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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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SUMMARY:Performing Democracy: Syrian Art Practices Today
DESCRIPTION:Even before the revolution broke out\, but certainly after it\, artistic practices in Syria often centered around democratizing the access to performative and artistic spaces. In the face of collective political calamity\, a “democratization” of images takes place. This democratization\, as Susan Sontag argued\, turns the Event or calamity into an object that can be possessed. Indeed this is the case\, however the unprecedented scale of the democratization of artistic space in Syria forces us to reflect further on the function of this objectification of the Event. To reflect on this issue\, this panel invites the writer and theater practitioner Mohammad Al Attar and film critic Zaher Omareen to discuss the role of aesthetics in the political struggle in Syria. As Omareen will discuss through his work with “filmer cinema\,” the small mobile film documentaries that are being produced in Syria today shown a remarkable vitality in aesthetic form that puts to question our most basic assumptions about aesthetic value.  Whereas Omareen calls them filmer image makers\, Al Attar subverts the entire theatrical structure by rearranging the relationship between the audience and the actors. As theater becomes democratized to allow the performances of the public at large\, Al Attar reflects on the role of theater in the defiance of despair and in the work of building testimonies. Through their different media and production techniques\, Omareen and Al Attar will reflect on how democracy is performed in Syria today\, and together with them we expect to question such stable constellations as artist\, spectator\, and stage. This line of questioning will bring us closer to Syrian artistic expression and will allow us to reflect on basic\, and enduring concepts about the relationship of art to politics. \n  \nMohammad Al Attar (Damascus\, 1980) is a Syrian playwright and dramaturge. His theatrical works like: ‘Withdrawal’ \, ‘Samah’ \, ‘Online’\, ‘Could You Please Look into the Camera?’\, ‘A Chance Encounter’\, and ‘Antigone of Syria’ \, have been performed in Damascus\, London\, New York\, Seoul\, Berlin\, Brussels\, Edinburgh\, Tunisia\, Athens\, Beirut\, and elsewhere. He has written for numerous magazines and newspapers\, with a special focus recently on the Syrian Revolution. \nZaher Omareen is a Syrian documentarist and researcher\, recently featured in the Victoria and Albert’s exhibition Disobedient Objects and in the British Council – London’s Third Space exhibition. He is co-editor of Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline (Saqi Books\, 2014)\, and his articles and short stories have been published in English and Arabic. He curated several exhibitions of Syrian uprising art in Amsterdam\, Copenhagen and London. He is a PhD candidate in contemporary documentary cinema and new media at Goldsmiths College\, London. \nThe panel is moderated by Rana Issa
URL:https://masahat.no/event/performing-democracy-syrian-art-practices-today/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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SUMMARY:The Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution
DESCRIPTION:“There is no political power without control of the archive\, if not of memory. Effective democratization can always be measured by this essential criterion: the participation in and the access to the archive\, its constitution\, and its interpretation” Jacques Derrida \nSince March 2011\, Syria has witnessed deep cultural mutation; forms of expressions have evolved trying to respond to the eventful Syrian uprising. Artistic and cultural production have been a vital tool of political resistance\, and so is archiving this production. \nWhat is the Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution? What are the characteristics of ‘expression’ in times of tyranny and freedom? How do socio-political and cultural factors affect ‘expression’? How do we see the change on people’s ‘expression’ and behaviour since 2011?  What would be the role of memory in the future? What is the link between justice and memory? \n  \n  \nSana Yazigi is a graphic designer graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University. She founded the bilingual monthly cultural magazine “The Cultural Diary”\, covering the cultural scene in Damascus and other Syrian cities between 2007 and 2012. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the website The Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution since 2013. She is also the initiator of ALWAN art therapy initiative for Syrian refugee children in Beirut-Lebanon since 2013.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-creative-memory-of-the-syrian-revolution/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150925T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150925T220000
