BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//masahat - مساحات - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:masahat - مساحات X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://masahat.no X-WR-CALDESC:Events for masahat - مساحات REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Oslo BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20140330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20141026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20150329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20151025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20160327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20161030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191102T203000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191102T213000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151522 CREATED:20190924T075445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191025T101747Z UID:2368-1572726600-1572730200@masahat.no SUMMARY:ArabFuturism: Arab Contemporary Art Scene 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl URL:https://masahat.no/event/arabfuturism-arab-contemporary-art-scene/ LOCATION:Kulturhuset\, Youngs gate 6\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0181\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/arabfuturims.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190905T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190905T100000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20190829T171150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190902T164614Z UID:2262-1567672200-1567677600@masahat.no SUMMARY:Frokostseminar: Hva skjer i Idlib? 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane URL:https://masahat.no/event/frokostseminar-hva-skjer-i-idlib/ LOCATION:Norsk Folkehjelp\, Stortorvet 10\, Oslo\, 0155\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/seminar-idlib.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190323T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190323T184500 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20190317T231115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201457Z UID:2044-1553356800-1553366700@masahat.no SUMMARY:Still Recording 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi URL:https://masahat.no/event/still-recording/ LOCATION:Vika Kino\, Ruseløkkveien 14\, Oslo\, 0251\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/afd-still-recording.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190301T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190301T223000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20190301T190000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201437Z UID:1903-1551470400-1551479400@masahat.no SUMMARY:The Silence of Others - No Peace without Justice 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-silence-of-others-no-peace-without-justice/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/no-peace-without-justice-e1549456890917.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190226T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190226T210000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20190226T170000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201244Z UID:1936-1551204000-1551214800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Privacy of Wounds 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl URL:https://masahat.no/event/privacy-of-wounds/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Credit-UPNORTH-FILM-3-e1550689501612.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20181103T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20181103T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20181103T130000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T205535Z UID:1806-1541253600-1541260800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Freedom to Remember/Create - Oslo World Seminars 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed URL:https://masahat.no/event/freedom-to-remember-create-oslo-world-seminars/ LOCATION:Kulturhuset\, Youngs gate 6\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0181\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/freedom-to-create.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20181011T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20181012T200000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20181011T150000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211123T152605Z UID:1839-1539277200-1539374400@masahat.no SUMMARY:The Question of Syria - Doomed by Hope 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-question-of-syria-doomed-by-hope/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:open forum,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Doomed-by-hope.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180908T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180910T190000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20180908T150000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201209Z UID:1729-1536426000-1536606000@masahat.no SUMMARY:Syrian Doc Days - Oslo 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane URL:https://masahat.no/event/syrian-doc-days-oslo/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/syrian-doc-days-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180312T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180312T123000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20180312T100000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T200143Z UID:1553-1520852400-1520857800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Reconstructing Syria: Towards Establishing Rights-based Guiding Principles 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury URL:https://masahat.no/event/reconstructing-syria-towards-establishing-rights-based-guiding-principles/ LOCATION:PRIO\, Hausmanns gate 3 \, Oslo\, 0186\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Azaz-Syria.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T203000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20171003T121354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T200000Z UID:15681-1508007600-1508013000@masahat.no SUMMARY:Aleppo: The Fall 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek URL:https://masahat.no/event/aleppo-the-fall/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/guernica.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T181500 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20171002T111607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211029T074905Z UID:15678-1508000400-1508004900@masahat.no SUMMARY:Aleppo: Revolutionary Culture 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek URL:https://masahat.no/event/aleppo-revolutionary-culture/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale,Visuell kunst ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/dancing-wissam.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171013T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T203000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20171013T150000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T144513Z UID:1376-1507914000-1508013000@masahat.no SUMMARY:The Story of Aleppo 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-story-of-aleppo/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/TheStoryofAleppo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171013T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171013T200000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20171002T113005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T195858Z UID:15679-1507914000-1507924800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Aleppo: The City 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa URL:https://masahat.no/event/aleppo-the-city/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/aleppo-the-city.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171004T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171004T210000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20171004T160000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T233501Z UID:1393-1507140000-1507150800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Syria's Disappeared: The Case Against Assad 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed URL:https://masahat.no/event/syrias-disappeared-the-case-against-assad/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Facebook-Promotin-Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20170530T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20170530T193000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20170530T160000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T094018Z UID:1318-1496167200-1496172600@masahat.no SUMMARY:Talk with Bashshar Haydar | حوار مع بشار حيدر 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury URL:https://masahat.no/event/talk-with-bashshar-haydar-%d8%ad%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%85%d8%b9-%d8%a8%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%af%d8%b1/ LOCATION:Oslo CATEGORIES:Samtale,عربي ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/bashar_talk.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20170219T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20170219T193000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20170219T173000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T212836Z UID:1057-1487529000-1487532600@masahat.no SUMMARY:The Warriors of Hope: Syria’s New Civil Society 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-warriors-of-hope-syrias-new-civil-society/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/url.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20161001T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20161001T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20161001T160000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T135442Z UID:978-1475344800-1475359200@masahat.no SUMMARY:A space to think and imagine Syria 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi URL:https://masahat.no/event/a-space-to-think-and-imagine-syria/ LOCATION:Ingensteds\, Brenneriveien 9 \, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Musikk,Samtale,Visuell kunst ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ingensteds.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160930T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160930T200000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20160930T163000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T093617Z UID:908-1475260200-1475265600@masahat.no SUMMARY:The Syrian International 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-syrian-international/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Syria-International.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160930T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160930T181500 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20160930T150000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T140634Z UID:902-1475254800-1475259300@masahat.no SUMMARY:Keynote Speech by Mazen Darwish 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl URL:https://masahat.no/event/keynote-speech-by-mazen-darwish/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mazen-010.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160930T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160930T140000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20160930T100000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T093205Z UID:920-1475236800-1475244000@masahat.no SUMMARY:Roundtable: Politics of Humanitarian Aid in Syria 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed URL:https://masahat.no/event/roundtable-politics-of-humanitarian-aid-in-syria/ LOCATION:PRIO\, Hausmanns gate 3 \, Oslo\, 0186\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/politics-hum-aid.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160929T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160929T200000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20160929T163000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T140421Z UID:890-1475173800-1475179200@masahat.no SUMMARY:Misreading Syria: Sectarian Secularism 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury URL:https://masahat.no/event/misreading-syria-sectarian-secularism/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/assad-praying.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160929T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160929T180000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20160929T150000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T092944Z UID:880-1475168400-1475172000@masahat.no SUMMARY:Syria: between political catastrophe and cultural resilience 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury URL:https://masahat.no/event/syria-between-political-catastrophe-and-cultural-resilience/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cinema-1950s.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160218T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160218T190000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20160218T170000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T204039Z UID:447-1455818400-1455822000@masahat.no SUMMARY:Why is Russia Bombing Syrians? - HRHW 2016 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi URL:https://masahat.no/event/why-is-russia-bombing-syrians/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Russia-panel-e1454508721888.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150926T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150926T193000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20150926T163000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T092907Z UID:154-1443292200-1443295800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Performing Democracy: Syrian Art Practices Today 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek URL:https://masahat.no/event/performing-democracy-syrian-art-practices-today/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/11948002_10152987089081502_408818771_n.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150926T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150926T180000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20150926T150000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T092806Z UID:153-1443286800-1443290400@masahat.no SUMMARY:The Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-creative-memory-of-the-syrian-revolution/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/creative-memory-conference1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150925T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150925T200000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20150925T170000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T093059Z UID:151-1443207600-1443211200@masahat.no SUMMARY:Narratives of Survival 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek URL:https://masahat.no/event/narratives-of-survival/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11401040_967709173264009_835688962141622203_n.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150925T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150925T183000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20150925T150000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T092634Z UID:150-1443200400-1443205800@masahat.no SUMMARY:What Kind of Support Do Syrians Want? 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek URL:https://masahat.no/event/what-kind-of-support-do-syrians-want/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CKbS-sjW8AAfnZb.jpglarge.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150924T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150924T204500 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20150924T153000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T094205Z UID:136-1443115800-1443127500@masahat.no SUMMARY:Palestinization of Syrian Refugees - Panel and film 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi URL:https://masahat.no/event/palestinization-of-syrian-refugees-debate-and-film/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2014-09-04-bride-590.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150924T123000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150924T140000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20150924T103000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T094055Z UID:130-1443097800-1443103200@masahat.no SUMMARY:Assad’s Jihadist Allies 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane URL:https://masahat.no/event/assads-jihadist-allies-panel/ LOCATION:University of Oslo\, Eilert Sundts hus Blindern \, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0316\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/unnamed.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150212T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150212T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T151523 CREATED:20150212T170000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T202325Z UID:159-1423764000-1423778400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Syria Differently – The third Syrian narrative 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. The 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. With 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. This 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n 17:00 / Searching for Home \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul - Omar Mohammad\n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it? - Alia Malek\n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return - Nadim Khoury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Moderated by Joakim Parslow\, Associate Professor – Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo. \n \n \n \n 18:30 / Break & Book signature \n \n \n \n During 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. \n \n \n \n 19:00 / The Art Of Resistance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests - Cassius Fadlabi\n \n \n \n \n Carnival: Celebration\, Protest and Strategies of Art Activism - Camilla Dahl\n \n \n \n \n An Update from Lebanon - Rana Issa\n \n \n \n \n Reclaim the Streets: Ad-busting as a Tool for Civic Agency and Empowerment - James Finucane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time\, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n OMAR MOHAMMED\n HISTORIAN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosul 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When Home is Unattainable\, What Replaces it?\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek\n Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury\n Associate Professor II\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PART TWO: THE ART OF RESISTANCE \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reclaiming Home: Visualizing Resistance in Sudan Protests \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n During 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARNIVAL: CELEBRATION\, PROTEST AND STRATEGIES OF ART ACTIVISM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAMILLA DAHL​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AN UPDATE FROM LEBANON​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RANA ISSA\n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana 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.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RECLAIM THE STREETS: AD-BUSTING AS A TOOL FOR CIVIC AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT​ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JAMES FINUCANE​\n Artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subvertising 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadim Khoury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fadlabi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rana Issa \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alia Malek \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camilla Dahl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Omar Mohammed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Finucane URL:https://masahat.no/event/syria-differently-the-third-syrian-narrative/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/146-matteo-vegetti-syria-ball-seller.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR