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SUMMARY:The Question of Syria - Doomed by Hope
DESCRIPTION:For the fourth year in a row\, SPACE welcomes you to the annual conference The Question of Syria. During two days of talks\, panel discussions and short film screenings\, activists\, academics\, artists and writers will share their reflections on everyday hope as practiced and lived by ordinary people with focus on Syrians and Palestinians. \nThe Question of Syria 2018 – Doomed by Hope takes its cue from the famous last line of Saadallah Wannous’ speech on World Theater Day (1996): “we are doomed by hope\, and what happens today cannot be the end of history.” \nThe full program is available on this page\nProgram\nDay one: Thursday\, October 11\n17:00 – 18:30: Trajectory of Hope \nSpeakers: Wendy Pearlman (Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University)\, Nadim Khoury (Associate Professor II at Bjørknes University College) and Golan Haji (Syrian Kurdish poet and translator). \n19:00 – 20:00: Cultivating Hope: Tribute to Ghouta\nSpeakers: Zoé Beau (co-founder of Buzuruna Juzuruna organic farm)\, Lubna Al-Kanawati (Women Now for Development) and Mahmoud Bwedany (activist and student). \nDay two: Friday\, October 12\n17:00 – 18:30: Solidarity Reading Circle\nThis reading circle will discuss the concept of solidarity\, its form\, and practices taking Syria and Palestine as a case study. Moderated by Ingeborg Moa \n19:00 – 20:00: Stranger Times: Everyday Criticality and the Fight for Life in Syrian Film\nRana Issa (Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut) \n21:00: Concert with Simona Abdallah – Doomed by Hope in Melahuset
URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-question-of-syria-doomed-by-hope/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:open forum,Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180908T170000
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SUMMARY:Syrian Doc Days - Oslo
DESCRIPTION:Syrian Doc Days – Oslo\nWhat Syria Was and What it Must Not Be\nIn this first ever Syrian Doc Days in Oslo we will take a deep look into the Syrian society under the authoritarian rule of the Baath party and the Assad regime. \nThrough documentary films and discussions we will examine the relationship between the Syrian state and its citizens and how Syrians under the one-party rule were subjected to systematic censorship and institutionalized humiliation. \nOn the last day we will look at how Syrians in exile\, fleeing the war\, are forced into new hierarchies of oppression. \nProgram \nSaturday Sept. 8th:\n17:00 – 17:30: Introduction by Kjetil Selvik and Zeina Bali\n17:30 – 18:20: A Flood in Baath Country (2003) by Omar Amiralay\n18:20 – 18:45: Step by Step (1978) by Ossama Mohammed\n19:00 – 20:00: Talk with Ossama Mohammed \nSunday Sept. 9th:\n14:00 – 14:10: Introduction\n14:15 – 15:00: Talk with Faraj Bayrakdar and Elena Chiti\n15:00 – 16:45: Tadmor (2016)\, 103 min\n16:45 – 17:00: Tadmor’s director Monika Borgmann in conversation with Dalia Al Kury \nMonday Sept. 10th:\n17:00 – 17:15: Introduction\n17:15 – 18:40: Taste of Cement (2017) by Ziad Kalthoum \n\nTickets can be bought on cinemateket.no.  \n  \nDay 1: Saturday Sept 8th. 17:00 – 20:00\nPublic Theaters of Humiliation. The film A Flood in Baath Country from 2003 zooms in on a Syrian village that represents a microcosm of the Baath party and their rule. The leaders promised socialism but instead introduced a strict autocracy that forced people into submission through brutal force\, indoctrination and systematic humiliation that started in primary schools. Step by Step is an experimental documentary film from 1978\, by Osama Mohammed\, that shows the harsh reality of the dictatorship and the consequences for people and society. \nBetween and after the films\, Syrian filmmaker Ossama Mohammed\, director of Step by Step\, and Kjetil Selvik will talk about the Syrian society and how it is to make films under a dictatorship. \nGuests: Ossama Mohammed\, award-winning film director\, and senior researcher at NUPI Kjetil Selvik. Zeina Bali from SPACE will introduce and host the event. \n  \nDay 2: Sunday Sept 9th. 14:00 – 17:00\nFrom Schools to Prisons. Tadmor from 2016 reconstructs the infamous Tadmor torture prison in Palmyra in Syria. The film is an attempt by former prisoners to come to terms with the incomprehensible brutality and humiliation they were subjected to over years. Tens of thousands of people have died in state run prisons as a result of torture or starvation. \nGuests: Syrian poet and former prisoner in Tadmor\, Faraj Baraykdar and film director Monika Borgmann will talk before and after the screening of the documentary film Tadmor. \nDay 3: Monday Sept 10th. 17:00 – 19:00\nIn Exile. Taste of Cement from 2017 shows how Syrian workers in exile are exposed to new types of oppression. In this visually beautiful\, stylized documentary Syrian refugees in Beirut are working on the reconstruction of a city that was destroyed not that long ago\, in contrast to their own country which is being destroyed\, exposing the meaningless cycles of destruction and construction that war feeds. \n  \nDalia Al-Kury \nDalia Al Kury is a Jordanian-Palestinian filmmaker. She she graduated from the Goldsmiths University in the UK in 2007 with an MA in Screen Documentary. Documentaries she has directed include “Possessed by Djinn”\, “Arabizi” and “Smile\, You Are in South Lebanon.” Her work has been broadcast on MBC Arabia\, Al Jazeera\, and Al Arabiya and has been screened at international film festivals. \n\nFaraj Bayrakdar \nFaraj Bayrakdar is a Syrian writer and award-winning poet. He was imprisoned by the Hafez al-Assad regime in 1987 on suspicion of belonging to the Communist Action Party. He was released 14 years later. Bayrakdar is author of more than six books of poetry and prose\, including “Mirrors of Absence” which taps into how the poet survives under tyrannical regimes\, the notions of “imprisonment” and identity\, and the concept of freedom. \n\nKjetil Selvik \nKjetil Selvik is Senior Researcher in NUPI’s Research Group on Peace\, Conflict and Development. He holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po in Paris and works on struggles over states and regimes in the Middle East. Selvik har previously worked as researcher at Fafo and at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and been Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics\, University of Bergen\, and at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Language\, University of Oslo. \n\nMonika Borgmann \nMonika Borgmann is a filmmaker and co-director of NGO UMAM Documentation & Research. She studied Arabic and Political Sciences in Bonn and Damascus. She worked as freelance journalist in the Middle East and North Africa for over a decade. Since 2001\, she lives in Beirut where she co-founded the NGO UMAM Documentation & Research and the online archive Memory at Work. \n\nOssama Mohammed \nOssama Mohammed is a Syrian screenwriter\, cinematographer and film director. He graduated from VGIK in 1979\, where he studied at the Laboratory of Igor Talankin. His diploma film was the short documentary Step by Step. He completed his first fiction feature Stars in Broad Daylight in 1988. The title refers to Igor Talankin’s film with the same title. Deemed to be the most scathing critique of contemporary Syrian society trapped in the iron grip of the Baath regime\, the film has never been allowed a public screening in Syria. Internationally it earned the filmmaker great critical praise. His films\, Sacrifices (2002) and Silvered Water (2014) were shown at Cannes Film Festival. \n\nZeina Bali \nZeina Bali is one of the founders of SPACE (Syrian Peace Action Centre). Bali has worked and done research with several NGOs and non-profits in Syria\, Turkey\, and Norway on education and youth engagement. \n  \n\nThis event is partly funded by Stiftelsen Fritt Ord
URL:https://masahat.no/event/syrian-doc-days-oslo/
LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180907T180000
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SUMMARY:Evening with Faraj Bayrakdar
DESCRIPTION:Thus\nprison is time\nyou mark the first days on walls\nthe following months on memory\nbut when the years become\na long train\ntired of whistling\ndespairing of a station\nyou try something else:\nforgetting\n– Excerpts from Mirrors of Absence by Faraj Bayrakdar \nWith his short verses\, the award-winning poet and uncompromising dissident Faraj Bayrakdar creates a space to exercise freedom in the face of despair\, inhumanity and struggle against tyranny. \nJoin us for a poetic evening with Faraj Bayrakdar at Melahuset. \nFaraj Bayrakdar and Elena Chiti will have a short conversation before we listen to Bayrakdar’s poetry. \nFaraj Bayrakdar is a Syrian writer and award-winning poet. He was imprisoned by the Hafez al-Assad regime in 1987 on suspicion of belonging to the Communist Action Party and released 14 years later. Bayrakdar is author of more than six books of poetry and prose\, including “Mirrors of Absence” which taps into how the poet survives under tyrannical regimes\, the notions of imprisonment and identity\, and the concept of freedom. \nElena Chiti is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages\, University of Oslo\, cultural historian and literary translator from Arabic into Italian. Chiti translated Bayrakdar’s “Mirrors of Absence” by into Italian. \nIn collaboration with Melahuset
