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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230922T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20230922T203000
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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
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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:20260413T111543
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220924T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220924T183000
DTSTAMP:20260413T111543
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220923T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220923T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T111543
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220922T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220922T093000
DTSTAMP:20260413T111543
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:20260413T111543
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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:20260413T111543
CREATED:20220519T124731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T064028Z
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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:20260413T111543
CREATED:20211025T200019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T064254Z
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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:20260413T111543
CREATED:20211007T054535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T203236Z
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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:20260413T111543
CREATED:20210610T153351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T203438Z
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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:20260413T111543
CREATED:20210605T122146Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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:20260413T111543
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:20260413T111543
CREATED:20210309T100740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T202923Z
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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:20260413T111543
CREATED:20210308T154132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T202518Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210316T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210316T153000
DTSTAMP:20260413T111543
CREATED:20210304T191514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T202335Z
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SUMMARY:Right to the City in Arab Contexts الحق في المدينة في البلدان العربية
DESCRIPTION:Masahat and Public Works Studio invite you to this online panel featuring the following Arab architects and urban researchers who will discuss the Right to the City in different Arab contexts taking case studies from Syria\, Lebanon\, Palestine\, Egypt and Sudan. \n\nMajid Doglas\, Building Engineer (Occupied Ramallah): Reviving tangible cultural heritage in Palestinian cities and villages.\nTasneem Nagi\, Urbanist (Sudan): From Resistance to Reclamation: Renegotiating Urban Governance in the Sudanese Revolution.\nSawsan Abu Zeineddine\, Architect and Architect and Urban Development Planner (Syria): The Politics of The Spatial in The Syrian Conflict: The Case of Aleppo.\nMenna Agha\, Architect and Researcher (Egypt): There is something wrong with Public Space.\nTala Alaeddine\, Architect and Urban Researcher (Lebanon): Housing Rights and Participatory Processes: Towards a people-centered dignified recovery after the Beirut Blast”.\n\nModerator: Toufoul Abou-Hodeib\, Associate Professor in History\, University of Oslo. \n  \nFor many decades\, Arab cities have been subject to urban policies that have aggravated social\, economic\, political\, cultural and spatial injustice. Public authorities have centralized resources in the hands of the few\, while further alienating the inhabitants and depriving them from accessing basic services or participating in decisions that affect their daily lives. \nPrivatized and securitized public spaces\, environmental degradation\, depletion of natural resources\, social marginalization\, and mass evictions are some of the outcomes of decades-long urban development in different Arab contexts. \nIn clear contrast to these tendencies\, protesters in the Arab uprisings in 2011 and 2019 were able to access\, reclaim and own the public spaces\, albeit for a short while. However\, such attempts are not exclusive to mass protests. Numerous\, vibrant Arab social and urban movements\, groups and organizations are working to counter hegemonic urban powers and to reshape the cityspaces to make it belong to all citizens. \nThis panel will host urban researchers and architects from Lebanon\, Syria\, Palestine\, Egypt and Sudan to discuss the urban struggles in these contexts.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/right-to-the-city-in-arab-contexts/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20201011T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20201011T200000