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SUMMARY:Our Terrible Country - Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Our Terrible Country’ takes us on the perilous journey of Yassin Haj Saleh\, a well-known Syrian intellectual and dissident\, and the young photographer Ziad Homsi who travel together in an arduous and dangerous route from the liberated area of Douma/Damascus to Raqqa in northern Syria\, only to find themselves eventually forced to leave their home country for a temporary exile in Turkey. \nWhile Yassin was detained in 1980 at the age of twenty\, and remained imprisoned for 16 years\, he is also one of the few intellectuals who participated clandestinely in the Syrian uprising since its earliest days in 2011. However\, by mid-2013\, Yassin has to leave Damascus together with his wife Samira for the liberated city of Douma in the Eastern Ghouta\, where he meets the young filmmaker Ziad Homsi. \nGiven their encounter\, the idea of a filmed portray on Yassin develops between Ziad and Ali Atassi\, a Syrian filmmaker based in Beirut. But quickly\, a deep bond develops between the Syrian intellectual and the photographer from two different generations\, based on which Ziad decides to accompany and film Yassin on a difficult and dangerous journey towards Northern Syria. And thus\, the initial portray of Yassin turns into a film about the relationship between two generations who have been involved\, each in their own way\, since the beginning of the Revolution\, and reveals respectively their hopes\, deceptions and defeats. \nEn route to liberated Raqqa\, Yassin discovers that his hometown is under the control of the extremist Islamist organization ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)\, the organization that had kidnapped his two brothers.  Upon Yassin and Ziad’s arrival in Raqqa\, Ali joins them as to capture the developing relationship between the two. But given the brutality of both\, the Syrian regime and ISIS\, Yassin finds himself compelled to abandon his home town and to flee to Istanbul\, his place of reluctant and temporary exile\, while Ziad is arrested by ISIS on his way back south to Douma\, spending more than a month in prison\, after which he\, too\, leaves for Turkey. \nLiving in Turkey\, Yassin continues to pursue his reflection and analysis of Syrian political life. In exile and during the shooting of the film\, Yassin learns that his wife\, Samira Khalil\, was abducted in Douma on 10 December 2013\, at the same time as the human rights lawyer Razan Zeitouneh and two other activists. \nThe shooting of the film took more than a year in a number of regions in Syria and Turkey. The film\, and the fate of its characters\, represents the stages of the Syrian Revolution\, from its pacifist beginnings to its militarization\, the bombardment and destruction of cities by the Syrian Regime\, and the emergence of extremist Islamist currents and their quest to take hold of the revolution.\nProduction: Bidayyat Inhouse production\nProduction Year: 2014 \nSource: Bidayyat
URL:https://masahat.no/event/our-terrible-country/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150925T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150925T200000
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SUMMARY:Narratives of Survival
DESCRIPTION:One of the most important formative experiences for the Syrian youth in the past four years is the emergence of an active civil society. The concept of civil society in Syria was virtually nonexistent before 2011 under the Assad’s dictatorship. But as the Syrian uprising started\, the explosion of self-expression mediums turned with time into a multitude of active\, cross-cutting grassroots groups that sprung up throughout Syria. Faced with an increasingly complex reality\, these groups had to change their proactive course to reactive in response to the pressing humanitarian needs of the local communities while having to survive Assad’s bombs from the sky and extremists’ threats on the ground. All of this means that Syrians have gained\, and are still gaining\, a significant experience that is worth sharing\, developing and supporting\, and that the active civil society is yet another manifestation of the on-going uprising. \nThis panel provides a general snapshot on life at the local level during the conflict in Syria. In between state-failure\, war economy and a “conflict society”\, triggered by the country’s dire humanitarian crisis\, multiple actors have stepped in to fill in the void. These include Youth Networks\, civil society organisations\, Local Councils\, Sharia-based institutions\, Muslim Brotherhood affiliates\, Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party structures\, and the jihadist groups\, Jabhat