URL:https://masahat.no/event/evening-with-faraj-bayrakdar/
LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Litteratur
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180319T150000
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SUMMARY:When Time Is All You Have Left: A Space Reading Circle
DESCRIPTION:“When Time Is All You Have Left” explores how synchronization and translation mediate our experience of lost time as a temporality of migration. Lost time is an experience that is central to the dissonance felt in the shift from familiar rhythms to the mastery of new temporalities that we struggle to participate in shaping. This reading circle explores the problems with regard to human relations to time\, taking migration as a starting point to explore the temporal transformations that govern people’s experience of space during major political and social upheavals. We focus on Syria\, as a complex space that gave rise to massive mobility in present times. Today’s Syrians can all be said to inhabit a time that began in March 2011\, when the Syrian uprising broke out and radically changed the familiar temporalities enforced by Assad’s Syria for four decades. As the Assad dynasty routinely claimed eternity as the temporal structure of its rule\, the Syrian uprising was a break with eternity that unleashed multiple and often conflicting temporal claims on how to organize human relations. The consequent mass migration of millions of Syrians introduced in new temporal dynamics that will impact how the place called Syria will be imagined and will also impact how Syrians in new and unfamiliar places relate to their new homes. For the cultural producer\, the new temporalities have been challenging the forms and themes that are relevant in the new context. The problem becomes one of time\, in the sense that we lose time as we struggle to master ways to translate our interests and artistic expressions to semiotic paradigms that are not wholly familiar and that are governed by unfamiliar temporalities. As we labour to synchronize and iterate cultural translatability and relevance\, we often encounter the untranslatability of migration’s predicament\, as a problem of the loss of diachronic lineage. As we translate our meanings into new semiotic paradigms\, the diachronic acquires new significance as a temporality that gives migrations their distinctive identities. \nThrough a focused multi-media syllabus derived from texts and videos that reflect on the temporalities of Syrian experience over the past fifty years\, this reading circle will explore the problem of lost time as a problem of acting globally when the local no longer is a familiar or accessible anchoring point. \n  \nWith Yassin al-Haj Saleh\, Rana Issa\, Sonja Mejcher-Atassi\, Sami Khatib and others.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/when-time-is-all-you-have-left-a-space-reading-circle/
LOCATION:Haus der Berliner Festspiele\, Schaperstraße 24\, Berlin\, 10719\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180312T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180312T123000
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SUMMARY:Reconstructing Syria: Towards Establishing Rights-based Guiding Principles
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to a lunch seminar co-hosted by the Syrian Peace Action Centre (SPACE) and PRIO\, on establishing rights-based guiding principles to discuss reconstructing Syria. \n​Background\nThe war in Syria is far from over. The recent escalation by the Syrian regime and its ally\, Russia\, against civilians in Eastern Ghouta\, and the Turkish military offensive against Kurdish-held Afrin in the north\, has engendered more suffering and destruction in an increasingly entangled matrix of regional and international players. What does it mean to engage in discussions about reconstruction while civilians populations are being bombed? \nStarting in 2017\, the international community has begun to tackle the issue of reconstruction in Syria while grappling with the difficult question of how this conversation should play out. In April\, the EU will host its second ‘Supporting the future of Syria and the region’ conference . Reconstruction will be on the agenda. \nInternational organizations such as the UNHCR\, the UNDP and UNESCO\, have already partnered with the Syrian government on several projects of rehabilitation   of civilian infrastructure and the removal of debris and solid waste in areas where the regime has regained control like Homs and Eastern Aleppo. These projects have been criticized by civil society actors for contributing to demographic changes by preventing people from returning to their homes and claiming their property rights. \nDiscussing reconstruction before the end of a conflict is a morally and conceptually difficult endeavor. The twofold objective of this seminar  is to problematize the approach of the international community\, while acknowledging gaps in the current dominant conversation\, but also to  reflect on the ethical issues raised by activist and academic participation in policy discussions on Syrian reconstruction. The seminar aims to address the following questions: \n\nWhen is the good time to start discussing reconstruction?\nWhy should Norway\, the EU and the international community help rebuild Syria\, if at all?\nHow can we ensure a reconstruction process that preserves the property rights and cultural heritage of the displaced and returnees?\nWho should be involved and consulted in the process?\nHow can the post-conflict reconstruction be established on premises of accountability and social justice?\nWhat are the right questions to ask to which stakeholders and who should assume the role of watchdog?\nWhat is the role of academics\, researchers\, and policy makers in this discussion?\n\nPanelists\n\nAlHakam Shaar\, Academic and writer from Aleppo\, fellow of the Aleppo Project\nSamer Frangie\, Assistant Professor in Political Studies\, American University of Beirut\nKristin Bergtora Sandvik\, Research professor in Humanitarian Studies\, PRIO\, Professor of Sociology of Law\, University of Oslo
URL:https://masahat.no/event/reconstructing-syria-towards-establishing-rights-based-guiding-principles/
LOCATION:PRIO\, Hausmanns gate 3 \, Oslo\, 0186\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180310T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20180310T213000
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SUMMARY:HUMAN Festival: Taste of Cement
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival and Kunstnernes Hus \nThe Film: Taste of Cement\nA portrait of workers in exile\, Taste of Cement is an empathetic encounter with people who have lost their past and their future\, locked in the recurring present. \nA poetic essay documentary about Syrian construction workers building new skyscrapers in Beirut. As they help rebuild ruined neighbourhoods in the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war\, their own houses at home are being shelled. The Lebanese government has imposed curfews on refugees and so the workers are locked in the building site over-night. Every night in their pit below the skyscraper the news from their homeland and the memories of the war haunt them. Mute and imprisoned in the cement underground\, they must endure until the new day arrives where the hammering and welding drowns out their nightmares. \nWith exquisite framing\, unorthodox editing\, and dreamlike narrative detours Taste of Cement is a daring\, imaginative and visually challenging cinematic work. \n \nThe Talk: Reconstruction for whom?\nDespite the ongoing war\, severe lack of humanitarian access in several areas in Syria and absence of accountability\, the international community has started to discuss the issue of reconstructing Syria\, but reconstruction for whom? \nWhat are the preconditions to start the reconstruction process\, and the healing of a nation in a broad sense? How do the social and political landscapes of war-torn cities contribute to shaping the national identity in the future\, if at all? What is the relationship between reconstruction and collective memories? \nThese questions will serve as a starting point for a talk with Samer Frangie\, Assistant Professor in Political Studies at the American University of Beirut.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/human-festival-taste-of-cement/
LOCATION:Kunstnernes Hus\, Wergelandsveien 17\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Aleppo's Fall
DESCRIPTION:Om filmen\nAleppos opprør mot regimet og senere sammenbrudd under massivt bombardement er som et symbol på den arabiske våren. Folket reiste seg i protest mot diktaturet men motstanden var splittet i mange fraksjoner og den klarte aldri stå imot volden fra regimet. \nI filmen Aleppo’s Fall reiser den norsk-syriske regissøren Nizam Najjar tilbake til sin hjemby. Bevæpnet med sitt kamera følger han en gruppe sivile som under fanene til The Free Syrian Army griper til våpen for å forsvare seg mot sin egen regjering. Skredderen Haj Khaled\, som begynner med å sy flagg til de fredelige demonstrasjonene mot diktaturet\, ender som leder av en milits av unge menn med ulike motivasjoner og agendaer. \nI kampen mot Assad og Putin på den ene siden\, og IS på den andre\, forsøker han å holde gruppen samlet og moralen oppe. Filmen følger dem fra de håpefulle dagene\, gjennom desperasjon\, død og splittelse – inntil byen faller\, og de overlevende må flykte. \n  \nSamtale etter filmen\nHva skjedde i Aleppo? Hvorfor var opposisjonen så splittet? Hva er situasjonen idag for de som måtte flykte fra byen? Hvordan er det å rapportere fra krigen i Syria? Hva får vi vite og hva får vi ikke vite? \nDELTAKERE: \n\nNizam Najjar er en norsk-syrisk filmskaper\, født og oppvokst i Aleppo. Han har tidligere laget filmen Diary from the Revolution (Dagbok fra revolusjonen) fra krigen i Libya og var regiassistent på den prisbelønte dokumentarfilmen 69 minutter av 86 dager.\nWaad Al-khateeb er en syrisk journalist og filmskaper som bl.a. rapporterte for Channel 4 under opprøret i Aleppo. Alkateab var en av de siste som forlot byen efter beleiringen. Hun lever i dag i Tyrkia\, og følger utviklingen i Syria tett. Hun mottok en Emmy i 2017 for sine reportasjer fra Syria.\nRasmus Steen er Programme Manager ved International Media Support (IMS) som jobber med å støtte lokale medier i konfliktområder for å redusere konflikt\, styrke demokratiet og fasilitere dialog.\nKaram Nachar er en syrisk skribent og akademiker. Han er en av grunnleggerne av aljumhuriya.net\, en uavhengig mediaplattform som publiserer reportasjer og analyser av konflikten i Syria og regionen. Han underviser i Midtøstenpolitikk ved universitetet Isik i Istanbul.\nZeina Bali er fra Syria. Hun bor i Norge og er en av grunnleggerne av Syrian Peace Action Centre (SPACE).\n\nOslo Dokuemntarkino i samarbeid med Fenris Film\, Stray Dog Productions\, IMS og SPACE.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/aleppos-fall/
LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171117T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171117T210000
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SUMMARY:Last Men in Aleppo - Film & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The air is still filled with dust from demolished buildings. Hands search desperately through what is now a total ruin\, moving bricks and rebars in hope of finding someone alive. We follow Khalid\, Subhi\, and Mahmoud\, three Syrians who volunteer for the organisation known as The White Helmets. Now they are doing everything in their power to find surviors in the ruins of the battle for Aleppo\, and to bring out the dead. \nIn the midst of all the misery and bomb raids\, we also get to take part in beautiful everyday moments\, such as an improvised game of street soccer or a visit to the playground. Last Men in Aleppo takes us inside the war in Syria\, but this is not a film about war. First and foremost\, it is about ordinary people’s resilience and courage. How do they live under the bombs and a looming siege? Why do they risk their lives to save others? This award-winning documentary is a captivating experience\, and a tough watch\, but a film that demands to be seen. \nThere will be a short discussion on the situation in Syria before the film and a short Q&A session with the director\, Firas Fayyad after the film – stay tuned for more details! \nThe event is a collaboration between Films From the South\, Arab Film Days and Syrian Peace Action Center (SPACE).
URL:https://masahat.no/event/last-men-in-aleppo-film-discussion/
LOCATION:Vika Kino\, Ruseløkkveien 14\, Oslo\, 0251\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T203000
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SUMMARY:Aleppo: The Fall
DESCRIPTION:  \nLast year\, one of the worst human tragedies took place in Aleppo. After a few months of siege and indiscriminate shelling\, tens of thousands of people were evicted from the city. \nBeyond the horrific scenes of bombardment and forced mass eviction\, little reflection has followed on how and why these violations happened and what the implications are for the present and future Syria. \nWhy did Aleppo fall? Who is responsible and how to be held accountable? What was the role of the local armed factions in Aleppo? Who was negotiating on behalf of the civilians? Who was forced to leave eastern Aleppo and who was allowed to return after the fall? What is happening in Aleppo today? What are the protection needs of civilians living in Aleppo under Assad? \nLina Shamy will give a personal testimony of living under Aleppo’s siege before she was forced to leave with the last buses in December 2016. Dr. Mohamad Katoub will address the inhumane situation under the siege and put it into context with the use of siege as a war tactic against civilians in many other locations around Syria. Finally\, Karam Nachar will reflect on the meaning and implications of Aleppo’s catastrophe ending with an outlook on the near future of an increasingly fragmented country. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaram Nachar\n\n\nKaram Nachar is the Executive Director of AlJumhuriya.net\, an online journal that covers Syrian politics and culture\, and a Lecturer at Isik University\, Istanbul. Nachar completed his PhD in Modern History at Princeton University in 2014\, with focus on Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Syria and Lebanon. Nachar holds a Masters in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMohamad Katoub\n\n\nMohamad Katoub is a dentist and medical worker from Douma\, in Eastern Ghouta. He’s an advocacy manager for the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS)\, a humanitarian organization harnessing the talents of Syrian-American health care professionals to provide medical relief. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKristin Bergtora Sandvik\n\n\nKristin Bergtora Sandvik (moderator) is a Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and a professor of sociology of law at the University of Oslo. Sandvik obtained her doctorate from Harvard Law School in 2008\, and she is the Co-Founder and former Director of the Norwegian Center for Humanitarian Studies.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/aleppo-the-fall/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T181500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T184500
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20171008T091552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211029T074913Z
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SUMMARY:Short Film: One Day in Aleppo
DESCRIPTION:One Day in Aleppo by Ali Alibrahim\nAfter five months of the suffocating siege and daily bombings of the city of Aleppo\, a group of children take it upon themselves to start painting colors in their city as a game in order to forget their daily struggles and to sow some optimism among the hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the city. \nThis film documents such episodes and other stories of civilians inside the besieged neighborhoods of Aleppo. More than 280\,000 civilians languishing under siege imposed by the Syrian regime forces and Russia\, cutting off the supplies of food and medicine though the daily bombardments. \nOne day in Aleppo is a film about a devastated city with no food\, no fuel\, no water\, no place to bury one’s dead\, and nowhere to treat the wounded and where hospitals no longer function. Thousands under siege expressing their hope though daily endeavors such as a small groups of kids with their colors.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/one-day-in-aleppo/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T181500
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20171002T111607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211029T074905Z
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SUMMARY:Aleppo: Revolutionary Culture
DESCRIPTION:Long before March 2011\, Syria was known as the “kingdom of silence”. All forms of artistic and public expression were controlled by the regime\, only those who mastered the regime’s censorship rule-book managed to sneak in their subtle message through the many red lines. From the outset of the uprising against tyranny in 2011\, public expression and art became a daily practice. Self-expression has been\, in essence\, the motor of the uprising; the creative spirit of the Syrian people was unleashed by the wave of protests around the country popularizing art and culture to become a defining face of the protest movement. But where are we today? With the population facing endless repression and the world seeming increasingly indifferent\, is art still a powerful tool for Syrians? \n  \nSpanish-Syrian professor and activist Leila Nachawati Rego will reflect on culture and communication in times of repression\, revolution and war\, with a special focus on Aleppo\, “the Syrian Gernika”. \n  \n \nLeila Nachawati is a Spanish-Syrian writer and storyteller. She is a Professor of Communications at Madrid’s Carlos III University. She is co-founder of the news portal on Syrian civil society SyriaUntold and has just published her first novel on citizen mobilisations and the Arab Spring\, Cuando la revolución termine. \n\n  \n  \n \nMarius Von Der Fehr is a Norwegian artist and writer based in Norway and Spain. He works with socially and politically engaged practices. He runs the international event series New Frontiers/Nuevas Fronteras. One of his last works\, the controversial National Apology (in cooperation with Pia Maria Roll) confronted the use of culture as a tool for whitewashing Israel’s violent policies. \n\n  \n  \nEvent picture: Dancing in the Streets of Death by Wissam al-Jazairy
