Changing Syria’s Single Story
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The Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution – Sana Yazigi
Sana Yazigi – Oslo, 26 September 2015 “There is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory. Effective democratization can always be measured by this essential criterion: the participation in and the access to the archive, its constitution, and its interpretation” Jacques Derrida Since March 2011, Syria has witnessed deep cultural…
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The Space to Think of Syria: Art and Culture in times of Revolutionary Turmoil
This article was originally published in Norwegian in Ny Tid – By Rana Issa Her father’s yellow car was the only place that Sana Yazigi felt safe enough to think. In Assad’s Syria, walls have ears and homes are not safe. Thinking is a crime in Syria, a crime punishable by kidnapping, torture, and jail.…
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Forrige uke var Oslo et samlingspunkt for noen av de viktigste stemmene i Syria. Arrangementene var organisert av det nyetablerte Syrian Peace Action Center (SPACE), en gruppe jeg er grunnlegger av sammen med Zeina Bali og Murhaf Fares. Vi er i dag vitne til en fragmentering av det syriske folk, der stemmene deres er spredt…
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Anna Politkovskaya and Razan Zaitouneh
Today we remember the courageous Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya. Anna is widely known for her brave coverage of the human rights violations committed by the Russian military forces as well as the Chechen fighters during the Chechen war. Anna was a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, writing on corruption and repression,…
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Performing Democracy: Syrian Art Practices Today
Even before the revolution broke out, but certainly after it, artistic practices in Syria often centered around democratizing the access to performative and artistic spaces. In the face of collective political calamity, a “democratization” of images takes place. This democratization, as Susan Sontag argued, turns the Event or calamity into an object that can be…
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The Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution
“There is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory. Effective democratization can always be measured by this essential criterion: the participation in and the access to the archive, its constitution, and its interpretation” Jacques Derrida Since March 2011, Syria has witnessed deep cultural mutation; forms of expressions have evolved trying…
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Our Terrible Country – Film Screening
Our Terrible Country’ takes us on the perilous journey of Yassin Haj Saleh, a well-known Syrian intellectual and dissident, and the young photographer Ziad Homsi who travel together in an arduous and dangerous route from the liberated area of Douma/Damascus to Raqqa in northern Syria, only to find themselves eventually forced to leave their home…
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Narratives of Survival
One of the most important formative experiences for the Syrian youth in the past four years is the emergence of an active civil society. The concept of civil society in Syria was virtually nonexistent before 2011 under the Assad’s dictatorship. But as the Syrian uprising started, the explosion of self-expression mediums turned with time into…
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What Kind of Support Do Syrians Want?
The picture in Syria today looks increasingly gloomy, especially for those watching from afar. What was widely recognized as an uprising for shared humanitarian values, is no longer seen as such. As the situation became intractably complicated, faulty generalizations and simplifications emerged, and the gloomy picture was, consequently, obscured. Nonetheless, many Syrians still believe in…
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