al-Nusra and Daesh (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria – ISIS). The discussion will build on a case study of civil society activism and local governance dynamics in Aleppo from years 2011-2014. In particular\, the experience of a grassroots Syrian organization\, “Kesh Malek” will be highlighted as an example of the coping strategies and changed strategic directions that the Syrian civil society actors were forced to adopt in light of the rapidly changing context in Syria. \n  \n \nMarcell Shehwaro is an activist and blogger from Aleppo and the Executive Manager of Kesh Malek Organization. Through her organization\, Shehwaro is working on promoting children’s rights in the seven schools that the organization runs in Aleppo. She initiated with other activists the coalition of “Shamel” for Syrian civil society organizations. Shehwaro has a bachelor’s degree in Dentistry\, and a master’s degree in Human Rights and Cultural Diversity from the University of Essex\, UK. Shehwaro has published a series of blogs on Global Voices capturing her life in Aleppo after the revolution and until she became exiled in Turkey. \n  \nRana Khalaf is independent researcher and consultant. She is also a research fellow with the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of Saint Andrews. Her current research focuses on conflict\, governance\, civil-society\, youth and the neoliberal peace; it geographically concentrates on the non-government controlled parts of Syria. The co-founder of two civil society movements\, Rana has been heavily involved in grassroots work. This has supported her authorship of several key publications on Syria that seek to bridge the gap between academia and the world of civil society\, activism and policy-making. For more information\, visit her Academia Page. \nThe panel is moderated by Christian Ruge.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/narratives-of-survival/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150925T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150925T183000
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SUMMARY:What Kind of Support Do Syrians Want?
DESCRIPTION:The picture in Syria today looks increasingly gloomy\, especially for those watching from afar. What was widely recognized as an uprising for shared humanitarian values\, is no longer seen as such. As the situation became intractably complicated\, faulty generalizations and simplifications emerged\, and the gloomy picture was\, consequently\, obscured. Nonetheless\, many Syrians still believe in the revolution and ask for support from their counterparts around the world. \nHow would we define the situation in Syria today? Are there still any revolutionary characteristics in the middle of the ongoing war and all regional and international interventions? Did the revolution manage to change something in the society? Can we talk about positive change when we are faced with the destruction we see in Syria today on all levels? What kind of support do Syrians living inside Syria\, in refugee camps and in exile\, want? \n  \nMohammad Al Attar (Damascus\, 1980) is a Syrian playwright and dramaturge. His theatrical works like: ‘Withdrawal’ \, ‘Samah’ \, ‘Online’\, ‘Could You Please Look into the Camera?’\, ‘A Chance Encounter’\, and ‘Antigone of Syria’ \, have been performed in Damascus\, London\, New York\, Seoul\, Berlin\, Brussels\, Edinburgh\, Tunisia\, Athens\, Beirut\, and elsewhere. He has written for numerous magazines and newspapers\, with a special focus recently on the Syrian Revolution. \n\n\nRana Khalaf  is independent researcher and consultant. She is also a research fellow with the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of Saint Andrews. Her current research focuses on conflict\, governance\, civil-society\, youth and the neoliberal peace; it geographically concentrates on the non-government controlled parts of Syria. The co-founder of two civil society movements\, Rana has been heavily involved in grassroots work. This has supported her authorship of several key publications on Syria that seek to bridge the gap between academia and the world of civil society\, activism and policy-making. For more information\, visit her Academia Page. \n\n  \n\nYassin al-Haj Saleh   is one of Syria’s most prominent intellectuals and political dissidents. In 1980\, while studying medicine in Aleppo University\, he was arrested by Hafez al-Assad regime because of his political activism. He remained in prison for 16 years (1980–1996). He returned to medical school upon his release\, graduated in 2000\, but never practiced medicine\, instead he turned to writing. Yassin al-Haj Saleh writes on political\, social and cultural subjects relating to Syria and the Arab world. He has authored and edited five books about Syria. He is a co-founder of the Syrian online periodical “al-Jumhuriya” and the Syrian Cultural House in Istanbul “Hamisch”. He is a recipient of the Prince Claus Award for 2012. \n\nThe panel is moderated by Ziad Majed.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/what-kind-of-support-do-syrians-want/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150924T173000