URL:https://masahat.no/event/aleppo-revolutionary-culture/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale,Visuell kunst
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171013T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171014T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20171013T150000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T144513Z
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SUMMARY:The Story of Aleppo
DESCRIPTION:The Story of Aleppo\n  \nAt the beginning of the Syrian uprising\, Aleppo symbolized dissent to Assad rule culturally\, with its unique plethora of artistic\, cultural and civil society initiatives. The very same city that once represented hope is now the site of violence and despair. \n  \nThe story of Aleppo needs to be told. Only by making sense of what happened to Aleppo and its people can we make sense of the lasting impact this loss for civilization will have in the world. \n  \nIn our troubled world where extremism and populism are on the rise\, we need to rethink the impact of the destruction of the concept of the city that we witness in Syria will have around the world. We can achieve this by amplifying the voice of Syrians and listening to their stories.  We will once again use culture and art as our beautiful means to amplify these voices. \n  \nThe Question of Syria this year aims to address all the meanings and experiences that Aleppo embodies; from the lawless war and the Geneva Conventions\, to Aleppo’s cultural heritage\, passing by the heroic efforts of the first responders\, medics and the civil society. \n  \nOver two days\, we will break away from the mystical orientalist view of Aleppo to learn more about the social and economic divisions and contradictions that define the city. We will revisit the outburst of artistic and cultural forms of expression and resistance in the city and the country as a whole. Finally\, for the sake of the future of Syria\, and the world\, we will retrospectively analyze what happened in 2016. \n  \nMore information please see the Story of Aleppo page: https://masahat.no/story-of-aleppo \n  \nSupported by: \n \n\n\nIn partnership with: \n \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-story-of-aleppo/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171013T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171013T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20171002T113005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T195858Z
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SUMMARY:Aleppo: The City
DESCRIPTION:My Aleppo: When Memory Becomes Resistance – Lina Sergie Attar\n \nYou know Aleppo as a vast landscape of bombed and burning historic buildings\, cratered streets\, and endless lines of fleeing\, destitute families. But I will tell you about a time when things were different — when Aleppo was my home. \nSince 2011\, Syrians witnessed firsthand the simultaneous rebirth and destruction of their country on every scale: from home to nation. How does one express the collective and personal losses\, hopes\, regrets that have directly affected every Syrian? How does one absorb the traumatic everyday events devouring a country\, preserve memories of the past\, and look towards the future all at once? How do we reexamine the theories of urban trauma and national identity\, collective memory and constructed memorial\, heritage and reconstruction\, under the harsh reality of ongoing war and global mass displacement? Let us begin\, with a map of my Aleppo. \nAleppo City Market: Defining Space and Time – Annika Rabo\n \nAuthor of A shop of one’s own\, Independence and Reputation among Traders in Aleppo\, Rabo will share insights from her fieldwork during 1997-2002 in Souk al-Medina (the city’s market) as one of Aleppo’s key social urban institutions. As a site for social interaction and formative human experiences\, how do traders and customers interact and define time and space around them in the market? What does this tell us about the multi-faceted relationship between the state\, the people and the economy? \nSnapshots of Aleppo’s Social Urban History- Karam Nachar\n \nFrom the sixteenth to the eighteenth century\, Aleppo was the most important city in the Ottoman empire boasting an extremely rich and complex history. By universalizing the discussions of Aleppo\, Nachar will undo nostalgic historical accounts and demystify the charming discourse of the ancient oriental city. Like any other city\, Aleppo has its entangled worlds and complex class struggles. Karam Nachar will take us in a journey through the last four hundred years which gave rise to Aleppo as a world trade center. We will hear about the class- and sect-related tensions that this rise engendered in the city and continued to inform its social politics until our present day.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/aleppo-the-city/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171004T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20171004T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20171004T160000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T233501Z
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SUMMARY:Syria's Disappeared: The Case Against Assad
DESCRIPTION:SPACE\, Oslo Dokumentarkino and FN-sambandet invite you to a screening of Syria’s Disappeared: The Case Against Assad followed by a panel discussion about the prospects of prosecuting war crime committed in Syria in Norwegian courts. \nAbout the film\nThis documentary tells the hidden story of tens of thousands of men\, women and children forcibly disappeared by the regime of Bashar al Assad into a network of clandestine detention centres. \nWith unprecedented access\, we follow survivors of detention\, families of detainees\, regime defectors and international war crimes investigators as they fight to bring the perpetrators to justice and desperately campaign for the release of the disappeared. \nThe film’s director Sara Afshar will introduce the film and participate in the discussion after the screening. \nAbout the panel discussion\nNorway and Germany are the only two European countries with pure universal jurisdiction over war crimes\, crimes against humanity\, and genocide – meaning that the law does not require any connection between Norway and the relevant grave international crimes committed abroad. In this panel debate we will examine the legal avenues to investigate the serious crimes committed in Syria and to prosecute the perpetrators. \n  \nAnwar al-Bunni is a Syrian human rights lawyer. He is one of the founders of the Syrian Human Rights Association and of a centre for the defence of journalists and political prisoners. As a lawyer\, al-Bunni was particularly involved in defending people who were prosecuted for expressing their opinions in non-violent ways. Al-Bunni spent five years (2006-2011) in the Syrian regime’s prisons after signing a declaration calling for democratic reform. Al-Bunni left Syria in 2014 and is now based in Berlin where he is working to build cases against war criminals in Syria and achieve transitional justice. \n\n  \nGro Nystuen is a lawyer and expert in international law. From 2005 she was Associate Professor of International Humanitarian Law/the Law on Armed Conflict at the University of Oslo and from 2008 also Associate Professor at the Defence Staff University College in Oslo. She has also worked in the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 2005. \n\n  \nSara Afshar is a journalist and filmmaker. She is the director of “Syria’s Disappeared: The Case Against Assad”. She worked for the BBC for 16 years on its current affairs programmes\, Newsnight and Panorama. \n\n  \n  \nStephanie Barbour is a lawyer and senior adviser at the Commission for International Justice and Accountability. She has served as Amnesty’s International representative to the International Criminal Court and other international tribunals in The Hague. She has also worked on cases related to crimes against humanity\, in particular enforced disappearances and sexual violence\, in relation to the 1996 to 2006 conflict in Nepal\, intercommunal violence in India in 2001 and the Rwandan genocide in 1994. \n\n  \nMark Taylor (moderator) is a Senior Researcher at the Fafo research foundation. For two decades\, Mark has worked on legal and policy frameworks applicable to conflict and human rights\, writing and advising on regulatory responses to economic dimensions of armed conflict and business and human rights. \n\n  \n 
URL:https://masahat.no/event/syrias-disappeared-the-case-against-assad/
LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20170630T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20170630T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20170630T140000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T205538Z
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SUMMARY:Folkedans og musikk: en flerkulturell reise gjennom kulturarven
DESCRIPTION:Et flerkulturelt arrangement på Deichmanske hovedbibliotek sommeren 2017\nUtover bøker og malerier er det et bredere kulturelement som ikke fins i et bibliotek eller et galleri. Immateriell kulturarven er like mangfoldig som verdens land er\, like variert og fargerikt som tenkesett\, levemåter og skikker er. \nDen immaterielle arven er for de fleste en kilde til stolthet for å kunne vise tilhørighet til et samfunn og et land\, en felles historie og identitet. \nDeichmanske hovedbibliotek inviterer deg til et flerkulturelt arrangement som feirer immateriell kulturarv med dans og musikk\, bøker og filmer\, god mat og godt humør. Arrangementet er i samarbeid med Språk- og kulturfestivalen (foreningen)\, Den arabiske kvinnlige union i Norge og Syrian Peace Action Centre (SPACE). \nGjennom flott folkedans\, fortellerkunst og tradisjonelle sanger fra ulike kulturer\, vil våre besøkende få innblikk i ulik og spennende kulturarv man sjelden ellers får se. Vi ønsker også at våre brukere med bakgrunn fra disse ulike landene\, får muligheten til hygge seg og bli kjent med hverandre og med bibliotekets tilbud.\nVi viser en egenprodusert reportasje om den historiske og antropologiske bakgrunnen til «dabkeh»\, en folkedans fra Midtøsten. Det blir også sang og dans\, og en historieforteller vil ta oss med til et magisk sted. \nDet blir salg av spennende mat fra Midtøsten. Dessuten får du mulighet til å utforske internasjonal litteratur\, film og musikk fra vår samling\, i tillegg til ulike medier for norskopplæring. \nFoto kreditert til: Caracalla Dance Theatre
URL:https://masahat.no/event/folkedans-og-musikk-en-flerkulturell-reise-gjennom-kulturarven/
LOCATION:Deichman Hovedbiblioteket\, Arne Garborgs plass 4\, Oslo\, 0179\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Musikk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20170530T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20170530T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20170530T160000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T094018Z
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SUMMARY:Talk with Bashshar Haydar | حوار مع بشار حيدر
DESCRIPTION:Syria\, Palestine\, Lebanon\, Iraq: Spotlights on the Present and Insights into the Future\nWith Donald Trump’s recent visit to the Middle East\, the people of the region are facing an even bleaker future than before. The sectarian narrative of Shia/Sunni hatred is becoming more dominant. Daily killings in Iraq and Syria are diminishing hopes for accountability for crimes against humanity in the future. Israel is pitted to gain most from these developments. Only Lebanon and Jordan seem to have a semblance of a peaceful public sphere\, although it does not take too long to identify the devastating violence that these two nations are also undergoing.\nThe Syrian Peace Action Centre (SPACE) invites you to a talk with Bashshar Haydar\, a professor of philosophy at the American University of Beirut. He will bring his own perspectives to the recent developments\, and will help us think through some of the entanglements that make the region so difficult to comprehend.\nThe talk will take place in English and Arabic\, depending on the audience. The event is free and open to all. \nحوار مع بشار حيدر\nسوريا، فلسطين، لبنان، العراق: إضاءات على واقعنا ونظرة للمستقبل \nمع التطورات الأخيرة التي رافقت زيارة ترامب إلى منطقة الشرق الأوسط، يبدو واقعنا شديد القتامة. تخنقنا السردية الطائفية، تستمر حكاية القتل والقهر اليومي في سوريا والعراق وتكاد تنعدم أفق تحقيق العدالة المنتظرة. يضيق الحصار على فلسطين من كل الجهات وتبدو إسرائيل المستفيدة الوحيدة في المشهد. تعيش لبنان والأردن حياة أقرب إلى الطبيعية، ولكن لا يصعب علينا رؤية ديناميات العنف الكامنة في البلدين. \nيدعوكم المركز السوري للعمل من أجل السلام (ٍسبيس) إلى حوار مفتوح مع بشار حيدر، أستاذ علم فلسفة السياسة والأخلاق في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت، سيتم من خلاله تسليط الضوء على آخر الأحداث من المنطقة لمساعدتنا على فهم الواقع وتحليل العواقب ودورنا المشترك في تحقيق مستقبل أفضل لمنطقتنا. \nسيتم الحوار باللغة الإنكليزية والعربية، وذلك حسب الجمهور. الدعوة عامة ومجانية.
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/
CATEGORIES:Samtale,عربي
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20170219T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20170219T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20170219T173000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T212836Z
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SUMMARY:The Warriors of Hope: Syria’s New Civil Society
DESCRIPTION:The only positive that has come out of the horrific Syrian war is a new and vibrant civil society. Under Assad’s regime there were no independent organisations or political parties. The hope for a better future is to be found in a strong civil society that can keep its government in check\, and stop it from regressing to the police state it has been under Assad’s rule. \nWhat is the civil society in Syria today? Who are the teachers who keep the schools going\, who the doctors in the hospitals\, and who makes decisions on behalf of the community? How can organisations and institutions shape a future for Syrians\, and how can we and the international community support them? \nPanel: \nRula Asad\, co-founder and the executive director of the Syrian Female Journalists’ Network (SFJN). Founded in 2012\, the SFJN is a non-profit initiative that trains Syrian female journalists and promotes their role in the region’s media.\nAmund Bakke Foss\, journalist in VG\nZeina Bali\, SPACE – Syrian Peace Action Centre
URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-warriors-of-hope-syrias-new-civil-society/
LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20161030T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20161030T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20161030T093000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T220538Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Sulafa Hijazi / Golan Haji / Fadlabi - Globaliseringskonferansen
DESCRIPTION:SPACE\, in collaboration with Globaliseringskonferansen\, invites you to Artist Talk: Sulafa Hijazi / Golan Haji / Fadlabi on Sunday Oct. 30 at 10:30. \n\n– Sulafa Hijazi – Syrian visual artist and director. Through her work in visual art and animation Sulafa Hijazi has created links\, and uncovered existing ones\, between seemingly different and unrelated topics – from identity to exile\, passing through social media and the fine lines between the use and abuse of image. Among many other things\, Sulafa will present her work and reflections on questions relating to the social media popular art movement\, which not only allowed Syrian artists to circumvent censorship but also made their artwork accessible to a wider sector of the society; and how this artwork moved again from social media to art galleries. \n– Golan Haji – Syrian poet and translator will perform a Syrian Reading of Homer’s Oddyssey: Syrians\, in this tragic chaos\, often listen to their own story invented by non-Syrians or reinvented for non-Syrians. What if the Odyssey was narrated by a Syrian poet from Idleb? \nThere will be time for the audience to ask questions and engage in a conversation with the artists! The conversations will be moderated by Fadlabi. \n\n\n\n\nSulafa Hijazi (b. 1977\, Syria)\nBorn in Damascus\, Syria\, Sulafa Hijazi is a Visual artist\, Director and Producer. She studied at the Higher Institute of the dramatic arts in Syria where she majored in dramatic studies\, and at the Städelschule Art Academy in Frankfurt Am Main\, Germany\, at the class of Judith Hopf. In addition to her artwork\, Hijazi began her professional career as a writer and director of animation TV series and other film and media production\, with a particular focus on children education and social development. In addition\, she was a member of the founding team of Spacetoon the first free Arabic satellite channel for kids\, and a board member of CIFEJ International Center of Films for Children and Young People since 2012. Hijazi has received several awards for her work\, among them the golden prize in (Hollywood\, Russia\, India\, Cairo\, And iran international children and family film festivals) for her latest feature animation The Jasmine Birds. Hijazi’s artwork and illustration has been exhibited in several galleries in Europe and featured in social media newspapers and Internet websites as part of the Syrian uprising art movement.Golan Haji (b. 1977\, Syria)\nIs a Syrian poet and translator with a postgraduate degree in pathology. He was born in Amouda\, a Kurdish town in the north of Syria. He has worked as a translator from English and American literature\, and has translated Robert Louis Stevenson’s Scottish classic Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde into Arabic (2008)\, in addition to Dark Harbor \, selected poems of Mark Strand (2002)\, Rear Window\, scenario of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie (2005)\, Elephant by Dan Wylie (2010)\, Notebooks of Anton Chekhov (2011). His first collection of poetry in Arabic\, Called in Darkness (2004)\, won the Al-Maghut prize in poetry. His second book of poetry\, Someone Sees You as a Monster (2008)\, was published during the event celebrating Damascus as the Capital of culture in 2008. His next collection Autumn Here is Magical and Vast\, in both Arabic and Italian\,was published in Rome 2013. He lived in Damascus until he had to flee his country\, and has now settled in France.Fadlabi (b. 1975\, Sudan)\nWorks with painting\, texts\, and performance\, emphasizing cross-disciplinary approaches to art making. In 2008\, Fadlabi founded an artist-run platform One Night Only\, a gallery in Oslo that shows a new artist every Monday. Possibly\, Norway’s most busy gallery. Between 2010- 2014 he worked with artist Lars Cuzner on European Attraction Limited\, a contemporary rendition of a human zoo named The Congo Village that was part of the 1914 World Fair in Oslo. They re-enacted the village and opened it to the public in May 2014. His recent and future shows includes Sharjah Biennial 11 (Sharjah)\, Bergen Assembly (Bergen)The Museum of Contemporary Art in (Oslo)\, Kunsthall (Oslo)\, UKS (Oslo)\, Munch museum (Oslo)\, Kunstplass (Oslo)\, NY Art-book fair (NY)\, Performa 15 NY (NY)\, Temporary Gallery (Cologne)\, Nile Sunset Annex (Cairo)\, Al Riwaq (Manamah)\, the Saudi Arts Council (Jeddah)\, Darat Al Funun (Amman)\, Townhouse (Cairo) IFAA (Lome). He is also the co-founder of the Khartoum Contemporary Art Center in Oslo that will open it’s doors in March 2017
URL:https://masahat.no/event/artist-talk-sulafa-hijazi-golan-haji-fadlabi-globaliseringskonferansen/
LOCATION:Youngstorget\, Youngstorget\, Oslo\, 0181\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Litteratur,Visuell kunst
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20161010T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20161010T214500
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20161010T170000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T202049Z
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SUMMARY:The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn collaboration with Film fra Sør\, we invite you to a unique experience with a screening of the documentary “The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble”\, a mini-concert by the virtuoso Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and an exciting panel discussion about music as a universal language. \nThe question of “What is the role of music?” is the starting point for the Silk Road Ensemble\, a group of musicians from around the world who have joined forces to discuss\, compose and play music\, led by the world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The Silk Road Ensemble is an attempt to build bridges across cultures\, foster dialogue and show the music’s liberating power. The film about the Silk Road Ensemble is an audiovisual portrayal of music as a lingua franca. \nIn the film we join the ensemble on an incredible journey in the world of music\, where we get to see and hear tones and instruments from around the globe. Several of the ensemble members have fled their homeland in order to play the music they are passionate about. This is the case for Kinan Azmeh who will come to Oslo to play a mini-concert and participate in a conversation with Abazar Hamid “fribymusiker” in Harstad\, and Alexandra Archetti\, Festival Director of Oslo World Music Festival. Jan Lothe Eriksen from SafeMUSE will moderate the panel. \n 
URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-music-of-strangers-yo-yo-ma-and-the-silk-road-ensemble/
LOCATION:Grønland kirke\, Grønlandsleiret 34\, Oslo\, 0190\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film,Musikk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20161001T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20161001T220000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20161001T160000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T135442Z
UID:978-1475344800-1475359200@masahat.no
SUMMARY:A space to think and imagine Syria
DESCRIPTION:Kvelden begynner med såkalte lynforedrag – «lightning talks» om arbeidet\, lidenskapene og aktivismen til de syriske gjestene våre. Formålet med disse foredragene er å vekke fantasien vår og inspirere oss – kan vi forestille oss et annet Syria? Publikum er invitert til å bruke kvelden og det åpne rommet til å bli kjent med talerne våre\, til å ikke bare stille spørsmål\, men også diskutere\, dele historier og opplevelser og se for seg nye muligheter. Etterpå vil den syriske billedkunstneren Razan Sabbagh holde en visuell kunstperformance til Qanun-spilleren Ziad Khawam’s musikk. Interaksjon gjennom delte betraktninger\, samtaler og livemusikk skaper et åpent og levende rom. Velkommen!\n\n\n\nThe evening will open by so-called “lightning talks” by the different speakers about their work\, passion and activism. These talks are meant to inspire us to imagine Syria differently. The audience is invited to use the open space to engage with the speakers\, not only to ask questions\, but also to debate\, tell stories and identify new possibilities. Syrian artist\, Razan Sabbagh will afterwards have a visual arts performance with some action painting\, fused to the music of the Qanun player Ziad Khawam. The vibrant space counts on your interaction through shared reflections\, conversations and live music.\n  \n18:30: Lightning talks: Five short talks by: Karam Nachar\, Marcell Shehwaro\, Iyad El-Baghdadi\, Mohammad Al Saud and Bissan Fakih\n19:30: Poetry reading in Russian by Ivo Spira: Extract from “Requiem” by Anna Andreevna Akhmatova\n20:00 – 20:30 Live drawing by Razan Sabbagh and music by Ziad Khawam \nThis event is part of The Question of Syria 2016 – Syria are…
URL:https://masahat.no/event/a-space-to-think-and-imagine-syria/
LOCATION:Ingensteds\, Brenneriveien 9 \, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Musikk,Samtale,Visuell kunst
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160930T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160930T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20160930T163000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T093617Z
UID:908-1475260200-1475265600@masahat.no
SUMMARY:The Syrian International
DESCRIPTION:The idea of a Syria International intends to refocus attention on the agency of Syrians in their struggle and consequently to demand international solidarity and acknowledgement of their rightful and just cause. \nThis panel assesses the isolation of Syrian civilians by identifying those who neglect them\, as well as those rare people who are determined to support them. The intent is on identifying the possibilities for building on existing Syria International solidarity movements around the world\, as well as on questioning the extent to which humanitarian and political efforts to support Syria’s civilian population can be improved and augmented. \nWhy should the world be interested in Syria at all? Is the world interested\, at what level? What are the existing internationalist networks that work with and for Syrians today\, and how effective are they? How can Syria inform a radical critique of classical forms of postcolonial\, anti-imperialist\, and left-wing oppositional movements? \n \nBendik Sørvig is the author of a book on the Syrian uprising which will be published in Norwegian in early 2017. His professional experience covers journalism\, development work and humanitarian aid in Syria and the Middle East throughout the last two decades. \n\n \nRobin Yassin-Kassab is co-author of ‘Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War’ and author of the novel ‘The Road from Damascus’. His journalism and book reviews are collected at www.qunfuz.com \n\n \nLeila Al Shami is a blogger and activist who has worked with the human rights movement in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. She was a founding member of Tahrir­ICN\, a network that connects anti­-authoritarian struggles across the Middle East\, North Africa and Europe. Leila is the co­-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. \nThe panel is moderated by Bissan Fakih. \n \nBissan Fakih is the Deputy Campaign Director of The Syria Campaign where she runs campaigns related to the protection of civilians in Syria. Her work has focused on breaking the sieges\, supporting the White Helmets and elevating the voices of civilians in Syria trapped between Isis and Assad. \nFor more information on “The Question of Syria – Syria Are…”\, please visit this page.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-syrian-international/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160930T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160930T181500
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20160930T150000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T140634Z
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SUMMARY:Keynote Speech by Mazen Darwish
