In this pivotal discussion, we will dive deep into how our diaspora communities can strategically leverage their power, not only to advance the cause of Palestinian liberation but to lay the foundation for a stronger, freer region for all our peoples. Throughout history, diaspora communities have been at the forefront of transformative liberation movements. With…
The genocide in Gaza has exposed the complicity of our cultural and academic institutions in zionism and related colonial ideologies of extermination, extraction and unlawful accumulation of wealth. Artists have contributed to a growing vanguard global movement in solidarity for Palestine and too many have paid the price for their principled stance against oppression. Nonetheless,…
Strategies of resistance - the legacy and outlook of the BDS movement How can we work together to push our institutions to take a solid stance against Israel’s occupation? Masahat invites to a talk and panel discussion of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) as a tool of resistance in arts and academia. The BDS movement has…
As the world watches in horror at the unfolding genocide in Gaza—where over 40,000 lives have been brutally taken—the Palestinian people, along with millions of allies who champion freedom, justice, and dignity, are at a pivotal crossroads. The urgency to shift from despair to a focused, strategic movement for liberation has never been greater. But…
We are approaching one year of a perpetrated genocide in Gaza with no immediate ceasefire in sight and with mounting threats that a regional war would break out. We are angry and resentful of our impotent politicians and institutions who have so far not stopped the sale of arms to the Zionist entity or took…
Bli med på Masahat community dinner der vi feirer fellesskapet med fire-retters middag, poesi, musikk og historiefortelling på Himmelsalen på BLÅ. Matsikkerhet er ofte en av hovedårsakene til at folk tar til gatene i protest over hele verden. Historisk sett har mat ofte blitt brukt av kolonimakter som et verktøy for undertrykkelse ved å tvinge…
Masahatfestivalen 2024 inviterer til klubbkveld på BLÅ! 20. september har vi tre dyktige DJ-er som skal sørge for god stemning og liv på dansegulvet med musikk fra forskjellige hjørner i verden. Headliner for kvelden er Safira, som har vært en drivkraft på den norske DJ-scenen og har gjort seg bemerket ved å samle folk gjennom…
Listening in to a history on the sidelines, tracing overlaps between personal history and public history, witnessing a genocide and morphing through the witnessing, daydreaming of the moment the war will be over, remaking a home by the sea in Gaza, imagining a politics that defaces the universal but that is not stuck in the…
Songs of Anemone - cries of the land and its people, is a series of events occupying grief practice as a radical form of protest and an act of defiance of all oppressive colonial systems prevalent in our world. Standing on the foundation of grief as the very fabric that holds us together, we will…
Det er med stor glede at Masahatfestivalen 2024 og Ultima presenterer den ikoniske libanesisk-amerikanske Hamed Sinno med deres solodebut Poems of Consumption på Riksscenen den 21. september. Hamed Sinno er tidligere vokalist i det legendariske indie-rock bandet, Mashrou’ Leila. Det kritikerroste «Poems of Consumption» er en litterær sangsyklus og en multimediaforestilling som utforsker temaer som overforbruk,…