Assad’s Jihadist Allies
While Media and western observers have mainly focused on the Sunni Jihadists moving to Syria to fight Assad or to join the “Islamic State” and fight Syrian opposition factions, other…
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University of Oslo Eilert Sundts hus Blindern , Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Palestinization of Syrian Refugees – Panel and film
Cinemateket Dronningens gate 16, Oslo, Oslo, NorwayThe situation for the refugees has become increasingly present in the Norwegian and European media over the last weeks and months. However, the debate about the refugees is still being…
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What Kind of Support Do Syrians Want?
Litteraturhuset Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo, Oslo, NorwayThe picture in Syria today looks increasingly gloomy, especially for those watching from afar. What was widely recognized as an uprising for shared humanitarian values, is no longer seen as…
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Narratives of Survival
Litteraturhuset Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo, Oslo, NorwayOne of the most important formative experiences for the Syrian youth in the past four years is the emergence of an active civil society. The concept of civil society in…
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The Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution
Litteraturhuset Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo, Oslo, Norway“There is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory. Effective democratization can always be measured by this essential criterion: the participation in and the access…
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Performing Democracy: Syrian Art Practices Today
Litteraturhuset Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo, Oslo, NorwayEven before the revolution broke out, but certainly after it, artistic practices in Syria often centered around democratizing the access to performative and artistic spaces. In the face of collective…
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Why is Russia Bombing Syrians? – HRHW 2016
Cinemateket Dronningens gate 16, Oslo, Oslo, NorwayThe Syrian sky is crowded with jet fighters from different corners of the world. While none of these is contributing to solving the Syrian conflict, Russia has been specifically accused…
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Syria: between political catastrophe and cultural resilience
Litteraturhuset Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo, Oslo, NorwayWhile the Syrian war seems to embody all that is complex, alien, and thus incomprehensible about the Middle East, the five-year-old brutal conflict can in fact be explained through a…
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Misreading Syria: Sectarian Secularism
Litteraturhuset Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo, Oslo, NorwayPersistent claims that the Syrian regime is “non-sectarian” result from a failure to distinguish between sectarianism as an explicit ideology, and sectarianism as an often unspoken technique of power. Whereas…
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Roundtable: Politics of Humanitarian Aid in Syria
PRIO Hausmanns gate 3 , Oslo, NorwayOn September 30, the Syrian Peace Action Centre (SPACE), the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS) and Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) will host a roundtable discussion on the Politics of Humanitarian Aid in…
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