Why should we watch films about war and unbearable human suffering? The Syrian war is not only fought with guns and bombs, but also with words and narratives. The Syrian regime is funding efforts to manipulate the Syrian story while others are documenting regime war crimes. Such “narrative wars” are not unique to Syria. They…
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Det er fortsatt krig i Syria, men regimets dokumentasjon av den; hvorfor krigen ble så omfattende, hvem som gav ordre om hva og hvem som er ansvarlig for antall døde, er allerede i full gang. For enhver som anser seg selv som seierherre er det viktig å raskt skape en offisielle fortelling om krigens årsaker,…
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Mosul has been for centuries a city of unique coexistence and had its own identity locally and internationally. Christians were not only leading their own community, they were the alternative to Rome. Jews were developing their language and had a different life than it was told to us by recent studies. Muslims and other groups…
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Rana Issa (Assistant Professor at the American University in Beirut and SPACE board member) has been part of the protests in Lebanon since the start of the Lebanese revolt on October 17, 2019. In this talk, she introduces the major milestones in the revolution and some of the protesters creative strategies and tactics. This talk…
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In 2015, Malek traveled from Greece to Germany with a group of Syrians fleeing their country’s disintegration. The refugees had met while marooned on the same raft in the middle of the Aegean Sea. Each of them came from a different part of Syria and from different socio-economic classes. Their sites were set on making…
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The right of return has been central to the Palestinian struggle since 1948. What home Palestinian refugees should return to, however, has been less than obvious. In this talk, Nadim Khoury explores the different meanings of home underlying the right of return, especially as this right has been recognized, negated, and negotiated since 1948. This…
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SPACE, MAJÃZ Kulturprosjekt og Kulturhuset har gleden av å invitere til Jul på arabisk—en kveld fylt med minner, musikk, sanger og historier om hvordan jul feires i noen arabiske land. Kvelden vil by på muligheten til å utforske den rike kulturarven fra midtøsten og å lære mer om norsk kulturhistorie. Kl. 17.00 Velkommen! Kl. 17.10…
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The situation in Northern Syria has severely deteriorated in recent weeks. Although the dynamics of the conflict and the impact on the ground vary from east to west, civilians are at risk across the region. On November 14th, in his briefing to the Security Council, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator referred…
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Two weeks ago, I was invited to talk at Rafto Conference in Bergen on the occasion of awarding Syrian-Lebanese Rouba Mhaissen the Rafto Prize for her work defending the rights of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. While I talked about my life and work in my new home, Norway, so many thoughts and memories rushed into…
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Bokanmeldelse av Alia Maleks The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria. Av Zeina Bali Malek bretter ut den legendariske sameksistensen i det sammensatte syriske samfunnet, og beriker dermed vår forståelse av det. Hun frigjør syrerne fra kollektive klisjeer som ofte tys til i analyser av den pågående konflikten. I stedet gir hun…
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