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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SPACE, in collaboration with Globaliseringskonferansen, invites you to Artist Talk: Sulafa Hijazi / Golan Haji / Fadlabi on Sunday Oct. 30 at 10:30. – Sulafa Hijazi – Syrian visual artist and director. Through her work in visual art and animation Sulafa Hijazi has created links, and uncovered existing ones, between seemingly different and unrelated topics…
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“Refugees do not want charity, they want solidarity – and solidarity is recognizing that it’s one struggle.” Iyad el-Baghdadi’s lightning talk in The Question of Syria 2016. More about the event.
In case you missed The Question of Syria – Syria are.., here is a snapshot of the event’s media coverage; the main articles and interviews with our guests (in Norwegian): – Ingen løsning med Assad – Mazen Darwish, Dagsavisen Den internasjonale debatten om Bashar al-Assads rolle i framtidens Syria har endret seg i løpet av…
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