DTSTAMP:20260413T111543
CREATED:20201001T200711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T201302Z
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SUMMARY:Malplassert: Musikere i eksil خارج المكان: موسيقيين في المنفى
DESCRIPTION:Limited spaces\, free entrance but booking a ticket is required \nSPACE and Det er hærdt å være araber welcome you to this musical evening at Melahuset. There will be music\, poetry\, conversation and open-mic at the end. \nWhen musicians are forced to leave their homes\, how can they adapt to a new context and audience\, and an alien musical scene? How can they perform in front of an audience that is not theirs? What happens to the content and style of their music? We will discuss these questions with Sallam Nasser and Shbli Saleem\, after we hear some of their beautiful performances. Discussion moderated by Chiara Ayad. \nMusicians: \n\nSallam Nasser: is a lyricist\, rapper and producer. Originally from Haifa\, Palestine\, Sallam Naser was born and raised in the Yarmouk camp in Damascus. With the unrest in Syria\, he sought asylum in Drammen\, Norway\, where he quickly mastered the Norwegian language. In 2019\, Sallam caught the rap scene off guard when he started participating in rap battles against Norwegian rappers\, proving his talent was not limited to his native language.\nShbli Saleem: is an Oud player\, he performed in numerous concerts and festivals in Norway. He currently studies music at Høgskolen i Innlandet\nModerator\, Chiara Ayyad: Palestinian-Norwegian artist\n\nعربي \nالأماكن محدودة، الدخول مجاني ولكن يجب حجز بطاقات \nنرحب بكم في أمسية موسيقية في ميلا هوسيه يتخللها موسيقى، غناء، شعر، وحوار مع فقرة أوبن-مايك في النهاية. \nعندما يُجبر الموسيقييون على ترك بلادهم، كيف يمكنهم التكيف مع سياق جديد، وجمهور جديد، ومشهد موسيقي غريب عنهم؟ كيف يمكنهم الأداء أمام جمهور لا يألفونه؟ وكيف يتأثر نمط ومحتوى إنتاجهم؟ نناقش هذه الأسئلة مع سلّام ناصر وشبلي سليم بعد أن نستمع إلى فقرات موسيقية من أدائهم. تدير الحوار كيارا عيّاد. \nالموسيقيين: \n\nسلّام ناصر: مؤلف، رابر، ومنتج. تعود أصول سلّام إلى حيفا، وقد ولد وأمضى حياته في مخيم اليرموك في دمشق. مع بداية الاضطرابات في سوريا اضطر سلّام إلى المغادرة وطلب اللجوء في النرويج. لفت سلّام الأنظار عام ٢٠١٩ بعد أن أتقن اللغة النرويجية بسرعة قياسية ودخل المشهد النرويجي بمشاركته في مناظرات راب مع رابرز/مغنيين نرويجيين، مرسّخاً بذلك موهبته بلغة جديدة.\nشبلي سليم: عازف عود شارك بالكثير من الحفلات والمهرجانات في أوسلو. يدرس الآن الموسيقي في Høgskolen i Innlandet\nتدير الحوار كيارا عيّاد، فنانة فلسطينية-نرويجية.\n\nNorsk \nBegrensede plasser\, gratis\, men husk å reservere billett \nSPACE og Det er hardt å være araber ønsker deg velkommen til en magisk kveld på Melahuset. Det vil være musikk\, poesi\, samtaler\, og åpen mikrofon mot slutten av kvelden. \nNår musikere blir tvunget til å levne hjemmene sine\, hvordan skal de tilpasse seg en ny kontekst\, et nytt publikum\, og en fjern musikkscene? Hvordan skal de opptre foran et publikum som ikke er deres? Hva skjer med innholdet og musikkstilen? Dette er noen av spørsmålene vi skal diskutere sammen med musikerne Sallam Nasser og Shbli Saleem etter at de har opptrådt for oss. Samtalen ledes av Chiara Ayad. \nMusikerne: \n\nSallam Nasser er tekstforfatter\, rapper og produsent\, opprinnelig fra Haifa i Palestina. Sallam Nasser er født og oppvokst i Yarmouk-leiren i Damaskus. På grunn av uroen i landet søkte han asyl i Drammen i Norge\, hvor han raskt mestret det norske språket. I 2019 overrasket han alle da han deltok på «rap battles» sammen med norske rappere\, og viste dermed at talentet ikke var begrenset til morsmålet hans.\nShbli Saleem er en oudspiller som har opptrådt på en rekke konserter og festivaler i Norge. Han studerer for tiden musikk ved Høgskolen i Innlandet.\nChiara Ayyad er en palestinsk-norsk kunstner\, og vil lede samtalen.\n\nRegistration is closed for this event \nSupported by:
URL:https://masahat.no/event/malplassert-musikere-i-eksil/
LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Musikk,Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200913T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200913T200000
DTSTAMP:20260413T111543
CREATED:20200829T203510Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200823T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200823T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T111543
CREATED:20200829T120916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T192800Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200228T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200228T093000
DTSTAMP:20260413T111543
CREATED:20200213T074609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250704T205758Z
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SUMMARY:Humanitarian Aid and the War Economy in Syria
DESCRIPTION:While humanitarian aid is key in Syria\, questions need to be asked about how the procurement of goods and services by humanitarian and development actors\, using international funding\, can contribute to a war-crime-economy. The Syrian Legal Development Programme (SLDP) has conducted extensive research into businesses that supply aid groups\, including the UN\, and how some of these businesses are sanctioned for human rights abuses. The seminar will share the findings of this research\, discuss the challenges in operating in a conflict zone like Syria from the perspective of business and human rights\, and discuss some solutions that donors and aid agencies could take to mitigate the negative impact of their operations. \nAn opening introduction will be held by Ibrahim Olabi who is the founder and director of The Syrian Legal Development Programme (SLDP). A panel discussion will then follow\, with Trude Falch (Norwegian People’s Aid) and Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO). Jørgen Jensehaugen (PRIO) will chair the seminar. \nTrude Falch’s comments will take the perspective of the INGOs and discuss the operational aspects and dilemmas we face while operating in a country under heavy international sanctions and subject to anti-terror legislation where everything we do is in risk of contributing to a war or even war-crime-economy. Kristoffer Lidén will give a reflection on the ethical dilemmas raised by Olabi’s talk. \nThis seminar is free and open to all\, but registration is required on PRIO’s website. \nSpeakers\n\nIbrahim Olabi is UK barrister at Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers\, and the founder of the Syrian Legal Development Programme. He is also a UK-based lawyer with specialised international law knowledge and experience related to the Syrian conflict.\nTrude Falch is Head of Middle East and North Africa section in Norwegian People’s Aid and has overseen the organisation’s programming in Syria since 2012. Norwegian People’s Aid works with local organisations to provide humanitarian and longer-term support in Syria.\nKristoffer Lidén is a Senior researcher at PRIO\, with a PhD in Philosophy. He coordinates the PRIO Research Group on Law and Ethics and is Deputy Director of the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS). His current research centres on the ethics of international affairs\, with a focus on the fields of security\, humanitarianism\, peacebuilding and new technology.\n\n  \nThe seminar is co-hosted by the PRIO Middle East Centre\, the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS) and SPACE – Syrian Peace Action Centre.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/humaniarian-aid-and-the-war-economy-in-syria/
LOCATION:PRIO\, Hausmanns gate 3 \, Oslo\, 0186\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200227T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200227T183000
DTSTAMP:20260413T111543
CREATED:20200205T075654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T075113Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200225T201500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200225T213000
DTSTAMP:20260413T111543
CREATED:20200205T075024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200205T130443Z
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SUMMARY:Narrative Wars: The Politics of Memory
DESCRIPTION:Why should we watch films about war and unbearable human suffering? \nThe Syrian war is not only fought with guns and bombs\, but also with words and narratives. The Syrian regime is funding efforts to manipulate the Syrian story while others are documenting regime war crimes. Such “narrative wars” are not unique to Syria. They are a normal occurrence during and after violent conflicts\, including ethnic cleansing and genocides. \nThe Holocaust\, the Nakba and the Syrian war all have one thing in common: Efforts to document and remember these historical injustices have been crucial to get justice for the victims. \nThe film For Sama is a difficult\, yet important\, film to watch. It reminds us to ask critical questions such as: why is it important to document and bear witness to the horrors of the past? Who is responsible for preserving the narrative? Is it pursuable\, or even possible\, to agree on one grand narrative? Can preserved narratives and collective memories redeem the victims? \nPanel: \n\nUğur Ümit Üngör\, Professor of History at Amsterdam University\nNadim Khoury\, Associate Professor in International Studies at Lillehammer University College\nCora Alexa Døving\, senior researcher at the Norwegian Holocaust Center\nModerator: Line Khateeb\, SPACE Chair of the Board\n\nThis event is part of HUMAN International Documentary Festival.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/narrative-wars-the-politics-of-memory/
LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191129T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191129T093000
DTSTAMP:20260413T111543
CREATED:20191123T213057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T200421Z
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SUMMARY:Update from Northern Syria: Humanitarian Response\, Impunity and Localization
DESCRIPTION:The situation in Northern Syria has severely deteriorated in recent weeks. Although the dynamics of the conflict and the impact on the ground vary from east to west\, civilians are at risk across the region. On November 14th\, in his briefing to the Security Council\, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator referred to reports from early November that over one hundred airstrikes were launched on Idlib and surrounding areas. This is a region of 3 million people that has been targeted since April 2019 by Russia\, its militias and the Syrian Army. On 4 and 6 November\, four separate health facilities were damaged. Civilians in northwest Syria remain trapped under fierce airstrikes by the Russian and Syrian air force and on the ground\, they suffer under the presence of Hayat Tahrir al Sham\, a UN-listed terrorist organization. \n  \nIn northeast Syria\, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights verified that 49 civilians have been killed by a combination of air strikes\, ground-based strikes\, sniper fire\, and executions by armed groups. Although hostilities have de-escalated since late October\, clashes continue in border areas\, civilian infrastructure is damaged\, more than 70 000 people remain displaced\, and 1.8 million people are in need of humanitarian aid. \n  \nAfter more than eight years since the war in Syria began\, with well documented violations of the IHL\, including attacks on civilians and humanitarian workers\, questions abound in terms of how perpetrators can be held accountable and what scenarios for transitional justice can be envisioned. \n  \nIn the midst of this deteriorating environment for humanitarian action and for IHL\, and a worsening humanitarian situation\, local aid workers are at the forefront of the humanitarian response. Yet\, despite a growing international interest in localization\, local organizations are often under-funded and left to shoulder the danger their humanitarian cadres face in the riskiest areas. \n  \nThese developments raise questions that need to be addressed\, including: \n\nWhat are the most urgent needs in northern Syria?\nHow can Norway further contribute to a principled\, effective and localized humanitarian response?\nWhat should be done to ensure accountability\, justice and restore respect for IHL?\n\n  \nThe PRIO Middle East Centre\, the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies and SPACE (Syrian Peace Action Centre) welcome you to this breakfast seminar with three Syrian experts\, Fadi Al-Dairi\, Hayma Alyousfi and Ferhad Ahma\, representatives of Syrian diaspora and civil society networks. They will give an update from the ground on the humanitarian situation in Northern Syria\, address these questions and discuss how Norway can further support a principled\, effective and localized humanitarian response. \n  \nTea\, coffee\, and a light breakfast will be served. \n  \nSpeakers\nFarhad Ahma is the co- founder and CEO of PÊL- Civil Waves \, an organization working primarily on peace building and development in northeast Syria. Farhad was elected a member of the city council in Berlin-Mitte and a regular guest at German media outlets as an expert on Syria. \nFadi Al-Dairi is the co-Founder and Country Director for HIHFAD Foundation (Hand In Hand for Aid & Development) which was founded in the UK in response to the crisis in Syria. HIHFAD is a member of SNA (Syrian NGO Alliance) and Fadi serves as the current Chair of the Board. SNA members (currently 22 NGOs) are some of the largest humanitarian actors inside Syria. Fadi is also the current Chair of the Board for NGO Forum. \nHayma Alyousfi is the Advocacy and Outreach Manager with “Local Development and Small-projects Support” (LDSPS) and was elected as the president of Shaml CSOs Coalition in Gaziantep/ Turkey. She holds MA in Risk and Security from Durham university/ UK. \nThe seminar will be chaired by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO). \nDiscussant: Pinar Tank (PRIO)
URL:https://masahat.no/event/update-from-northern-syria-humanitarian-response-impunity-and-localization/
LOCATION:PRIO\, Hausmanns gate 3 \, Oslo\, 0186\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191123T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191123T180000
DTSTAMP:20260413T111543
CREATED:20191115T114954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T132758Z
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SUMMARY:حوار مفتوح: (مـ)ساحات التغيير في دول الربيع العربي