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SUMMARY:Palestinization of Syrian Refugees - Panel and film
DESCRIPTION:The situation for the refugees has become increasingly present in the Norwegian and European media over the last weeks and months. However\, the debate about the refugees is still being repeatedly depoliticized and reduced into a question of numbers only.\nIn this debate we will take as a point of departure the assertion that the influx of refugees is not the core of the problem; rather it is the outcome of a distorted world order.\nWe want to approach the discussion about the refugees by posing critical political and moral questions about the current global state of affairs\, immigration laws and the grave injustices that contribute to worsening the crisis\, with a special focus on the Syrian refugees’ case and the European and Norwegian response to these questions.\nWhy is the metaphor Palestinization of Syrian refugees relevant? What are the historical commonalities between the Palestinian refugees and Syrian refugees today? How do the refugee laws in neighboring countries affect the living conditions of Syrian refugees? How is the political debate in Norway framing the issue of Syrian refugees? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in the panel. \nHanne Heszlein-Lossius Medical doctor currently an intern doctor at Haraldsplass sykehus in Bergen. Henne also has a bachelor in journalism. She was part of a group of health care workers who started “Helsehjelp for papirløse” i Bergen\, a medical centre that provides medical care for immigrants in Bergen (papirløse innvandrere)\, also working there as a volunteer doctor. She started the Facebook page “Har du plass til en ekstra i hjemmet ditt” in May 2015 as a response to the ongoing debate on how Norway should help Syrian refugees. \n\n\nLine Khateeb is a Norwegian-Palestinian and was in the period 2008-2012 head of the Palestine Committee of Norway. The last three years she has been working in the Norwegian Organisation for Asylum seekers (NOAS)\, giving legal assistance and guidance to asylum seekers and doing policy work. She has a master in Middle Eastern studies from the University of Oslo. \n\n\nŞenay Özden is a cultural anthropologist and a researcher from Turkey. Her research areas include international migration\, refugees\, Turkish state’s refugee policies\, politics of humanitarian aid. She has numerous articles and reports published on Syrian refugees in Turkey. She is one of the founders of the Syrian Cultural House in Istanbul\, “Hamisch”. \n\nYassin al-Haj Saleh  is one of Syria’s most prominent intellectuals and political dissidents. In 1980\, while studying medicine in Aleppo University\, he was arrested by Hafez al-Assad regime because of his political activism. He remained in prison for 16 years (1980–1996). Yassin al-Haj Saleh writes on political\, social and cultural subjects relating to Syria and the Arab world. He has authored and edited five books about Syria. He is a co-founder of the Syrian online periodical “al-Jumhuriya” and the Syrian Cultural House in Istanbul “Hamisch”. He is a recipient of the Prince Claus Award for 2012. \n\nThe panel will be moderated by Jørgen Jensehaugen. \n\n\nThe panel is followed by a screening of On the Bride’s SideA Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist meet five Palestinians and Syrians in Milan who entered Europe via the Italian island of Lampedusa after fleeing the war in Syria. They decide to help them complete their journey to Sweden – and hopefully avoid getting themselves arrested as traffickers – by faking a wedding. With a Palestinian friend dressed up as the bride and a dozen or so Italian and Syrian friends as wedding guests\, they cross halfway over Europe on a four-day journey of three thousand kilometres. This emotionally charged journey not only brings out the stories and hopes and dreams of the five Palestinians and Syrians and their rather special traffickers\, but also reveals an unknown side of Europe – a transnational\, supportive and irreverent Europe that ridicules the laws and restrictions of the Fortress in a kind of masquerade which is no other than the direct filming of something that really took place on the road from Milan to Stockholm from the 14th to the 18th of November 2013.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/palestinization-of-syrian-refugees-debate-and-film/
LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150924T123000
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SUMMARY:Assad’s Jihadist Allies
