BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//masahat - مساحات - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:masahat - مساحات X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://masahat.no X-WR-CALDESC:Events for masahat - مساحات REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Oslo BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210315T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210320T235900 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20210308T211315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T202154Z UID:16212-1615766400-1616284740@masahat.no SUMMARY:In the Last Days of the City آخر أيام المدينة DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/in-the-last-days-of-the-city/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/in-the-last-days-of-the-city.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210315T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210320T235900 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20210308T203801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T201905Z UID:16218-1615766400-1616284740@masahat.no SUMMARY:Underdown تحت التحت DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/underdown/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/underdown.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20201025T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20201101T153000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20201024T121240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T202016Z UID:3288-1603638000-1604244600@masahat.no SUMMARY:Through Solidarity We Survive DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/through-solidarity-we-survive/ LOCATION:Youngstorget\, Youngstorget\, Oslo\, 0181\, Norway CATEGORIES:Visuell kunst ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/through-solidarity.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20201011T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20201011T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20201001T200711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T201302Z UID:3263-1602439200-1602446400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Malplassert: Musikere i eksil خارج المكان: موسيقيين في المنفى DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/malplassert-musikere-i-eksil/ LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway CATEGORIES:Musikk,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Malplassert.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200913T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200913T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20200829T203510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T201156Z UID:3115-1600020000-1600027200@masahat.no SUMMARY:Syrian Doc Days: Mellom to verdener DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/syrian-doc-days-mellom-to-verdener/ LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Mellom-to-verdener-Motet-mellom-nåtid-og-fortid-for-flyktninger-i-Norge.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200823T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200823T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20200829T120916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T192800Z UID:3110-1598205600-1598214600@masahat.no SUMMARY:Beirut - Underdown. Filmvisning og samtale DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/beirut-underdown-filmvisning-og-samtale/ LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Beirut-underdown.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200704T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200704T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20200626T122347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200626T122347Z UID:2994-1593885600-1593892800@masahat.no SUMMARY:حوار مفتوح: العزلة، الصدمة والاقتصاد في أزمة الكورونا DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/%d8%ad%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%85%d9%81%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%ad-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b2%d9%84%d8%a9%d8%8c-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d9%85%d8%a9-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%aa%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%af-%d9%81/ LOCATION:Sentralen\, Øvre Slottsgate 3\, Oslo\, 0157\, Norway CATEGORIES:عربي ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/open-discussion-corona-ar.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200624T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200624T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20200616T073652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T201122Z UID:2967-1593027000-1593028800@masahat.no SUMMARY:For Sama + Live Q&A DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/for-sama-live-qa/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Filmvisning-live-QA-med-Waad-Alkatean.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200228T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200228T184500 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20200216T122157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200216T122503Z UID:2879-1582909200-1582915500@masahat.no SUMMARY:حوار مفتوح: فلسطين–الفن والسياسة DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/%d8%ad%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%85%d9%81%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%ad-%d9%81%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%b7%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%81%d9%86-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%a9/ LOCATION:Kulturhuset\, Youngs gate 6\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0181\, Norway CATEGORIES:عربي ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/86725422_1484098905088589_3590514581245526016_o.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200228T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200228T093000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20200213T074609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250704T205758Z UID:2868-1582878600-1582882200@masahat.no SUMMARY:Humanitarian Aid and the War Economy in Syria DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/humaniarian-aid-and-the-war-economy-in-syria/ LOCATION:PRIO\, Hausmanns gate 3 \, Oslo\, 0186\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Convoy.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200227T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200227T183000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20200205T075654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T075113Z UID:2821-1582819200-1582828200@masahat.no SUMMARY:Fighting War Crimes in Syria – Can Norway Play a Part? DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/fighting-war-crimes-in-syria-can-norway-play-a-part/ LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/fighting-war-crimes-in-syria-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200225T201500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200225T213000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20200205T075024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200205T130443Z UID:2824-1582661700-1582666200@masahat.no SUMMARY:Narrative Wars: The Politics of Memory DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/narrative-wars-the-politics-of-memory/ LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Narrative-wars-HUMAN.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200218T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20200218T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20200212T194849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T194849Z UID:2862-1582048800-1582056000@masahat.no SUMMARY:حوار مفتوح–عمر عبد العزيز الحلّاج: آفاق الحلّ السياسي في سوريا DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/%d8%ad%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%85%d9%81%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%ad-%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%b1-%d8%b9%d8%a8%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%b2-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%84%d9%91%d8%a7%d8%ac-%d8%a2%d9%81/ LOCATION:Sentralen\, Øvre Slottsgate 3\, Oslo\, 0157\, Norway CATEGORIES:عربي ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/حوار-مفتوح-عمر-عزيز.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191209T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191209T190000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20191125T234200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250706T190800Z UID:2661-1575910800-1575918000@masahat.no SUMMARY:Jul på arabisk DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/jul-paa-arabisk/ LOCATION:Kulturhuset\, Youngs gate 6\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0181\, Norway CATEGORIES:Musikk,عربي ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/76710841_1401456590019488_4289020935253524480_o.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191207T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191207T173000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20191120T082959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201054Z UID:2610-1575730800-1575739800@masahat.no SUMMARY:The Cave - Syria: Kampen om historien DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-cave-syria-kampen-om-historien/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/the-cave-by-feras-fayyad.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191129T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191129T093000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20191123T213057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T200421Z UID:2646-1575016200-1575019800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Update from Northern Syria: Humanitarian Response\, Impunity and Localization DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/update-from-northern-syria-humanitarian-response-impunity-and-localization/ LOCATION:PRIO\, Hausmanns gate 3 \, Oslo\, 0186\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/7160544558_5f840b8fa1_c.