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SUMMARY:Folkemordet i Gaza og Big Tech
DESCRIPTION:Fritt Ord\, Masahat og Oslo Dokumentarkino inviterer til foredrag og samtale med Nadim Nashif om Big Techs medvirkning til folkemordet i Gaza. \nSøndag 19. oktober 2025 kl. 15.30 på Cinemateket\, Oslo \nI foredraget vil Nadim Nashif ta opp sensur av palestinske stemmer\, spredning av skadelige narrativer på sosiale medier\, militarisering av kunstig intelligens\, nedstenging av innsamlingsaksjoner for Gaza og en systematisk utestengning av palestinere fra finansielle tjenester\, blant annet PayPal. \nPanelet vil diskutere kampen om det digitale narrativet og framheve den helt avgjørende rollen palestinske medier og journalister spiller\, på tross av målrettede drap og undertrykkelse. Med Nadim Nashif\, Maja Van Der Velden (professor\, Teknologi og bærekraftige fremtider\, UiO) og Kyrre Lien (utenriksjournalist og tidligere Midtøsten-korrespondent i VG). Journalist Ingerid Salvesen er moderator. \n 
URL:https://masahat.no/event/folkemordet-i-gaza-og-big-tech/
LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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SUMMARY:Masahat Screens & Sudanese Evening
DESCRIPTION:📍 Location: VEGA Scene\, Oslo📅 Date: Sunday\, September 21\, 2025🕔 Time: 15:30–17:30 (films + discussion) → followed by Sudanese Evening (food + music)🎟️ Tickets: includes access to Masahat Screens + Sudanese evening \n\nWe close this year’s Masahat Festival at VEGA Scene\, in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema\, with an inspiring program that moves from film and dialogue to an evening of food\, music\, and celebration of Sudanese culture. \n\nPart One: Masahat Screens\nProgram\n\n– In Fields of Words (2022\, 70 mins) | Lebanon | dir. Rania Stephan\n– The Other Side of Beauty (2024\, 11 mins) | Morocco\, Sudan | dir. Sami Saif Sirelkhatim\n– Gaza Artists (2024\, 16 mins) – | Palestine | dir. Mustafa al-Nabih\n\nFollowing the screenings\, there will be a discussion with Syrian author Samar Yazbek. \nAbout the films\nIn Fields of Words (2022\, 70 mins) | Lebanon | dir. Rania Stephan \nA filmic dialogue between Syrian writer-in-exile Samar Yazbek and Lebanese filmmaker Rania Stephan\, asking what role cinema and literature can play in the face of war\, death\, and violence. Shot between 2013 and 2019\, the film documents the course of the Syrian revolution and civil war while exploring the question: “Can literature and cinema capture this tragedy?” Combining image\, sound\, and Yazbek’s words\, Stephan creates a poetic and political testimony of our time. Winner of the Best Film Award at the 2022 Villa Medici Film Festival. \n \nThe Other Side of Beauty (2024\, 11 mins) | Morocco\, Sudan | dir. Sami Saif SirelkhatimThe story of a Sudanese photographer who finds beauty in his homeland’s stars and landscapes\, while also facing the violence of war and genocide in Darfur. His images reveal truth to the world\, but at great personal cost—through imprisonment\, torture\, and repression. \nGaza Artists (2024\, 16 mins) – | Palestine | dir. Mustafa al-Nabih \nA short documentary produced by Arji foundation\, written and directed by Mustafa Al-Nabih. It offers a window into the lives of Palestinian artists in the Gaza Strip\, amid ongoing displacement and the difficult conditions they endure. The film takes us on a journey with three artists from different generations\, all of whom were displaced from Gaza and now live in the city of Rafah in the south of the Strip. We follow their daily lives\, struggles\, and the impact of continuous displacement on their creativity and personal lives\, through genuine human moments\, aside from the usual images of destruction. It seeks to reveal the human side of those who continue to live\, dream\, and create despite all that has been lost. This film is a cry to the world: Gaza is being annihilated\, but we love life\, and we resist with love and art. Every moment here bears the imprint of war; every smile is a victory. \n\nPart Two: Sudanese Evening: Food\, Music & Stories\nAfter films and discussion\, the festival continues with a Sudanese Evening at VEGA.\n✨ Tasting menu of iconic Sudanese dishes by chef Mohammed Mustafa.✨ Solo concert by young Sudanese-Norwegian talent Yasir Moa\, a songwriter and storyteller blending classical tunes with rhythmic\, danceable sounds. \nThis evening is curated in collaboration with Khalid Albaih and Naoures Rouissi.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/masahat-screens-3/
LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film,Mat,Samtale
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SUMMARY:Om Kamp\, Om Kjærlighet
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to welcome Sumayo Jirde Cali (formerly Sumaya Jirde Ali) as the keynote speaker for Masahat Festival 2025. \nWith her keynote Om kamp\, om kjærlighet (On Struggle\, On Love)\, Sumayo invites us into a powerful reflection on hospitality — as personal experience\, political responsibility\, and collective practice. \nThrough the lens of her many lived identities — as a poet\, playwright\, literary critic\, anthropologist\, Somali\, Black\, Muslim woman — she asks: \n\nWhat does it mean to treat hospitality as a radical act?Can it become a foundation for more just\, inclusive\, and sustainable communities? \n\n\nSumayo Jirde Cali has made her mark on Norwegian literature with work that confronts racism\, power\, and silence. She writes to make visible what is often erased — and to create space for those pushed to the margins. \nCritic Oda Faremo Lindholm (VG) describes her voice as “painful and beautiful about what is brutally ugly.” \nIn Morgenbladet\, Tonje Vold hears echoes of Angela Davis and bell hooks — Black feminist thinkers who urged women to love and save themselves first. \nJoin us for an evening of poetry\, conversation\, and collective reflection. This keynote will speak to anyone questioning belonging\, identity\, and the possibilities of community. \nDate: Saturday\, 20 September 2025Time: 17:00–18:30Location: Dattera til Hagen\, OsloAdmission: Free and open to all \nSumayo Jirde Cali (b. 1997) is a Norwegian-Somali poet\, writer\, and cultural critic. She debuted with Kvinner som hater menn in 2017\, followed by Melanin hvitere enn blekemiddel\, Ikkje ver redd sånne som meg\, and Når jeg ser havet\, slokner lyset. \nShe is the recipient of several awards including:– The Oslo Prize for “Voice of the Year”– The Zola Prize– The Amalie Skram Prize– The Freedom of Expression Prize from the Norwegian Authors’ Union– Årets Bodøværing (Citizen of the Year in Bodø) \n📸 Photo: Lina Hindrum
URL:https://masahat.no/event/om-kamp-om-kjaerlighet-on-struggle-on-love/
LOCATION:Dattera til Hagen\, Grønland 10\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0188\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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SUMMARY:Grønlands Maidan: Home Not for Sale.
