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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220427T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220427T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20220422T103518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T063938Z UID:17186-1651082400-1651091400@masahat.no SUMMARY:War in Ukraine: The Earth is Blue as an Orange 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/war-in-ukraine-the-earth-is-blue-as-an-orange/ LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/The-world-is-blue-as-an-orange.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220129T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220129T173000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20220119T125639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251027T075539Z UID:17117-1643472000-1643477400@masahat.no SUMMARY:slipp + 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/der-slipp-samtale/ LOCATION:Sentralen\, Øvre Slottsgate 3\, Oslo\, 0157\, Norway CATEGORIES:open forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Der-slipp.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211124T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211124T180000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20211110T143704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250704T203000Z UID:16992-1637773200-1637776800@masahat.no SUMMARY:Takht Tøyen 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/takht-toyen/ LOCATION:Deichman Tøyen\, Hagegata 28\, Oslo\, 0653\, Norway CATEGORIES:Musikk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/takht-toyen.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211112T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211114T173000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20211007T132026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T064356Z UID:16775-1636738200-1636911000@masahat.no SUMMARY:هيك بنشوفها - I våre øyne 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/i-vare-oyne/ LOCATION:Stray Dog Production\, Sagveien 23 A\, Oslo\, 0459\, Norway CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/i-vare-oyne.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211106T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211106T180000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20211025T200019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T064254Z UID:16879-1636216200-1636221600@masahat.no SUMMARY:Ten Years After the Arab Spring - Oslo World 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/ten-years-after-the-arab-spring-oslo-world/ LOCATION:Kunstplass\, Akersgata 1\, Oslo\, 0158\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/odorless.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211030T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211031T170000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20211012T064016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T064503Z UID:16815-1635580800-1635699600@masahat.no SUMMARY:Solidarity patchwork: Stories of activism 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/solidarity-patchwork-stories-of-activism/ LOCATION:Kunstplass\, Akersgata 1\, Oslo\, 0158\, Norway CATEGORIES:Visuell kunst,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Foto-Ingrid-Fadnes-2.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211027T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211027T183000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20211010T075452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T203157Z UID:16871-1635355800-1635359400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Lesesirkel med Teresa Pepe حلقة قراءة مع تيريزا پيپه 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/lesesirkel-med-teresa-pepe/ LOCATION:Deichman Holmlia\, Holmlia Senter vei 16\, Oslo\, 1255\, Norway CATEGORIES:Litteratur,عربي ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/teresa-lese.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211019T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211019T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20211007T054535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T203236Z UID:16782-1634670000-1634675400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Arna's children 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/arnas-children/ LOCATION:Kunstnernes Hus\, Wergelandsveien 17\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Arnes-Children3-e1633585574606.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210922T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210922T190000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20210915T063515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T203045Z UID:16754-1632331800-1632337200@masahat.no SUMMARY:Arabisk høstkveld: "What happens to a displaced ant" 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/arabisk-hostkveld-what-happens-to-a-displaced-ant/ LOCATION:Deichman Holmlia\, Holmlia Senter vei 16\, Oslo\, 1255\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ant-film.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210825T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210825T183000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20210823T203345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T075738Z UID:16705-1629912600-1629916200@masahat.no SUMMARY:Arabisk høstkveld: Poesikveld 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/arabisk-hostkveld-poesikveld/ LOCATION:Deichman Holmlia\, Holmlia Senter vei 16\, Oslo\, 1255\, Norway CATEGORIES:Litteratur,عربي ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poesikveld-holmlia.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210821T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210821T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20210810T163437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T203319Z UID:16593-1629554400-1629563400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Valgsalong - انتخابات ٢٠٢١ 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-2021/ LOCATION:Sentralen\, Øvre Slottsgate 3\, Oslo\, 0157\, Norway CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Valg2021.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210612T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210612T190000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20210610T153351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T203438Z UID:16531-1623513600-1623524400@masahat.no SUMMARY:Insiders Narrative - From Gaza 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/insiders-narrative-from-gaza/ LOCATION:Hålogaland Teater\, Teaterplassen 1\, Tromsø\, 9007\, Norway CATEGORIES:Film,Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/insiders-narrative_.png ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210609T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210609T190000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20210605T122146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210605T122146Z UID:16520-1623265200-1623265200@masahat.no SUMMARY:Intersectionality: Being a double & triple minority in society 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/intersectionality-being-a-double-triple-minority-in-society/ LOCATION:Pride House\, Øvre Vågsallmenningen\, Bergen\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/intersection-skeiv-verden.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210608T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210608T170000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20210531T175229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210601T091443Z UID:16489-1623168000-1623171600@masahat.no SUMMARY:In memory of Sarah Hijazi: Solidarity against Homophobia في ذكرى ساره حجازي: معاً ضد رهاب المثلية 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-memory-of-sarah-hijazi-solidarity-against-homophobia/ LOCATION:Pride House\, Øvre Vågsallmenningen\, Bergen\, Norway CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sarah-bergen.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210319T121500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210319T133000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20210309T100740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T202923Z UID:16355-1616156100-1616160600@masahat.no SUMMARY:Collecting the Archives of Past and Present Revolutions: The project DREAM 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/collecting-the-archives-of-past-and-present-revolutions-the-project-dream/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Collecting-the-Archives.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210318T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210318T190000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20210304T184901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T203445Z UID:16130-1616094000-1616094000@masahat.no SUMMARY:Reading circle: Homemaking in Exile حلقة قراءة: توطّن 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/reading-circle-homemaking-in-exile/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Litteratur ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Reading-circle-right-to-city.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210317T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210317T201500 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20210308T154132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T202518Z UID:16159-1616007600-1616012100@masahat.no SUMMARY:Arab Spring 10 Years Later: Looking Back from Norway 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/arab-spring-10-years-later-looking-back-from-norway/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ArabSpring10YearsLater.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210316T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210316T153000 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20210304T191514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T202335Z UID:16147-1615903200-1615908600@masahat.no SUMMARY:Right to the City in Arab Contexts الحق في المدينة في البلدان العربية 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/right-to-the-city-in-arab-contexts/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Samtale ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/right-city-arab-cities-contexgt.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210315T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210320T235900 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 CREATED:20210309T090830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T202243Z UID:16256-1615766400-1616284740@masahat.no SUMMARY:Six Ordinary Stories 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/six-ordinary-stories/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masahat.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/six-histoires.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="masahat":MAILTO:info@masahat.no END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210315T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20210320T235900 DTSTAMP:20260416T235640 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:20260416T235640 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:20260416T235640 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:20260416T235640 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:20260416T235640 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:20260416T235640 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:20260416T235640 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:20260416T235640 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:20260416T235640 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:20260416T235640 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:20260416T235640 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 END:VCALENDAR