DESCRIPTION:Mazen Darwish\, one of Syria’s most prominent human rights activists\, will give a speech about his experience in Syria before and after the revolution as a human rights advocate. Afterwards\, Darwish will be interviewed by the Norwegian journalist and author Åsne Seierstad. \n  \n \nMazen Darwish is a Syrian lawyer and free speech advocate\, and the president of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression\, founded in 2004. In 2011. News organizations\, including Reuters and the Associated Press\, have described Darwish as one of Syria’s most prominent activists. Mr Darwish was imprisoned by the Syrian regime from February 2012 to August 2015. He was awarded the 2014 PEN International Pinter prize and the 2015 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize on World Press Freedom Day. \n  \nFor more information on “The Question of Syria – Syria Are…”\, please visit this page.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/keynote-speech-by-mazen-darwish/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160930T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160930T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20160930T100000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T093205Z
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SUMMARY:Roundtable: Politics of Humanitarian Aid in Syria
DESCRIPTION:On September 30\, the Syrian Peace Action Centre (SPACE)\, the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS) and Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) will host a roundtable discussion on the Politics of Humanitarian Aid in Syria. This event is for invited guests. \nBackground\nDelivering humanitarian aid in conflict situations has always been difficult. Syria is proving to be no exception. This panel aims to examine the contesting reality of politics and humanitarian principles with regards to aid distribution in Syria. \nDespite their remarkable resilience and determination\, Syrian aid workers are often criticized by international actors for lack of compliance with humanitarian principles — specifically for mixing politics with humanitarian work. Additionally\, Syrian aid organizations are perceived to be lacking the institutional capacity\, skills and operational standards to respond to such complex humanitarian emergencies. Against the changing battle lines and shifting alliances on the ground and between external powers\, UN agencies and international NGOs are faced with a difficult task as they start to establish and expand their partnership with local actors operating in areas where international staff has no access. \nConversely\, Syrian civil society groups have repeatedly expressed skepticism and mistrust towards some international aid organizations\, especially the UN agencies\, for the way they are implementing humanitarian principles. This criticism has materialized into a report published by the advocacy group The Syrian Campaign in June 2016\, as well as a comprehensive investigation by The Guardian published in August 2016. The report accuses the UN of jeopardizing their impartiality\, neutrality and independence by working closely with the Syrian government and concentrating their largest humanitarian efforts in the government-controlled areas. \nNotwithstanding the Syrian cross-border response’s heavy dependence on local aid groups\, Syrians deplore being used as subcontractors rather than equal partners\, bearing an unfair share of risks and lacking contextualized and flexible funding approaches adopted by donors. \nIn the conflicting perceptions about the possibilities and limits of humanitarian aid\, local Syrian discourse remains disconnected from its international counterparts. Such a disconnect has a negative impact on the civilian population and fosters mutual distrust among key humanitarian actors. This has culminated in 73 Syrian aid groups announcing the suspension of cooperation with the UN on 8 September\, 2016. \nNorway has been at the forefront to both provide and politically coordinate humanitarian assistance for Syria. Moreover\, its principled and trust-based approach enables the Norwegian donor community to mediate between actors representing the different sides of the debate\, and to leverage accountability of all relevant stakeholders. \nThe roundtable panel will try to address these questions: \n\nHow is it possible to maintain a neutral and impartial space for humanitarian aid in Syria?\nHow do politics influence the priorities of the largest UN assistance operation in decades? Whose responsibility is it to enforce and adhere to the humanitarian principles?\nWhat role can Norwegian donors and organizations play to restore the trust between Syrian aid organizations and UN agencies?\nHow can Norwegian donors and organizations strike the balance between strengthening and institutionalizing their Syrian local partners to fulfil their (often politically-loaded) vision\, while ensuring adherence to international humanitarian standards?\n\nProgramme\nPresentation: Bissan Fakih (The Syria Campaign) \nPresentation: Reinoud Leenders (King’s College London) \nPresentation: Marcell Shehwaro (Kesh Malek) \nComments: Kathrine Raadim (Norwegian People’s Aid) \nComments: MFA representative (tba) \nChair: Marte Heian-Engdal (PRIO) \nNote: Participation in this event will be by invitation only.\n\nSpeakers\n \nBissan Fakih (Deputy Director\, The Syria Campaign) runs campaigns related to the protection of civilians in Syria. Her work is focused on breaking the sieges\, supporting the White Helmets and elevating the voices of civilians in Syria trapped between ISIS and Assad government forces. She is the author of the report accusing the UN of taking sides inside Syria\, which involved dozens of interviews with current and former UN staff and humanitarian workers inside Syria. \n  \n \nReinoud Leenders (PhD\, SOAS) is Reader in International Politics and Middle East Studies in the War Studies Department at King’s College London. His work deals with the political economy of corruption\, authoritarian governance\, refugee issues\, and conflict in the Middle East including Syria. He has been studying the UN’s handling of money and local partnerships in Syria. Leenders contributed to The Guardian’s recent investigation about the tens of millions of US dollars funneled by the UN to companies and agencies owned by or directly linked to Syrian regime officials. \n  \n \nMarcell Shehwaro (Director\, Kesh Malek) manages Kesh Malek\, a Gaziantep-based Syrian organization with over 300 staff members inside Syria\, running advocacy and educational projects in Aleppo and Idlib. Shehwaro participated in many regional and international conferences and panel discussions about education\, activism and the Syrian civil society\, including the NGO conference that preceded the Supporting Syria London conference in February 2016.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/roundtable-politics-of-humanitarian-aid-in-syria/
LOCATION:PRIO\, Hausmanns gate 3 \, Oslo\, 0186\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160929T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160929T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20160929T163000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T140421Z
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SUMMARY:Misreading Syria: Sectarian Secularism
DESCRIPTION: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 the Assad family has generally purported to act in the name of “national unity”\, and accordingly minimised discursive expressions of sectarianism\, its actual practices throughout the last five decades have consisted in the systematic manipulation of sectarian divides for the purpose of regime survival. \nThis panel will discuss sectarianism and secularism in Syria by revisiting the nature and policies of the Syrian regime pre-2011 as well as the trajectory of the Syrian revolution from day until the present day. The panel will also reflect on the discourse and ideologies of the different political and armed groups involved in the conflict. \n  \n \n  \nBjørn Olav Utvik is Professor of Middle East Studies and Head of the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. \n  \n  \n\n  \nMarcell Shehwaro is Director of Kesh Malek; a Syrian grassroots organization. The organization has over 300 staff working in northern Syria. Marcell is a renowned activist who was at the forefront of the peaceful protests since the outbreak of the uprising in 2011. She lived in the opposition-controlled Aleppo neighborhoods for almost two years before she had to flee to Turkey. Based in Gaziantep\, she keeps a strong contact with the activists and aid workers who are still in her home city\, Aleppo. Shehwaro has participated in various key conferences about civil society\, justice and activism in Syria. \n  \n\n  \nThomas Pierret is a Lecturer in Contemporary Islam at the University of Edinburgh.  He earned his PhD in Political sciences at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Louvain\, and he occupied postdoctoral positions at Princeton University and the Zentrum Moderner Orient\, Berlin.  He is the author of Religion and State in Syria. The Sunni Ulama from Coup to Revolution (Cambridge University Press\, 2013). \n  \n  \n\n  \nThe panel will be moderated by Bendik Sørvig. \n \nBendik Sørvig is the author of a book on the Syrian uprising which will be published in Norwegian in early 2017. His professional experience covers journalism\, development work and humanitarian aid in Syria and the Middle East throughout the last two decades. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nFor more information on “The Question of Syria – Syria Are…”\, please visit this page.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/misreading-syria-sectarian-secularism/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160929T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160929T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20160929T150000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T092944Z