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191123T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191123T180000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20191115T114954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T132758Z UID:2591-1574521200-1574532000@masahat.no SUMMARY:حوار مفتوح: (مـ)ساحات التغيير في دول الربيع العربي DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/%d8%ad%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%85%d9%81%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%ad-%d9%85%d9%80%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%ba%d9%8a%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1/ LOCATION:Khartoum Contemporary Art Center\, Bernt Ankers gate 17\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale,عربي ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/TheStruggleForHome-Arabic.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191122T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191122T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20190904T175432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240829T094134Z UID:2334-1574442000-1574456400@masahat.no SUMMARY:The Struggle for Home - The Question of Syria 2019 DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-struggle-for-home-the-question-of-syria-2019/ LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Litteratur,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-Struggle-for-Home-fb.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191102T203000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191102T213000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20190924T075445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191025T101747Z UID:2368-1572726600-1572730200@masahat.no SUMMARY:ArabFuturism: Arab Contemporary Art Scene DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/arabfuturism-arab-contemporary-art-scene/ LOCATION:Kulturhuset\, Youngs gate 6\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0181\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/arabfuturims.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191017T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20191017T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20191006T164556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T212949Z UID:2387-1571331600-1571342400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Demokratispill - لعبة الديمقراطية DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/demokratispill-%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%a8%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%85%d9%82%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b7%d9%8a%d8%a9/ LOCATION:Sentralen\, Øvre Slottsgate 3\, Oslo\, 0157\, Norway CATEGORIES:عربي ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Demokratispill.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190907T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190907T213000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20190825T154552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201041Z UID:2233-1567879200-1567891800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Songs of Separation: Film & Concert DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/songs-of-separation-film-concert/ LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Musikk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Wajd_Songs_of_Separation_with_Logos_Eventdetails.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190905T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190905T100000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20190829T171150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190902T164614Z UID:2262-1567672200-1567677600@masahat.no SUMMARY:Frokostseminar: Hva skjer i Idlib? DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/frokostseminar-hva-skjer-i-idlib/ LOCATION:Norsk Folkehjelp\, Stortorvet 10\, Oslo\, 0155\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/seminar-idlib.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190823T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190823T190000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20190816T070221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T212150Z UID:2217-1566579600-1566586800@masahat.no SUMMARY:ورشة عمل عن انتخابات 2019 - Valgsalong DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/valgsalong-2019/ LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway CATEGORIES:Workshop,عربي ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/space-valg.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190526T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190601T120000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20190521T091833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250706T112115Z UID:2119-1558893600-1559390400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Flowers from the Rubble: Remembering Raed Fares DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/flowers-from-the-rubble-remembering-raed-fares/ LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Visuell kunst ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/flowers-from-the-rubble.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190323T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190323T184500 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20190317T231115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201457Z UID:2044-1553356800-1553366700@masahat.no SUMMARY:Still Recording DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/still-recording/ LOCATION:Vika Kino\, Ruseløkkveien 14\, Oslo\, 0251\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/afd-still-recording.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190301T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190301T223000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20190301T190000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201437Z UID:1903-1551470400-1551479400@masahat.no SUMMARY:The Silence of Others - No Peace without Justice DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-silence-of-others-no-peace-without-justice/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/no-peace-without-justice-e1549456890917.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190226T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20190226T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20190226T170000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201244Z UID:1936-1551204000-1551214800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Privacy of Wounds DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/privacy-of-wounds/ LOCATION:Cinemateket\, Dronningens gate 16\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0105\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Credit-UPNORTH-FILM-3-e1550689501612.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20181212T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20181212T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20181212T170000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T200346Z UID:1891-1544637600-1544644800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Jul på arabisk - عيد الميلاد بالعربي DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/jul-pa-arabisk-%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%8a%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a8%d9%8a/ LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway CATEGORIES:Musikk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jul-paa-arabisk.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20181103T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20181103T170000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20181103T150000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T205535Z UID:1787-1541260800-1541264400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Mapping Home - Oslo World Workshop DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/mapping-home-oslo-world-workshop/ LOCATION:Kulturhuset\, Youngs gate 6\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0181\, Norway CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mapping-home-station.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20181103T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20181103T160000 DTSTAMP:20260412T110126 CREATED:20181103T130000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T205535Z UID:1806-1541253600-1541260800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Freedom to Remember/Create - Oslo World Seminars DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.    Masahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n \n \n \n 🌍 Language: English \n \n \n \n Program \n \n \n \n Welcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)NIUN (2018\, 7′) Matters of Time (2019\, 6’) Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen. \n \n \n \n Masahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buy tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the films \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81')\, Finland\, Denmark \n \n Directed by Tuija HalttunenScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NIUN (2018\, 7')\, Saudi Arabia\n \n Directed by Ahaad AlamoudiAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\n \n Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, JordanDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. This piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21')\, Lebanon\n \n Directed by Mira AdoumierI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mira Adoumier \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Racha Helen Larsen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Egil Håskjold Larsen URL:https://masahat.no/event/freedom-to-remember-create-oslo-world-seminars/ LOCATION:Kulturhuset\, Youngs gate 6\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0181\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/freedom-to-create.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR