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Misreading Syria: Sectarian Secularism

Litteraturhuset Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo

Persistent claims that the Syrian regime is “non-sectarian” result from a failure to distinguish between sectarianism as an explicit ideology, and sectarianism as an often unspoken technique of power. Whereas…

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Syria: between political catastrophe and cultural resilience

Litteraturhuset Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo

While the Syrian war seems to embody all that is complex, alien, and thus incomprehensible about the Middle East, the five-year-old brutal conflict can in fact be explained through a…

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Why is Russia Bombing Syrians? – HRHW 2016

Cinemateket Dronningens gate 16, Oslo

The Syrian sky is crowded with jet fighters from different corners of the world. While none of these is contributing to solving the Syrian conflict, Russia has been specifically accused…

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