Join 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.
Join 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.
English العربية English Welcome to this reading circle + brunch at Anarres Bokkafé! We will serve a sweet-salty brunch dish that is a speciality of Aleppo, while we are reading thought-provoking literature, discussing and learning from each other.Our reading circle format is simple: we share the reading material with you beforehand. In the circle, we…
Buy tickets I لشراء البطاقات English العربية English 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. Who has the power to represent and narrate?…
Norsk English Stiftelsen Fritt Ord, Masahat for Arab Culture in Exile og Vega Scene inviterer til samtale onsdag 29. november 2023 kl. 18.00–20.00 på Vega Scene i Hausmanns gate 30, Oslo. Amund Bakke Foss, fagleder for utenriks i VG, leder samtalen med Jumana Manna, kunstner basert i Berlin, Nadim Khoury, førsteamanuensis ved Institutt for rettsvitenskap,…
Since the advent of the Arab Spring, mainstream media in Egypt and the Arab world has become an organ for state power to control public access to news, often spreading propaganda and misinformation but also functioning as a safety valve for public disgruntlement. Alternative media like Mada Masr and others have been at the forefront…
The genocide in Gaza has exposed the complicity of our cultural and academic institutions in zionism and related colonial ideologies of extermination, extraction and unlawful accumulation of wealth. Artists have contributed to a growing vanguard global movement in solidarity for Palestine and too many have paid the price for their principled stance against oppression. Nonetheless,…
Strategies of resistance - the legacy and outlook of the BDS movement How can we work together to push our institutions to take a solid stance against Israel’s occupation? Masahat invites to a talk and panel discussion of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) as a tool of resistance in arts and academia.The BDS movement has lately…
As the world watches in horror at the unfolding genocide in Gaza—where over 40,000 lives have been brutally taken—the Palestinian people, along with millions of allies who champion freedom, justice, and dignity, are at a pivotal crossroads. The urgency to shift from despair to a focused, strategic movement for liberation has never been greater. But…
Listening in to a history on the sidelines, tracing overlaps between personal history and public history, witnessing a genocide and morphing through the witnessing, daydreaming of the moment the war will be over, remaking a home by the sea in Gaza, imagining a politics that defaces the universal but that is not stuck in the…
