SPACE, in collaboration with Human Rights Human Wrongs Film Festival, invites you to a panel on Syria’s New Civil Society. The only positive that has come out of the horrific Syrian war is a new and vibrant civil society. Under Assad’s regime there were no independent organisations or political parties. The hope for a better future…
Details“I mange opprørskontrollerte områder forsøker sivile å organisere tjenester for innbyggerne. Frivillige driver undervisning og helsestell. Noen tar ansvar for å hente søppel. Ingeniører finner løsninger med fornybar energi når strømtilførselen kuttes. En redningstjeneste finner overlevende etter bombeangrep. Andre oppdaterer offentlige registre over eiendom, ekteskapsinngåelse og fødsler.” “– Med SPACE ville vi skape et rom…
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Zeina Bali’s talk about the Trajectory of Hope at a NUPI seminar on Syria. Bali is one of the co-founders of SPACE.
Mangel på informasjon har aldri vært problemet for Syria. Det er alltid mangelen på handling. Tid er penger, heter det i mange land, men inne i Aleppo sier de nå at tid er blod. Hvert minutt teller ikke bare for Aleppo, men for Syria som helhet. Assad har lovet å ta hele Syria – snart…
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Verdens helseorganisasjon opplyser at alle sykehusene i Øst-Aleppo er ute av drift etter fem dagers bombing fra Russland og den syriske hæren. Russland og Assads bomber drepte 508 og skadet 1871 sivile i Øst-Aleppo mellom 15. og 24. november, i følge Helsedirektoratet i Øst-Aleppo. Mens det på morgenen fredag 18. November fantes fem sykehus i…
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SPACE, in collaboration with Globaliseringskonferansen, organized Artist Talk: Sulafa Hijazi / Golan Haji / Fadlabi on Oct. 30. More about the event.
Why should the world be interested in Syria at all? Is the world interested, at what level? What are the existing internationalist networks that work with and for Syrians today, and how effective are they? How can Syria inform a radical critique of classical forms of postcolonial, anti-imperialist, and left-wing oppositional movements? More about…
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On November 21, 2016, SPACE launched an urgent call for action to protect civilians in Eastern Aleppo: We are all horrified by the news coming out of Aleppo, but we can’t give in to the pain and despair while medics and rescue workers continue to save lives in Aleppo. We have the tools to pressure…
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While the Syrian war seems to embody all that is complex, alien, and thus incomprehensible about the Middle East, the five-year-old brutal conflict can in fact be explained through a set of global historical factors that emanate from the world made by Europe in the wake of World War One. This talk will shed…
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Persistent claims that the Syrian regime is “non-sectarian” result from a failure to distinguish between sectarianism as an explicit ideology, and sectarianism as an often unspoken technique of power. Whereas the Assad family has generally purported to act in the name of “national unity”, and accordingly minimised discursive expressions of sectarianism, its actual practices throughout…
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