UID:880-1475168400-1475172000@masahat.no
SUMMARY:Syria: between political catastrophe and cultural resilience
DESCRIPTION: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 set of global historical factors that emanate from the world made by Europe in the wake of World War One. This talk will shed light on some of these global factors and their local manifestations\, all while emphasising their inherently contradictory nature: destabilising Syrian politics to the point of disaster\, while generating much cultural angst and productivity. \n  \nKaram S. Nachar is the executive director of AlJumhuriya.net\, an online magazine that covers Syrian politics and culture. He is also a Lecturer at the Department of International Relations at Isik University\, Istanbul. Prior to assuming these two positions\, Nachar worked on a PhD in Modern History at Princeton University\, with focus on Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Syria and Lebanon. He also holds in a Masters in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University\, and B.A. in Political Science from the American University of Beirut. \nModerated by Rana Issa \n  Rana Issa is a literary historian focusing on Levantine and translated literatures. She is interested in the relationship between literature and power. Rana is based in Oslo and is a co-founder of SPACE. \nFor more information on “The Question of Syria – Syria Are…”\, please visit this page.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/syria-between-political-catastrophe-and-cultural-resilience/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160522T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160522T223000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20160522T183000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T094525Z
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SUMMARY:Salam to Aleppo – Concert with Bab Assalam
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an intimate concert of Jazz-influenced\, Sufi-inspired music with Bab Assalam \n  \nBab Assalam (the gate of peace) is the meeting of two Syrian musicians\, Khaled Aljaramani (oud and vocals) and his brother Mohanad Aljaramani (percussion and vocals) with French clarinetist Raphaël Vuillard. They have been playing since 2005\, with initial support from the French Cultural Centre in Aleppo. Since then\, they have played in the Middle East\, Africa and Europe. They have had outstanding concerts in the Opera House in Damascus\, Aleppo Citadel\, Kuwait International Festival\, Summertime in Nantes\, among others. \nBab Assalam was born in Syria\, but today\, the two Syrian brothers live in exile\, in Lyon\, but their voyage towards the gate of peace\, towards Aleppo\, will continue. \nListen to Bab Assalam songs on Spotify. \n \nThis concert is part of the Syrian Cultural Caravan – Oslo 20 – 22 May. For more information\, please see: https://masahat.no/syrian-cultural-caravan/
URL:https://masahat.no/event/concert-bab-assalam/
LOCATION:Caféteatret\, Hollendergata 8\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0190\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Musikk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160520T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160520T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20160520T170000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T212722Z
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SUMMARY:Art night at Kunstplass [10]
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informal art gathering at Kunstplass [10]! \nBy Sulafa Hijazi \nSulafa Hijazi\, Syrian visual artist and director\, will present some of her work and talk about the concept behind it\, before and after the revolution. \nAfter that we will listen to readings from “The Guide for Using Life” written by the Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji who was given two-year prison sentence for “violating public modesty” in Egypt. \nThen we will turn to cinema and watch short films from Syria curated by the Syrian Cultural Caravan\, including “A Silent Cinema (2001)” by Mayer Al-Roumi\, “Step by Step (1978)” by Ossama Mohammed and “Blue-Grey (2002)” by Mohamad Al Roumi. \nInvite your friends on Facebook! \n— This event is part of the Syrian Cultural Caravan
URL:https://masahat.no/event/art-night-at-kunstplass-10/
LOCATION:Kunstplass\, Akersgata 1\, Oslo\, 0158\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film,Visuell kunst
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160520T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160522T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20160520T090000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T212001Z
UID:636-1463742000-1463940000@masahat.no
SUMMARY:Syrian Cultural Caravan
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://masahat.no/event/syrian-cultural-caravan/
LOCATION:Youngstorget\, Youngstorget\, Oslo\, 0181\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Visuell kunst
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160218T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160218T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20160218T170000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T204039Z
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SUMMARY:Why is Russia Bombing Syrians? - HRHW 2016
DESCRIPTION: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 by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch of targeting civilians\, using cluster bombs and committing atrocities that amount to war crimes. \nIn September 2015 Russia started its military intervention in Syria to allegedly fight ISIS\, but numerous reports suggest otherwise. Who is Russia targeting in Syria? How is the Russian intervention shaping the humanitarian and political scene in Syria? What are the implications of Russia’s support of Assad on stability in Syria\, the region and Europe? Can stability and security be established without committing to accountability and justice and safeguarding the basic rights of the Syrian people? What guarantees a lasting peace in Syria? \nPanellists: \n\nKai Kverme: Former researcher at the Center for Islamic and Middle East Studies\, University of Oslo\nIbrahim Olabi: Founder of the Syrian Legal Development Programme (SLDP)\, an organisation engaging with actors in Syria to promote compliance with International Humanitarian Law\nJohn Peder Egenæs: Secretary General of Amnesty International Norway\n\nThe panel will be moderated by Tine Gade\, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Studies at the University of Oslo. \nSee the full program of Human Rights Human Wrongs Film Festival on www.hrhw.no
URL:https://masahat.no/event/why-is-russia-bombing-syrians/
LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160218T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20160218T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T180618
CREATED:20160218T160000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T204026Z
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SUMMARY:Syria Shorts: Portraits from Dystopia - HRHW 2016
DESCRIPTION:Love during the Siege \nThey come in sinking boats. They hide in asphyxiating underbellies of trucks. Their lives are destroyed and their suffering left them with lack of means and choices. But along with the piece of land upon which they live\, they have access to a camera\, and some of them are making films. Through an hour of short films\, this session will introduce the daily struggle to survive and to resist by ordinary Syrian civilians. Through a mix of documentary and poetic expressions\, these films have been produced by people who dare to continue to hope\, to love\, and to stay alive. \nMeet Um Wassim and her family in their daily struggle to continue to live and love under the siege in the film Love during the Siege. Listen to Abu Al Tayeb\, in Sage\, narrating this period of uncertainty where only the sage tea is left to the Palestinians as a rite of belonging. Go on a walk in the streets of Damascus with Azza through a camera hidden in her purse\, in A Day and a Button. Follow the journey of the Syrian-Armenian opera singer Kevork from Armenia to Syria to Lebanon\, in the film 1915. \nThe films will be introduced by the Syrian Peace Action Centre (SPACE). \nSee the full program of Human Rights Human Wrongs Film Festival on www.hrhw.no
URL:https://masahat.no/event/syria-shorts-portraits-from-dystopia/
LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film
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