyer. He is one of the founders of the Syrian Human Rights Association and of a centre for the defence of journalists and political prisoners. As a lawyer\, al-Bunni was particularly involved in defending people who were prosecuted for expressing their opinions in non-violent ways. Al-Bunni spent five years (2006-2011) in the Syrian regime’s prisons after signing a declaration calling for democratic reform. Al-Bunni left Syria in 2014 and is now based in Berlin where he is working to build cases against war criminals in Syria and achieve transitional justice. \n\n  \nGro Nystuen is a lawyer and expert in international law. From 2005 she was Associate Professor of International Humanitarian Law/the Law on Armed Conflict at the University of Oslo and from 2008 also Associate Professor at the Defence Staff University College in Oslo. She has also worked in the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 2005. \n\n  \nSara Afshar is a journalist and filmmaker. She is the director of “Syria’s Disappeared: The Case Against Assad”. She worked for the BBC for 16 years on its current affairs programmes\, Newsnight and Panorama. \n\n  \n  \nStephanie Barbour is a lawyer and senior adviser at the Commission for International Justice and Accountability. She has served as Amnesty’s International representative to the International Criminal Court and other international tribunals in The Hague. She has also worked on cases related to crimes against humanity\, in particular enforced disappearances and sexual violence\, in relation to the 1996 to 2006 conflict in Nepal\, intercommunal violence in India in 2001 and the Rwandan genocide in 1994. \n\n  \nMark Taylor (moderator) is a Senior Researcher at the Fafo research foundation. For two decades\, Mark has worked on legal and policy frameworks applicable to conflict and human rights\, writing and advising on regulatory responses to economic dimensions of armed conflict and business and human rights. \n\n  \n  URL:https://masahat.no/event/syrias-disappeared-the-case-against-assad/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Facebook-Promotin-Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20161010T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20161010T214500 DTSTAMP:20260513T012328 CREATED:20161010T170000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T202049Z UID:967-1476126000-1476135900@masahat.no SUMMARY:The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble DESCRIPTION:  \nIn collaboration with Film fra Sør\, we invite you to a unique experience with a screening of the documentary “The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble”\, a mini-concert by the virtuoso Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and an exciting panel discussion about music as a universal language. \nThe question of “What is the role of music?” is the starting point for the Silk Road Ensemble\, a group of musicians from around the world who have joined forces to discuss\, compose and play music\, led by the world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The Silk Road Ensemble is an attempt to build bridges across cultures\, foster dialogue and show the music’s liberating power. The film about the Silk Road Ensemble is an audiovisual portrayal of music as a lingua franca. \nIn the film we join the ensemble on an incredible journey in the world of music\, where we get to see and hear tones and instruments from around the globe. Several of the ensemble members have fled their homeland in order to play the music they are passionate about. This is the case for Kinan Azmeh who will come to Oslo to play a mini-concert and participate in a conversation with Abazar Hamid “fribymusiker” in Harstad\, and Alexandra Archetti\, Festival Director of Oslo World Music Festival. Jan Lothe Eriksen from SafeMUSE will moderate the panel. \n  URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-music-of-strangers-yo-yo-ma-and-the-silk-road-ensemble/ LOCATION:Grønland kirke\, Grønlandsleiret 34\, Oslo\, 0190\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Musikk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/145946786456fdb658bfdb7.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR