Established in May 2015, the Syrian Peace Action Center (SPACE) is a non-profit, independent association that works towards creating common and alternative spaces for Syrian and Norwegian activists, researchers, intellectuals, cultural producers and artistic voices to engage and interact. SPACE collaborates with key Norwegian actors with the hope to sustain an informed and nuanced discussion about Syria and a better understanding of the Norwegian society. Through periodic change in the focus of the events, SPACE is especially sensitive to the dynamics of the Norwegian public sphere, who functions as the main audience for its message. Find out more about SPACE.
News and Events
The Struggle for Home
The Struggle for Home 22 November 2019 Litteraturhuset Facebook event Welcome to the fifth edition of The Question of Syria;...
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ArabFuturism: Arab Contemporary Art Scene
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, and in the wake of decisive political junctures, how can Arab artists, musicians...
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Songs of Separation: Film & Concert
Wajd - Songs of Separation: Film og konsert Wajd - Songs of Separation: Film and concert Wajd - Songs of...
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ورشة عمل عن انتخابات 2019 – Valgsalong
بالتعاون مع ميلاهوسيه، تدعوكم سبيس إلى نقاش وورشة عمل بمناسبة الانتخابات المحلية القادمة يوم 9 سبتمبر/أيلول. ورشة العمل مفتوحة للجميع...
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Flowers from the Rubble: Remembering Raed Fares – أزهار من تحت الأنقاض: في ذكرى رائد فارس
Flowers from the Rubble: Remembering Raed Fares At this year’s Oslo Freedom Forum, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), in partnership...
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Saladindagene – أيام صلاح الدين الدوليّة
Saladindagene أيام صلاح الدين الدوليّة The International Saladin Days Saladindagene Oscar Wilde, Antonio Gramsci, Anne Frank – noen av litteraturhistoriens...
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Still Recording
The award-winning documentary Still Recording by Saeed Al Batal and Ghiath Ayoub will be screened in Arabiske Filmdager 2019. On...
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Meet SPACE at HUMAN film festival 2019!
For the fifth year in a row, SPACE partners with the HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival offering you a fine selection of...
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Jul på arabisk – عيد الميلاد بالعربي
Jul på arabisk er en kveld fylt med historier, minner, musikk, sanger og samtaler om hvordan jul feires i noen...
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SPACE Reading Circle | Solidarity
SPACE is delighted to invite you to its first reading circle in Oslo! WHAT IS A SPACE READING CIRCLE? The...
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Why Hope?
The Syrian Peace Action Centre (SPACE) has been working since early 2015 to diversify and enrich the discussion about Syria,...
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Taste of Cement & Talk with Samer Frangie
As part of the HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival in Oslo, SPACE organized a screening of Ziad Kalthoum's award-winning documentary Taste of...
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Videos
Time, Space and People: Untold History of Mosul – Omar Mohammad
Mosul has been for centuries a city of unique coexistence and had its own identity locally and internationally. Christians were...
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An Update from Lebanon – Rana Issa
Rana Issa (Assistant Professor at the American University in Beirut and SPACE board member) has been part of the protests...
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When Home is Unattainable, What Replaces it? – Alia Malek
In 2015, Malek traveled from Greece to Germany with a group of Syrians fleeing their country’s disintegration. The refugees had...
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Home and Homeland in the Palestinian Right to Return – Nadim Khoury
The right of return has been central to the Palestinian struggle since 1948. What home Palestinian refugees should return to,...
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Chronicles of Hope: Syrian Voices on the Past and Future – Wendy Pearlman
Chronicles of Hope: Syrian Voices on the Past and Future Just as the Syrian revolution was a triumph of hope...
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The Shadow of Oslo is Only Getting Darker – Nadim Khoury
The Shadow of Oslo is Only Getting Darker - Nadim Khoury Coming of age during the “peace process,” my trajectory...
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Snapshots of Aleppo’s Social Urban History – Karam Nachar
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, Aleppo was the most important city in the Ottoman empire boasting an extremely...
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Aleppo City Market: Defining Space and Time – Annika Rabo
Author of A Shop of One’s Own, Independence and Reputation among Traders in Aleppo, Rabo shares insights from her fieldwork...
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My Aleppo: When Memory Becomes Resistance – Lina Sergie Attar
You know Aleppo as a vast landscape of bombed and burning historic buildings, cratered streets, and endless lines of fleeing,...
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Aleppo: Revolutionary Culture – Leila Nachawati
Long before March 2011, Syria was known as the “kingdom of silence”. All forms of artistic and public expression were...
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Aleppo: The Fall – Mohamad Katoub
In 2016, one of the worst human tragedies took place in Aleppo. After a few months of siege and indiscriminate...
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Trajectory of Hope – Zeina Bali
Zeina Bali's talk about the Trajectory of Hope at a NUPI seminar on Syria. Bali is one of the co-founders...
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