Planet Syria answers your #QuestionsforSyria You can ask us anything. You will get the answer from non-violent activists, journalists, writers, artists, parents inside the country who are willing to share their stories with you. They face the violence of both the Assad regime and Isis and you can ask them about it. Some of them…
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Vi må gjøre mer for å beskytte sivile i Syria og for å få slutt på krigen. Med mindre vi handler snarlig vil det bli flere flyktninger, flere rekrutter til Den islamske stat (IS) og lignende grupper, og flere uskyldige liv vil gå tapt. For å redusere lidelsene i Syria må vi beskytte sivile mot…
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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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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.…
DetailsForrige 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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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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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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“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’ 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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