DESCRIPTION:While Media and western observers have mainly focused on the Sunni Jihadists moving to Syria to fight Assad or to join the “Islamic State” and fight Syrian opposition factions\, other Jihadists – Shi’a ones – have been deploying in larger numbers in the country to defend Assad and “protect” his regime.\nWhether from Iraq\, from Afghanistan and Pakistan\, or from the well-trained and equipped Hezbollah of Lebanon\, the Shi’a fighters were mobilized by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and sent to fight in most strategic battles around Damascus the capital\, in Deraa in the South and in Aleppo in the North.\nWho are those “Shi’a Jihadists”? Why do they fight to defend the Assad regime? What are the ideological and political justifications for their fight? How does Iran recruit them? And What are the consequences of their “presence in Syria”? \n\n\nZiad Majed is an associate professor of Middle East Studies and Comparative Politics at the American University of Paris. He is the author of “Syria\, the orphaned revolution” (2013 in Arabic and 2014 in French). \n\n \nFacebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/928071150573226/
URL:https://masahat.no/event/assads-jihadist-allies-panel/
LOCATION:University of Oslo\, Eilert Sundts hus Blindern  \, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0316\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150212T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20150212T220000
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SUMMARY:Syria Differently – The third Syrian narrative
DESCRIPTION:“Syria Differently” – The third Syrian narrative.\n12 February 2015 18:00 at Litteraturhuset \n\n			\n		\n				\n					\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n			\n\n\nWith the picture of the Syrian struggle being blurred and the focus being shifted to Islamic extremism only\, it is important to bring back to the scene the increasingly neglected aspects of the Syrian ‘conflict’. “Syria Differently” provides an alternative image of Syria and the Syrian ‘conflict’ with thematic interest in the daily lives of ordinary civilians and their experience of the destruction of their country. \nProgram: \n18:00 We Cannot Go There Now\, My Dear (43 mins)\n19:00 Panel with Ziad Majed and Maren Næss Olsen (55 mins)\n20:00 The Immortal Sergeant (73 mins)\n21:30 False Alarm (58 mins) \nWe Cannot Go There Now\, My Dear\nA documentary film by Carol Mansour (2014) \nPalestinian refugees living in Syria have been severely affected by the war. Thousands have fled Syria seeking refuge in Lebanon becoming double-refugees. It is the second or even third time that they lose everything and find themselves once more homeless and stateless. \nThis film tells part of their story; where memories are awakened between one exodus and the other\, while loss invades everything striking the very self. A story where lives are continuously being rebuilt and improvised awaiting the return. \n \nPanel with Ziad Majed and Maren Næss Olsen:\nCovering Syria: images\, terminology\, and the role of Media \nA discussion about how most Media outlets covered Syria in the last three years\, and how this coverage influenced the emotions and the political stances of large segments of the public opinion in different western countries. \n \nZiad Majed is an Associate Professor at the American University of Paris\, teaching Middle East studies and writing on Lebanese\, Syrian and Arab affairs as well as on political Islam\, political transitions and crises. \n  \nThe Immortal Sergeant\nA documentary film by Ziad Kalthoum (2014) \n \nAfter he completed his mandatory military service\, the filmmaker was held in retention as the revolution unfurled in his country. His military rank was that of a sergeant. During these times\, he would go back to his home\, located in the middle of Damascus city\, take off his military uniform and return to his normal life\, working as an assistant director with the filmmaker Mohammed Malas. To make sense of this schizophrenic situation\, he decides to take his camera and start shooting a ‘making-of’ that will eventually go beyond Malas’ film. \nFalse Alarm\nA documentary film by Firas Zbib (2014) \nIt is a documentary about revolution\, exile\, death\, hope\, victory and defeat. Told by young Syrians\, filming each other’s journeys and holding on to their cameras like they were the only proof of existence\, it is a story about a country that has become unrecognizable to its own inhabitants. \nThe documentary follows them through the laughter and the tears\, until it is no longer clear whether they are happy to have found their freedom or sad that the revolution no longer resembles them. www.falsealarm-movie.com \n \nSponsor:\n \nPartners:
URL:https://masahat.no/event/syria-differently-the-third-syrian-narrative/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale
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