DESCRIPTION:يسرُّ سبيس ومركز الخرطوم للفن المعاصر دعوتكم إلى حوار مفتوح باللغة العربية مع فنانين وأكاديميين من العراق وفلسطين وسوريا ولبنان والسودان للتفكير في مساحات التغيير في دول الربيع العربي منذ الموجة اﻷولى للمظاهرات في 2011، وما لحقها من ثورات مضادة وصراعات مسلحة ومروراً بالموجة الثانية من الثورات الشعبية التي شهدتها هذا العام السودان والجزائر ولبنان والعراق. \nتشترك قصص التغيير عبر دول الربيع العربي بالمكانة المركزية التي شغلتها الساحات والميادين العامة حين استعاد ملكيتها المتظاهرون وأطلقوا منها صيحات التغيير اﻷولى بعد عقود من احتكارها من قبل سلطات الاستبداد. \nفي محاولة لفهم ديناميات موجات التغيير وتداعياتها في الدول المختلفة، وبعيداً عن النوستالجيا والقراءة الرومانسية للواقع، سيبدأ الحوار بجولة سريعة على ساحات (ميادين) التغيير حيث سيتحدث كل ضيف عن واحدة من هذه الساحات من بلده الأصل، ورمزيتها في التأثير على موجة التغيير. \nبعد ذالك سيتوسع الحوار بمشاركة جميع الموجودين لنقاش مساحات التغيير الممكنة اليوم في بلادنا ودورنا كجاليات في المهجر. \nضيوف الحوار: \n\nعمر محمد (العراق)، مؤرخ من الموصل ومؤسس عين الموصل.\nعليا مالك (سوريا/أمريكا)، محامية حقوق مدنية وصحفية ومؤلفة كتاب “الوطن الذي كان بلدنا: مذكرات من سوريا”.\nرنا عيسى (لبنان)، أستاذة مساعدة في الجامعة اﻷميريكية في بيروت وعضوة مؤسسة لسبيس.\nنديم خوري (فلسطين)، أستاذ مشارك في كلية بيوركنس في أوسلو.\nفضلابي (السودان)، فنان تشكيلي ومؤسس لمركز الخرطوم للفن المعاصر في أوسلو.\nأماني سليم (مصر)، طالبة دكتوراه في جامعة برغن.\n\nسيأخذ الحوار صيغة حلقة مفتوحة ولذلك سيعتمد على التفاعل والمشاركة من قبل الحضور. سيتم تقديم مأكولات خفيفة الساعة 17.00. \nيستضيف هذا الحوار المفتوح المشاركين في مؤتمر القضية السورية-النضال ﻷجل الوطن The Question of Syria 2019 – The Struggle for Home الذي سيجري في اليوم السابق، يوم 22 نوفمبر في ليتراتورهوسيه. بما أن المؤتمر سيكون بالإنكليزية، اخترنا استضافة المتحدثين في هذا الحوار المفتوح باللغة العربية لإتاحة المشاركة لعدد أكبر من أعضاء الجاليات العربية في أوسلو. \nالدخول مجاني ومفتوح للجميع. ولكن يرجى تسجيل اﻷسماء عبر الضغط على رابط البطاقات: https://bit.ly/2rEOOAk لأن اﻷماكن محدودة وسيتم طلب أكل حسب العدد الموجود
URL:https://masahat.no/event/%d8%ad%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%85%d9%81%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%ad-%d9%85%d9%80%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%ba%d9%8a%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1/
LOCATION:Khartoum Contemporary Art Center\, Bernt Ankers gate 17\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale,عربي
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191122T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191122T210000
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SUMMARY:The Struggle for Home - The Question of Syria 2019
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Question of Syria will expand the discussion beyond nation state politics by reflecting on questions of belonging\, exile\, everyday political expression\, right to land\, citizenship and return. \nThe Question of Syria 2019 – The Struggle for Home invites intellectuals\, specialists and artists from Iraq\, Palestine\, Syria\, Sudan as well as Norway to think together about home. \nWith the Syrian conflict entering its 8th year\, new struggles continue to erupt in the Arab world\, with Algeria and Sudan being the latest revolting countries. Political struggles continue across regions touched by the Arab spring\, but they also disappear in the conditions of migration and displacement brought about by these struggles. \nThis year’s Question of Syria will focus on these new realities. The Syrian struggle has shown that it is important to think beyond borders\, particularly following the millions of people that have sought refuge in the region\, Europe\, including Norway\, and elsewhere. \nProgram\n17:00 / Searching for Home \n\n\n										Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul – Omar Mohammad\n									\n\n										When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? – Alia Malek\n									\n\n										Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return – Nadim Khoury\n									\n\nModerated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n18:30 / Break & Book signature \nDuring the break\, Alia Malek will sign copies of her book\, The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria\, which be available for sale in the bookstore at Litteraturhuset. \n19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n\n\n										Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests – Cassius Fadlabi\n									\n\n										Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism – Camilla Dahl\n									\n\n										An Update from Lebanon – Rana Issa\n									\n\n										Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment – James Finucane\n									\n\nTime\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul\n							\n														OMAR MOHAMMED\n																						HISTORIAN \nMosul has been for centuries a city of unique coexistence and had its own identity locally and internationally. Christians were not only leading their own community\, they were the alternative to Rome. Jews were developing their language and had a different life than it was told to us by recent studies. Muslims and other groups worked all together and produce their own products that helped Europe during its industrial revolution. What happened to a city was once on the Silk Road to be a destroyed one? Who are the people of Mosul now? What space they have? and what time they are living?  \n																										 \nWhen Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n													\n							\n														Alia Malek\n																						Journalist  \nIn 2015\, Malek traveled from Greece to Germany with a group of Syrians fleeing their country’s disintegration. The refugees had met while marooned on the same raft in the middle of the Aegean Sea. Each of them came from a different part of Syria and from different socio-economic classes. Their sites were set on making it to Sweden and the Netherlands. Some of them would be forced to ask for asylum in Germany. Since then\, Malek has been reporting on their lives and displacement across these three countries as part of a 10 year reporting project. Drawing on this work\, she will consider what replaces the very idea of home when home itself becomes unattainable and its permanence illusory. \nHome and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return\n							\n														Nadim Khoury\n																						Associate Professor II \nThe right of return has been central to the Palestinian struggle since 1948. What home Palestinian refugees should return to\, however\, has been less than obvious. In this talk\, I want to explore the different meanings of home underlying the right of return\, especially as this right has been recognized\, negated\, and negotiated since 1948. The goal is not only to offer a historical survey but to pose a urgent question: what home should a just peace promise Palestinian refugees\, refugees who have been denied a home for far too long? \n																										 \nPART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \nReclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests\n													\n							\n														Fadlabi\n																						Artist \nDuring the Sudan uprising many sudanese in diaspora found different ways to contribute to the revolution. In Fadlabi’s case he made more than a 100 posters about different events to be used in Sudan by his friends. He will talk about that experience and the part that art plays an important role not only in telling the story of revolutions\, but sometime even in shaping the goals of the revolution \nCARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM\n							\n														CAMILLA DAHL​\n																						Artist \nIn 2019\, the collaborative art project “Carnival – an Intercultural Celebration and Protest” was performed in Oslo as a carnival parade and an exhibition at the Intercultural Museum. Inspired by the traditional carnival\, the aim was to engage artists\, schools\, local communities and activist groups to gather in the carnival to celebrate and protest in creative ways. Together we were to explore how the upside-down perspective of the carnival culture could activate new spaces of political engagement and participation\, and how artistic expressions and strategies could be used to ridicule and resist systems of power. As one of the initiators\, Camilla Dahl will talk about the various forms of projects that participated\, ranging from socially engaged and participatory art to activist protests addressing specific issues. \n																										 \nAN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​\n													\n							\n														RANA ISSA\n																						Assistant Professor \nRana Issa has been participating in Lebanon protests since the onset of the Lebanese October revolution. She will introduce us to the protesters creative strategies with the major milestones in the revolution drawing on non-violent resistance and inspiration from Sudan and Iraq protests.  \nRECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​\n							\n														JAMES FINUCANE​\n																						Artist \nSubvertising Norway is a non-profit network of artists and activists raising awareness about who has the power to communicate messages and create meaning in public space through acts of creative subversion and art-based activism. Guided by the basic principle that the visual realm in public space belongs to everyone – not only the companies and organisations that can afford to rent our attention – Subvertising Norway provides the tools and know-how for citizens to actively participate in shaping our shared public spaces \n																										 \nSpeakers
URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-struggle-for-home-the-question-of-syria-2019/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Litteratur,Samtale
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