DESCRIPTION:Street Party Against the Gentrification of Grønland\n  \nPractical Information\n📍 Meeting point: Botsparken → ending at Olafiagangen🕛 Time: 12:00–16:00🌿 Open to all — free public event \n  \nA festival day of ritual\, people’s march\, stories of solidarity and resistance\, textile workshops\, games\, and music in the streets of Grønland. \nGrønland is Oslo’s cultural crossroads—a neighborhood where diverse communities and newcomers from Norway and across the world have lived\, worked\, and thrived for generations. Today\, greedy developers and their political enablers threaten to erase this history\, displace communities\, and sell our streets to the highest bidder. \nWe say no. \nJoin us at Olafiagangen for a day of celebration and solidarity—because the soul of a neighborhood lives in its people. \n\nThe march starts 12:00 at Botsparken. It ends 12:30 at Olafiagangen with speeches from Reduser Husleia\, Leieboerforeningen and Nordic Black Theatre. \nWe march to protect Grønland from the growing pressure of real estate speculation: higher rents\, unstable leases\, and gentrification that risks pushing away families\, businesses\, and organizations that have long been the heart of this neighborhood. \nArtist Waldane Walker will guide us through a powerful MAS (masquerade)\, leading a ritual procession to cleanse the neighborhood from greedy developers and city planners who seek to displace us by building homes only for those who can afford them. \n✨ March with us\, raise your voice in the chants\, and help protect the soul of Grønland from gentrification.💚 Come show your love for the neighborhood. \n\n  \nProgram\n📍 Start: Botsparken → End: Olafiagangen🕛 Time: 12:00–16:00 \n\nBotsparken → Olafiagangen\n12:00–12:30 | Our Home\, Our Neighbourhood: People’s March for GrønlandA march against gentrification\, led by artist Waldane Walker a  MAS (masquerade)\, leading a ritual procession to cleanse the neighborhood from greedy developers. \n\n\nOlafiagangen\n12:30–12:45 | SpeechesWith contributions from Reduser Husleia\, Leieboerforeningen\, and Nordic Black Theatre. \n12:30–16:00 | The Solidarity Patchwork – Threads of ResistanceWith Latin-Amerika Gruppen (LAG Norge). Add your own stitched story to a collective quilt of global solidarity. \n12:30–16:00 | Veggietales (work in progress)By Aleksander Varadian. A visual artwork on gentrification using fruits and vegetables from Grønland’s markets. \n12:30–16:00 | No Silence in the Arts for GazaBy Stefanie Reinhart. An exhibition of 700+ small artworks in Palestinian colors — expressions of grief\, hope\, and resistance.👉 The full exhibition can be viewed at Mama’s Café / Frivillighetens hus until October 11. \n13:10–13:25 | FlashmobWith Nordic Black Theatre. \n13:30–15:30 | Third SpaceBy Dahleez Collective. An audio-narrative interweaving memories\, absence\, and presence from Gaza. Guests: Bisan Nateel\, Asem Nabih\, Fidaa Al-Hasanat – Majdal Nateel. \n14:00–16:00 | Kurak WorkshopWith Peri Orunbaeva. Learn the Kyrgyz textile tradition of Kurak. Drop-in workshop\, limited spots.@ \n14:00–16:00 | StedsvevenBy Tenthaus (Helen Eriksen\, Samira Jamouchi\, Ebba Moi). A participatory textile project exploring Grønland–Tøyen’s identity. \n\n\nDattera til Hagen\n13:30–15:00 | Reading Circle: The War Against HospitalitiesWith Rene Gabri and Ayreen Anastas. A discussion on colonialism as a war against hospitality\, with texts\, zines\, and dialogue. \n\n\nNordic Black Theatre\n14:00–15:00 | Concert: Ramy EssamIn collaboration with Kawakibi Foundation. \n  \n  \nIn collaboration withNordic Black Theater · Oslo Museum · Tenthaus · Dattera til Hagen · Safemuse · Kawakibi Foundation · Leieboerforeningen · Atelier Kunstnerforbundet
URL:https://masahat.no/event/gronlands-maidan-home-not-for-sale/
LOCATION:Grønland
CATEGORIES:Film,Litteratur,Mat,Musikk,Samtale,Scenekunst,Visuell kunst,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Radical Pedagogy: Lessons from Palestine
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to welcome Munir Fasheh as  one of this year’s keynote guests. \nMunir is a mathematician who chose to leave academia to explore new ways of understanding and practicing learning. Together with others\, he founded an organization that rethinks education as a tool for liberation. \nHe summarizes his life with two words: occupation and return. Munir was among the first group of refugees in the modern Middle East\, when in 1948—as a Palestinian—he and his family lost both their house and their land. Even the mathematics in his home was “occupied\,” replaced by the logic of schools and universities\, influenced by Western philosophers such as Bertrand Russell. \nFor Munir\, knowledge became a form of “return”—not yet to land and home\, but to himself. In the Arabic language\, he discovered liberating perspectives\, such as muthanna\, the dual form that breaks down the binary between “I” and “You.” Another key concept for him is mujaawarah—“to be a neighbor”—a way of learning through stories\, relationships\, and community rather than through abstract theories. \nIn his keynote at Masahat Festival 2025\, Munir will share his experiences as a teacher and thinker. He will inspire us to dismantle structures of knowledge that confine us and show how stories\, words\, and new ways of relating can open up paths toward liberation. \n📅 18 September 2025 · 18:00📍 Litteraturhuset\, Oslo💫 Free entrance – open to all
URL:https://masahat.no/event/radical-pedagogy-lessons-from-palestine/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250918T120000
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SUMMARY:Collaborating with Gazan Artists today
DESCRIPTION:Kunstnernes Hus — September 18\, 10:00–12:00 \n  \nThe genocide in Gaza has devastated every aspect of Palestinian life. No one in Gaza is safe\, and no one who has witnessed this crime will ever forget it. In the gap between those who witness and those who endure the violence directly\, urgent questions arise: How do we speak about Gaza? How do we act in solidarity with its people? \n  \nIn Norway\, Palestinian artists have been especially attentive to these questions—reflecting on how our artistic and cultural expressions often fall short of conveying the Gazan experience of genocide. The panel we have invited consists entirely of artists who have redirected their practice and resources to stand with colleagues and friends in Gaza. Their goal is clear: to ensure that Gazan artists break through the siege and mass killing\, and speak in their own voices despite ongoing attempts to silence them. \n  \nThis conversation asks: What does it mean to collaborate with artists in Gaza today? What does it mean to make art during a genocide? And how does the extermination of Palestinians compel us to rethink our artistic tools\, languages\, and practices? \n  \nPanelists\n  \nMotaz Al Habbash\n A Palestinian artist\, producer\, and curator residing in Norway. He primarily works with video and runs the mentoring program Here and There and the art and culture platform It is hard to be Arab. His current film project The Donkey of October 7th—in collaboration with Mustafa Nabieh—focuses on the situation of donkeys in Gaza. His work includes the installation Stolen Well (Qattan Foundation\, Ramallah\, 2024) and the seven-hour live program with Gazan artists Gaza (a)live (2016). \n  \nCarmel Alabbasi\n A Palestinian visual artist whose practice spans video\, sound\, writing\, sculpture\, and installation. With a background in journalism and social anthropology\, and an MFA from KHIO (Oslo)\, Carmel’s work explores absence and disappearance\, confronting colonial and patriarchal erasures of people\, spaces\, and identities. \n  \nDahaleez Collective \n A research art collective founded in Gaza in 2021 by artists and researchers Khaled Jarada\, Rahaf Batniji\, Salman Nawati\, Majdal Nateel\, Carmel Al-Abbasi\, Mahmoud Abu Wardeh\, and Mahmoud Al-Shaer. Originating with the project Geography of Divine Magic at Beit Al-Ghussein Cultural and Heritage House\, the collective examines Palestinians’ temporal and spatial realities under siege. Dahaleez develops collaborative and analytical tools to envision liberation and reconstruction of Palestine. \n  \nAyman Azraq\n A filmmaker\, photographer\, and mixed-media artist. His short film The Passport has screened at the National Museum of Cinema (Turin)\, Cologne International VideoArt Festival\, and elsewhere. His work includes Oslo Syndrome (Autumn Exhibition\, Oslo; Dubai International Film Festival; London Palestinian Film Festival)\, the collaborative installation WALL-1\, and the documentary Into My Lungs (Kunstnernes Hus\, 2022). His mixed-media installation The Lost Tapes of a People’s Tribunal 1982 was exhibited at Fotogalleriet (2023/24). In 2023\, he launched the Artist to Artist Project\, a digital residency supporting Gazan artists\, culminating in the exhibition For You at Tenthaus and Podium. He has also exhibited at Nitja Center for Contemporary Art and Rogaland Kunstsenter. \n  \nDrew Snyder (Moderator)\n An art historian and curator based in Oslo. He is Senior Curator at Public Art Norway – KORO\, where his work includes major public art projects at the Government Quarter and Museum of the Viking Age. He is also engaged in discursive initiatives such as investigations of public art in the context of Truth and Reconciliation in Norway and Sápmi\, and the Oslo-based Artist to Artist residency program facilitating dialogue with Gazan artists. Snyder holds a PhD in art history\, theory\, and criticism from the University of California\, San Diego.\n Photo credit: Svein Erik Tøien \n  \n 
URL:https://masahat.no/event/collaborating-with-gazan-artists-today/
LOCATION:Kunstnernes Hus\, Wergelandsveien 17\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240921T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240921T133000
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SUMMARY:Solidarity and its undersides
DESCRIPTION: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 particular. The aforementioned is a laundry list that tries to unpack solidarity; turning it from a moral act of sympathy and alignment to a mode of engagement where one’s own life from here on is in question. It is an engagement through the troublesome substance of time. \nThis event is in collaboration with Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/masahat-2024-keynote-with-lina-attalah/
LOCATION:Interkulturelt Museum\, Tøyenbekken 5\,\, Oslo\, 0188\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240920T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240920T183000
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SUMMARY:From Nakba to Liberation
DESCRIPTION: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. \nBut how do we turn this urgency into reality? Can liberation be more than a distant dream? What shape could it take\, and what tangible steps can we\, as a global community\, take to achieve it? \nJoin us for a keynote that delves deep into these questions\, drawing from extensive studies of successful liberation movements throughout history. Through a powerful blend of historical insights and a keen analysis of the current ground realities in Palestine\, this session will illuminate the path forward for the global movement striving to end the genocide and achieve true liberation. \nBe part of this crucial conversation—one that has the potential to shape the future of a people and a movement.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/from-a-century-of-nakba-to-the-decade-of-liberation-a-defining-moment/
LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240920T120000
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SUMMARY:The BDS movement
DESCRIPTION:Strategies of resistance – the legacy and outlook of the BDS movement\nHow 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. \nThe BDS movement has lately gained momentum worldwide but has also faced harsh backlash. Cultural and academic institutions serve as a backbone of Israel’s strategy of normalizing occupation. By partnering with and maintaining relationships with these institutions\, Western organizations and donors become complicit in the continuous injustices committed against the Palestinian people by the Israeli state. \nPROGRAM \n\n10:00-10:15 Serving of light breakfast\n10:15-10:45 Talk by Layal Ftouni\n10:45-11:30 Panel discussion and Q&A\n11:30-12:00 Informal discussion and mingling\n\nIn her talk\, Dr. Layal Ftouni (Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory\, Utrecht University) will discuss the question of Palestine as the limit case of academic freedom and the struggle for justice that academic institutions claim to defend . Drawing on her extensive experience in BDS activism in the Netherlands and other academic contexts\, Ftouni will address the significance of boycott and divestment as strategies of resistance\, and in the context of debates on academic freedom\, decolonization\, and neoliberalism. Moreover\, she will reflect on the legacies of the BDS movement drawing parallels to the South African boycott movement. \nFollowing the talk\, a panel of invited academics and cultural workers who have been actively involved in pushing their institutions to take a stance against Israel to reflect on their experiences and the way forward: \n–Ayman Alazraq (filmmaker\, photographer\, and mixed-media artist)\n–Jassem el Hindi (Artist and choreographer)\n–Hege Hermansen (Professor of Education\, Oslo Metropolitan University) Moderators:\n–Nora Milch (PhD researcher\, University of Oslo)\n–Sarah Kazmi (Interdisciplinary artist and a writer)
URL:https://masahat.no/event/strategies-of-resistance-the-legacy-and-outlook-of-the-bds-movement/
LOCATION:Kunstnernes Hus\, Wergelandsveien 17\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240919T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240919T203000
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SUMMARY:Artists and Liberation
DESCRIPTION: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\, artists and cultural producers continue to use their voices as well as their creative commitments to challenge cultural institutions and expose their complicity. \nIn this conversation with Farah Azrak and Hamed Sinno\, moderated by Rana Issa\, we will discuss the responsibility and necessity of art in a world descending towards authoritarianism\, the difficulties of meaning making in times of genocide\, and the problematics of yoking politics to art. \n\nThis event is in collaboration with Kunstnerforbundet. \n\nPlease note that Atelier Kunstnerforbundet Loft is on the 4th floor\, and regrettably not accessible for people with limited mobility. A long-term rehabilitation of the building is in process. Please get in touch if you have questions about accessibility.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/artists-and-liberation-a-conversation-about-artistic-responsibility-during-genocide/
LOCATION:Atelier Kunstnerforbundet Loft\, Kjeld Stubs gate 3\, Oslo\, 0160\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240919T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240919T130000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20240719T154616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250705T053542Z
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SUMMARY:Independent Media in Authoritarian Setting
DESCRIPTION: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 of challenging state propaganda and the increasing irrelevance of mainstream media as a trustworthy source of news. As a result\, the state has cracked down on journalists through constant harassment and imprisonment of journalists to spread an atmosphere of fear around the work of a free press. \nIn this conversation with publisher of Mada Masr\, Lina Atallah\, and media expert and professor of Arabic Jacob Høigilt\, we will learn more about the current conditions of the Egyptian press\, the challenges that face journalists committed to the truth.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-role-of-independent-media-in-an-authoritarian-setting/
LOCATION:PRIO\, Hausmanns gate 3 \, Oslo\, 0186\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231129T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20231129T200000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20231115T212133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250706T202252Z
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SUMMARY:Ytringsrommet og krigen i Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Freedom of Expression and the War in Gaza \nThe Fritt Ord Foundation\, Masahat for Arab Culture in Exile\, and Vega Scene cordially invite the public to a conversation on Wednesday\, 29 November 2023 from 6 – 8 p.m. at Vega Scene in Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo. \nAmund Bakke Foss\, chief advisor in the foreign news section at the newspaper VG\, will moderate a conversation with Jumana Manna\, an artist based in Berlin\, Nadim Khoury\, an associate professor at the Department of Law\, Philosophy and International Studies\, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences\, Sarah Lookofsky\, artistic director at Kunstnernes Hus\, Jon Martin Larsen\, senior lecturer in journalism at Kristiania University College and commentator for the media website M24\, and Nikolai Melamed Kleivan\, reporting manager and journalist at the newspaper Morgenbladet. \nFollowing Hamas’ attack on 7 October 2023 and Israel’s military invasion\, we are witnessing in Gaza the bloodiest war in our time. \nThe war is having severe consequences for human rights and freedom of expression. The right to express oneself\, to protest\, show anger and frustration\, take an anti-war stance\, to distance oneself from the violence\, and show solidarity with those who suffer\, is leading to new confrontations\, persecutions and bans. \nPalestinians in Gaza\, the occupied West Bank\, Jerusalem and inside Israel are being persecuted and punished for their words by the Israeli authorities and their supporters. Jewish Israeli activists also face sanctions when they criticize Israel’s warfare. The pursuit of free speech involves arrests\, interrogations\, and warnings. Social media\, including past posts\, are monitored for signs that people are supporting the Palestinian side. In recent weeks\, many Palestinian citizens in Israel have been suspended from universities and fired from their jobs. \nIn Germany and France\, pro-Palestinian demonstrations and shows of solidarity have been met with bans\, arrests and violence. Accusations of anti-Semitism against Palestinian cultural workers\, artists and academics have resulted in smear campaigns\, the cancellation of exhibitions\, and terminations of employment in several European cities. At the same time\, there are reports of an increasing number of anti-Semitic incidents in Europe\, the USA and Norway. The discursive climate of communication in the USA is also being strongly influenced by the war. \nReporting on the war in Gaza has proven to be challenging and dangerous due to the total lack of safe places to work. Roughly 40 journalists and media workers have been killed\, and the lack of physical access to the Gaza Strip and the war zone creates fertile ground for propaganda from both parties. A large generation of young people is discovering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the first time through social media images and videos. When they turn their attention to the edited media\, they find a dissonance between editor-led mainstream media and social media. \nIn this conversation\, we will discuss the challenges facing mainstream media; what it is like to be an Arab\, Muslim and Jew\, living through this war; anti-Semitism; cancellations; censorship and self-censorship in institutions; as well the double standards reflected in foreign policy – in Norway and internationally. \nThe conversation will also feature certain individuals and organizations invites to give short interventions during the event\, including Bergdis Joelsdottir\, director of Policy at Amnesty International Norway\, who is currently mapping the restrictions on freedom of expression in Europe as well as tech giants’ restrictions in light of the war. \nThe event will conclude with a dialogue with the audience\, followed by soup and open discussion until 9 p.m. \nRegister to the event
URL:https://masahat.no/event/ytringsrommet-og-krigen-i-gaza/
LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway
CATEGORIES:open forum,Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230924T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230924T180000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20230906T094029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250706T195058Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230924T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230924T140000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20230906T082132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250706T203204Z
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SUMMARY:How to love a Homeland Reading Circle
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOur reading circle format is simple: we share the reading material with you beforehand. In the circle\, we ask our guests to read excerpts or summarize an article before we open up for discussion. \nIn this reading circle we will start with queer Palestinian novelist and film lover\, Raji Bathish and his translator Suneela Mubayi for a short reading from Raji’s work. Raji is at the forefront of experimental writing in Palestine and the Arab world\, and he will share with us excerpts from his novels that will shake our fundamental paradigms of thinking about Palestine. \nMaha Maamoun is one of the founders of the niche publisher Kayfa ta\, of Russian philosopher Oxana Timofeeva’s pamphlet\, How to Love a Homeland. In this philosophic exercise in critical thinking\, Timofeeva explores the difficulty of reducing one’s sense of homeland to one’s country alone\, the philosophical interconnectedness of movement and rootedness\, our plant and animal souls\, and how we need to reimagine our desired\, fictional if need be\, homelands. \n  \nReading material\n\nSlavic Bodies by Raji Bathish\, translated by Suneela Mubayi\nFifty Shekels by Raji Bathish\nExcerpt from How to love a homeland? by Oxana Timofeeva\, re-published at Mada Masr (2022)\n\nWe love the intimacy of our reading circles\, and the discussion depths we get into together. For this year\, we have two hours to enjoy our Syrian breakfast and thought-provoking literature. Join us and be in the community to discuss and learn from each other!
URL:https://masahat.no/event/how-to-love-a-homeland-reading-circle/
LOCATION:Anarres Bokkafé\, Urtegata 39\, Oslo\, 0187\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Lesesirkel,Mat,Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230923T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230923T153000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20230818T102711Z
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SUMMARY:Re-membering Communities
DESCRIPTION:Archival Practices in the Arts and the Struggle Against Oppression\nMasahat and the National Museum invite you to a conversation on archival practices in the Auditorium\, with contributions from the founder of Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution Sana Yazigi\, the Egyptian artist\, curator and independent publisher Maha Maamoun and the Norwegian artist Sille Storihle\, moderated by Khaled Fahmy. \nWhy do artists deploy archives and archival practices as a creative methodology? Why do we need to remember and what is worth revisiting from the past? How do we archive and what relation to the future do we build through archival acts? What do we include\, who do we exclude? How can archives be the building blocks for how we construct or revise history? \nIn the last decades\, artistic engagement with archives has explored different facets of memory and remembering as social and political acts. Archival interests have especially been prominent amongst artists who seek to challenge state-sanctioned archival practices by questioning official deployments of archival memory as a site of violence against certain excluded groups and communities. Artistic archival memory may collect\, recollect\, recall and insist to tell about moments and modes of repression practiced by the state and its official historians. \nThis panel addresses the question of archives as a tool for dissident forms of artistic expression. We bring two curators\, an artist\, and a historian engaged in dissident remembering practices to explore the potential of archives as tools of protest as well as sites of memory work that re-members social bonds against the fragmentation imposed by the state on disenfranchised communities. \nThe event is comprised of short presentations of ongoing practices of archives and archiving from Syria\, Egypt as well as local Norwegian artistic engagement with archival memory as a critical modality against a history of marginalization and political disenfranchizement. \nPrior to the panel\, there will be a special guided tour in the National museum where Mikael Munz Bakketun will present a collection of work that tackles the questions of history\, archive and political struggles. The guided tour starts at 13.00\, and is free for those who have an entry ticket to the museum. More information about the tour can be found here. \nThis event is organized in collaboration with Ettijahat – Independent Culture\, and Nasjonalmuseet. 
URL:https://masahat.no/event/re-membering-communities/
LOCATION:Nasjonalmuseet (The National Museum)\, Brynjulf Bulls plass 3\, Oslo\, 0250\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230922T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230922T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20230816T113655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T110743Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230922T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230922T100000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20230815T193857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250704T204031Z
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SUMMARY:Pasts that persist: Iraq and Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Pasts That Persist: Perspectives from Iraq and Palestine \nWelcome to this breakfast seminar at PRIO. Free entrance but registration is required through this link \nTwo decades after the 2003 invasion of Iraq and three decades following the Oslo Accords\, these two anniversaries are heavily contested and remembered in the West including Norway. Iraqi and Palestinian populations continue to grapple with the profound impact of these historical events. This panel brings together expert voices from Iraq and Palestine to explore the multifaceted dimensions of collective memory\, creating historical narratives and the shaping of political struggles. \n2003 was meant to herald a new era for Iraqis\, one of freedom and choice. Twenty years on from the invasion\, in a country where over half the population was born during or after the invasion\, where do things stand? How do Iraqis look back at this historical event and where do Iraqi people think things stand? Aida Al-Kaisy\, co-founder of independent Iraqi website Jummar\, will discuss these questions with a particular focus on a post-Tishreen Iraq and the impact of demands for change by young people. \nThe panel then transitions to the three-decade mark since the Oslo Accords. What does the future of peace negotiations look like after thirty years of a failed process? Nadim Khoury will look at current trends in peace negotiations that bypass Palestinians to normalize relations between Israel and Arab states. The trend\, which was set in motion by the Trump administration\, is\, in fact\, not so new. It echoes diplomatic initiatives prior to the Oslo agreements (1967-1993) that negated Palestinians altogether. In brief\, the future of peace initiatives looks like its past. In both cases\, it excludes the Palestinians. \nThe seminar is moderated by Jørgen Jensehaugen\, Senior Researcher at PRIO. \n  \nThis event is in collaboration with PRIO Middle East Centre
URL:https://masahat.no/event/pasts-that-persist-iraq-and-palestine/
LOCATION:PRIO\, Hausmanns gate 3 \, Oslo\, 0186\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230921T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230921T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20230725T140353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250706T201548Z
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SUMMARY:Meet the experts!
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday 21 September\, just before Masahat opening concert\, we invite you to Meet the experts! (a satirical panel-performance) \nEver wondered why everything is so mysterious and exotic in MENA (Middle East and North Africa)? Wonder no more. Our experts will explain the how and why of it all! \nDiscover everything you need to know about MENA in the flash of a second\, with a bonus crash course on WENA (Western Europe and North America). \nMeet the Experts! features a guest lecture by the renowned Karl reMarks (AKA Karl Sharro) who is the proud founder of the Global Institute of Internet Diagrams\, and a MENA-turned-WENA expert. He will be joined by Mona Daffodil (AKA Mona Abdel-Fadil)\, who will share her deep anthropological insights about the Nordic culture and mindset – using state of the art PowerPoint features and real-life animations.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/meet-the-experts/
LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale,Scenekunst
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220924T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220924T183000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20220902T100834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250706T210428Z
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SUMMARY:DER دار: slipp + samtale
DESCRIPTION:I august kom tidsskriftet DER دار med en ny utgivelse\, hvor temaet er Klima mellom Norge og den arabiske verden. Velkommen til slippet:- Osama Shaheen\, redaktør i DER skal introdusere den nye utgaven. – Miljøaktivist\, Mustafa Alhajjaj\, skal fortelle om hans jobb i frivillig initiativer for å redde havet. Også skal vi ha lesesirkel til en artikkel som kom i DERs sitt siste utgave. Artikkelen handler om hvordan vanskelig ordbruk i klimadebatt hindrer budskapet. Lesesirkel er ledet av Mustafa Alhajjaj. – Samtale med Sarine Karajerjian\, Program Director of Environmental Politics at Arab Reform Initiative.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/der-%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b1-slipp-samtale/
LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220923T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220923T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20220901T222525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250706T200225Z
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SUMMARY:Artist talk & soup
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to this artist talk with photographer Seif Kousmate and Nadia Bseiso. We will have soup just before we delve into a cosy and inspiring conversation with two out of the four photographers behind Masahat outdoors exhibition Troubled Waters: Images from the Arab world. The artist talk is moderated by Fotogalleriet’s Artistic Director\, Dr. Antonio Cataldo. \nLanguage: English \nYou are also warmly invited to take a tour to see the exhibition spread across Oslo from Kubaparken to Sørenga. More information you can find on the Troubled Waters event page. \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.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/artist-talk-soup/
LOCATION:Khartoum Contemporary Art Center\, Bernt Ankers gate 17\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale,Visuell kunst
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220922T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220922T093000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20220917T092326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250706T195803Z
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SUMMARY:The Challenge of Just Environmental Transitions in the Middle East and North Africa
