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We are pleased to welcome Lina Attalah, publisher and founding editor of Mada Masr, a Cairo-based news website at the forefront of investigative journalism in Egypt, to deliver her keynote speech titled "Solidarity and its undersides". Listening in to a history on the sidelines, tracing overlaps between personal history and public history, witnessing a genocide and morphing through the witnessing, daydreaming of the moment the war will be over, remaking a home by the sea in Gaza, imagining a politics that defaces the universal but that is not stuck in the particular. The aforementioned is a laundry list that tries to unpack solidarity; turning it from a moral act of sympathy and alignment to a mode of engagement where one's own life from here on is in question. It is an engagement through the troublesome substance of time.
Lina Attalah leads a team of fearless reporters who expose high-level corruption and misconduct in the midst of Egypt's harsh crackdown on independent voices. Attalah is the recipient of the 2020 Knight International Journalism Award presented by the International Center for Journalists to honor outstanding journalism that has an impact.
The event is free and it is in collaboration with Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies, Uio.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Interkulturelt Museum, Oslo, Norway
