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SUMMARY:Reading circle: about hope
DESCRIPTION:In this reading circle\, in addition to summarizing and discussing readings\, we will have a meeting with the author Iyad El-Baghdadi\, with artistic jamming by Sudanese cartoonist Khalid Al Baih and Egyptian rock musician Ramy Essam interluding with reading and discussing. The reading circle will be moderated by Line Khateeb\, chair of Masahat board. \nWhat is Masahat reading circle?\nThe concept is simple: we come together for two hours to have an open discussion on a specific topic. We suggest a couple of articles to read beforehand which can serve as input to the discussion. We will have a moderator for the session who will introduce the topic\, ask different speakers to summarize the readings before opening the floor for a discussion with the audience. \nLanguage: English and Arabic \nTopic: About hope\nThe Middle East and North Africa region is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. Yet\, when isolated as a stand-alone discussion\, the topic of environmental degradation does not seem to be a mass mobilizer. You might even be faced by a shrug or a sarcastic comment if you talk about saving water and resorting to renewable energy for the next generations – when resources are already in scarcity for current generations. \nAmidst occupation\, displacement\, brutal regimes\, social inequality and conflicts the discussion about climate change is not seen as a priority when people have been living in a chronic survival mode for decades. \nLiving under regimes who have a prolonged legitimacy crisis\, where every regime thinks it can win by repressing more\, as if repression can make it sustainable. How can we speak about the future of the environment in a region where the future seems blocked? \nWe therefore think that talking about hope in light of persistent political crises in the region is inevitable to any discussions of climate justice for the Arab world. A single individual’s story looks very small within the larger mosaic of heartbreak that befell the Arab world since 2011. But it is the stories of many individuals – all of us – that form this mosaic. \nWhat keeps you going? What gives you hope? How do you find enough beauty? How do you cope with defeat\, guilt\, exile\, and the inexorable passage of your own life? And what do you say when you are asked for hope? \nIn this circle\, we’ll be reading selected chapters from two books. The first is “You Have Not Yet Been Defeated“\, by Alaa Abd el-Fattah*. The second is “The Middle East Crisis Factory” by Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash. We will have the author Iyad El-Baghdadi with us\, while Sudanese cartoonist Khalid Al Baih and Egyptian rock musician Ramy Essam will be contributing their thoughts and art. The circle will be moderated by Line Khateeb. \nMaterials to read\n\nGraffiti for Two by Alaa Abd El Fattah and Ahmed Douma (2014). Available here.\nThe weight of the world: on framing the fight against climate change by Alaa Abd El Fattah (2019). Available here.\nThe Next Twenty Years chapter from “The Middle East Crisis Factory” (2021). [Please email info@masahat.no to get a copy of this chapter]\n\n*More on Alaa Abd el-Fattah\nOne of the first articles we read in preparation for Masahat festival is his short essay about framing the fight against climate change (2019) by Alaa Abd El Fattah\, the Egyptian technologist\, writer and political activist. Alaa has been a political prisoner for all but a few months since Sisi came to power in 2013. Today\, as we write this event description\, he has entered his 150 days of hunger strike. It is imperative to talk about Alaa and thousands of Egyptian political prisoners as we discuss the environment and the upcoming COP27 taking place in Egypt in November. \nThis reading circle is in collaboration with the Kawaakibi Foundation\, Oslo: https://kawaakibi.org/
URL:https://masahat.no/event/reading-circle-about-hope/
LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway
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