DESCRIPTION:How do the environmental and climate crises intersect with social inequality in the Middle East and North Africa? How do we root environmental and climate debates within the region in social justice and equity concerns? \nThe concept of Just Transition has become a keystone of the post-Paris Climate Agreement policy world\, while many activists and frontline communities claim that it has lost its original meaning. With the next two Conference of Parties (COP) meetings taking place in the MENA – COP27 in Egypt and COP28 in the UAE – how do global debates over Just Environmental Transitions play in the region? What do just transitions in energy\, food systems\, and water management mean for populations across the region? And is this an adequate framework for organizing ecological solidarity and activism in MENA? \nNorwegian private sector investments are part of the equation. How does Norwegian investors\, with their expressed commitments to social justice\, relate to the just transitions agenda when engaging in the region? \nThe event will be moderated by Pinar Tank\, Senior Researcher with the PRIO Middle East Centre. \nSpeaker\nSarine Karajerjian is Program Director of the Environmental Politics program at the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI). Prior to working at ARI\, she worked for 15 years at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University Beirut (AUB). Her previous work covered strategic management\, fundraising and outreach\, and partnerships and grants management.  She is currently pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and writing her dissertation on the exile and trauma of Syrian refugee women in Beirut. She holds a Masters’ degree in Environmental Policy Planning and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health from AUB. \nCommentator\nAïda Delpuech is an independent journalist currently based in Tunis. Passionate about ecology\, she mostly covers and investigates themes related to the biodiversity\, energy transition\, agriculture\, pollution\, and agri-food in the Mediterranean. She is also the North Africa coordinator for the Environmental Investigative Forum. \nMidEast Breakfast\nThe PRIO Middle East Centre hosts a series of breakfast seminars\, catering to Oslo’s diverse community of MidEast watchers. Fore more info\, check PRIO website: https://www.prio.org/events/8968 \nThis event is a collaboration between the PRIO Middle East Centre and Masahat festival for Arab Arts and Culture\, which is hosting a number of event at different venues in Oslo during the week 20-25 September.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-challenge-of-just-environmental-transitions-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/
LOCATION:PRIO\, Hausmanns gate 3 \, Oslo\, 0186\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220921T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220921T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
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SUMMARY:Climate Justice in the Arab World
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to this afternoon of panel talks at Litteraturhuset as part of Masahat festival for Arab Arts and Culture during 20-25 September. The panel talks will discuss the fight for climate justice in the Arab world and its intersection with anti-colonialism and anti-autocracy struggles. The opening remarks will be given by Andrea Nightingale followed by presentations by architect and researcher Areej Ashhab (Palestine) and journalist Aïda Delpuech (Tunisia). Concluding remarks will be given by professor of anthropology Ghassan Hage. \nLanguage: English \nProgram 19.00-20.30:\n\nOpening remarks by Andrea Nightingale.\nPanel talks: Invading Nature: Trees as colonial agents in Palestine by Areej Ashhab; Economies of Extraction: Critical reflections on energy transition in North Africa by Aïda Delpuech.\nConcluding remarks: Anti-colonialism and Anti-autocracy in the age of the Anthropocene by Ghassan Hage.\nDiscussion and Q&A\n\nSynopses\nAnti-colonialism and Anti-autocracy in the age of the Anthropocene\nIt is sometimes assumed that colonialism and autocracy in the Arab world are primarily responsible for the extreme ecological degradation of the area\, and as such\, that the struggle against them is in itself an ecological struggle. In this presentation I want to suggest that\, just as we cannot take for granted that resistance to colonialism and autocracy are free from sexism or racism\, we cannot take for granted that such a resistance is ecologically friendly. Instead\, oppositional politics needs to be subjected to a continual work of critical reflexivity that concerns the way the ecological crisis calls for a reconsideration of the way resistance is conceived and waged? \nEconomies of Extraction: Critical reflections on energy transition in North Africa\nThis talk will address the concept of «just transition» while critically exploring the local realities of renewable energy projects in North Africa. By bringing concrete examples from recent projects implemented by the EU as well as Norwegian businesses in North Africa\, this talk will ask who is benefiting from these projects? and what are their true environmental\, sustainable and social costs and values? \nInvading Nature: Trees as colonial agents in Palestine\nThis talk unravels the politics of land in Palestine through stories of pine trees. the Jewish National Fund planted large tract of pine forests to colonise Palestinian land\, cover the remains of the destroyed Palestinian villages in the 1948 Nakba and materialise biblical imaginaries of the “Holy Land” as populated with Europeanised forests. These trees are very susceptible to wildfires and their seeds spread and disturb the natural and cultural landscapes in Palestine. This presentation examines how nature has been weaponised to fulfil the goals of the settler-colonial project in Palestine throughout the years.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/climate-justice-in-the-arab-world/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220524T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220524T183000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
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SUMMARY:Justice for Syria? Norway's role in fighting war crimes
DESCRIPTION:In 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. \nSimilar cases have been filed in Sweden\, Germany\, France and Austria. \nIn January 2022\, a court in the German town of Koblenz sentenced a former Syrian intelligence officer to life in prison for crimes against humanity.\nBased on the trial in Germany\, this panel will discuss the use of universal jurisdiction as a legal mechanism to fight war crimes in Syria. We will ask politicians\, International law experts\, activists\, and victims’ families how Norwegian authorities can contribute to fighting impunity in Syria. \nThis panel is a collaboration between Masahat\, Norwegian Helsinki Committee and The Syria Campaign. \nPanelists\n\nWafa Mustafa\nWafa Mustafa is an activist\, journalist\, and a survivor of detention. Mustafa comes from Masyaf\, a city in the Hama Governorate\, western Syria. She left the country on 9 July 2013\, exactly a week after her father was forcibly disappeared by the regime in Damascus. She moved to Turkey and began reporting on Syria for various media outlets. In 2016\, she moved to Germany and continued her interrupted studies in Berlin where she studied Arts and Aesthetics at Bard College and graduated in Spring 2020. Like many other families\, Wafa doesn’t know what has happened to her father\, Ali Mustafa. He was arrested once before in August 2011 due to his humanitarian efforts to help internally displaced people fleeing from Hama city to Masyaf. In her advocacy\, Mustafa covers the impact of detention on young girls and women and families. \n\nAlia Malek\nAlia Malek is the author of The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria (2017) and A Country Called Amreeka: US History Re-Told Through Arab American Lives (2009). She edited Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 9/11 Injustices (2011) and edited and co-conceived EUROPA أوروپا : An Illustrated Introduction to Europe for Migrants and Refugees (2016). Her article on the Koblenz trial\, “How a Syrian War Criminal Was Brought to Justice — in Germany\,” was published on January 25th in the New York Times Magazine.She directs the international reporting concentration at the Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and is a former civil rights attorney. \n  \nAleksandra Sidorenko\nAleksandra is Senior Advisor at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. She holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Oslo and has previous legal education from the American University in Central Asia. She has LL.M. in Public International Law and LL.M. in Information and Communication Technology Law. She is specialized in international criminal law. Earlier\, Aleksandra worked at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights. She serves as a board member of the NGO Initiative International Criminal Law and Human Rights” (Poland) and advisor at Case Matrix Network (Belgium).
URL:https://masahat.no/event/justice-for-syria-norways-role-in-fighting-war-crimes/
LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211106T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211106T180000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20211025T200019Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211019T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211019T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210612T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210612T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20210610T153351Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210609T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210609T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20210605T122146Z
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SUMMARY:Intersectionality: Being a double & triple minority in  society
DESCRIPTION:This panel will discuss overlapping identities and the importance of intersectional awareness. The conversation will discuss the situation of sexual and gender minorities in Norway who represent more than one minority group\, and how the Norwegian system responds to LGBTQ+ asylum seekers. \nGuest speakers: \n\nMaruwa Ibrahim\, Advisor at Skeiv Verden (Queer World) working mostly on and with members of LGBTQ+ community with minority backgrounds. She is interested in topics related to migration and gender\, blackness & African cultures and queer identities.She grew up in Stavanger and has an Eritrean muslim background.\nStine Ihle Amankwah\, Advisor at Minotek\, a minority policy think tank. She is interested in and works on group dynamics and the construction of identity through social communities\, and democratic participation as a prevention strategy against radicalisation.\nAleks Gosto\, Advisor for LGBTQ+ youth with minority backgrounds at Skeiv Verden. He is originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina\, where he spent many years actively engaged in trans-activism. He is interested in topics of trans migration\, trans-specific healthcare\, trans bodies in liminal spaces\, transnational belonging\, and interpolation of “trans” in postcolonial discourses in general.\n\n  \nModerated by Rana Issa\, Masahat – Open Spaces for Arab Culture in Exile.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/intersectionality-being-a-double-triple-minority-in-society/
LOCATION:Pride House\, Øvre Vågsallmenningen\, Bergen\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210608T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210608T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20210531T175229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210601T091443Z
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SUMMARY:In memory of Sarah Hijazi: Solidarity against Homophobia في ذكرى ساره حجازي: معاً ضد رهاب المثلية
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to this panel commemorating the memory of the Egyptian LGBTQ+ activist\, Sarah Hegazi\, who took her life in exile last June. \nThis conversation will shed light on the violence that members of the LGBTQ+ community experience particularly in the Middle East\, the mental health consequences of Homophobia and hate speech as well as the efforts of grassroots organizations fighting homophobia in contexts of multilayered oppression\, and the importance international and intersectional solidarity. \nGuest speakers\n\nRepresentative from Al Qaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society- a civil society organization that is at the forefront of vibrant Palestinian cultural and social change\, building LGBTQ+ communities and promoting new ideas about the role of gender and sexual diversity in political activism and everyday life.\nJoseph Mardelli\, Project Manager of Skeiv Verden Oslo. He has worked with gender and sexual diversity education among asylum seekers in Norway.\nDr. Valeria Markova\, Psychologist who has researched depression and mental health among intercultural and minority communities in Norway.\n\nModerated by Chiara Ayad\, Masahat – Open Spaces for Arab Culture in Exile. \nSarah fled Egypt after she was imprisoned\, tortured and subject to hate and harassment campaigns based on her sexual identity and support for the LGBTQ+ community. She fled to Canada in search of safe refuge. In June 2020 Sarah took her lifte after months of struggling with depression and aggressive PTSD. Her passing represents a wake up call to all Middle Eastern societies\, western host communities & LGBTQ+ advocates everywhere. It also revealed the urgency and timeliness of transnational solidarity. \nThis event is organized by Masahat and Skeiv Verden Vest\, and is part of the Citizen Academy project by Masahat.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/in-memory-of-sarah-hijazi-solidarity-against-homophobia/
LOCATION:Pride House\, Øvre Vågsallmenningen\, Bergen\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210319T121500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210319T133000
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
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SUMMARY:Collecting the Archives of Past and Present Revolutions:  The project DREAM
DESCRIPTION:Masahat and CIMS (Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Oslo) invite you to this seminar with Leyla Dakhli\, starting with a short presentation by Dakhli followed by discussion and Q&A from the floor. \nThe project DREAM is investigating revolutions and revolutionary dreams in the context of the Arab Mediterranean area after independence (1950’s until today). One of the big challenges in writing these histories of “ordinary revolutionaries” is to access documentation and archives. In our work\, we try to reflect on the status of the archives\, may they be “official” archives of the state or independent archiving or else private documentation made accessible to us by some individuals. Two specific aspects will be dealt of in this presentation: the opening (even sometimes in a very ephemeral way) of once inaccessible or invisible state archives after 2011\, and the multiplication of private archiving initiatives\, documenting in particular recent revolts and revolutions\, but also older memories. Does this private space complement or contradict the archive of power? What power regime does it build? \nIn conversation with Teresa Pepe (Chair of CIMS\, Associate Professor in Middle East Studies\, IKOS\, University of Oslo) and Rana Issa (Research Fellow at University of Oslo\, and Co-founding board member of Masahat-Open Spaces for Arab Culture in Exile). \nLeyla DAKHLI is a full-time historian in the French Center for National Research (CNRS)\, presently settled in the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. Her work deals with the study of Arab intellectuals and social history of the South Mediterranean region\, with a particular focus on the history of women and the question of exiled intellectuals and activists. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-founded program DREAM (Drafting and Enacting the revolution in the Arab Mediterranean). Her last publications include L’Esprit de la révolte. Archives et actualité des révolutions arabes\, Éditions du Seuil\, oct. 2020.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/collecting-the-archives-of-past-and-present-revolutions-the-project-dream/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210317T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210317T201500
DTSTAMP:20260413T095120
CREATED:20210308T154132Z
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SUMMARY:Arab Spring 10 Years Later: Looking Back from Norway
DESCRIPTION:Ten years after the Arab uprisings in 2011\, we are faced with critical questions on how to remember and reflect on these events. Calls for social justice\, equality and freedom were faced with even more oppression that forced millions to leave their homes in search for a safe and dignified life. \nIn 2021\, we also look back at the second wave of protests in 2019 in Algeria\, Sudan\, and Lebanon that renewed our hope that change is possible. \nWelcome to this conversation with four Arab journalists\, researchers and activists based in Norway\, who will share their reflections on the uprisings\, connection to home\, and their new lives in Norway. \n\nSara Merabti-Elgvin\, Algerian political scientist\, researcher and an independent consultant\nMostafa El-Sayed Hussin\, Egyptian journalist\nWojoud Mejalli\, Yemeni journalist and activist\nOsama Shaheen\, Syrian-Palestinan activist\, and managing editor of DER Journal\n \nModerated by Zeina Bali\, Director\, Masahat – Open Spaces for Arab Culture in Exile. \n\n 
URL:https://masahat.no/event/arab-spring-10-years-later-looking-back-from-norway/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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